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title: "Recognising a Diet Cycle"
url: https://weightfoundation.com/guides/recognising-diet-cycles/
description: "A cycle can begin with urgency and rigid rules, followed by hunger, preoccupation, a sense of losing control and another attempt to start over."
published: 2026-08-06
updated: 2026-08-06
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# Recognising a Diet Cycle

Published 2026-08-06

A cycle can begin with urgency and rigid rules, followed by hunger, preoccupation, a sense of losing control and another attempt to start over.

Noticing the pattern without judgment can be more useful than treating one moment as a personal failure.

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