Another part of my experience is learning to differentiate feelings. I know what you are talking about, and I've felt that too. It's hard to talk about this wi

Another part of my experience is learning to differentiate feelings. I know what you are talking about, and I've felt that too. It's hard to talk about this without getting circular. Primary Loop: Hunger -> Eat -> Time -> Hunger -> Eat (loop) Secondary Loop: Weight Gain -> Notice Weight -> Diet -> Gain (loop) I don't have a conclusion to this, I'm still trying to figure it out. In the primary loop hunger keeps you alive. When you get hungry and eat and feel satisfied, that operates on multiple systems in the brain and body. There are lots of hormones that are flowing and telling body systems to do things and also telling your consciousness what your condition is. I'm not prepared to talk about the psychology in depth, but I do know that it feels very un-natural to be in a calorie deficit. I know that having low blood sugar makes it very hard for me to think. At times it's felt like my body is telling me I'm going to die and it's been very hard to ignore that feeling.