Orthorexia and Disordered Fasting

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Risks & contraindications

Highlighted claims

• Orthorexia is disordered eating centered on purity and control, and fasting can become part of that pattern when driven by shame, obsession, or fear of failure. — Intuitive Fasting and Real Hunger
• Aggressive fasting combined with a poor food relationship can become an eating disorder disguised as a wellness practice. — Intuitive Fasting and Real Hunger
• Shame, obsession, and self-hatred do not create sustainable wellness, and a body cannot be healed through hatred or obsessive control. — Intuitive Fasting and Real Hunger
• Sustainable wellness cannot be built on shame. — Intuitive Fasting: Metabolic Flexibility, Real Hunger, and a Compassionate Approach
• Orthorexia, disordered eating organized around healthy foods and practices, can incorporate fasting as a vehicle for obsession, shame, and punishment. — Intuitive Fasting: Metabolic Flexibility, Real Hunger, and a Compassionate Approach
• When fasting becomes a source of stress and causes spiraling self-condemnation from minor deviations, it is counterproductive and harmful. — Intuitive Fasting: Metabolic Flexibility, Real Hunger, and a Compassionate Approach
• The all-or-nothing framing in rigid online fasting communities — that a single deviation negates an entire fast — is clinically damaging. — Intuitive Fasting: Metabolic Flexibility, Real Hunger, and a Compassionate Approach
• Managing orthorexia cases related to fasting requires collaboration between functional medicine practitioners and eating disorder specialists. — Intuitive Fasting: Metabolic Flexibility, Real Hunger, and a Compassionate Approach
• Rigid fasting purity rules, such as treating any deviation as failure, can contribute to orthorexic patterns. — Intuitive Fasting and Real Hunger