I believe I’ve seen testimonies of people making me think that they had reset their oxytocin levels (level are depressed in hibernating animals, which is a state that can be compared with obesity somehow) with help of dry fasting. I’ve also read people saying that (intermittent maybe) dry fasting had help their eating disorders/appetite.
Oxytocin is also linked to food intake and drug abuse (or at least it could help stopping drugs) so it’s probably linked with eating disorders.
That being said, not everybody obtain these results with dry fasting.
For me, personally, it was the combination of keto/carnivore and water fasting that changed how I perceived food. Carnivore without dairy especially helped me get over a lot of cravings.
The thing about sugar is it’s addictive. As much as several street drugs according to studies. For those with addictive personalities, this can be especially troublesome. The nice thing about carnivore is you still get to have fulfilling meals while, also, eliminating sugar cravings over time.
Since I start fast/dryfasting, some food taste a little different, especially the one with a lot of sugar inside. Now, I’am close to be disgust with processed food with too much sugar inside. While before that’s what I used to love.
Maybe you should try to improve your diet outside of the fast.
But also as another one said, you shoud talk to someone to understad why this need came from.
From my experience. I had trouble overeating after pushing my fasts to long. I built more discipline with food by doing shorter(2-4 day fasts) then refeeding on Omad or even 2 meals a day. The longer fasts are good when needed but I found the further I pushed the fast it had a rebound effect.
you describe what sounds like historic trauma where eating helps you to be yourself, the habit of eating releases neurotransmitters, types of happy brain chemicals like serotonin or dopamine etc
mental health is a puzzle and it wasn’t until i started having st. john’s wort and kanna and real saffron threads , all these helped to me better understand how food was my coping mechanism
please try these substances, all can be found on amazon. df helped me to have more self discipline against eating however it was not until i had these medicines i could easily have resistance against over eating