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yes, i think most people literally can't control themselves once they reach a certain stage (the ones who can are probably neurodivergent in some way, for example by being full blown anorexics).
if you fuck your body up by losing weight too quickly, or more general, by not considering the limits of your own body, your behaviour will change as a result, as behaviour is, too a not inconsiderable part, determined by your hormone levels, epigenetic factors, i.e. more or less autonomous biological systems/feedback loops .
if you mess up that way, you will become lethargic, lose your libido, and eventually become unusually preoccupied with food. once your body recovers after it nudged you into eating again, you will start feeling your behaviour becoming more controllable again. then you can try again (to modify your body and mind), hopefully while respecting the limits of your body better this time around, because if you just abuse your body again, you behaviour will change to the worse once more, and if you repeat that cycle for too long, you might overshoot too much (in your "recovery") which might induce certain types of runaway feedback loops that will make you fat, unless you manage to find reasonable tactics to interrupt those feedback loops, or if you go all in with restriction etc. and succumb to mental illness (i'd say that probably requires some sort of neurodivergence; it might be innate or acquired).
i luckily never got overweight or crazy fat after restricting too hard for extended periods of time, and i know my limits better now. i realised that it's possible to be underweight and healthy, and that i did myself no good in the long run by "having strong willpower" (because my goal is not to die).
the price i had to pay for this is the time it will take me to reach my full potential again. but at least i can go running again and perform better mentally, which, in the long run, will allow me to stay leaner more sustainably.