Although that does sound like the case for you, I don't think it's true for everybody. Toward the end, my slip-ups got lighter and lighter as my health continued to improve. However, when I relapsed due to underlying issues (like anxiety, for example) it was so much easier to overdo it.
On the flip side, maybe I'm just the freak of nature who doesn't experience it. It seems like a lot of people do, so I blame some kind of deficit for my lack thereof.