01 Oct Why diets aren’t working for you – or anyone else
Is gluten bad for you? Does going on a gluten-free diet really help you lose weight? Why are so many eliminating wheat, barley and rye from their diet?
When she was nine, Stacey Gorlicky became obsessed with how she looked.
She would look at other people eating a slice of pizza and think, “Why can they eat pizza and cake and carbs and keep weight off?”
To ease her concerns, which only grew when she became a teenager, she started yo-yo dieting.
It’s easy to get caught looking for the next quick fix, she says. She exercised, tried a new diet, over-exercised, then over-ate and binged, then over-ate and binged again. It got to the point where Gorlicky, whose eating disorder propelled her into her current career as a registered psychotherapist specializing in treating addiction, could no longer tell when she was hungry.