Is This The End Of Dieting?

Fewer and fewer women are choosing to count calories or follow restrictive diets. And they're feeling better than ever because of it. By Gabrielle Glaser, SELF (Photo: Johnny Miller) When Mallory Gibson, 29, moved to New York City after college to work as a financial analyst at an investment bank, she soon found herself grinding out super stressful 14-hour days. She ate takeout at her desk most nights--and, not surprisingly, put on a few pounds. Although she'd been a healthy-enough eater at college in Austin, Texas, where she'd grab meals at the flagship Whole Foods, now she turned to juice fasts to manage her weight. Her type A drive served her well. "Everyone else was like, 'I can't do it more than a day!' and I'd be on day five," she recalls. But often, when she'd finish, she'd find herself going out with friends and "eating badly, drinking too much wine." The pattern was physically and emotionally exhausting. "It wasn't sustainable--and I realized that I needed to stop being so restrictive," says Gibson, who was reminded of how, while she was growing up, her parents and brother had cycled between Atkins, Nutrisystem and other regimens. Ironically, it was when she tried Whole30, an anti-inflammation plan that calls for cutting out and reintroducing certain foods to see how your body responds, that the lightbulb went on. "For the first time, I started paying attention to how foods made me feel," she recalls. "And I learned that I want to eat things that make me feel ama...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news