One lady who has always suffered from severe overweight, weighing over 170 pounds, said in her story on Yahoo Health that diets only hurt her. She was able to lose a few kilos, losing up to 50 kilos twice in her life and then gaining weight again. But why don’t diets work? More and more people are despairing of so many weight loss regimens that promise great results, but which barely work on them. Yet they do everything literally.

The protagonist of this story, Stacey Morris, who has been obese since she was a child, has the answer that everyone is looking for : “I wasn’t the one who made the wrong diets, it was the diets that were wrong for me”. The reasons Stacey doesn’t know are varied, and some of them aren’t just hypothetical: if weight loss diets are often wrong it’s because they don’t have the same effect on people. Some lose weight, many don’t. A different bacterial flora, hormones that work differently, a different reaction to stress, a different metabolism are some of the reasons why those who want to lose weight should not imitate the diet of their neighbor, or their best friend.
Paradoxically, a DIY diet could make a lot more sense than a diet from a magazine or the internet.I mean that if we invent a DIY diet based on our responses to food (this swells me up, this hurts me, I like this, etc.) we would get even better results than a diet that no doctor has prescribed.
But why?