An attorney who called me the other day (for something totally work-related) told me about a new weight-loss program she’s on. It’s a totally customized program designed and monitored by a doctor who used to be a ob/gyn and therefore is very knowledgeable about hormone levels and how it affects the human body.

The doctor takes a blood test and examines all the markers for metabolism and the individual body’s response to various hormones and food enzymes. That way he knows how each person’s body would respond to carbs, proteins, specific foods, etc. He then designs a special diet for what the patient is to eat all day. The attorney said the food is good, natural stuff, but that she was surprised at the things her body would react poorly to, for example, she can only eat 1/2 a tomato a day and no broccoli because there’s some enzyme or protein in those veggies that her body reacts to by slowing metabolism or insulin production down. Because she was bulimic in the past, this new diet will retrain her body to react heathily and normally to foods, and by correcting her metabolism, she should be on the fat-loss track as normal people are. Just like me, she used to work out 2 hours in the gym daily, do all sorts of cardio, and have zero results.

Although she said this diet is a bit expensive, if it works for her I totally want to try it. All the diet programs out there don’t work for me, either, because my body doesn’t respond to anything due to what I’ve screwed up being anorexic in the past.