Like everyone else, I started off by trying to apply the usual weight-loss rules and, like everyone else, I became thoroughly disillusioned with the lack of positive results.
But soon afterwards, as luck would have it, I came across a general practitioner with a keen interest in nutritional problems. He gave me some advice, and the guidelines he suggested to me seemed to call into question the fundamental basis of traditional dietetics.
It was not long before I was achieving very promising results. So I then decided to delve further into the theory. This I was quite well placed to do, as I worked for a pharmaceutical company and found it relatively easy to come by the scientific information I needed.
Within a few weeks I had gathered together most of the French and American papers which existed on the subject. I already knew that certain rules brought results, but I wanted to get to the root of the scientific explanations, to know how and in what circumstances the rules would work and what limits there might be to their effectiveness.