If you’ve ever made a genuine, perhaps painstaking, effort to eat healthier, only to find that your weight doesn’t budge, it’s easy to feel like you’re failing. Or like your body isn’t behaving like it should. But a few new studies remind us that this isn’t always true.

New research published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology by a team at Ben-Gurion and Harvard Universities followed more than 700 adults with abdominal obesity who committed to different types of healthy eating—low-fat, low-carb, Mediterranean, and green-Mediterranean—for up to two years. Nearly a third of them didn’t lose weight, and some even gained weight. But their health improved in meaningful ways.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the people who did lose weight saw the most change in their heart and metab

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