Top Eating Habits That Help French Women Stay Slim

I appreciate you doing this video😊

Water ! Ugh! I love my coffee ☕ in the morning. Sorry .🙂x happy New year.

Marie-Anne, I want to know what your skin care routine is. I cannot believe you are 58! I know French women don't like to share their skin care secrets but you look amazing and I would love to know what you use and do!

I bought smaller plates and reduced portion size. I've been very poorly for the last few months and haven't managed to exercise regularly. Hopefully I'm on the mend now and will be able to lose the weight I gained. Looking forward to a fresh start in the new year.

I'm French and American! Born in Texas, my mother was from Paris, France met my father during WWII. I drink water all the time, even in my car I have a bottle of water. Drink 1/2 your body weight in water daily. One year several years back I lost 48 lbs and made up my own diet. Fats are good real butter, olive oil – sugars not good. I also cut out all White foods like cheap white bread but if I did have some bread it had to be full of non-bleached real grains, but I did not eat a lot of breads and I did have some angel hair pasta with alfredo yum but not often. But when I snacked it was healthy snacks popcorn, string cheese, hard boil eggs, yoghurt, strawberries, apples, etc. You can loose lots of weight with 3 meals daily and snacks, just pick the right snacks. Organic is the best if you can afford it. In the US Organic is harder to shop for than in Europe. Organic food is normal in Europe, here not so much. The restaurants in the US do not serve Organic foods which is a shame. Yes, they have some healthy restaurants, but they cannot guarantee where your food his grown…GMO foods yuck! Happy eating! Sysco foods is where most restaurants source their foods from, think frozen etc. The US has a lot to learn from Europe as far as smaller town food markets, homemade breads, not mass produced in some factory! ☺😉

The rabbit part was really cute😄

I think one of the main reasons French, Italians, Spaniards and those in other EU countries look so much healthier is because they walk more. In N America, we are far too car-dependent and accustomed to drive-thru everything.. In France, villages and cities are so walkable and pleasant. It's just nice being out and walking to cafes, shops & restaurants. Even doing errands is pleasant when it's easily done with a short walk. Train travel is wonderful and if u r anywhere near a train line, u really don't need a car. Obviously, drinking water and having smaller portions is sensible but I truly think the very structure of the villages & cities in Europe renders walking so much easier than in Canada or the USA.

I just love how you were on point eveytime and not talking 5min off the topic. Thank you for this video 😀

i am 43kg and i snack in the afternoon with something healthy made by me, but i cant live without my afternoon snack 😀

This almost completely matches the habits I developed while raised in France. With the exception of the shopping at the local market. But grocery stores in Frances are stocked enough on fresh, fresh produce. I've lived in the US my entire adult life and have reached middle age with the same waistline I had as when I was in my early 20's (after an initial surge as I adopted, then dropped, a number of American eating habits). These habits served me well, and I was able to adapt them to life in the US. The big American habit I dropped is soda. I also do my own baking for sweets, or else abstain. I have lost the palate for the American pastries, as they are too sweet. I bake my own bread as well, as the bread I find at the grocery store is sweet (which is weird to eat). Disclaimer here, I don't eat bread on a daily basis or else the baking of my own bread idea would not be manageable. I have a rice based diet. Rice is a lot quicker and easier to prepare.

I am able to shop in American grocery stores and maintain a healthy diet. It's not that difficult. If you spend more time in the fresh produce department and other raw ingredients areas, you are good to go. I strongly believe making meals from scratch is key for the waist line and for health.

I do follow the "faire attention" diet, where I make small adjustments to my eating as soon as my skirts become a little snug around the waist. But as far as self discipline goes, that's somewhat lacking. So I work with it. Even though I am a fully grown woman, I like my gouter. It takes me from lunch to dinner. I think of my gouter as a mini-meal as opposed to snacking. It's contained to once, at a regular time. If it is during a "faire attention" period, my gouter will be a cup of tea. I have trained myself to drink plain tea (no sugar, no milk). In the winter time, I drink hot tea. At night, it's herbal tea. In the summer time, I brew my own ice tea out of a variety of teas, my favorite being peach. It replaces fruit juices and sodas with a satisfying fruity flavor and a touch of sweetness. During meals, I drink water. One thing not mentioned in the video, is that the French do allow themselves wine with their meals, or beer depending on what goes with the food (in moderation). I don't drink alcohol so for me, it's just water.

This mainly because US is eating a lot of high fructose , vegetable oil and bigger portion, nothing else.

Hiii Marie ann … I'm indian … but I follow french eating habits ..I used to have wt issues … gaining and loosing wt .. I tried lot of diets but I would put back again and when I did not eat I would suffer from anemia and malnutrition… As I was a med student and I learned about medditerranean diet in my 3rd year and french paradox , it got me interested and I started living this lifestyle .. eat 3 times a day , no snacking , walking when ever possible , cutting out junk food and sodas , and cooking myself ..I love cooking and love long lunches and eat a stir fry vegetables and lentils ( sabzi and dal ) and fill up the corners with yogurt and lots of fruit .. and I m soo full that I don't even want to snack 😃😃 , I lean into seasons especially the fruit I eat as much as possible and jam the rest… this lifestyle helped me soo much … I maintain healthy wt and never suffered from malnutrition or dehydration or other issues again …

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this is exactly what Americans are not doing…
they drink A LOT of sodas, energy drinks not plain water
they consume alot of processed foods , farmer markets are very rare in US, even in large cities. They actually have what they call food deserts, huge areas where you dont have anything other than fast-food restaurants
they also work many hours-alot of americans are overworked, many have 2 jobs for example, so taking a 2 hour lunch break is totally out of the question
they also have huge portion sizes…everything is supersized, from food portions, to cars, to houses…

The attitudes and eating behaviour of French women are similar to the Japanese (small portions, fresh high quality ingredients, slow eating) i eat vegetables first especially before carbs to get fiber in the stomach so that my insulin and energy levels are stable. Also the other benefit is that digestive enzymes in the vegetables help digest protein and slow down the absorption of sugar from carbs into the bloodstream. This is one secret to staying slim. Of course, sweets should be consumed occasionally, avoid added sugar, soda, sugary drinks and keep active during the day. Drink warm water. I follow all of these practices and I trust that it will keep me healthy and happy for much longer 💗😊.

The rabbit eating fast made me laugh out loud 😆😆

Most important….Europeans walk to go everywhere. The catch a train, to go to work, to go to the supermarket and meet friends. If you walk that much, you cannot gain much weight. In the States we drive to put the trash out and everywhere else.

I eat out of boredom and sadness.

I'm a high school teacher in the US and I get about 25 minutes for lunch. By the time I join my friends, sit down and heat up my food I probably have about 15. ☹️ I am pretty firm on the rules that my lunch is sacred. If a kid wants to come in to work on something during lunch I schedule them for another time. I'm going to try to make better lunches now though instead of just some microwaveable frozen thing.

How do you do lunch like that with work schedules?

I drink herbal teas instead of all that water i still find the hunger a problem by eating light

You looks younger and fresh with this hair cut 🌷