The Healthy, Natural "French" Diet
The French, and Europeans in general, are not nearly as obese or even just-a-lil-fat as Americans. (France's obsesity rate is 8%.) I've been posting a lot about how everything in the States has High Fructose Corn Syrup in it; and it's not used in Europe! But the issue goes deeper than that; and so should the healthy diet for losing weight and then maintaining that fit shape--forever!
I know you want to hear it step by step, in a truncated, simple format, so I'll lay it out for you, myself. You probably expect the menu to be listed first, but I'll stress something else that is an important foundation:
The FUN part:
- Eat slowly, take small bites; chew slowly; ENJOY! Yummmm. mmmm-mmm. Savor! Take sips of water - or even red wine - between bites. (My father tells me, "eat" when I do this. It is not the usual American way.)
- Eat properly throughout the day--no fast food (at all**) meals in your car, no rushing with those cereal bars. Again, enjoy.
Let's get it out of the way, now. What NOT to eat:
- No/Less processed food; No HFCS, No Corn Syrup, No Aspartame, etc.
- No light dairy or skim milk.
- Less/No fatty beef or pork (no pork chops or prime rib).
- "Whole Foods" or natural or organic foods.
- Fruits and Veggies. Vegetable fat (olive oil).
- Whole Grain/Wheat Breads, natural, freshly baked/French bread.
- Real, whole dairy. (whole milk, cheese, real butter). Dairy fat.*
- Healthy animal meats; fish, duck, goose.
- Red wine is good.
- A small Coffee is A O.K as a dessert.
- A little dark chocolate after your meal.
** Fast Food is all manufactured by scientists!
This is the plan I intend to ease myself into. It's especially hard for me to give up my diet soda (Coke Zero, now) (with Aspartame), but perhaps there is a natural soda? Also, my family gets takeout all the time, but I can see what i can buy myself at the store, and I'll try to stick to the nicer restaurants---and Papa Gino's, since they put up all the food ingredients online!
(If anyone has results from this diet, comment!)
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3 comments:
I've been reading up on this a LOT actually... I'm glad to find someone who's got a similar weight loss pattern as I do who is trying it!
You know, I'm not sure if it's allowed or not, but Diet Coke is now making a version with Splenda too... no aspartame, no saccharin. Although I don't know how well I'd do with this diet... I'm a coffee JUNKY - drink it all day long, with 2% milk and Equal (aspartame)... I mean, switching to whole milk or cream and sugar would for SURE cost me mega calories - because I'm honestly not willing to give up my coffee. LOL! (Hey, at least I can admit it!) But I wonder what the whole "no aspartame" thing really is all about with this - I mean, okay, so French people don't use it. But they also don't drink as much coffee or soda either. So I don't know... LOL
But I'll be watchin' ya, girl! :)
My friend is so against Splenda, but I kind of think that since it's so popular, we're seeing all of the problems. Sigh, I don't know. I might try that Coke! Heh.
Could you put Splenda in your coffee? And at least milk is healthy--with any percentage of fat. Calcium. What I read said that the dairy fat is filling, and reduces the hungries. That might be okay for you!
By the way, French people also smoke a lot. But don't do that!
It'd be nice to have a little buddy with this, keep in touch, let me know what you're plan is. Or I'll just read your blog. :-) But definitely keep in touch!
Thanks for visiting and commenting on my blog!!!
Or (hello, Lauren) try sugar? Sugar has calories, but it's all-natural. This is not an anti-carb (or good-carb) diet, it's a Natural diet.
It's like me with soda, I can't really tell you to give up the coffee. But we can try to drink less?
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