How To Stay Skinny As A French Woman In 10 Easy Steps
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If you've ever been in Paris, I'm sure you have noticed that there are a lot fewer people running around with extra weight around their middles or their thighs or anywhere else. How oh how do those French women stay so slender?
Here are some of their tactics which you may like to adopt:
Start out with small bones. French people are small people naturally, their frames are narrow and not designed for carrying a lot of weight.
Smoke cigarettes. Ugh, I'm not serious, but it is a fact that the French in general smoke quite a bit, and it doesn't have nearly the social stigma that it does in other parts of the world. Nicotine is a strong appetite suppressant.
Walk. I'm not talking about putting on your sweats and tennies and heading to the park. I'm talking about your next trip to the grocery store. And guess who's carrying the groceries home? My French neighbor walks everywhere, including daily trips to the kids school and the bakery. She does that in high heels by the way!
Notice your food. What's that on your plate that you're eating? Take a bite and chew slowly. Comment on the flavors.
Eat slowly. Take hours to finish your meal.
Eat with your friends or if you don't have any, at least with your family. Invite the waiter to sit a while. Talk. Talk. Talk.
Reject your food. I have been witness to so many scenes in French restaurants where food and drink have been returned to the kitchen judged inapt for tender palates. In general the waiters do not seem to mind this one bit. In fact, everyone seems to be enjoying themselves thoroughly over the matter; a small piece of theater over a burnt corner of potato.
Eat full fat cheese. Seriously. Stop eating low calorie anything. Until a few years ago, you'd be hard pressed to even find a diet Coke in France.
Have a glass of wine with your meal, but drink it so slowly that your glass is still half full an hour later.
If you gain an ounce, even if it's just between your ears, complain about it pitifully. Discuss for hours on end how you just can't fit into your dress anymore. Guess French women aren't so different from other women on that point.
Here are some of their tactics which you may like to adopt:
Start out with small bones. French people are small people naturally, their frames are narrow and not designed for carrying a lot of weight.
Smoke cigarettes. Ugh, I'm not serious, but it is a fact that the French in general smoke quite a bit, and it doesn't have nearly the social stigma that it does in other parts of the world. Nicotine is a strong appetite suppressant.
Walk. I'm not talking about putting on your sweats and tennies and heading to the park. I'm talking about your next trip to the grocery store. And guess who's carrying the groceries home? My French neighbor walks everywhere, including daily trips to the kids school and the bakery. She does that in high heels by the way!
Notice your food. What's that on your plate that you're eating? Take a bite and chew slowly. Comment on the flavors.
Eat slowly. Take hours to finish your meal.
Eat with your friends or if you don't have any, at least with your family. Invite the waiter to sit a while. Talk. Talk. Talk.
Reject your food. I have been witness to so many scenes in French restaurants where food and drink have been returned to the kitchen judged inapt for tender palates. In general the waiters do not seem to mind this one bit. In fact, everyone seems to be enjoying themselves thoroughly over the matter; a small piece of theater over a burnt corner of potato.
Eat full fat cheese. Seriously. Stop eating low calorie anything. Until a few years ago, you'd be hard pressed to even find a diet Coke in France.
Have a glass of wine with your meal, but drink it so slowly that your glass is still half full an hour later.
If you gain an ounce, even if it's just between your ears, complain about it pitifully. Discuss for hours on end how you just can't fit into your dress anymore. Guess French women aren't so different from other women on that point.
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