How To Eat Like the French and Lose Weight: : 4 Simple and Effective Steps

4 tips to mix preparing goods meals for weight loss and visiting Paris like never before! 🇫🇷

French cuisine is well-known for being tasty, sophisticated and fascinating. But did you know that typical French dishes are also some of the world's more efficient meals for weight loss? On condition of knowing how to cook them. Let's review some tips!

That's not a secret, processed foods have never been recommended. World cuisine recipes all have their specificities, and most of typical French dishes have always been focusing on using natural ingredients that one can easily find, wherever they live. The more the quality of the ingredients - in terms of salt, sugar, and fat - the more the dish provides you with necessary nutrients for your weight loss. Quality products such as raw vegetables and fruits are more likely to provide you with all the vitamins and proteins required for your body to transform them into energy that you can use when doing sports.      

Thus, if you want to eat like the French and lose weight, I strongly advise you to privilege local small producers over big industrial supermarkets. Finally, dealing with reasonable portions (don't die of hunger!) and keeping  in mind that everything is about quantity enables you to enjoy your favorite "guilty" pleasures without hinder your weight loss!

French meals are the perfect match for people seeking to lose weight. Why? Because they offer you a large variety of meals and ingredients. If you want to cook typical French dishes, I advise you go to specialty stores and small markets. Instead of going to the supermarket, French people are used to getting their supplies from specific shops such as a "boucherie" (butcher's shop), "fromagerie" (cheese shop) or "boulangerie" (baker's shop). All are specialized in one type of food, ensuring you to find the best product quality, that often goes along with the absence of any transforming chemical process: typically a secret on how to eat like the French and lose weight!

Varying the meals and ingredients not only avoids you getting bored of some delicious dishes, it also enables you to diversify the type of nutrients your body needs. Of course, we also paid careful attention to selecting recipes with diverse types of ingredients - in terms of food type as well as types of nutrients they provide you! For instance, the tomatoes and the salad in the Salade Niçoise recipe bring you vitamins C and B, while the eggs offer great quantity of proteins.

French people are not used to snacking between meals as hunger is not perceived as a problem they immediately need to solve. In fact, hunger tends to be considered positively and as a part of the daily natural cycle of the body organism. Learning to deal with hunger helps reduce your overall appetite and makes you eventually enjoy your meal even more. Same goes for the drinks: an average French person drinks 147 liters of water per year, i.e. nearly 4 times less than their annual consumption of soft drinks!

If you still feel that your body requires more nutrients to survive the whole day, don’t hesitate to slightly increase the quantity of food in your plate during each meal. You can also try to eat some fruit or healthy snack on a regular basis not to disturb your already established body organism. Typical French dishes have the advantage to be relatively substantial and prevent you to be tempted by calorific snacks.

 The French “joie de vivre” can be defined by the pleasure you take to enjoy little things. In the context, understand that every meal deserves to be prepared with attention and savored with joy. Don’t feel guilty about good food and good wine if you think you need it – just pay attention to frequency and quantity.

Weight loss is 50% about your physical involvement – a healthy diet and sport exercises on a regular basis – and 50% about your mental strength. Thus, don’t go too hard on yourself by looking for the impossible. Eventually, living your daily life is sometimes the best way to achieve your goals. Most of Parisian people are used to walking, biking, and using public transportation to go wherever they need to be. In that context, the French “joie de vivre” reflects the need to do things as you feel them, as the risk on being too strict with yourself may result in you failing your personal weight loss objective.

4. ADOPT THE FRENCH "JOIE DE VIVRE" ❤️

"The purest form of French art is French food.

Once you've tasted it, there's no going back."

3. STOP SNACKING! 🍪

2. VARY & VARY &... VARY (DID I MENTION VARY?) ♻️

1. CHOOSE QUALITY OVER QUANTITY 🍽

Nicolas Frémaux, October 15 2021

To conclude, not only typical French dishes are perfect for healthy nutrition, they are also part of the French daily art of living that praises pleasure, self-control and sharing that you can adopt to eat like the French and lose weight.

And talking about sharing (what a good transition), feel free to share your own experience or tips to lose weight! What French recipes would you recommend? What's your secret to eat like the French and lose weight? Why did Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling split up? So many questions that need answers... Tell us in the comment section right below! ⬇️

Jay Wennington (October 25, 2014), https://unsplash.com/photos/N_Y88TWmGwA.

Gursimrat Ganda (March 17, 2019), https://unsplash.com/photos/TT042bOytlU.

- Me (somewhere, someday).

TO FINISH WITH...

As usual, we propose you additional content on the same topic:

This week, we chose an incredible video made by the very wise Edukale by Lucie, in which she shares her experience and tips on a French diet!

❤️

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How To Eat Like the French and Lose Weight: : 4 Simple and Effective Steps

4 tips to mix preparing goods meals for weight loss and visiting Paris like never before!

French cuisine is well-known for being tasty, sophisticated and fascinating. But did you know that typical French dishes are also some of the world's more efficient meals for weight loss? On condition of knowing how to cook them. Let's review some tips!

Nicolas Frémaux, October 15 2021

That's not a secret, processed foods have never been recommended. World cuisine recipes all have their specificities, and most of typical French dishes have always been focusing on using natural ingredients that one can easily find, wherever they live. The more the quality of the ingredients is - in terms of salt, sugar, and fat contained - the more the dish provides you with necessary nutrients for your weight loss. Quality products such as raw vegetables and fruits are more likely to provide you with all the vitamins and proteins required for your body to transform them into energy that you can use when doing sports.      

Thus, if you want to eat like the French and lose weight, I strongly advise you to privilege local small producers over big industrial supermarkets. Finally, dealing with reasonable portions (don't die of hunger!) and keeping  in mind that everything is about quantity enables you to enjoy your favorite "guilty" pleasures without hinder your weight loss!

French meals are the perfect match for people seeking to lose weight. Why? Because they offer you a large variety of meals and ingredients. If you want a wide range of ingredients usually included in typical French dishes, I advise you go to specialty stores and small markets. Instead of going to the supermarket, French people are used to getting their supplies from specific shops such as a "boucherie" (butcher's shop), "fromagerie" (cheese shop) or "boulangerie" (baker's shop). All are specialized in one type of food, ensuring you to find the best product quality, that often goes along with the absence of any transforming chemical process.

Varying the meals and ingredients not only avoids you getting bored of some delicious dishes, it also enables you to diversify the type of nutrients your body needs. Of course, we also paid careful attention to selecting recipes with diverse types of ingredients - in terms of food type as well as types of nutrients they provide you! For instance, the tomatoes and the salad in the Salade Niçoise recipe bring you vitamins C and B, while the eggs offer great quantity of proteins.

2. VARY & VARY &... VARY (DID I MENTION VARY?) ♻️

1. CHOOSE QUALITY OVER QUANTITY 🍽

French cuisine is well-known for being tasty, sophisticated and fascinating. But did you know that typical French dishes are also some of the world's more efficient meals for weight loss? On condition of knowing how to cook them. Let's review some tips!

How To Eat Like the French and Lose Weight: : 4 Simple and Effective Steps

4 tips to mix preparing goods meals for weight loss and visiting Paris like never before! 🇫🇷

French people are not used to snacking between meals as hunger is not perceived as a problem they immediately need to solve. In fact, hunger tends to be considered positively and as a part of the daily natural cycle of the body organism. Learning to deal with hunger helps reducing your overall appetite and makes you eventually enjoy your meal even more. Same goes for the drinks: an average French person drinks 147 liters of water per year, that is to say nearly 4 times less than their annual consumption of soft drinks!

If you still feel that your body requires more nutrients to survive the whole day, don't hesitate to slightly increase the quantity of food in your plate in each meal. You can also try to eat some fruit or healthy snack on a regular basis not to disturb your already established body organism. Typical French dishes have the advantage to be relatively substantial and prevent you to be tempted by calorific snacks.

  Although French cuisine is just one part of the French way of life, it includes many elements that French culture integrates in everyday life. The French "joie de vivre" can be defined by the pleasure you take to enjoy little things. In the context, understand that every meal deserves to be prepared with attention and savored with joy. Don't feel guilty about good food and good wine if you think you need it – just pay attention to frequency and quantity.

  Weight loss is 50% about your physical involvement – a healthy diet and sport exercises on a regular basis – and 50% about your mental strength. Thus, the next time you ask yourself "What to cook with the ingredients in my fridge?", don't go too hard on yourself by looking for the impossible. Eventually, living your daily life is sometimes the best way to achieve your goals. Most of Parisian people are used to walking, biking, and using public transportation to go wherever they need to be. In that context, the French "joie de vivre" reflects the need to do things as you feel them, as the risk on being too strict with yourself may result in you failing your personal weight loss objective.

4. ADOPT THE FRENCH "JOIE DE VIVRE" ❤️

"The purest form of French art is French food.

Once you've tasted it, there's no going back."

3. STOP SNACKING! 🍪

- Me (somewhere, someday).

To conclude, not only typical French dishes are perfect for healthy nutrition, they are also part of the French daily art of living that praises pleasure, self-control and sharing that you can adopt to eat like the French and lose weight.

And talking about sharing (what a good transition), feel free to share your own experience or tips to lose weight! What worked for you? What French recipes would you recommend? Why did Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling split up? So many questions that need answers... Tell us in the comment section right below! ⬇️

TO FINISH WITH...

As usual, we propose you additional content on the same topic:

This week, we chose an incredible video made by the very wise Edukale by Lucie, in which she shares her experience and tips on a French diet!

❤️