10 secrets of harmony, who know only French

Tourists are surprised: the French eat chocolate, croissants, a lot of cheese, washed down with wine, and still manage to be delicate and refined. At the same time they are not obsessed with counting calories, do not torture themselves for hours in the gym. The secret lies in their attitude to food, which is brought up from childhood.

Women's edition of the Website really like the image of French life. We believe that it is necessary to adopt their habits to keep in shape without effort and even with pleasure.

Food as ministering


This is perhaps the most important secret of French women. Reverent attitude to food does not fill his mouth with different nonsense, does not allow there to go and horrible. We can say that the people of France are obsessed with food, but they have this obsession translates into the desire to eat refined and beautiful, but not much. The French often have lunch and dinner in restaurants and cafes, enjoying a mini-meals, wine and good company.

"For us, lunch or dinner - it is a very special time, where it is mixed pleasure of delicious food and good conversation - says Parisian nutritionist Dr Françoise L'Ermita. - In many other countries, unfortunately, food is seen as fuel for muscles. If you treat it as food, you are violating the most basic principles of power. »

Frenchwoman chooses quality

The French prefer the best, the freshest and selective. Their principle - better than more expensive and better, not more and cheaper. Let it be a couple cloves of quality chocolate cakes or light manual work, rather than a large portion of inexpensive ice cream (in which the composition is bound to have harmful trans fats), it's better to be a fish than a cheap chicken of unknown quality.

< French women - a living illustration of the truism: "you are what you eat» the hostess Parisian restaurant La Petite Cuisine Rachel Ku says: "Even when I was forced to save, I went to the market. to buy fresh natural cheese and baguette. As well, that in France it can afford people of all incomes. »

Frenchwoman often puts a fork on a plate

The French do not send in your mouth spoon for spoon, making lunch or dinner at the fuel intake to the body. She eats slowly and enjoy the taste of each piece, making a pause in eating to pay attention to the other party, or family members. So the usual lunch or dinner turns into a celebration of taste and communication.

She's very honest with them about the food, but wow does not prohibit

The Frenchwoman is aware that the foie gras and brie cheese - is very fatty and hearty. She realizes that he can not stay in shape, if it is twice a day to eat croissants and fresh bread.

But the French do not prohibit wow. < It is better to allow yourself to have a favorite little than to experience stress from complete rejection
Frenchwoman observe moderation and balance

The French are well aware of the difference between wanting to be pampered and debauchery. If they want to stay in shape, you will never have pastries, cheese and bread in one day, said Rebeca Plantier, author of the book "Lessons France: nutrition, fitness, family»

. They do not indulge in pleasures, but understand that the condition of harmony - is moderation and balance. Today you can eat cake, but dinner will be without a side dish: for example, duck breast and salad. Tomorrow you can afford a chocolate, the day after tomorrow - the wine with cheese and nuts

. So, Sophie Marceau eats everything, but slowly. "I just do not eat fast food. But I love the wine and chocolate, and in this, as in so many other delicious things, does not deny. »

Too much sugar or salt? This is not for her

French dishes are delicate taste, and if they have spices, they are designed to emphasize the natural flavor and fragrance products. French women with a child accustomed to the fact that all the "too" - this is not for them. Too sweet or greasy slice of cake they put aside (preferably choose the tartlets with a light cream and fruit), as too salty or overdone dishes.

Frenchwoman better wait for dinner, which will be snacking on the go
< br> The French, of course, a cup of coffee with two cookies in a break between lunch and dinner, but not abuse it. She would prefer to wait for dinner and eat a good piece of meat with salad, perceiving a slight feeling of hunger with pleasure - as the best aperitif before a delicious meal

. But if, before lunch or dinner is still far, and I'm hungry unbearable, then the best choice - natural yogurt with no sweeteners. The French eat yogurt most compared to other European countries. Per person on average 20 kilograms per year, writes Mireille Giuliano, the author of the blog French Women Dont Get Fat ( «French women do not get fat»).

She eats for a well set table

French women do not deprive yourself of the pleasure to eat in a measured and tasteful, the well-set table. They are not used to eating, sitting down with the edge of the table or the computer in between licking greasy fingers to tap on the keyboard.

Long lunch breaks in the French offices - the most common. "Slow" foods are known to be better absorbed and allows you to enjoy the process. And when we eat in a hurry, we often do not even pay any attention to the taste or the smell. So after an hour we want to screw something sweet in an effort to get their share of endorphins

Movement -. It is a lifestyle, not a way to "work out" eaten

In France, active recreation is part of the national culture, said Rebeca Plantier. The French go hiking, climb mountains, love kayak, play tennis, run in the park, skiing and so on. In addition, they are a lot of walking on foot. And this is a way of life, and not abuse them, not the way the sweat of "work" and not eaten by self-torture in an attempt to get closer to the ideal. The French believe that any abuse is harmful to women's well-being.

Anyone who moves a lot, prefers to walk the trip by car, and at the same time fully, efficiently and with pleasure eats, not fullness.

Frenchwoman does not survive because of the excesses and punish their bodies

We are all human and sometimes indulge in excesses. This happens even with the French, who carefully look after themselves. But if they are somewhere allowed themselves more than usual, and violated the principles of moderation, do not see this as nothing wrong and do not rush into extremes. They will not punish your body and say, "Yesterday, I ate too much, and now I will go hungry and spent two hours in a gym»

. "The principle of" No pain - no gain "has not made it to France", - said Rebeca Plantier. And when the movie star Eva Green (and without, by the way, a slender) were asked to go on a diet and lose weight for the role in the first film, she quickly surrendered. "I just could not sit on a diet. Food as means to me "- she admits

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The French go mad with boredom if she would have read about the calories, carbohydrates, proteins, fats and trans fats. And it has to be sad when it will apply all this knowledge in relation to the blessed part of her life - food. She prefers to treat food as a pleasure, but remember about moderation and balance. < This is the art of living with pleasure.



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