Why french women don't get fat

[Heswall]

Please somebody tell me the leek soup thing works, I may throw up soon and am starving.
TIA

I should also add that I have not starved and have been out to dinner a couple of times.

PAUL MCKENNA THREAD

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Aaaah! I'm on iPhone and can't seem to be able to click on the link. Where can I find the P McK thread and what's it called? Thanks

I really couldn't do with calorie counting or synning or humiliating myself every week. We are all losing weight on the PMK non diet and we eat as much or as little as our bodies need. Just saying...

Go to the Big, Slim, whatever...you'll find it in active convo's... I'll call you!!

found us yet?

I have lost 1st 4lbs on slimming world recently and the only changes to my diet are, I stopped eating 5 biscuits with my mid morning cup of tea, stopped eating yoghurt covered raisins intended for my son's packed lunch and stopped eating till my plate was empty rather than stop when I am full.

I still eat, pasta, rice, potatoes, chocolate, biscuits etc I slowed down when eating and really tasted my food rather than wolfing it down. I make concious choices, and I assess whether I am actually hungry or just bored.

The problem with "diets" is that the second you stop you gain weight or worst still you consume so few calories that your body thinks that food is scare so your body starts to retain everything meaning you hardly lose.

I have found slimming world fab, I do hate the clapping when someone has lost weight but for me it is a small price to pay for the weight I have lost. I would say that I am definitely not hungry. My sister does weight watchers and is also not hungry.

On hols in France I studied the beautiful women - they ALL smoke.
What I saw at lunch, they don't touch the bread basket. They did not have wine with lunch. Cig #1 before the menu. Often 2-3 smoked before food arrived. They ate their main. No dessert.
Some did not smoke as many - but their smoking stats must be brutal.

Got it! Thank you! It seems very friendly over there. Off to have more of a read

The beautiful smoking French women must all be quite young then because they won't end up with very beautiful faces if they carry on.

Does anyone get Psychologies magazine? There was an article in there this month about your face suffering if you keep your figure overly slim and how it's not good for your looks if you cut too much fat out of your diet.

sunshine lol .i met a woman at a party who told me exactly that....you have to choose between your face and your arse.......she said I had a lovely face !!!!

Teeth are the key to maintaing a youth face for everything else there's botox

... (whispers) It's called anorexia. The public health service is having to implement plans to curb the massive amount of women with eating disorders due to deeply misogenistic culture. Ignore, Ignore IGNORE!

I've subscribed to the face over arse thing for years. DH tells me have a very good arse

I have lost nealry 2 stone using my fitness pal since November. I eat what I like but just less. I do tend to have soup (no bread) for one meal a day usually. The app lets you eat more if you do exercise, walking or even just cleaning. I was losing 2lb a week but it has dropped to 1 now I am not quite so blobby anymore.

I think the reason the leek thing might work for a while is that leeks can make one quite flatulent. Air can be heavy, y'know!

Oh dear, leeks and chilli, DH is in for a treat tonight eh ?

Sigh. Isn't it because they're all having vigorous bouts of chambre action avec leurs sexy young jardinieres every day, while their DH is off cycling off with the onions round his neck to see his mistress, etc?

Do not disabuse me of this fantasy, merci.

I think you be skinny from eating whatever you want but just not eating too much. I weigh between 7 and 7 and a half stone usually and eat whatever I want but I dont eat massive portions, I move around a lot and if I eat a massive thing at lunch my body just self regulates it and I dont want as much later.

I also definitely dont smoke as thats the worse thing you can do. I think diets are what keep people big as you are denying youself things. I dont think you should deny yourself anything its just how much you eat

Do French women have high rates of lung cancer?

Rates do seem high.

fizzylemonade what happens at slimming world if you haven't lost weight? Do they still clap? Boo? Deathly silence? sorry to make light of it but it sounds like something off a comedy sketch

exactly what molly3478 said. Eat whatever you want, just don't eat as much. It might be difficult to start with but eventually your body will get used to it.

I also think salty foods are a total killer - I avoid them, mostly. After a few weeks, you won't be able to stand the taste of anything salty anyway. Last time I had a takeaway pizza, I chucked it in the bin - the taste of salt was just too minging.

I walk at least an hour a day. I weigh 7 and a half stone and never put on weight.

I don't get this smoker face myth. I smoked until last year, 15-20 cigs a day on average and am now 50. I will say that my non smoking friends have more lines on their top lip and on their faces in general than I do. Not boasting but it's true. My Dsis is 2 year older than me and has never smoked and has hardly any lines on her face so it might be lucky genes.

If cigarettes kept you slim there would be no fat smokers and there are many of them so it's not that. The limited carbs could be it. I went on the Dukan Diet once and the weight drops off you.