Top Reasons Why French Women Don't Get Fat

Stress can make you fat and your weight loss dieting attempts difficult. This is a fact.

But French women dont get fat. Discover their Secret of Eating for Pleasure ...

I was given a copy of French Women Don't Get Fat by Madame Mireille Guiliano as a gift and I simply can not put it down!

The book is so well-written and the dietary advice is so down to earth and realistic that we just had to share it with you.

Guiliano is not a nutritionist, nor is she claims to be one.

She is simply a very savvy women, who has experienced the difficulties of weight loss.

In her book, she shares with us what she has learned along her path to well-being.

To us, the most important teacher is someone who has experienced it! She confesses to be a chocoholic and a lover of sweets and pastries. She shares her experience with a doctor she calls Dr. Miracle, who helps her with a plan to get her weight down (which by the way her weight gain happened as a result of adopting typical American eating habits while living in the U.S. such as eating while standing up, not making her own food, and eating whatever she wanted like brownies and bagels). Sound familiar??? Yep...we're all guilty!!

Here are some of Madame Guiliano's tips to weight loss that can be found in her book:

•Keep a dietary journal, analysing what seems excessive.

•Embrace pleasure and individual happiness as your goals.

•Eliminate offender foods such as potato chips, bagels, pizza, pasta, fried foods, fruit juices, beer or hard liquor, candy bars, ice cream, soda, and junky chocolate.

•Choose quality over quantity. The better quality chocolate the better it will be for you.

•Eat one thing on your plate at a time.

•Drink water.

•Avoid the unknowns of prepared foods, especially the processed kind.

•Eat slowly, chew properly.

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Parties, Stress And Your Waistline

Parties have a very special place in our lives. So, is a food. Company parties, church gatherings and get togethers with friends all centers around food. How could you resist?

Food isn’t the only thing contributing to our weight gain however. There’s more.

Stress

Stress is everywhere. It is inevitable. Any change real or perceived causes stress response in our bodies.

I hate to tell you but there is a good chance all of party food settle around your waistline.

You see stress causes certain changes to occur in your body. When we are put in a stressful situation the brain releases a neurochemical called corticotrophin-releasing hormone (CRH), which triggers the "fight or flight" response in the body.

It is a high alert signal for the body to prepare to fight or flee from upcoming danger. The pupils dilate respiration and heart rate increase. CRH causes the release of adrenaline and cortisol, hormones which mobilize fat and carbohydrate stores into the blood stream for quick energy. During this stage, the appetite is suppressed and the digestive system is shut down. This is why many people under acute stress will say that they are too nervous to eat.

However, as the immediate stress dissipates, adrenaline levels drop and we begin to feel calmer. The cortisol levels remain elevated in order to bring the body back to a balanced state. One way it accomplishes this is by increasing the appetite to replenish fat and carbohydrates that should have been used to fight or flee the stressor.

So what happens if you aren't fighting or fleeing from anything? What happens when you stress comes from traffic jams, deadlines, trying to please everybody, financial worries, having a job or a boss you despise, trying to juggle family and career or a host of other modern day stressors?

This kind of prolonged stress will cause cortisol levels to stay elevated in turn keeping the appetite chronically elevated. These high levels of cortisol will also keep insulin levels high leading to the deposit of fat stores in the abdominal area.

Can you avoid all of the stress in your life? Of course not. If you are one of the millions however who are chronically stressed out or anxious you may need to learn some ways to "actively relax" in order to activate relaxation response.

Getting a massage, learning breathing exercises, meditation, listening to guided relaxation audios and making time to take walks and exercise can all be helpful.

Finding it difficult to do this on your own? Coaching helps……. 

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