089: I Studied How French Women Eat, And This Is What I Learned

School of Self-Image

Tonya Leigh

Fashion & Beauty, Arts, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Ever wonder why French women can eat rich food, drink wine every day, and still stay slim and elegant? It's a paradox that perplexes most Americans. But the answer isn't about how many calories or what types of food they consume, how much they walk or whether they smoke cigarettes! Listen to Tonya sharing the story of her revelation about why French women can stay so slim and elegant while eating croissants and drinking wine, how it completely changed her life, and how it can change yours! Ever wonder why French women can eat rich food, drink wine every day, and still stay slim and elegant? It's a paradox that perplexes most Americans. But the answer isn't about how many calories or what types of food they consume, how much they walk or whether they smoke cigarettes! Listen to Tonya sharing the story of her revelation about why French women can stay so slim and elegant while eating croissants and drinking wine, how it completely changed her life, and how it can change yours!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the French Kiss Life podcast, all about living with more elegance, style, and
0:05.9	Joa de Viv in your everyday life.
0:08.1	I'm Tanya Lee, your hostess, and thanks so much for tuning in.
0:11.8	Let's get started. Hello my friends how are you I've missed you and I'm so excited because by the time you listen to this I will
0:36.8	be in one of my favorite places. Can you guess where it is? Yes, France. I'm actually going to be in Europe for quite some time and I'm really
0:47.5	excited to go back to France. I do this year after year because it really is the place that inspired me to start
0:56.3	living my life very very differently and in this podcast today I want to talk
1:01.9	specifically about how I studied how French women eat and what I learned from it.
1:08.0	So on my very first trip to Paris, you would think that I would have been most captivated by the architecture, the fashion, or the art, but no. I could not stop watching how French women eat.
1:24.2	I would stare at them at the cafe or watch them through the window of a brasserie, and yes, I even
1:30.2	was that weird American girl who peaked over their shoulder at the super marshade a spy on what they had in their small basket.
1:38.0	I mean, where were their huge shopping carts? Come on. But I wanted to know their secret. Was it genetics? Was it
1:48.8	the cigarettes? Was it something in the water? French women were mysterious freaks of nature to a girl like me who had weight issues.
1:58.0	With my weight ranging from a size 20 at one point to a size 2. I was honestly just exhausted from the constant
2:07.2	crazy making of counting every single calorie. And then when Atkins came along it became really complicated because now I had to keep up with carbs too. Can you relate?
2:21.0	But did all of my strict calculations even matter because like clockwork? Here's what would happen.
2:27.0	I'd throw all of that data in the metrics out of the window at the smell of a warm chocolate chip cookie.
2:34.0	Actually make that six because I had no clue how to stop at one.
2:39.0	It felt like a starving toddler lived inside of me.
2:43.6	Then of course, like clockwork, I also had to feel guilty about it because that's what
2:48.0	you do, right?
2:49.5	You swear you'll follow a plan.
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