How do they drop the 'winter' kilograms of the French: 3 life hacking without diets
'14.03.2021'
Source: Zen.Yandex
The winter diet of the French is significantly different from the summer. It is much more high-calorie, so many grow during the cold season with an unlimited number of kilograms. Three familiar slim French women told me about their spring slimming life hacks.
Tizan, Tizan, Tizan!
Muriel, 53, a social worker:
I am not the type of person able to diet, quotes Muriel Zen.Yandex. My salvation - tizany. Tizane (tisane) the French call herbal infusions (herbal, floral or herbal tea) of different composition. The trick is to have many completely different tizanov and alternate them. I buy at least 7 (packaged in bags, like teas): detox, digestion, energy, soothing, feminine, chamomile, etc. The main thing: Tizans should be very different in taste. Tizanov compositions should consist of different herbs and plants, and not just be tea with additives.
I drink the first cup around 11.30, before lunch. The second hour is on the 3-4 of the day. The third at about 6, before dinner, the fourth at 9 evenings, and sometimes the fifth, if I go to bed late. Different herbs complement each other's work, and my metabolism accelerates. In addition, the fluid creates a feeling of fullness in the stomach, and the appetite is significantly reduced. I notice that I am filling up with less.
If I constantly drank tizan, then probably the effect of addiction would occur, and since I usually use them infrequently, the body reacts perfectly. I have no consistency in tizans. When choosing which one to brew for the next cup, I am guided by taste: what I would like more now. Therefore, every day is not like the other, there is no routine. And for 2 weeks the kilogram of 3 easily leaves!
Delicacy mode
Sylvie, 41 year, City Hall Secretary:
The problem of weight gain during the winter is well known to me. Kassule, duck, raclette, foie gras, etc. In the warm season, it never occurs to me to eat that. When summer pants barely fit, I say to myself: ok, winter is really behind, you need to lose weight.
My way is to replace conventional foods with expensive gourmet foods. My daughters 15 and 17 years old and my husband also appreciated my method, and now we are losing weight "by four".
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For example, usually for breakfast we buy croissants and other pastries in our bakery, the cost of which is 0,90-1.2 euros. But in the same bakery there are pastry "pasta" of different tastes for the price of 1 euro. We adore them, but they are tiny compared to croissants. Here I am replacing pastries with them when we switch to the “delicacy mode”. As a result, we eat significantly fewer calories and get a taste of pleasure.
Instead of inexpensive bananas, I begin to buy expensive blueberries and strawberries. Instead of cheap chicken - expensive seafood or ready-made meals of restaurant level in the cooking department of the supermarket, but of course by a little bit! Instead of the usual cheese, I buy one that is three times more expensive, but I take it three times less in quantity. That is, I stay within the budget, but I spend it differently.
The principle is this: we significantly reduce portions, but we savor delicacies. The fact that we constantly eat all sorts of goodies (albeit in small quantities) does not spoil the mood. We do not feel that we limit ourselves, because we constantly get a taste of pleasure, delight ourselves and discover new "goodies".
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We do not feel hunger, because in fact the body needs much less than we consume. In two weeks of the “delicacy mode,” I’m dropping about a kilogram of 3. Daughters are smaller, they also eat at school. We have been practicing this method for the third year already - and even we are waiting for this time as a holiday.
Natural selection
Lea, 35 years, a teacher of elementary grades:
I am not able to sit on any diets - I become a shrew. When I find that winter has left me 4-5 kg in memory of itself, I switch to a regime that I call "natural selection". For this I am making a "black list". It includes foods, as well as combinations of foods that I completely exclude from the diet for a month. When excluding foods from the diet, I am guided by the principles of a balanced diet. But if you give up your most beloved products, then you will constantly want them, break the prohibitions and then hate yourself. Therefore, I only blacklist what I am rather indifferent to. It is important to write a real “blacklist”, not keep it in your head.
For example, I am a meat eater. And if I am deprived of meat products, I will load it. But for a month to give up on side dishes, butter, sweet dairy products, white bread - for me is quite simple. I love chocolate, but I can get along without cookies. I can’t live without cheese, but a month without yoghurts with fillings is fine. So, if there is cheese in the fridge, then these yoghurts will not be.
I love red wine. Therefore, I leave it in the diet, but under the condition: if I drink wine, then no more carbohydrates in this meal. That is, there is a combination on my black list: wine + carbohydrates. In ordinary life, we ourselves, without noticing it, eat more than necessary. In the mode of weight loss due to "natural selection", I significantly reduce the amount of food eaten, and since my favorite foods remain in the diet, I almost do not feel the restrictions.
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