Unveiling the DARK TRUTH : Real Reason French Women Stay Slim

recently I've seen multiple videos mainly by Americans discussing French clothing brands and their discussion mainly centers around how French clothing brands cut their clothes and their view that when it all comes down to it French clothing brands are actually made for just French women AKA women who are slim and have no curves as an American who has lived in Paris now for over 4 years I can tell you 100% that the French body type is completely overb alone and actually has kind of a dark side to it so in today's video I'm going to be discussing the French body type and why it is absolutely something that you should not aspire to by any stretch of the imagination and before we get into it I do want to note that some of the topics we're going to be discussing in today's video are going to be a little bit sensitive and thus may not be appropriate for younger audiences that said let's get into it first and foremost we have to start by separating French from Parisian so one of the things you'll note is that when you go into the French Countryside you will definitely see people who are overweight why well it's largely due to the diet the food is very heavy with Butters and creams each meal lasts 4 hours or longer and then you go out take a little walk and start the next meal again there is substantially less walking and I know for example that if I happen to live in the countryside I would end up gaining at least 10 kilos or 20 lbs without really doing much without making an actual conscious effort to work out I know that that's just how quickly I would put on weight so as a result it's not that it is all of France all French people who are slim really it's just something that's more centered in Paris now that might have you asking well is it then the walking that keeps Parisian slim it's not that let me explain why okay so if it's not the walking that keeps everybody a little bit slim who lives in the city what exactly is it do you think it could be the working out again not so much it is probably not working out that actually keeps people slim here first and foremost working out in Paris is actually quite difficult to do it's very there are very limited public spaces that are free spaces for exercise or playing games really the only space you're going to see where it's just free to access and play something is going to be Paton but other than that unlike in America where we have free golf courses tennis courts basketball courts Etc you're not going to see that in France you're not even going to see you know free accessible soccer fields for kids instead generally what you see is people playing soccer just in the park with their friends or family or whatnot but but even then don't expect it to be something like what you would see in the US on a US soccer field in addition to most sport activities actually being quite difficult to access due to money they're also quite difficult to access due to frankly just your ability to get there so let's say you do have the money to pay for the tennis court and you do have the money to pay to access the soccer field you have to generally have a car or some other means to get very very far those things are not actually located within Paris one of the things I think that is very interesting about living in Washington DC even New York is that you will find golf courses on the island of Manhattan you will find a golf course in the middle of DC you will not find anything like that in Paris these are things that you have to kind of go to you have to find them out and that I think makes it very difficult to access now the one sport that I will say that it is very easy for most people to access here is swimming so almost every single neighborhood has a public pool and the pools are actually quite accessible and reasonably priced to access so as far as accessing a pool that you'll see a lot of people do and you see a lot of people take up sports that do involve things like swimming and whatnot in addition to the fact that working out is quite difficult in Paris I've also heard quite a few stories from French friends about their mothers reproaching them for putting on muscles or looking like they even have muscles so for example a friend one of my friend's friends her she said that her mother when she came back from the US basically said oh my gosh those muscles on your body are ugly you look like an American you need to get rid of that immediately or you won't be able to find a man I was like oh my gosh how intense so having a muscular build having any sort of muscles is really kind of frowned upon in at least amongst the women in French culture and so as a result you see a lot of women doing things like swimming Pilates yoga in order to kind of maintain this light dancers physique that is really very much desired or considered desirable particularly here in Paris however swimming yoga Pilates that's really not enough only to keep you slim and to maintain this featherweight physique so how is it that French women do this well I'm about to tell you as you may know the only way to lose weight or in fact to maintain your weight is to live with a calorie deficit and what does that mean well that basically means that you are consuming fewer calories generally through food than you are burning generally through exercise in a day on kind of a consistent basis however if you are not maintaining that calorie deficit by working out and by burning it through exercise then how exactly are you maintaining it well the only other way to do it is by decreasing what you eat in the August 9 2022 episode of the podcast maintenance phase which I will link to below the host discussed a book called How French women don't get that that was written by a French woman and in the podcast I'm going to read directly what it says in the podcast the host discussed the supposed dieting book and ultimately conclude that in reality it's not as much a dieting book as a how to guide foreign eating disorder and that brings me to my first Ugly Truth on how French women actually manage to stay slim it is often times via Eating Disorders I actually had a very person and very uh up close exposure to this when I was living in my very first apartment in Paris due to my neighbor my neighbor a young woman who could not have been a day older than 25 suffered from an eating disorder and it was quite severe and ultimately she actually ended up taking her own life because of that disease and just because of what it was doing to her her body and just her General mental health I have to say that that it was it substantially affected me and it was the first time that I really saw how this pressure INF French society and particularly when it comes to women and staying slim how this pressure really does play out in real life and I got to say it it's something you don't want to see it's truly absolutely nothing that you ever want to Aspire to every single person man and woman that I know in Paris has a story about somebody that they know who has an eating disorder it is just that common and they talk about how oh yes she uses her eating disorder as a way to stay slim think about that it's so common every single person knows somebody like this that is truly disturbing I have personally witnessed how much French people love leak soup and love to kind of use it as something to stay slim now if you don't know what leak soup is I'll just say that you should listen to the podcast episode because they definitely kind of explain how this is something that was used to kind of lose weight but leak soup is awful leak soup tastes like GRL I imagine that leak soup is what they were giving to Oliver Twist I recently read this blog post where this woman said that she was in Paris and she watched this French woman eat three fries and she thought it was so elegant the way that she ate those three fries let me be clear that woman probably ate those three fries and then didn't eat anything else the rest of the day there is nothing elegant about that this is not just a situation where they indulge one day and then cut back a little bit the next day no no no this is a society where people are so repulsed by anyone who is fat that they refused to make clothes for people and instead just expect women to do whatever they have to do to stay slim that is not normal one of my French friends is a teacher in a French high school and she told me that clearly it's about a third of the girls in the class at any given time are suffering from some sort of eating disorder because they are trying to stay slim to fit into an image there is nothing healthy or good about that that's why I say that the French body type is not something that you should be aspiring to because the way that the women are maintaining it is via eating disorders and that is going to wreak havoc on their bodies in the long run now one thing I want to note is that the quality of the food in France is actually better than what you'll generally find in the US so for example you when you go to McDonald's in France you actually get real meat and real potatoes with that being said you see a lot of Americans who come and they're going to drop 10 20 lbs just like that and that's simply due to a shift in the food in America there is sugar and crap in all of our food in France not so however for a French person they're accustomed to eating like this so the way that we eat here in France isn't necessarily going to cause them to slay slim or help them lose weight so as a result they're not going to be able to Simply rely on you know changing their diet like you might do in the US as a way to lose weight instead it has to be frankly cutting out food entirely so that brings us to the second way that French women stay slim and you might be wondering can it get worse oh darling I can so the second Ugly Truth on how French women actually stay Slim is due to vaping and cigarettes yes another incredibly unhealthy way of staying slim I'm going to be frank I really do not understand how cigarettes or vaping or anything like that keeps women slim but I can tell you that I have seen kids who look as young as 12 smoking and it's just like what and yet they're sitting there outside of high school smoking away like it's no big deal again my French friend who is a teacher tells me that kids start smoking incredibly young here and that she knows a whole lot of the girls who smoke as a way to stay slim and while these views on staying slim really do affect the French female psyche I will note that they also affect the French male psyche I've talked a lot about how my boyfriend will just casually mention oh I'm not going to eat for a couple days and then he'll tell me I need to join him in solidarity and I'm just like bro no in my opinion and I am just not going to hide this I think that the French view on weight and size is incredibly problematic I think that it is incredibly traumatizing and deeply affects this Society instead I think what you need to focus on is developing a healthier relationship to food developing a healthier relationship to to your own body that's sort of thing instead of sitting here and kind of forcing people to starve themselves or take on other unhealthy habits in order to fit into clothing that's literally made for like the bodies of 10 people if you follow me on Instagram you know I've been talking about how I need to lose some kilos and the way that I'm doing that is through the non-sexy grueling hard way of just frankly working out I'm working out I'm eating better I'm cutting out my my candy even though we all know I love my candy I am really focusing on trying to just maintain a healthy calorie deficit by cutting out the the junk food that is in my diet right now and that's what I believe that this culture and Society should actually encourage people to do is to go about it the hard way the non-sexy way the slow way which is by watching what you eat and then just being mindful of how much exercise you're getting and also I think there needs to be some normalization of women's bodies and just understanding that the physique you might have when you're 12 is not going to be the same physique you have when you were 18 like hormones vom it happens to us all I hope you've enjoyed this video and just getting to see and learn why the French way for staying slim is not actually something that should be romanticized instead it's something that truly we should all be out there rejecting and instead focusing more on just being healthier and kinder to ourselves and less focused on trying to fit into some image that was created who knows when and frankly probably was never even real so there you have it I hope you've enjoyed this video I look forward to reading any of your thoughts in the comments take care stay safe and talk to you again soon bye [Music]

Channel: Adriel Felise

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Length: 15min 14sec (914 seconds)

Published: Tue May 07 2024