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iowagreen

POSTED: Sat, 02/27/2010 - 5:54pm

Spring Cleaning

Hello- I am just wondering - is anyone really losing weight following Mireille's advice? I read alot of other discussions but am wondering about actual weight loss- anyone?

Vintage1944

POSTED: Fri, 03/19/2010 - 7:32pm Spring Cleaning Did it both literally and figuratively today.Did "a Jas" on my tiny place.Quite a workout.I was sweating.But I feel great.Much better connected to myself and life.

Jeanette

POSTED: Tue, 03/09/2010 - 1:27pm After years of talking with After years of talking with my best friend about Mireille's books and approach I was FINALLY able to get her to read the book. She starts it January 1st, finished it in 2 days and since then has lost 18 pounds! And about 2 pant sizes! She looks and feels soooooo much better and she's not starving or depriving herself at all. She has the Budwig Cream for breakfast most days and will treat herself to a piece of chocolate or a mocha-coffee as appropriate without binging. She LOVES FWDGF now and can't wait until the cookbook comes out. Hope that helps!

Vintage1944

POSTED: Wed, 03/10/2010 - 10:38pm That is great news Good for you for convincing her.Will she join us here?That would be fun.

jas

POSTED: Wed, 03/03/2010 - 10:10am some thoughts I'm responding to a question on some thread that I keep thinking about. Regarding the breakfast question, I disagree that eating a "Good" Breakfast is important. I think the French way is to listen to your body and do what is right for you. This may be protein in the morning but it may not be. I do better with lots of liquids in the morning and no breakfast. I do lemon water, then a green drink with freshly juiced carrots, celery and other greens mixed with another powdered green drink. My body likes a light start. Learning to listen to my body and interpret what it is really saying and really needing is essential for me.

frenchgirly

POSTED: Mon, 03/08/2010 - 10:31am subject on Bfast~ I completely agree with you that one should listen to our own bodies,but I dont think thats the question here exactly...I simply stated for me this has worked b/c i needed to change the way I ate...plus im always hungry when i wake up haha...and in general i think if you eat a good bfast full of protein your not hungry for a while..and dont feel the need to snack , b/c for me if i eat sugar or carbs in the am..i want it all day long! i love lemon water and green tea and drink that everyday..that has also helped me take off lbs...but back to your statement..i agree Everyone should Listen to there own bodies for sure. Have a "french" kind of day~ Tracy (frenchgirly)

Lorraine

POSTED: Tue, 03/02/2010 - 8:41am Look around I have just lost a few pounds, but need to be more serious if I want to lose more (which I do). I also found WW to be ineffective, and I think I tried it four times. Quite franky, I found it to be a support group for people who can't manage food issues. It was just a tranference of one loss of control pattern to another one of counting everything that goes in your mouth. I like to look around me at the people who not only successfully manage food but also their lives. These are the people I want to "study". When I look at them, HELLLLLLO, their lives are in balance. I am going to try being nice to myself, hang around more "winners",and soak up some of their positiveness

jas

POSTED: Tue, 03/02/2010 - 5:56pm interesting to hear your perspective Lorraine, I really got frustrated with Weight Watchers too...I didn't see real healing happening only finding ways to control. I felt like such an utter failure there. It really is much better to reengage in life, beauty, pleasure, and yes self control.

Meems

POSTED: Tue, 03/02/2010 - 12:31pm Bonjour! Spring...great for changes! Bonjour mes amis, I've been absent for quite some time but have been reading, re-reading and applying the jewels from Mrs. Guilano's books. I've tried to be on my own but this site & people & support & well, just everything keeps calling be back, so here I am, again. To answer the question, yes, I've lost weight, every so slowly but it has stayed off. I've been applying the basics for almost 4 years & it has been a life changing task to re-think how to eat & actually "Be." I am still re-styling myself...guess it will never end but isn't that what change & spring is all about? Meems

snorklee

POSTED: Tue, 03/02/2010 - 6:02pm Hi Meems! Welcome back. I missed you. :) You're right, it is a work in progress. There are so many facets to living this way. Good to see you here. Deb

Meems

POSTED: Wed, 03/03/2010 - 12:49pm Hey Deb! Thanks for the welcome! Missed you too! Meems

Vintage1944

POSTED: Tue, 03/02/2010 - 6:02pm MEEMS!MEEMS!MEEMS!! Is it really you ?How wonderful to hear from you.Glad you are back and it sure sounds like you have kept the lifstyle going.Don't you dare disappear again,please.Jean

Meems

POSTED: Wed, 03/03/2010 - 12:36pm Jeanie! Jeanie! Jeanie! Glad to BE back! I've missed the support, the wonderful advise & the true compassion & caring from you as well as many of the contact I've made here. Missed you all more than I realized once I got back on this site.I guess I'm trying to say I've missed my friends here. Bonne journee! Meems

Vintage1944

POSTED: Wed, 03/03/2010 - 7:43pm MEEMS!MEEMS!MEEMS!! So good to have you here again.I have missed your great take on life.Jean

CourtneyK

POSTED: Mon, 03/01/2010 - 2:10pm So inspiring This post has been very inspiring to me! 2010 is definitely off to a good start, but I'm still struggling with the same old offenders and bad habits. I was just thinking this morning that I need to refocus, and when better to start than at the beginning of a new week and a fresh month?! I'm also guilty of letting my perfectionism get to me. I feel as though I've made no progress just because everything isn't "perfect." I'm my own worst enemy...

Viva la Diva

POSTED: Tue, 03/02/2010 - 10:45am Rough Winter is over..... In my mind I have always declared March 1st as the first day of spring. It is my official end to winter indulgences. I too need to recalibrate the offenders and begin compensating for my indulgences. I hereby swear to release the cheese!!!!!!!!!!!!It is awesome though to have the tools and skills to do just this! It is about pleasures, not gluttony and balance over the course of a week, not perfection; Your post reminded me of these things, thanks and Bon Chance to us all!

snorklee

POSTED: Tue, 03/02/2010 - 6:04pm Release the cheese! That's awesome. (I have cheese issues too.) Releasing the cheese as we speak. :)

Vintage1944

POSTED: Tue, 03/02/2010 - 9:45pm Myriad things to release Cheese,bread,peanut butter,bread,bread,bread...did I mention bread? It was an absolutely beautiful late winer/early spring day.Got lots of movement in,stairs,longer walks with les chiens and pulling my grocery cart,loaded with GOOD food for blocks.Feel great,if a little sore.

snorklee

POSTED: Wed, 03/03/2010 - 9:58am What a French Woman! Jeanie, I can picture you pulling your cart full of great French food... possibly with the de rigueur baguette sticking out of the top. I'll be in NYC April 23rd to APril 25th. Want to meet for lunch?

Vintage1944

POSTED: Wed, 03/03/2010 - 7:41pm DEB....NYC...LUNCH ? OH yeah.Let me contact my friends and look at my schedule and I will get back to you asap.

snorklee

POSTED: Wed, 03/03/2010 - 8:35pm Yay!! There was a restaurant I went to a year or two ago, that was French, and sooooooo good! I will try to remember the name of it. It had communal tables, which I thought was really awesome. Everyone sitting together and enjoying the wonderful soups and artisan breads. It was around 5th and 23rd street somewhere. It would be so awesome, if we could meet. Anyone else close to NYC?

Marilyn

POSTED: Mon, 03/01/2010 - 11:41am Bread Bread and more bread. I have sorted my chocolate problem and can now not binge on chocolate just enjoy a square or two of really good chocolate occasionally. BUT I have now replaced it with bread: toasted teacakes for breakfast, toast with pate for lunch, can usually manage to avoid it at night but start again the next day. We always have different breads in the house (not the plastic white sliced stuff I hasten to add) and I love it. I know some people say bread is the staff of life but surely not to eat it all the time. I need to read Mireille's chapter on bread again I think. At least I did not give in to the temptation to buy a breadmaker the other day!!!!

MrsHonniB

POSTED: Tue, 03/02/2010 - 3:14am 50/50 Well ,maybe it looks a little funny but I cut down my portions by doing 50/50 rule with the foods I wanted to cut down and I eat my yoghurt and desserts with a teaspoon and cut the bread in small pieces and eat one by one with a fork. Also add some fruit or salad on my plate. Most times I'm good after my meal and really didn't need the portion I thought I wanted to eat. I also start buying and eating alot more differend things than I use too! Just little changes like another kind of bread,gives me more satisfaction that more of the same......And I love to bake bread,the smell of baking bread around the house is half the fun for me!

Vintage1944

POSTED: Mon, 03/01/2010 - 12:33pm Oh Marilyn BREAD...the ultimate comfort food.I totally get your struggle.And OMG,I was toying with the idea of a Bread Maker last week.OK how can we deal with this?Certainly reread Mireille's thoughts on bread.She as I recall struggled,too.AS you say only good,real bread.Oh sigh..portion control and looking at what triggers eating scads of the lovely stuff.Since we love it,it should not be our enemy.What do you think?

Vintage1944

POSTED: Mon, 03/01/2010 - 12:38pm PS I am out of bread today and I admit to feeling anxious.Hmmm,this is interesting.There's something here I must examine.Thanks for your help.

jas

POSTED: Mon, 03/01/2010 - 10:39am throwing in my 5cents worth hello, I am losing weight also. For me it is a combination of detoxing on a different plan and very much the philosophy Mireille teaches. I haven't weighed myself in a while so I'm not sure how much, last time I weighed in it was 17 pounds. I think I'm even thinner now, this morning trying on pants was exciting to see me fitting into even smaller pants. One of the big things I got from reading M's book is the balance of pleasure and self control I also have to say having the women on this website has been life changing for me. My self esteem was very low, I lost touch with my femininity and my love of being feminine. The women here have helped heal this in me. So losing weight is even more fun, I am having such a good time playing dress up, wearing makeup, and I've had a few of those incidents where because I, "got dressed up to take out the trash...some fun things happened" I feel so much better about myself. My self esteem still needs healing, but it is happening. PS I HATED weight watchers, just hated it, I failed at it 3 times. Finding the right system or systems for you is essential.

Vintage1944

POSTED: Mon, 03/01/2010 - 12:26pm Jas Good morning Will you be our Mentor?Your success and courage are really inspiring.Keep on the self-esteem track,kick out those demons.My overall goal,other than shedding weight,is to heal my self-esteem once and for all.You give me so much inspiration.OXO Jean

jas	POSTED: Tue, 03/02/2010 - 5:57pm keep thinking about this Jeanie, I would be happy to help in any way I can. Let me know what would be helpful to you or anyone else. Jas

jas

POSTED: Mon, 03/01/2010 - 5:17pm I hear you HI Jeanie and others, I don't at all feel like I can mentor as I'm so new, I can though continue to just be me, and be as honest as I have the courage to be. You have a lot of courage in your honesty. Regarding The bread thing and other food attractions, I'm no where near what Mireille talks about in the books, even after 3 weeks of recasting (which I did over the holidays and it did help me for the first time ever not to GAIN weight) However, I was not able to handle my vices. I did a longer vegetable (juice, soup) detox, what this did was interesting and perhaps I would even use the word powerful. My hypoglycemic stuff dramatically improved, my cravings were minimal and I could handle them. I felt like all the healthy green stuff I was doing was feeding my body in a way it had never been fed and that it was answering my body's call for nutrients. With my body getting the nutrients it is really desiring the cravings for bread and sweets, and cheese, and salt (did I ever tell you, I craved everything!) have almost completely diminished and sometimes I would even say I have no cravings for anything but a good veggy soup or fresh veggy juice.

snorklee

POSTED: Sat, 02/27/2010 - 9:49pm Me too. In 2005, i weighed 185 pounds. I'm only 5'4". I read Mireille's book, but didn't quite get the concept at that time. I started Weight Watchers, but on my own. Since I had done WW so many times before, without success, i already had all the books. :) I lost about 40 pounds, and re-read FWDGF. Then I found Mireille's website. I lost another 25 pounds using her philosophy. In 2007, I won a chance to meet Mireille in NYC and have lunch with her with 6 or 7 other lucky women. It was the thrill of a lifetime. She is an amazing woman. I still follow a lot of the advice in her books. RIght now, in the middle of an endless Buffalo winter, and the stress of a new job, I've strayed a little, and need to re-focus. But I know I will, because French women may stray, but they always come back. It's a way of life. I need to do the recasting and get back in the rhythm, because my zipper syndrome is telling me to. This website is invaluable for reminding me of what I need to do, and the support is wonderful.

Nikita

POSTED: Tue, 03/16/2010 - 4:54pm Hello everyone! So great to read those posts here! I missed this website. I did great at first (lost 16lbs) for a year or so but have also strayed a bit...I have moved from NY to Israel, and put back 6 lbs. It has been quite difficult with all the changes to keep my equilibrium, new job, new apart, new culture, new food, etc...so it was so nice to remember that bit about french woman stray but always come back. Spring is here now, so its a great time for a spring detox!will try the budwig creme detox. This place is a good inspiration! Thank you all Netta

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