No Wonder We're So Fat...

It's Tuesday! So what does that mean?

Column day!!!!!!!!!

Over the Easter weekend, I was vacationing in Boston with my parents, visiting my brother who now works there. It was quite wonderful despite the horrible weather that only lasted our stay there.

And the best part?

The food!

I love food. Actually, I used to not care about it, but after living with my roommates and living in Toronto (where there actually is good food) it's something I enjoy.

But as I enjoyed more food, I also enjoyed the 'wonders' of it... gaining weight.

It was then I bought this wonderful book that helped the great Anne Hathaway herself lose weight - Mireille Guiliano's 'French Woman Don't Get Fat'.

It's a great book, I recommend it to anyone. It's basically the no diet diet book, and as soon as I move out and start my new life (within the next few months, yahoo!) I'm going to start learning how to cook and ANYWAYS, I'm getting off topic.

It's been a while since I've eaten out at an actual establishment and I began to realize Guiliano was right! We American's (well Canadian) eat HUGE PORTIONS.

My brother soon had a collection of leftover's in his fridge, pretty much purely because of me. And the American's... well their portions are even larger!

At our first rest stop, I kind of wanted McDonalds (I know, how healthy of me) and I always get the Chicken McNuggets because they don't make me sick. Usually I get the 6-piece which is more than enough buuut... they only sold 10 pieces.

WHAT?

My dad also bought a medium coffee from this small coffee shop. It was the size of like an XL one at Second cup (do those even exist?)

So no wonder we are fat and that American's are known as the most obese people in the world! We feed them WAY TOO MUCH!

We went to this beautiful restaurant that made like real Italian pizza in Harvard square and we ordered three individual pizzas for four people.

They were the size of regular pizzas and we could barely get through them without being so full, we all felt like we were going to explode.

So maybe the best thing we can do it, is watch what we eat. Not only do we eat a lot, but we eat a lot of bad stuff.

So really... who do french women not get fat?

Because the French know to eat small portions slowly. That way you get fuller faster, and more portions, and actually enjoy their food.

Think about it.