The French Don’t Diet Plan

The French Don’t Diet Plan is exactly what I’d normally expect from everyday diets. It was supposedly written by a doctor, because we love medical advice in a book we can read whenever we want. And it’s based on French dieting, which we love because we just can’t figure out why French people eat fatty foods and still have a lower rate of heart disease and obesity than us!

If you listen to some experts (who are not doctors, but French citizens) those writers and ordinary people could tell you that the French eat a lot less, practicing portion control! But what do we care, those people don’t have a medical degree and Dr. William Clower does! How does his expertise come into play?

Phase 1 of The French Don’t Diet Plan

The French Don’t Diet Plan Phase 1 supposedly promotes rapid weight loss results. It’s based on an old idea masked by the “French” name. But the basic idea behind The French Don’t Diet Plan phase 1 is a low glycemic index diet. There are literally hundreds of diets out there that do the same thing! And some have even been used by stars. So technically, The French Don’t Diet Plan could also be called the “Hollywood diet.” You are not permitted to eat high glycemic index foods at all in phase 1.

Phase 2 of The French Don’t Diet Plan

Phase 2 again focuses on the low glycemic index plan. But much like a low carb diet plan, it allows you more high glycemic foods or maybe mid glycemic foods over time. It still encourages you to stick to low glycemic dieting, which you could have figured out on your own. There are a lot of diets already using the glycemic index.

The French Don’t Diet Plan encourages you not to eat fatty foods like the French do, saying that you should instead stick to smaller portions (after phase 2), relax more, eliminate processed foods, and take more common sense approaches. Why are you paying for this again? Because it has “French” attached to its name?

The Skinny

Why we love things like The French Don’t Diet Plan, I don’t know. Why we have to insist that everybody else has some magical ingredient, some magical food, or some magical approach, I’ll never understand. Dieting in general is common sense, and while you can take approaches such as cutting out high glycemic foods, the French don’t actually do that. The French practice portion control.