How do Italians eat pasta every day and not gain weight?

Why do they have the lowest obesity rate in Western Europe?

Why they don’t gain weight as easily as Americans do? 

In October, I was really fortunate to spend two weeks in northern Italy. I visited  Venice, Verona, Florence, and Tuscany, specifically the medieval walled hill towns of San Gimignano, Siena and Volterra. They were each wonderful in their own way. I had a fantastic time, and really loved it there. 

While I was there, I talked to a few American expats. One American woman in Florence told me, “I’ve been living here for a year and have lost 10 pounds without doing anything. I eat pasta every day. Plus I can eat dairy and gluten here with no digestive problems. Back in the States, I couldn’t tolerate those foods.”

I can’t tell you how many people have told me stories like this.  Americans who visited Italy told me that they drank wine with one or two meals a day, ate pasta, desserts, not to mention those breakfast croissants, and did not get the indigestion they normally got back home, and did not gain weight.

The Italians are known for their fantastic cuisine. Italy was the EAT in Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love.  And for good reason. 

Have you ever wondered why Italian cuisine is so delicious? And how do they eat that carb-heavy diet filled with pasta, bread, croissants (see typical Italian breakfast to the right) and other delicious things, and not have the obesity problem that much of the rest of the world is experiencing? 

Italy has approximately half the obesity rate as the United States. 

Tune in below (or wherever you get your podcasts) and learn how you too can eat like an Italian.

If you’re ready to learn to eat in a sustainable way that is in tune with your body’s hunger and fullness signals, to end emotional and drop down to your healthy weight, sign up for my online Weight Loss for Foodies program.

In it, you’ll go beyond what I talk about in the podcast, and can download worksheets to practice what you’re learning and guided audio practices. The cost is less than half of the price of the coaching program. 

Learn more and sign up HERE.

How many times have you heard this saying?

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

So many people get stuck and have difficulty reaching their weight goals (and any other goal for that matter) because they get caught in a repetitive pattern of doing the same thing that doesn’t work, or that makes things worse,, over and over again.

Maybe you keep stopping at that bakery on your way to work, buying three pastries under the pretense that you’ll share them or save some for tomorrow, then eat them all. 

Maybe you binge on chips after dinner while watching TV every night. 

The Weight Loss for Foodies method is all about achieving permanent weight loss success by changing your habits and developing a peaceful relationship with food and eating. 

Some people can dive right in and do all of the things that I recommend.

But that doesn’t work for everyone. 

For many people, what works the best is to take baby steps  to break patterns of overeating or emotional eating that you keep repeating to your own detriment. 

Stay tuned to learn how you can get out of your rut and start making progress by taking baby steps to change your eating habits.

And stay tuned for a very important announcement  at the end–and it isn’t a sales pitch! 

Do you eat foods you don’t like very much because they’re low in calories or carbs, then feel unsatisfied afterwards and still crave something tastier? 

There’s a scientific reason behind that!

Surprising evidence supports the role of mindset in weight management in a totally unexpected way. 

How you think about what you’re eating affects your weight! What that means is what you think about your food affects how your body responds to it physiologically.

I mean how full or satisfied what you eat  makes you feel. 

It’s totally consistent with the Weight Loss for Foodies approach to eat what you love when you’re hungry as a way to lose weight and experience a peaceful relationship with food and eating. 

It’s backed by the research of Alia Crum, a psychologist and researcher in the field of mindset at Stanford University. 

Dr. Crum  discovered that what people believed about what they were eating affected both their satisfaction with the food AND the levels of the hunger hormone their body made, which affected their appetite. 

Listen below or wherever you get your podcasts to learn why this is so important and how you can make it work for you so you get to your comfortable weight.

If you’re ready to learn to eat in a sustainable way that is in tune with your body’s hunger and fullness signals, to end emotional and drop down to your healthy weight, sign up for my online Weight Loss for Foodies program.

In it, you’ll go beyond what I talk about in the podcast, and can download worksheets to practice what you’re learning and guided audio practices. The cost is less than half of the price of the coaching program. 

Learn more and sign up at my website, ShariBroder.com.