Pierre Dukan: thin women get divorced more often

Monsieur Pierre, this is not your first time in Moscow. Do Russian women have a zest? And do they need to lose weight?

I’m French and I know they say that France has the most beautiful women, but to be honest, you beat them. It seems to me that the difference between French women and Russians is only that you have many women with blond hair, high cheekbones and also very radiant eyes. Russian women, unlike British and American women, take care of themselves. Most Muscovites do not need to lose weight, they are already very beautiful, although, perhaps, it seems to me so, because I pay attention to beauties.

But French women eat croissants, foie gras and are still skinny. How do they do it?

It is a myth. In France, not everyone is thin, 27 million people are overweight. Still, most French women are graceful. They prepare only fresh quality ingredients. You will never see a French woman who, like an American, chews something on the go. The French do not like to eat alone. We gather at the table with people who are close and pleasant to us, and scientific research has shown that surrounded by loved ones, a person eats less. And further. If a French woman gains five extra pounds, and sometimes even one kilogram, she immediately goes on a diet.

That is, if I ate a kilogram during the winter, I need Doctor Dukan?

If you go to lose weight in order to appear in a beautiful bikini on the beach, then I do not even recommend going on my diet. To lose 1, 3, 5 kilograms, limit your intake of sweets and walk more on foot or play sports. But if you need to get rid of 7-8 kilograms (and usually I work with those who have extra 10, 20, 30, 40 kilograms), then it is worth tackling a serious war, which I propose to unleash for my patients.

And how to understand how many extra pounds have accumulated? We believe that the ideal weight of a French woman is height in centimeters minus 110.

No! From the age of 18, every 10 years, a woman needs to gain 800 grams in weight, and after each birth – one kilogram. There are many factors to consider when calculating personal weight. For example, the maximum and minimum weight in adulthood, because the body has a memory. The longest-lasting weight that you dream of. What is your bone. It’s easy to define. Take the index and thumb of one hand and, without squeezing too much, grasp the wrist of the other. If the fingers are on top of each other, the bone is thin, if there is space between the fingers, it is thick, if they touch each other, it is normal. Naturally, those with heavy bone should weigh more. A very important parameter is how many times you have already used diets. The more weight-loss measures the body has undergone, the more it resists the following diets. If you want to calculate your correct weight, you can go to my Russian site and do it completely free.

The point of your diet is to eat as much as you want, but certain foods (first 72 protein, then 28 more vegetables). In our kitchen there are dishes unusual for Europeans: borscht with fried vegetables, soups with potatoes. Will they have to be abandoned?

Not at all! You can fry the vegetables, but then wrap them in baking paper to absorb the oil. You will have a roasted flavor and no oil. I came up with this little trick just for you. But there is no need to add potatoes to soup and borscht, I assure you, it will be delicious without it. I love your first courses, they are hearty and great for reducing appetite. I eat borsch with pleasure.

But you are against side dishes, and we are not used to without them. Can you at least leave buckwheat? By the way, our doctors say that it is very useful and dietary.

Buckwheat contains a lot of microelements and vitamins, but like rice and potatoes, it also contains carbohydrates, starch and a little sugar. I allow you to eat buckwheat, but only by mixing it with a tablespoon of bran.

Dukan oat bran – this is our everything. So, maybe if you sprinkle pasta with them, then this side dish will be rehabilitated?

In this case, I say no. You can eat a little pasta after the diet. But even then they need to be cooked al dente, that is, so that they are hard enough and not boiled. Then, in order to process them, the body will have to work hard. And during the diet, you can eat the Asian vermicelli konjac (in English it is spelled konjac), there are no calories in it. I think it is for sale in Moscow, and from September it will be possible to order it on my website. You can cook this vermicelli with whatever you want – with tomato sauce, with salmon, my wife makes very tasty with meat bolognese sauce.

We also love pickles, marinades, smoked meats, for example, salted herring, cucumbers, tomatoes, smoked fish, meat, and our doctors say that healthy dishes should be steamed, boiled or stewed.

Why? Of course, you should not eat all this in kilograms, and the usual portions will not do harm. You have very high quality, tasty salted and smoked fish, you cannot find such fish in Europe. Personally, my family and I enjoy eating smoked fish, especially salmon.

Can you drink such a snack with our national drink vodka?

In the first two phases – no, it is difficult to lose weight with alcohol, it seriously slows down the metabolism. In the third phase, you can drink 40 grams of strong alcohol or a glass of wine. The most harmless alcohol is dry red wine.