INTERVIEW
Looking to lose weight for this season? The nutritionist Dr. Arnaud Cocau, invited Wednesday of No-go Europe 1, may have a solution for you: do not go on a diet. Indeed, the doctor recommends, unlike many of his colleagues, to "drop the ballast and eat peacefully" to lose weight. He explains this original method on Europe 1.
You say, unlike many diets, that to lose weight you have to "let go of the ballast and eat in peace". It's a little weird, is not it?
"No, you have to let go, because 95% of diets are failures over three years.There are all kinds of techniques to lose weight.There are even patients who were given" worms solitary "to lose weight. I do not talk about the topic of weight, I pass tests to my patients to know them better.The diet can be the dressing to caulk all that is wrong, for example the fact of not feeling good, to be stressed, to work in staggered hours ... etc. There are mostly a lot of people in restriction, that is to say they chain diets and eat too little.
What are the tests for your patients used for?
"I prefer to work as a team, so I can orient them, so do not split the psyche of the body, so I work with psychiatrists and try to adjust the patient, and the patient will be able to talk about his behavior. Patients know what they should and should not eat, but they eat poorly, that is, at any time or when they are standing up, or not enough. to take time to eat, to stop the screens to eat in full consciousness. "
You say that it is because of all the schemes, type Dukan etc, that we are bigger and bigger.
"This is not what I say, studies have shown, a few years ago a report from the ANSES (Food Safety Agency) hit the fingers of nutritionists or pseudo-nutritionists who said to have found the miracle diet.It's hard to maintain weight loss in the long run, especially when you're getting older.I ask my patients to list the diets they've done, and to write to each time yesterday, a patient came to see me and told me that she had a "cabbage soup" diet, and that it worked, but if it worked, she would not have not been in front of me! "
Why diets make you fat?
"The diets disrupt the central controls, we have regulation systems in the brain, in the hypothalamus, which allows us to keep our weight of equilibrium.A By stacking the diets, this equilibrium weight is completely disrupted So people do not have any notion of a stable weight, sometimes you have to rely on techniques, such as scans, to determine the percentage of body fat. burn virtually nothing, I have patients who have a basic metabolism at 800 calories, that is, when they open their mouths, they get fat (sic).
Is your method a non-diet?
"Yes, it's non-diet, because I think we've been very harmful for years, there is no medicine to lose weight, so do not go on the internet to try to find The miracle pill Diets do not work because there are lots of factors When you get fat, even the organs get bigger, so the whole body gets bigger from the inside.
When I hospitalize patients, some people tell me that I give them too much food and they will not be able to finish their meal. Then at the end of a week, some patients say to me: 'I realize that I did not eat enough, and now I managed to lose'. "
What are your tips for losing weight?
"For example, I saw a patient who ate a lot and too quickly, so I told him to buy smaller plates and to chew, just by doing that he came back a year later for me. thank you: he had lost 20 kilos, the portions must be adapted according to the age, the weight, the size.If a woman who is 1 meter 55 eats as much as her husband who is 1 meter 80 and who is mason, there is a problem.
You also have to chew well. Studies have shown that chewing can grind particles and provide real-time information on the digestive tract of food arrival. And once the needs are met, you naturally stop eating. Another tip is to remove the packaging, for example chocolate bars. Just removing foods (cakes, chocolate ...) and putting them in metal boxes makes you eat less. "
What foods do you recommend?
"You have to come back to a more" flexitarian "diet, that is to eat everything, but less meat.You can eat some fish, red meat, poultry, and legumes. do not have the budget to buy bio, do not focus on it. "