There are few certainties in life but one is that the tempting dishes you sample with gusto on a summer holiday will also mean you return home with an unwanted souvenir: a few extra pounds.
Yet it is not only possible to stay trim on holiday, but to come back even slimmer than before you left. And the secret lies not in calorie-counting, a high-protein plan or a crash cleanse, but in adopting some simple habits that French women have sworn by for centuries – something I discovered for myself when I moved to France 25 years ago.
I quickly noticed, somewhere
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