They eat all their meals at Tim Hortons for a month

The goal is certainly not to say: “do what we did”clarifies Josée Cormier, founder of Your way weight lossa company that wants to help people lose weight by changing their relationship with food.

She wants to put forward that it is possible to lose weight by eating what you want. We want to change thoughts, not actions.

Our mission was [de dire] : “I ate 67 donuts at the end of the month, look at the message it gives for someone who would eat one”she explains.

Although she lost almost 7 pounds at the end of the adventure, the weight loss was not planned, she says.

The rest of us want to feel good. The movement that we had, we continued it, it was zero to feel bad, or to feel [privé de nourriture]she defends.

His favorite meal: a bagel with eggs, bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise. This is what she savored on Thursday, an hour before giving a lesson in spinning [vélo stationnaire] in Shediac.

This awkward experience will be the subject of their very first documentary Would you eat a donut a day? [Mangeriez-vous un beigne par jour?]. Produced by Madhouse Creative Productionsthe documentary will premiere at the Capitol Theater on May 5 and stream online.

A documentary with multiple messages

Beyond the message that it is possible to eat a donut while losing weight, Josée Cormier also wants to show that nothing really differentiates a fast food menu from a strict diet plan. Both can prove equally difficult to maintain.

People who watch the documentary will be able to see, for example, the cravings that invade the two protagonists after three weeks of a Tim Hortons diet. Once, I was cutting grapes for my son, and I wanted to eat them so badly! she reveals.

Their experience is already generating a multitude of reactions, even before it has been presented on the big screen, she observes. She recognizes that it was the price to pay by choosing to share their adventure with their tens of thousands of subscribers.

Several did not hesitate to express their apprehensions, she says. When we announced this, there was definitely more negativity than we’ve ever had on social media., confides this mother of two children. But he needs more to offend him.

” Everybody can [retirer] something different from the documentary. Everyone will have a different perception. »

She hopes, however, that this documentary will open the door to engaged discussions around the relationship we have with food.

Weight loss, more than a matter of calories

The discourse on weight and obesity management has evolved considerably over many years. From now on, health and nutrition professionals are advocating a more holistic approach, which certainly includes diet, but also the level of stress and the quality of sleep.

For a long time, the problem was so simplified that it was simply a concept of calories. The calories we eat versus the calories we expendlaments Stéphanie Ward, assistant professor at the University of Montreal and member of the New Brunswick Association of Dietitians. But it’s so much more complex than that.

Without discouraging restaurant outings, she reminds us that meals on fast food menus are generally high in fat, sugar and salt.

Sure, these aren’t foods you want to eat every day, but giving yourself permission is okay.she says.

” There are people who think that eating well means eating well all the time. And when we adopt this thought, it leads us to failure, in fact. It’s impossible to eat well all the time. »

In addition to the feeling of guilt it can cause, this thought limits us in other aspects of our lives that are also important to our well-beingshe continues.

If no nutrition approach can suit everyone, it goes without saying for Stéphanie Ward that the concept that we can afford to eat foods that are less nutritiousis universal.