American Reacts to 'Weird' European Habits That Lost Me 20 LB

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[Gryphoon]

As a European, I have NEVER met someone who does breakfast+brunch+lunch. Brunch is what it sounds like; breakfast + lunch. Some people like to take brunch on the weekends, which means you skip breakfast and lunch and have brunch instead. Everyone I know does breakfast+lunch+dinner (with some skipping breakfast for a cup of coffee or just something to drink).

[berndkemmereit]

Best example is the bread in the US. They are not allowed to call it Bread in Europe, that would be classified as cake due to the high sugar content.

[zulawoo]

I feel like she has the things a bit mixed up by calling the european parts quirky and weird, instead of calling european 'normal' and the American way off the rails.

[forrestfey]

As a european I think it is natural to do things for fun, not competition. If it is not fun, it is not worth it.

[musashidanmcgrath]

The last time I was in the U.S I was actually stopped by the police and asked why I was walking. They couldn't understand why I was walking to the shop because it was 4km walk each way. 😂 They were just baffled. 4km each way is nothing.
I live in southern Spain and here you will see 90 year olds walking everywhere, and there are lots of hills and steps. There's a reason that Spain has the highest number of elderly people in the world.

[barkasz]

3 hour lunch breaks are just not a thing. I don’t know where people get this idea from, it’s incredibly niche and rare even in places like Italy and Spain and it’s unheard of elsewhere. The overwhelming majority of workplaces allow 30 minutes to 1 hour of lunch break.

[Tristan-mcwm]

I'm Dutch but have family who live in the US (Boston). Whenever I visit I'm always surprised by the food. Appart from not really eating the healthiest things, EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING was vaguely... sweet? Even the pizza was just sweetened, the tomato souce was almost not recognizable as tomato sauce. It tasted like ketchup. I'm sure that's not healthy, whatever they put in it.

[papalaz]

Walking, Cycling. Not driving to a drive in and eating burgers in a car then driving home. Human portions of edible foods.
No harmful chemicals and colourings in foods. No listeria in eggs. No salmonella in chicken.
No sugar in bread. No preservatives.

[alexwilsonpottery]

As a British potter, making plates, bowls, and mugs in America (USA); I’m always being told they’re not big enough for ‘regular’ portions.

[UY]

I love how she explains it in the most American way possible: stating rules to follow and goals to set.

[nieselpriem]

The problem with American food is that in Europe it is seen less as food and more as industrial waste.

[lucasvanwijngaarden]

I know this wasnt the focus of the video, but a normal lunchbreak in the Netherlands is 30 minutes.

Spain's 3 hours isn't "lunchbreak", it's a siesta.

[mehitabel]

One addition: Walking. Walking is exercise and it has the invaluable effect of lowering your blood sugar directly after eating, ensuring the extra energy you've just consumed goes to your muscles and less to fat storage. I have just reversed my diabetes on an NHS programme here in the UK. A key factor, apart from what I eat and how much, is to take a walk immediately after eating. Even a short walk makes a huge difference, like a silver bullet to your blood sugar. 10 minutes around the block is enough, my average is two 20 minute walks a day, at a moderate pace. It's free and you don't even have to buy special clothes for it. It has increased my energy and stamina quite dramatically. For many Europeans (I am a Brit), the walk is simply incorporated in walking to work from public transport or wherever you've parked your car.

[raderadumilo]

I had worked for a company that did banking software. We were implementing our product in a bank in Bosnia. We were given some office space, and I was sitting at a desk my laptop plugged in the bank network and doing my stuff. At some point in time, somebody brought me coffee. Real Balkan/Turkish coffee: on a brass tray, small brass pot, a small ceramic cup, with a glass of mineral water and small plate of Turkish delights. I was sipping my coffee while working when the director of Risk came in. She came to ask me something because my work was related and the two of us had been working closely for couple of weeks by that time. She entered the office and immediately exclaimed:
- Oh, you are drinking coffee! I'll come back later. - and she turned around and left, before I could utter a sound.
I was baffled and felt a bit bad, because I knew she came two flights of stairs down from her office just to see me and ask me something. I asked some of their people, and they said to me:
- She won't ask you anything or even talk to you while you are drinking coffee at the office. Also, she drinks her afternoon coffee between 2 PM and 2:30 PM. Nobody, but nobody enters her office at that time. 😁

[drachior]

we still have a huge percentage of overweight people in europe. but in the US, the same percentage is morbidly obese and beyond instead.

[IndiBrony]

In terms of the exercise, I'm part of a football league specifically for overweight people. It's great! We're all terrible at football, but we all encourage each other ❤

Y'all take competition way too seriously 😂😂

[MeYou-wwxk]

Ian, that's the keyword: moderate, and that with everything, not only food. Don't over do it, in whatever you do!

[billigmad]

Here in Denmark, I would say it is mostly breakfast at 06:00ish, lunch at 12:00ish and dinner at 18:00ish. People only eat brunch during weekend and that is because they have skipped breakfast.

[gplhl]

My brother moved from the U.K. to Colorado over 20 years ago. I’ll never forget my first trip over. Ordering a McDonalds same order that I would in the U.K., my brother said, are you sure you want large fries.? I said yeah, out came a whole bucket of fries!! He laughed! The sizes were unbelievable and a waste to me. That said he then took me to a pub and I ordered a pint of an “English” style ale. Picked it up and and said what the heck is this, it’s not a pint! The US pints are considerably smaller than UK pints. You can short me on the food, not the beer!! :-)

[annebjerrisgaard]

I think the 3 hour "lunches" might be in regard to the Siesta. No other European countries have that long lunchbrakes.