French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano

I’m particularly enamored of a phrase I had not heard: Je deprime donc je chocolate. It does no justice to this book to reduce it to a list. Like, STOP EATING! In fact, French Women encourages just the opposite. There are no tables, no charts and none of that big screeching boldface type to encourage you to remember the book’s key nostrums. The great treat in French Women is that it isn’t a conventional diet book. “This French Women book has just been released to great acclaim and, despite my aversion to the diet-like literature, I was won over by the amusingly simple cover illustration of a woman in a French blue top and saffron pants walking a poodle and pulling along a shopping buggy with pink tulips, a baguette, and what is surely meant to be a bottle of Veuve. She combines reasonable thoughts about nutrition with a general endorsement of joie de vivre, and her tone is girl friendly enough to account for the book’s runaway popularity.” Guiliano turns out to be eminently level headed. The book has been translated into 40 languages, reached number one on the New York Times best-seller list and went on to sell over 3 million copies worldwide (and counting). Emphasizing the virtues of freshness, variety, balance, and always pleasure, Mireille shows how virtually anyone can learn to eat, drink, and move like a French woman.įirst published in 2004, French Women Don’t Get Fat ® has been a runaway success. Now in simple but potent strategies and dozens of recipes you’d swear were fattening, Mireille reveals the ingredients for a lifetime of weight control–from the emergency weekend remedy of Magical Leek Soup to everyday tricks like fooling yourself into contentment and painless new physical exertions to save you from the StairMaster. Following her own version of this traditional wisdom, she has ever since relished a life of indulgence without bulge, satisfying yen without yo-yo on three meals a day.

The key? Not guilt or deprivation but learning to get the most from the things you most enjoy. Reintroducing her to classic principles of French gastronomy plus time-honored secrets of the local women, he helped her restore her shape and gave her a whole new understanding of food, drink, and life.

That shock sent her into an adolescent tailspin, until her kindly family physician, “Dr. Hers is a charming, sensible, and powerfully life-affirming view of health and eating for our times.Īs a typically slender French girl, Mireille went to America as an exchange student and came back fat. In her delightful tale, Mireille Guiliano unlocks the simple secrets of this “French paradox” -– how to enjoy food and stay slim and healthy. Stylish, convincing, wise, funny, and just in time: the ultimate non-diet book, which could radically change the way you think and live.įrench women don’t get fat, but they do eat bread and pastry, drink wine, and regularly enjoy three-course meals.

French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano