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Stylish, convincing, wise, funny–and in time: the ultimate non-diet book, which could radically change the way you think and live.
French women don’t get fat, nonetheless they do eat bread and pastry, drink wine, and regularly enjoy three-course meals. In her delightful tale, Mireille Guiliano unlocks the simple secrets of this “French paradox”–how to enjoy food and stay slim and healthy. Hers is a charming, sensible, and powerfully life-affirming view of health and eating for our times.
As a typically slender French girl, Mireille (Meer-ray) went to America as an exchange student and returned fat. That shock sent her into a teenager tailspin, until her kindly family physician, “Dr. Miracle,” came to the rescue. 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. The key? Not guilt or deprivation but learning to get the most from the items you most enjoy. Following her own version of this traditional wisdom, she's since relished a life of indulgence without bulge, satisfying yen without yo-yo on three meals every day.
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 cure of Magical Leek Soup to everyday tricks like fooling yourself into contentment and painless new physical exertions to save you from the StairMaster. Emphasizing the virtues of freshness, variety, balance, and always pleasure, Mireille shows how almost anyone can figure out how to eat, drink, and move like a French woman.
A natural raconteur, Mireille illustrates her philosophy through the experience which may have shaped her life–a six-year-old’s first taste of Champagne, treks searching for tiny blueberries (called myrtilles) in the woods near her grandmother’s house, a near-spiritual rendezvous with oysters at a seaside restaurant in Brittany, to name but a few. She also shows us other women discovering the wonders of “French doing his thing,” drawing examples from dozens of friends and associates she's advised through the years to consume and drink smarter and much more joyfully.
Here are a culture’s most cherished and time-honored secrets recast for the twenty-first century. For anyone who may have slipped out of her zone, missed the flight to South Beach, or accidentally let a carb pass her lips, this is a buoyant, positive way to stay trim. A life of wine, bread–even chocolate–without girth or guilt? Pourquoi pas?
From the Hardcover edition.
