French Women Don't Get Fat

The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

De: Mireille Guiliano

Narrado por: Mireille Guiliano

Stylish, convincing, wise, funny–and just in time: the ultimate non-diet book, which could radically change the way you think and live.

French women don’t get fat, but 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 came back fat. That shock sent her into an adolescent 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 things you most enjoy. 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.

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. 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.

A natural raconteur, Mireille illustrates her philosophy through the experiences that have shaped her life–a six-year-old’s first taste of Champagne, treks in search of 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 in action,” drawing examples from dozens of friends and associates she has advised over the years to eat and drink smarter and more joyfully.

Here are a culture’s most cherished and time-honored secrets recast for the twenty-first century. For anyone who has slipped out of her zone, missed the flight to South Beach, or accidentally let a carb pass her lips, here is a buoyant, positive way to stay trim. A life of wine, bread–even chocolate–without girth or guilt? Pourquoi pas?©2004 Mireille Guiliano; (P)2004 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.

Love her thoughts!!!

This is an easy afternoon listen that takes the guilt away from food. I began implementing similar ideas recently and found the ideas of the forbidden to be very helpful.

Being French

Great to hear the author read this - inspired me to buy the hardcopy for the recipes! Worth hearing just to look at our american ideas about food, enjoyment and "dieting". Ciao!

Lovely and Practical

I love both Miereille’s practical living tips and listening to her voice. This is a very lovely book to listen to.

Enjoyable, thought provoking

My family has changed their way of eating thanks to this timely book. The American way of eating has produced an epidemic of obesity but we still keep eating "low fat" in between super sizing our meals. Our family is now eating much smaller portions of more enjoyable food and we are losing weight and inches quickly. I heard about this book from a friend who was the only normal weight person at our college friend luncheon (we are all 60 yrs or older) I bought the book immediately after hearing this program and love them both!

Chunky Americans will love this

I have never felt good about diet philosophies or the culture of deprivation and guilt that we American women punish ourselves with. This book is about changing your brain first, then your body second. It is beautiful. I bought it 5 days ago and have already listened to it twice.