Wine, bread, pastries and cigarettes.....

Sorry guys, this one's for the ladies. I started thinking we needed a bit of fun in my post for the weekend so here you go.

Last year I heard about a book called "French women don't get fat", maybe you've heard of it as well. Of course with that title who wouldn't want to read it right? I mean who hasn't watched a food show about Paris or seen all of the great food they enjoy and wondered "so why aren't those women fat"? They must have good genes right? Or maybe they just eat one meal a day and starve the rest, or maybe they live on wine, cigarettes and pastries. I actually thought all of these things at one time but most of all I knew I was jealous. No one loves bread more than the family I come from and wine and pastries?? Come on. So I bought the book, and then I bought it on tape to listen to in my car. Stylish, convincing, wise, funny and just in time: this is the ultimate non-diet book, which could radically change the way you think, live and EAT!

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. It is a wonderfully charming, sensible, and powerfully life-affirming view of health and eating for our times.

Mireille went to America as an exchange student and came back fat. Big surprise right? That shock sent her into an adolescent tailspin, until her kindly family physician, "Dr. Miracle," as she calls him 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 that miserable gym workout. 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.

This book doesn't let you flip to graphics and jump right in: you'll have to read it. Learning to eat right is like learning a language -- nothing works like immersion.
Let the tale begin.

http://www.mireilleguiliano.com/

"Deprivation is the mother of failure."

Mireille Guiliano