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French Women Don't Get Fat

by Mireille Guiliano
$13.90
French Women Don't Get Fat
French Women Don't Get Fat

Eat well, enjoy food, stay slim the French way.

This book would be a good read for someone who wants to change their mindset about food and adopt a more balanced and enjoyable approach to eating. The author shares simple tricks and guidelines that emphasize the importance of savoring seasonal and carefully prepared food, while also promoting regular exercise and a positive relationship with food. The French Women Don't Get Fat approach is a refreshing departure from strict diets and encourages sustainable and pleasurable habits for a lifetime.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

French Women Don't Get Fat

by Mireille Guiliano
$13.90
ISBN: 9780701178055
Authors: Mireille Guiliano
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Date of Publication: 2004-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Food & Drink, Biographies & Memoirs, Personal Development
Related Topics: Cooking, Food and Drink, Food, Memoir, Personal Development, Biography Memoir
Goodreads rating: 3.54
(rated by 18630 readers)

Description

The message of this book could be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective. There is no hard science, no clearly-defined plan, and no lists of food to have or have not; instead, you'll find simple tricks that boil down to eating carefully prepared seasonal food, exercising more and refusing to think of food as something that inspires guilt. It's both a practical message and far easier said than done in today's "no pain, no gain" culture. Author Mireille Guiliano is CEO of Veuve Clicquot, and French Women Don't Get Fat offers a concept of sensible pleasures: If you have a chocolate croissant for breakfast, have a vegetable-based lunch--or take an extra walk and pass on the bread basket at dinner. Guiliano's insistence on simple measures slowly creating substantial improvements are reassuring, and her suggestion to ignore the scale and learn to live by the "zipper test" could work wonders for those who get wrapped up in tiny details of diet. She sympathizes that deprivation can lead straight to overindulgence when it comes to favorite foods, but then, in a most French manner, treats them as a pleasure that needs to be sated, rather than a battle to be fought. The number of recipes are included, from a weight-loss enhancing leek soup to a lush chocolate mousse; they read more like what you'd find in a French cookbook rather than an American
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Eat well, enjoy food, stay slim the French way.

This book would be a good read for someone who wants to change their mindset about food and adopt a more balanced and enjoyable approach to eating. The author shares simple tricks and guidelines that emphasize the importance of savoring seasonal and carefully prepared food, while also promoting regular exercise and a positive relationship with food. The French Women Don't Get Fat approach is a refreshing departure from strict diets and encourages sustainable and pleasurable habits for a lifetime.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.