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French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure (Hardcover)

by Mireille Guiliano (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 280 pages
  • Publisher: Chatto & Windus (2 Dec 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0701178051
  • ISBN-13: 978-0701178055
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.2 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 67,270 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Seldom has there been a more elegant and seductive diet book! The advice is sensible, eminently do-able, and most importantly, easy to follow, with no backsliding.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Oh my goodness!!!, 31 Aug 2005
This book has completely changed my life and I cannot urge you to read it strongly enough!! Having battled with weight for all of my adult life including 2 pregnancies and a debilitating dependency on chocolate cheesecake which I grew to dread, my sister sent me this book! I am now a healthy and happy eater of all the things I love and only the things I love (having discovered a number of new ones previously untried) in, honestly very happy, moderation! This book has made food into a joy rather than a toil and given me back control! If I ever met this woman I would kiss her feet!!
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59 of 62 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Eating and Reading for Pleasure, 30 Dec 2004
Bravo. I gave this wonderful book to my American wife and then could not put it down. It is beautifully written, and who doesn't want to know the secrets of enjoying Champagne and eating well on the road to good health and weight? I certainly do. The handsome volume is a collection of stories and recipes and tips and tricks by a successful and slender French businesswoman who lives in New York and Paris that gets you into the mind and body of one of a breed of admirable women that seems a dying species in today's world of mindless consumption and endless unhealthy temptations. And it is all about pleasure! Madame Guiliano's lifestyle book is full of common sense and self-evident truths you wish you had formally recognized before and is right on the mark as far as the chic French of a certain age go. It certainly makes you want to throw away all those diet books that really don't work. She is an apostle of thinking and moving, and she has already got me taking the stairs and drinking lots more water...and savoring every bite of the good things I put into my mouth.
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Throw away your diet books, 9 April 2005
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This review is from: French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure (Paperback)
This is an excellent book for serial dieters who want to get off the starve\binge\penance treadmill. It is all about throwing away the Anglo-Saxon puritan attitudes that make us hate our food, hate ourselves and, ultimately, get fatter. Instead, you can eat great food while focusing on balance and variety instead of rules, embrace the pleasure of food instead of seeing it as an enemy to be conquered, and start eating like a normal human being again.

Trust me - you will lose weight, slowly but surely, if you follow the recommendations in this book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sometimes you need to have the obvious pointed out
This book is fantastic. I have a love for France and the French and I have been sat imagining what it would be like to grow up there. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars quite good, actually
i was prepared to be annoyed - the author got a couple of bad reviews, but was reasonably pleasantly surprised. Read more
Published 3 months ago by minty

4.0 out of 5 stars Common Sence
This book teaches you what the ancient Greeks have taught. "Pan Metron Ariston" translated - all in moderation is best. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Roula

5.0 out of 5 stars never diet again
this book has given me my life back. recovering from an eating disorder, i would get better then relapse, which i think was becasue it was so hard to 'eat normally' when that... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Charlene

1.0 out of 5 stars French pretentiousness
This book drew me in with the promise that it might give me some insights into a different culture, especially one that loves its food so much, and how they regard food and weight... Read more
Published 5 months ago by A. Bennett

4.0 out of 5 stars French women may not get fat...
I'd had high expectations from this book after excellent recommendatiosn from friends. The writing style is friendly and fun and keeps you interested. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Ms. Bj Venter

4.0 out of 5 stars Not strictly true - but contains some good advice anyway!
Recent reports on obesity rates in France suggest that french women are getting fat! However, the book does contain some sound advice on staying slim, whilst eating well. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Wendy Green

1.0 out of 5 stars A trifle arrogant
I started this book off hopefully but found (as did other reviewers) that it is full of common sense. Basically everything in moderation. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Mrs EDN

1.0 out of 5 stars French women DO Get Fat
Sorry, but I've lived in France for 10 years now, and most of the thin French women I know are that way because they are semi-anorexic. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Sasha

3.0 out of 5 stars Mais non! Entertaining but a trifle (ha ha!) misleading
So, how do zoze naughty French women stay so thin if zey do not diet?
Well, according to Mireille, they stay thin by dieting ALL THE TIME. Read more
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