French Women Don’t Get Fat, and after reading Mireille Guiliano’s book, I now know why.
This is a fascinating book on many levels. Part memoir, part diet book, part cookbook, it it a wholly satisfying read.
Mireille (meeRAY) was a normal teenager until she came to America as an exchange student. When she returned home after living like an American for a year, she was 20 pounds heavier. Her family was shocked. But her family doctor gave her a simple plan to regain her optimum weight, and the women of her family shared their secrets for maintaining her optimum weight. Now, Mireille shares that plan and those secrets with the rest of us.
The “Miracle Leek Soup” is divine and can help a woman drop several pounds in just a weekend. Her other recipes sound equally delicious, and her suggestions for desserts will have a special following among women whose sweet tooth is destroying their figures.
The little tips and tricks, the idea of “compensations,” these are painless adjustments that add up to pounds and inches kept off of the body. Nothing could be better. And from Mireille’s explanations, nothing could be easier. Vive la femmes de France!