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French Women Don't Get Fat (精装)
by Mireille Guiliano
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Weight-control, Fitness, Body, Health |
| Market price: ¥ 278.00
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| MSL Pointer Review:
A common sense approach to weight loss that has stood the test of time, Mireille Guiliano shows you a great way to enjoy food and life and still lose weight. |
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Lily Burana, Washington Post Book World, USA
<2007-11-12 00:00>
It’s hard not to be enlivened by a [weight-control] book that celebrates both chocolate and bread, and espouses such wisdom as ‘Life without pasta? Perish the thought. |
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Miriam Wolf, San Francisco Chronicle, USA
<2007-11-12 00:00>
The perfect book for the more literate dieter... A blueprint for building a healthy attitude toward food and exercise... Full of down-to earth advice... We’d all be thinner (and happier) if we followed it. |
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Marie Claire (MSL quote), USA
<2007-11-12 00:00>
You’ve heard it before... But somehow, when the advice comes from Mireille Guiliano, you actually listen. A perfect, slim (and slimming) read for dieters and bon vivants alike.
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Kim Hubbard, People (MSL quote), USA
<2007-11-12 00:00>
Ah, Paris, the ideal destination for museum-hopping, couture shopping–and quick weight loss? Mais oui, insists Mireille Guiliano... For those who can’t hop a plane whenever their zippers won’t close... her new memoir-cum-‘nondiet’ book [is] filled with slimming secrets. |
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Rosemary Feitelberg, Women’s Wear Daily, USA
<2007-11-12 00:00>
She spurs readers to give up the guilt and dieting extremes, to eat smarter and more joyfully... Readers can practically hear the rustling of fallen leaves beneath the narrator’s feet as she forages for mushrooms... Her writing, like her three-meals-a-day diet, is all part of her joie de vivre. |
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Lynne Truss, bestselling author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, The Times (London), UK
<2007-11-12 00:00>
The past few years have been dominated by ‘scientific’ diets... I welcome this break from the usual kind of quick-fix diet book... Will this book transform one’s eating habits? Its good sense is unanswerable - and, personally, I love the bit about not going to the gym.
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Lee Mellott (MSL quote), USA
<2007-11-13 00:00>
Mireille Guliano President and CEO of the champagne company Cliquot Inc. is the author of "French Women Don't Get Fat". Guliano travels 180 days of the year, eating out frequently and indulging in rich dishes and other goodies including bread, champagne and chocolate. Yet she manages to stay very slim and trim the French way.
"French Women Don't Get Fat" is a wonderful opportunity to look inside this chic French woman's mind and understand how she eats such delicious food, rarely visit the gym yet wears a small size.
The 263pg book speaks volumes. It clearly describes how to "think" so you will make the food choices that even if indulgent support a healthy weight. And it describes how to "move" to stay slim and you don't have to go to a gym.
You do not have to be in the Zone or give up carbs or fat in order to lose weight. There is no need to micromanage your nutrients. Instead you must temper your indulgences with restraint. It seems so simple - yet millions of overweight Americans don't know how to accomplish this. And with her commonsense explanation M. Guliano explains exactly how to do this.
Madame Guiliano is not a doctor or nutritionist. And she has not done scientific studies to test her methods. BUT all she has to do is point to France and the millions of slim Frenchwomen who use her "methode".
Madame Guiliano states she learned the process of weight loss when she gained weight after a visit to the States from her Doctor - Dr. Miracle. The good doctor taught her simple steps to achieve a healthy weight. Guiliano took his lessons to heart slimmed down and is now frequently asked how she stays so slim!
One of the first steps in the program is recasting. Here you look over the food you eat and you decide what you have to have and what you are willing to eat less of or give up entirely. You also work to get the blatant sugars that create havoc with your chemistry out of your system. There is also a simple recipe for leek soup for a weekend of cleansing for those who wish to jumpstart a weight loss program. You will journal and see what areas cause trouble in your life.
Other steps include eating regular meals, increasing fruits and vegetables, drinking water, not stocking offenders at home and enjoying yogurt on a daily basis.
The book is really designed for those who understand the calorie concept and have a basic understanding of healthy and non-healthy foods. Though Guiliano does not get into calorie counting since she asks that you track what is causing your weight problems, it's assumed that you know that "faux" foods like twinkies are an offender whereas an apple is not.
Her book includes numerous recipes including Asparagus Flan, Grilled Spring Lamb Chops, Yogurt, Baguette, Salad of Duck A L'orange and more. The book is,however, light on sample daily menus. More of what to eat on a daily basis would have been good.
The book is a superb read on how the Frenchwoman stays so slim and trim! Freshness, variety, balance, luxury and a trim waistline can be yours if you follow the principles!
Bonne Chance!
Lee Mellott |
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Caraine Max (MSL quote), USA
<2007-11-13 00:00>
French women are mysterious, at least to me, and convey an aura of confidence and elan. How do they dress the way they do, eat what they do, look the way they do? Here's one Frenchwoman who lives mostly in New York but also in Paris, who lets us into the minds and secrets of her chic compatriots who eat for pleasure and don't get fat. Eating without guilt and without dieting? Talk to me. I bought this as a present but frankly could not put it down - it is such a good read - and it became too worn to give as a gift.
So, I am the happy owner of Madame Guiliano's part memoir, part how-to prescription, part cultural analysis, part lifestyle self-help treatise, part cookbook, and 100% very well written and amusing volume. It seems French women eat as much with their heads as with their stomachs (no surprise there), prefer quality over quantity, enjoy three meals a day but never leave the table stuffed, don't snack or eat in a rush, walk by gyms but incorporate exercise into their daily lifestyle by walking and by taking the stairs as their first option, don't diet and find diet talk boring, embrace pleasure in as many ways as possible, enjoy a glass or two of wine with meals, drink gallons of water, think sex is better than a snack, and according to Guiliano, dress to take out the garbage (you never know, she remarks).
I enjoyed reading this book as much as I enjoy my beverage of choice - s y cof fee. ww.s 0 y coffe ee.com
They even love and enjoy bread and chocolate. Talk about love: I'm in love. Lots of good observations and insights, common sense, truth and wisdom well presented here ... downloading even a small part of it into any head should result in some long-term gains, though in this context would probably equate to pounds lost and spirits raised. |
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Germain (MSL quote), USA
<2007-11-13 00:00>
I just read this book, and I really enjoyed it. It is simply a list of tips and tricks on the "how to" of getting your body moving and eating less. We have all heard it, but have we all done it? Apparently not. I have tried numerous ways of losing weight..all fairly nutritious and seemingly doable: Weight Watchers, South Beach, Ediets, Somersizing (Suzanne Somer's food combining methods) etc. I always lose 5-15 lbs, but gain some back. So what is the problem? 1)Regular, simple exercise. I am a single parent with limited income and a full time job, so this has been a challenge. 2)Food lists that match my likes/budget/time. I enjoy food, and love to cook but many eating plans advocate low fat, light, or fat free foods. YUCK. I'd rather have small amounts of tasteful whole foods. I was so happy to see the apple tart recipe to get you through some sweet cravings that actually uses real butter and sugar! I already eat lots of fruits, veggies and whole grains, but I also eat lots of processed sweets and snacks.
You can take the suggestions to fit your lifestyle. We are so used to rigid diet plans that we must have it laid out for us in minute detail or we can't do it. For example, living in MN, I don't have open air farmer's markets all year round, but I can certainly go in the summer, and in the meantime try different foods at the supermarket. I am already looking forward to homegrown tomatoes. Small changes are the key. I also decided to walk 30 minutes during my 60 minute lunch and walk to my car for another 15 minute walk at the end of the day - because that is truly something I can do on a regular basis and for free!
This book may not help everybody, (especially if you have serious weight issues) but if you are like I am, not moving at all, eat fairly healthy already but just need to fine tune your eating habits, you might be able to glean some helpful hints to budge that scale down - for good.
Funny, my dad is from Wisconsin and he also says they fed their pigs on the farm corn to get them fat! So this certainly isn't just a European thing!( We still make corn on the cob, but we keep it to ½ -1 ear instead of the 3-4 we used to each eat for family meals.)
I didn't understand people's comments saying the French are getting fat too - maybe true, but - so great the whole world can get fat together and let's be happy about it? I didn't particularly enjoy watching my toddler stuff food in his mouth and swallow without a lot of chewing and wonder where he learned that...until I realized probably from watching me. I know I want my children to learn how to be active in daily life, how to savor and enjoy food, to eat healthy and well...why don't we want to learn to do this for ourselves? |
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Megalicious (MSL quote), USA
<2007-11-13 00:00>
I must say, I avoided this book for several months because of all the hype surrounding it, but after a good friend and my own mother both recommended it, I gave in and am very glad I did.
I know a lot of people here complained that the book was just common sense and that's it. Well, they're right and wrong. It is all based on common sense but adds that French 'je ne sais quoi' and I found it rather inspiring. The book isn't about losing 15 lbs. in 2 weeks, rather it is about making positive, simple and common sense changes to not only your lifestyle and the way you eat, but also the way you think about food.
I definitely recommend this book. And for everyone who gave it a bad review: The obesity rate in the U.S. is one of the highest and growing at a rate only challenged by the rate of new diet books published. So, despite all the knowledge we claim to have, we're getting fatter my the year! The French have only begun to have an increase in their obesity rate, coupled with the introduction of American 'convenience' food, a phenomenon that has been found in Japan as well.
Also, I will agree that this isn't a way of eating that is limited to the French. I have friends in both Germany and Belgium who agreed with nearly everything written in this book. Needless to say, they shared much of Mireille Guiliano's experience. While in the U.S. as exchange students both put on over 20 lbs. and then they understood why exactly their host families were both so overweight. Within three months of returning to their respective countries, they'd both lost nearly all the weight by just eating like they always had at home. Interesting... |
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