Ah, Paris, the ideal destination for museum hopping— couture shopping—quick weight loss.   Mais oui, insists Mireille.  “When you see how people eat and move there, it inspires you,” she says. “After a week in Paris your pants are going to be loose.”

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. Hers is a charming, sensible, and powerfully life-affirming view of health and eating for our times. 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 the Stair Master. 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. Here are a culture's most cherished and time-honored secrets recast for the twenty-first century.

For anyone who has slipped out of her zone, missed the flight to South Beach, or accidentally let a carb pass her lips, here is a buoyant, positive way to stay trim. A life of wine, bread—even chocolate--without girth or guilt? Pourquoi pas?

Mireille Guiliano, born and brought up in France, is an internationally best-selling author and a longtime spokesperson for Champagne Veuve Clicquot. Her favorite pastimes are breakfast, lunch and dinner. Her books have appeared in 37 languages.

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