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Mireille Guiliano takes the time to enjoy life. (Andrew French)
In 2005, Mireille Guiliano conquered the bestseller lists with French Women Don't Get Fat, a healthy eating manifesto that taught women to stop dieting and learn to love food again. Proving that it was no one-off fad,Guiliano later released French Women for All Seasons, which has just come out in a paperback edition.
Now, in 2009, it seems that Mireille Guiliano is just barely getting started. The previously pay-for-registration French Women Don't Get Fat website is now a come-one-come-all free site, with resources for better living, healthy food recipes, and a message board forum for women embracing the French Women Don't Get Fat manifesto.
The manifesto, a list of guidelines for better living, is central to Guiliano's message, and it features prominently on the free website in the form of inspirational quotations and as a springboard for articles and tips. Some of the French Women Don't Get Fat manifesto tenets include:
French women eat three meals a day.
French women balance their food, drink, and movement on a week-by-week basis.
French women don't diet.
French women are stubborn individuals and don't follow mass movements.
The free website also serves up recipes that fit the French Women Don't Get Fat philosophy: smaller portion sizes of better and higher quality foods, meant to savor and enjoy visually and gastronomically. Recipes Mireille Guiliano shares are divided into handy categories (such as Appetizers, Meat and Seafood), and include such tempting choices as Dandelion Salad, Peach Gazpacho with Gingerbread, Fresh Tomato Garden Soup, and Macaroni with Spinach and Pancetta.
The highlight of the now-free website may well be the French Women Don't Get Fat community message board forums, where self-proclaimed fabulous women share their ideas, triumphs, indulgences and weaknesses with one another. Topics range from making homemade yogurt to choosing shape wear, and you can expect the sharing of even moreFWDGF-style recipes.
But that's not even all the excitement in Mireille Guiliano's life presently. It appears that none other than Hilary Swank has optioned French Women Don't Get Fat as a movie. How does one turn a diet book into a movie? By following Ms. Guiliano's vision, it seems.The movie is rumored to be an autobiographical one, a romantic comedy about Mireille Guiliano's journey to self-discovery while working in France.
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And yet, there's even more. Also in the works is a French Women Don't Get Fat cookbook, which promises at least 150 recipes. If they are even half as tempting as the ones featured on the website and in the previous books, the world is in for a treat --a sane, healthful treat.
Here's to the success of Mireille Guiliano, and here's to all of us. If more of us embrace her choices and lifestyle, we may someday be saying simply that women don't get fat, period. Why should the French have all the fun?
-Liz Kelly
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