French Women Don't Get Fat Quotes

“Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

“We can't imagine anything more boring than to live with someone who doesn't care about food or eating or sharing meals.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

“Learn to say no, with an eye to saying yes to something else.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

“Expose them {your kids} to the widest variety of vegetables and fruits, showing them how good things can be in season. Tasteless fruits and vegetables won't win them over for life.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

“~....value simplicity in all things, never serve any aperitif but Champagne. Hard liguor requires a bar, special paraphernalia, and a variety of glasses, as well as messy shaking or stirring. More important, it numbs more than it tickles the taste buds. When you've spent time and money preparing delicious food for your guests, the last thing you want is to render them unable to taste it. That will eliminate one of the most important topics of conversation!~”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat

“~Garbage in, garbage out~”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat

“~There are no recipes, only ingredients~”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat

“You owe it to your loved ones as well as yourself to know and pursue your pleasures.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

“French women love bread and would never consider a life without carbs.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

“French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

“Seasonality (eating the best at its peak) and seasoning (the art of choosing and combining flavors to complement food) are vital for fighting off the food lover’s worst enemy: not calories, but boredom. Eat the same thing in the same way time and again, and you’ll need more just to achieve the same pleasure. (Think of it as “taste tolerance.”) Have just one taste experience as your dinner (the big bowl of pasta, a big piece of meat), and you are bound to eat too much, as you seek satisfaction from volume instead of the interplay of flavor and texture that comes from a well thought out meal.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

“French women know one can go far with a great haircut, a bottle of champagne, and a divine perfume.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

“Gastronomic boredom leads to lots of unhealthy eating. If you don’t make improvisation and experimentation part of your eating life, you are sure to find yourself in an eating rut.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat

“For many, the twenties seem like the time of infinite possibility, although in retrospect a woman will almost always idealize her thirties.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

“French women eat and serve what's in season, for maximum flavor and value, and know availability does not equal quality.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

“For this reason, three months is the usual time to find your way. But you must enjoy the ride.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat

“Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman’s secret.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat

“A meal that can be packed and frozen and thawed is nothing you should desire--much less teach your kids to want.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

“French women don't eat Wonder Bread.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

“French women eat smaller portions of more things. American women eat larger portions of fewer things.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat

“Oh well, I’ve blown the diet, might as well go for broke.” A basic failure of logic. We’re all human; we all stray and return.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat

“The real reason French women don’t get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat

“And you can be sure that those French ladies intently enjoying the pleasures of a full meal on a beautiful day were doing so entirely mindful of a compensation that would be made that evening or the next day. C’est la vie.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat

“Your metabolism is as high as it will ever be; enjoy it and don’t be afraid to try new foods, but don’t neglect fresh fruits and vegetables in season.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat

“Food on television makes one think about eating and gets one’s gastric juices flowing, triggering the release of insulin, lowering one’s blood sugar, and stimulating food cravings. It’s gastronomic pornography.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat

“Eating in America has become controversial behavior, with all sorts of “non-nutritional” sexual, social, political, cultural, and even clinical overtones. Our troubles with weight have as much to do with our attitudes toward eating as they do with what we are ingesting. We are seeing a growing psychosis that I believe actually adds stress to our already stressful way of life. It is fast erasing the simple values of pleasure. Without a national change of heart, we have little hope of turning the tide of the obesity epidemic.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat

“Sleeplessness also makes us listless, which encourages us to overeat, food being the most obvious other way to achieve reinvigoration.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat

“To make yourself yawn, you have to breathe in deeply and stretch your mouth open as wide as possible. After two or three tries, the natural yawning response is triggered and can go on indefinitely.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat

“Step 1: Rhythm and Awareness Close your eyes. Place one hand on your belly and notice your breathing. Feel your hand rise slightly with each new breath in. Feel it fall with each breath out. Focus on this motion of rising and falling for 12 breaths.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat

“Conscious breathing is the easiest form of meditation and the most basic part of yoga, which I highly recommend if you have the inclination to take classes in anything. This type of breathing disconnects eating from our stress-response equipment, a major cause of overeating and bingeing. It also enhances our overall energy by releasing energy in every cell of the body. Breathing is the driving process of metabolism.”
― Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat