To Live bien dans sa peau.

As y'all know, I'm currently trying to lose weight but I'm tired of yo yo-dieting. It doesn't help when your dieting backfires; shedding off some pounds drastically in the beginning then suddenly you hit a wall. After that everything is downhill from there. You start gaining back those pounds faster than you can say wtf! Even worse is when you gain back twice more than when you lose. It's painful and psychologically damaging. But I've been on a new non-diet for quite some time now. It's actually more a lifestyle change than dieting and so far it's working wonders for me. Have you ever heard of Mireille Guiliano? Well she is the genius who wrote the bestselling book "French Women Don't Get Fat" and it's her clever ideals that I have incorporated into my everyday lifestyle when it comes to food and its indulgence (except the wine tasting part, I don't drink).

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.

As a typically slender French girl, Mireille went to America as an exchange student and came back fat. That shock sent her into an adolescent tailspin, until her kindly family physician, "Dr. Miracle," came to the rescue. Reintroducing her to classic principles of French gastronomy plus time-honored secrets of the local women, he helped her restore her shape and gave her a whole new understanding of food, drink, and life. The key? Not guilt or deprivation but learning to get the most from the things you most enjoy. Following her own version of this traditional wisdom, she has ever since relished a life of indulgence without bulge, satisfying yen without yo-yo on three meals a day.

There's a lot to like in her philosophy, which includes a very passionately argued chapter about the folly of eschewing bread and chocolate, and why Hershey's n'est pas la meme chose as Godiva.I've learned so much from this book and benefited as much as losing 8 kgs within 1 month and 2 weeks. I've learnt to forget low carbs and to my own surprise start to love the tartness of yogurt when I've always considered myself so-called "lactose intolerant". These days I savour and enjoy the pleasures of preparing and eating food. And I've ignored high- protein. It's too du jour. So unfrench.I particularly enamored a phrase: Je de prime donc je chocolate. When I'm down, I chocolate.This book is all about emphasizing on balance, variety,freshness and how to joie de vivre the French women way.

So far because of this God sent new book, I am glad to report that I am on my way and a step closer towards my dream of pro-dancing.