The Marie Antoinette Diet: Eat Cake and Still Lose Weight: How to Eat Cake and Still Lose Weight - Softcover

Karen Wheeler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0957106653 ISBN 13: 9780957106659

Publisher: Sweet Pea Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Consultant dietician: Dr. Mabel Blades BSC RD.

A healthy and delicious way to lose weight

Discover the centuries-old secrets that help French women stay slim

No calorie counting

Transform your health with simple changes to your diet and lifestyle

A simple but effective weight loss plan that does away with counting calories and eliminating food groups. Backed up by modern science, The Marie Antoinette Diet is based on the eating habits of the 18th-century French queen and generations of French women since. A recipe for painless and delicious weight loss, the book is part memoir and part diet plan, underpinned by some interesting snippets of French history and a lot of modern science. It is not just about weight loss, but the simple lifestyle changes that you can make to improve your overall health.

Instructed by her doctor to lose 10kg (1st 8lb) for health reasons, the author, a former fashion and beauty editor, had a light bulb moment while reading a biography of Marie Antoinette. The French queen ate cake for breakfast and was fond of hot chocolate, but seems to have known instinctively what scientific studies have recently shown: for example, it is not what you eat, but when you eat it. Inspired by Marie Antoinette s eating habits, and using a recipe for the health-boosting wonder broth that the queen ate every evening, the author created a diet that allowed her to lose 10kg in 10 weeks while eating normally most of the time. No calorie counting, no food groups excluded and yes if you follow a few simple rules you can eat cake.

Discover:

Why eating cake for breakfast promotes weight loss

The benefits of a 12-hour night fast

How to rejuvenate and re-energize your body

Why diets that ban dessert are doomed to failure

What we can learn from the 18th-century diet

The centuries-old secrets of slimming à la française

The recipe for Marie Antoinette s health-boosting wonder soup

How to kill cravings for junk food

The simple changes that will transform your health

The chill pill of the nutrient world

The (deeply unfashionable) meat that can help weight loss.

The fats that you should be eating (they re not the ones that you might think)

Nutritious and slimming soups for every season

About this title

Review:

Why Marie Antoinette s diet was the 5:2 of its day. --(Eve McGowan, The Mail on Sunday, 8 February 2014)

Please say bonjour to The Marie Antoinette Diet.... [it] is very a la mode. Wheeler also introduces the reader to the magical, mystery soup that the queen ate for dinner every evening. --(Maggie Lang, NY Mag)

The diet really worked for me. I didn t feel deprived and I ve still been able to eat out. The idea that you can eat cake while on a diet sounds insane. But the author has recognised that most of us trip up on diets because we crave something sweet. (Samantha Brick, The Sunday Mirror Magazine)

There are good philosophical underpinnings to some of this. (Emma Brockes, theguardian.com)

Really quite a fabulous book ...absolutely jam-packed with information. (Thom Watson, manface.co.uk)

Although fad diets come and go...some of Wheeler s claims (supported by Dr Mabel Blades, a registered dietician and nutritionist) actually seem useful and easily attainable. (Erin Cunningham, The Daily Beast).

Too good to be true? Not according to Professor Michele Carruba, Director of the Centre for Study of Obesity in Milan, who explains how this diet is very similar [in its principles] to the Mediterranean Diet. (La Repubblica)

Wheeler s claims actually seem useful and easily attainable... (dietusa.org)

The Marie Antoinette Diet does not promote a series of rules for losing weight so much as advocate a series of lifestyle changes intended to improve your health. (Susan Scutti, MedicalDaily.com)

By following this relatively easy diet plan, you ll be looking and feeling like your best Marie Antoinette slimmed-down self. ( RealStyleNetwork.com)

We have discovered a way to eat cake and still lose weight. (Marie Claire)

Let Them Eat Cake featured in Vogue Japan, October 2014

Having read this book, I have had to rethink my day. The Marie Antoinette Diet is clear, easy to read and features lots of ideas for changes you can make without too much hassle. (Jacqueline Brown, frenchvillagediaries.com)

Hate counting calories? Love cake? This diet s for you. Wheeler examines the eating habits of the stylish and skinny 18th-century queen and distills them into routines that can be adapted for modern-day life. (Audrey Fine, totalbeauty.com)

Why The Marie Antoinette Diet Might Actually Work. (Cosmopolitan)

...something quite new and paradoxical. Wheeler s research has led her to conclude that Marie Antoinette knew what we are taught today by dieticians and cardiologists. (financialexpress.com)

The Marie Antoinette Diet works on the basis that to be a successful slimmer you have to control your cravings, so by allowing yourself a little of what you fancy as part of your plan you will be less likely to ditch the diet and overindulge. (Emma Jones, www.healthista.com)

A diet that lets you eat cake? Now we re listening. Wheeler s approach is refreshing. (Katie Jones, MyDaily.com)

Definitely sounds manageable possibly even enjoyable! (Chatelaine)

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About the Author:

Karen Wheeler is a former fashion editor of the Mail on Sunday newspaper. As a freelance, she also edited the alternative health section of The London Magazine for five years, and wrote about beauty and anti-aging (among other subjects) for the Financial Times How To Spend It magazine for over a decade. She studied modern history at Kings College, London University, where she acquired an enduring interest in eighteenth-century France and Marie Antoinette. She is also the author of three French travel memoirs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sweet Pea Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0957106653
• ISBN 13: 9780957106659
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 198