French Women Don't Get Fat

"There are two selves in each of us: the one who wants to be slim and healthy and the one who wants something else. One sees the big picture - well-being, self-esteem, fitting into the latest fashions. The other wants pleasures aplenty, and now. One is Narcissus leaning over his pool; the other in Pantagruel Leaning over his table. The key...was not to conquer the second, but to broker a rapprochement: make friends of your two selves and be the master of both your willpower and your pleasures. That was the French way."