Just Tell Me What to Eat!: The Delicious 6-Week Weight Loss Plan for the Real World - Hardcover

Harlan, Timothy S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0738214523 ISBN 13: 9780738214528

Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books, 2011

Synopsis

Dr. Timothy Harlan has counseled thousands of overweight patients searching for weight-loss answers. He noticed that patients were usually told what they could not eat, rather than all the wonderful foods they could eat. Now, physician-chef Harlan provides a solution: an exact prescription for what to eat, how to cook it, when to eat it, and, best of all, why eating great food is the best health decision you will make.

Just Tell Me What to Eat! is a medically based weight-loss plan for the real world, for anyone tired of dubious fad diets, restricted meals, and unappetizing strategies. It emphasizes a Mediterranean diet with high-quality calories and home cooking whenever possible. Dr. Harlan offers a "food mantra" for each day, paired with a menu and easy recipes. By the time you incorporate all the lessons in your diet, you will have naturally slimmed down and changed your eating habits for the better

With chapters like "What You Should Eat for Breakfast," "How to Arrange Your Dinner Plate," and "Carbs are Good for You Too!" this unique day-by-day plan will help even the most frustrated dieters achieve a slimmer, healthier, and happier lifestyle.

About this title

About the Author

Timothy S. Harlan, MD, aka Dr. Gourmet, is Medical Director at the Tulane University School of Medicine and a chef, professor, and Emmy-winning television personality. He lives in New Orleans.  

A practicing, board-certified Internist, Dr. Tim's love of food preparation began as a teenager working in the restaurant business. Starting as a dishwasher, he worked his way up to managing his first restaurant by the age of eighteen and at age twenty-two opened his own restaurant: a small French bistro. 
 
Three years operating Le Petit Café--creating menus, being a chef and teaching cooking classes--were challenging and creative. Closing the restaurant to return to school was an important turning point. Dr. Harlan originally intended to pursue a degree in hotel and restaurant management, but events led him toward medicine and the decision to become a physician.


After finishing an undergraduate degree in anthropology and biology, Dr. Harlan went on to study at Emory University School of Medicine. Working as a caterer throughout school, he continued to be involved with food and cooking but noticed a lack of knowledge in the medical field about eating healthy and eating well. Neither patients nor health care providers understood much about a healthful diet. Patients, it seemed, were usually told not what they could eat but, rather, what they could not eat.
 
In medical school, Dr. Harlan wrote It's Heartly Fare, a book best characterized as a food manual for patients with cardiovascular disease. He has published other books including, Hand on Heat: A Perfectly Ordinary Cookbook  and The Dr. Gourmet Diet for Coumadin Users. 


He is publisher and editor of the popular web site DrGourmet.com.
 
Dr. Gourmet has been an on air consultant to the TV Food Network show Cooking Thin and a host on the DIY network show AskDIY.  In 2002 The Dr. Gourmet Show, which aired on regional public television, won an Emmy® award. 


You can find more at drgourmet.com/tellmewhattoeat
 
 
 
 
 

From the Back Cover

ARE YOU FRUSTRATED BY UNREALISTIC LOW-CARB DIETS? ARE YOU CONCERNED ABOUT DIABETES, OR HEART DISEASE? DO YOU WISH YOU COULD JUST EAT THE FOODS YOU LOVE?

80 Recipes Inside

Do you want to lose weight, but aren't sure where to begin?

Dr. Timothy Harlan--a physician who is also a chef--has a prescription for you.

* What to Eat * How to Cook It * When to Eat It * What to Eat at a Restaurant

* What to Eat If You're in a Hurry

and best of all . . .

* Why eating great food is the best health decision you'll ever make.

"Just Tell Me What to Eat! isn't just the book my patients have been asking me for, it's the book I've been wanting to find for my patients. . . . I've never read a book about food choices that was based so firmly on the facts."--Cam Patterson, MD, MBA, Chief of Cardiology, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine.

From the Inside Flap

"Does a masterful job of matching good, up-to-the moment science with good old- fashioned taste." --Graham Kerr, The Galloping Gourmet

Finally, the truth about weight loss: You can drop extra pounds and treat common health problems with easy changes in your diet. Even better, many of the foods you already love are actually good for you!

As a physician and a chef, Dr. Timothy Harlan has counseled thousands of people searching for weight-loss answers. Now, in this simple, medically based, 6-week plan, Dr. Harlan cuts through all the confusing diet trends and gets straight to the bottom line: your daily prescription for what to eat and why--and exactly how you can do it.

For anyone tired of restricted meals and unappetizing strategies (who really wants to avoid pasta for the rest of their life?), Just Tell Me What to Eat! takes the guesswork out of eating well. It emphasizes delicious, hearty meals, a Mediterranean-style diet, high-quality calories, and home cooking whenever possible. When you follow Dr. Harlan's basic food rules and balanced recipes, you really can eat:

* Fettuccine Alfredo with Shrimp and Broccoli

* Barbecue Chicken Pizza

* Philly Cheese Steak

* Red Beans and Rice

* Crab Cakes

* Oven-Fried Chicken with Roasted Corn on the Cob

* Chocolate Cheesecake

Dr. Harlan is well aware that there are times when you simply won't want to think about cooking, so he accompanies each of his daily recipes with two quick alternatives: a conve- nience meal and a restaurant meal recommen- dation. Making healthy choices has never been this easy.

Just Tell Me What to Eat! gives you your food back--real food, familiar food, and food that tastes great--while arming you with the knowledge you need to achieve a slimmer, healthier, and happier lifestyle for good.

Timothy S. Harlan, MD, also known as Dr. Gourmet, is a medical director at the Tulane University School of Medicine and a chef, practicing internist, professor, columnist, and Emmy-winning television personality. He lives in New Orleans.

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Cover design by Christopher Tobias
Author photograph © Amy Jett

Edition details

• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0738214523
• ISBN 13: 9780738214528
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320