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

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.

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