The Parisian Diet

France’s leading nutritionist Dr. Jean-Michel Cohen pinpoints why you struggle with weight loss diets and offers a plan for achieving your ideal weight while embracing life’s pleasures. Dr. Jean-Michel Cohen, France’s most popular dietician, has helped over two million patients worldwide reach their ideal weight and stabilize long term, all while savoring healthy, balanced meals. His progressive three-step weight loss plan includes 325 easy-to-prepare recipes, helpful hints, and practical checklists to get the weight off and keep it off. Strongly opposed to "extreme" diets and the inevitable weight gain that ensues, Dr. Cohen proposes a holistic approach that addresses the physical, psychological, and cultural factors that impact our ability to control our relationship with food. Once we understand our behavior, it’s easy and rewarding to see the pounds melt away. His diet proposes food substitutions to adapt recipes to your personal preferences and allows you to indulge in the occasional craving as long as you compensate beforehand and afterwards. With Dr. Cohen’s foolproof supermarket tactics and the diet’s inherent flexibility, you’ll find it easy to continue until you reach your goal weight, losing up to 30 pounds in three months. The simple, delicious, and satisfying menus offer a wide variety of choice, and emphasize the best-practices of the French way of eating, from using fresh produce, to balancing your intake throughout the day, to the pacing of mealtimes. The Parisian Diet is not a flash-in-the pan diet, it’s a new approach to food and a way to celebrate life, helping you look and feel your best."Dr. Cohen’s plan is well-balanced and less restrictive than many other popular diets." ~Larry Cox, Tucsoncitizen.com

"...France's leading nutritionist Dr. Jean-Michel Cohen shares 150 easy-to-prepare recipes, practical checklists, and addresses the physical, psychological, and cultural factors that impact our ability to control our relationship with food. Through his progressive, holistic three-step weight loss plan you'll get the best-practices of the French way of eating, a new approach to food and a way to celebrate life, helping you look and feel your best." ~San Francisco Guardian

"We've all heard this question before: "How do the French stay so thin?" This book might just help you find an answer. And if a flexible diet is what you're looking for, well, look no further. Featured are tips and recipes galore." ~AM New York

"All the recipes in The Parisian Diet are healthy, delicious, and easy to follow, with a French twist that you can enjoy so you never feel like you're on a diet." ~wherefoodcomesfrom.com

“Losing weight doesn’t have to mean deprivation. Famed nutritionist Dr. Jean-Michel Cohen unlocks the secrets behind the healthy French way of life in his book…and shares quick and easy recipes that will change the way you eat, look, and feel—for good. Bon appetite!” -Delish

Jean-Michel Cohen, MD, PhD, is the foremost nutrition specialist in France. His best-selling books on general nutrition and weight loss—over 1.25 million copies sold—have been translated into nine languages. Dr. Cohen appears regularly on French television and in the press as a consultant on nutrition-related subjects, he hosted reality TV programs on weight loss, and appeared on the French edition of Top Chef. In 1986, he created the first interdepartmental consultation center on obesity in France. He has treated 30,000 patients for nutrition-related concerns in his medical practice and his online coaching website has motivated 500,000 subscribers to lose weight.