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The Dr. Gourmet Diet Plan

Lose weight the right way - the healthy way! - by following a clinically proven diet plan. And learn how to keep it off - for good!

Just Tell Me What to Eat: The Dr. Gourmet Diet Plan is an easy-to-follow diet for real people who live in the real world. So what does that really mean?

Create a two-week custom meal plan including breakfast, lunch and dinner, for yourself or your entire family - even kids under 14! NO making separate meals.

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Frozen meal options for lunch or dinner (such as Lean Cuisine or Weight Watchers).

Easy, kid-friendly meals with leftovers for lunches or later in the week.

Special diet options include Comfort Food (great for families with kids!), Vegetarian (lacto-ovo), low sodium, lactose intolerant, Coumadin (warfarin) use, GERD / Acid Reflux safe, and gluten allergies (celiac disease). All meal plans are safe for type 2 diabetics because they are based on the Mediterranean Diet, which is known to be the best diet for type 2 diabetics. Combine special needs if needed: low sodium and lactose intolerant? Coumadin and celiac disease? Just select the options and get your delicious meal plan!

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Low Sodium Diets

Three Steps to a Low Sodium Diet

Step One

Mac and CheeseTake the processed food out of your life. If you want Mac and Cheese, make Mac and Cheese. Cooking your own fresh food from scratch takes a little more time, but it tastes so much better and it's so much better for you. If you're used to frozen or packaged meals, snagging fast food for dinner, or eating on the run, start slowly by making just two meals per week at home. Beyond the meals on this website, there are so many recipes out there that anyone can cook easily.

Step Two

When you do eat packaged or processed foods, pay attention to the salt. The sodium content is the one item on the Nutrition Facts label that isn't confusing. There's no high fat, low-carb, low-fat, Mediterranean, Atkins, South Beach or other "diet" to worry about. Simply eat less sodium and you'll likely prolong your life. Your goal should be less than 3000 mg per day.

Step Three

Salt and Pepper ShakersI know people who crave sodium but there's been terrific research that shows that your salt taste buds do learn to want less. In effect, the more you saturate them the more you can't taste how salty something is. For some this will mean working a bit harder. (Interestingly, if you're making fresh food, adding salt at the table and not while cooking makes food taste saltier and research shows that you'll use less.)

Lastly, keep in mind that that the 2,400 mg per day recommendation is about 1 teaspoon salt. Measure your salt when you do cook. It's easy and a simple step to being healthier.

Low Sodium Recipes

Here's our list of all of the low sodium recipes on the Dr. Gourmet website. Easy, healthy low sodium recipes that taste better than you ever imagined low sodium cooking could be!