If you love to eat out but are trying to lose weight, dining out in restaurants no longer needs to be a harrowing experience. The Restaurant Diet is a safe and effective four-phase plan that doesn't involve any culinary sacrifices whatsoever. Author Fred Bollaci shows you how to make restaurants partners in your weight loss success-not your enemy. Fred not only offers advice on what to select from a restaurant menu, he also serves up more than one hundred delectable, hand-selected recipes from America's most celebrated establishments-including several Michelin-starred restaurants-that you can make right at home. The Restaurant Diet is divided into four easy-tofollow phases: ¿ Phase One, Beginning: Benvenuto! Enjoy foods like steak, shrimp, lobster, fish, chicken, turkey, lamb, veal, pork, eggs, salads, grains, fruits, vegetables-and even a glass of wine with dinner! ¿ Phase Two, Opportunity: Buon appetito! In addition to everything in Phase One, you can add in a serving of pasta, pizza, and bread, as well as one dessert other than fruit or yogurt. ¿ Phase Three, Challenge: Divertiti! Incorporate an additional one hundred calories per week into your plan and burn calories even faster when you exercise. ¿ Phase Four, Achievement: Mangia! You now have control of what you choose from a menu, have lost weight and are maintaining it, and can even splurge on a treat once on a while!