questions?

Yes, I lost over 40 lbs with healthy meal prep just like this so sharing this method was one of the main inspirations for making this book. To lose weight in a healthy and sustainable way we want to be eating healthy, balanced meals that are “calorie efficient”. This means that we want the calories we eat to be nutritionally useful to our bodies – as opposed to “empty” calories that leave you crashing throughout the day. The weekly meal plans are also high protein which is particularly important when you’re losing weight.

All that said, it’s important to figure out how many calories you need per day to reach your goals – losing weight or maintaining a healthy weight. So the book does have a section on how to do that.

No, it really just comes down to how you use it. These are healthy and balanced meals that are grouped by week to make them as quick and easy as possible to meal prep for your week. Perfect for the “busy girl”! They’re also high protein per day – especially given how relatively low calorie they are. All these factors make them ideal for losing weight or maintaining a healthy weight – and you can customize the amount of calories you want anywhere from 1200 – 2200 calories per day.

Both are healthy meal prep, but there are a few differences between them…

“Fast Weight-Loss Meal Prep” is specifically designed as a meal plan to lose weight. “Meal Prep for the Busy Girl” can be used as healthy meal prep or as a plan to lose or maintain a healthy weight. (How you use it depends on your goals and is explained in the book.)

There is also a difference in the style of prep. In “Fast Weight-Loss Meal Prep,” we prep all the ingredients for each meal separately and then combine them to make our meals on the day. In “Meal Prep for the Busy Girl,” we’re making all the meals ready-to-go in their containers — so they’re completely ready to go (and you can even eat the meals out of their containers if you want! This saves dishes!).

While “Fast Weight-Loss Meal Prep” was focused on saving time along with weight loss, “Meal Prep for the Busy Girl” takes saving time to the next level. This is my quickest way to prep meals for the week!

Since “Meal Prep for the Busy Girl” is my latest meal prep book, I’ve also added some things I’m really excited about which are not in “Fast Weight-Loss Meal Prep for Women.” “Meal Prep for the Busy Girl” is designed to be high protein — each week being a high-protein week (80–110 g per day). This is perfect for women to build or maintain lean muscle. “Meal Prep for the Busy Girl” also has a seasonal focus — there are multiple weeks for each season within the book (autumn, winter, spring, summer), meaning that you can have meals suited to the weather of the season you’re currently in (cozy meals in autumn and winter, and light, refreshing meals in spring and summer).

There is also a difference in the number of weeks of prep and recipes. “Fast Weight-Loss Meal Prep” has 4 weeks of prep, with 2 options for each meal within each week (2 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 2 dinners, 2 snacks for each week). “Meal Prep for the Busy Girl” has 12 weeks of meal prep with 1 option for each meal within each week (1 breakfast, 1 lunch, 1 dinner, 1 snack for each week). In total, “Meal Prep for the Busy Girl” has more recipes.

But at the end of the day — I love both books! And I’ve made it so you can use both books interchangeably, as they have completely different recipes, and they both follow the 400-calorie meal / 200-calorie snack structure. So you can actually prep meals and snacks from both books within the same week and still stick to your desired calories.

Yes! There’s confusion about what “high protein” actually means these days because the term gets thrown around a lot without taking into account CALORIES. Eating a whole cow would be considered “HIGH PROTEIN” …but also a million calories! It’s a lot more difficult to eat high protein AND relatively low calorie. The protein amounts I’ve listed range from between 82g of protein per day to 109g of protein per day at just 1400 calories. That would be about 129g to 171g per day for 2200 calories.

Note: Not every meal is “high protein”, but I’ve made sure that the overall protein amount for the day is more than enough. If you want to use this book more like a recipe book and make individual items, you’ll see the protein amount is also listed for each recipe so you can choose the ones you like best.

No, you can think of this as two books in one – a meal prep book and a recipe book. Each week starts with the full instructions for prepping ALL the meals from that week in as little as an hour. After that you’ll find all the individual recipes from that week which you can mix and match with meals from other weeks and make your own custom plans if you like. 

Yes, this works great with the points system I’ve shared in videos and other books like my Beautiful Body Guide.

If you’re not familiar with it, it’s basically just a simple method of rounding off calories to make it a lot easier to keep track of – without constantly counting every single one. For example, instead of micro calculating every calorie and trying to determine whether the banana you’re holding is a small or medium banana, we just say it’s “1 point” – so roughly 100 calories. If you’re trying 1400 calories per day, you get 14 points.

In this book, all meals are about 400 calories = 4 points, and all snacks are about 200 calories = 2 points. So it makes it very simple to keep track of. And in fact, if you’re making the full meal prep, it’s already pre worked out for the day so you don’t even have to think about it after that!

Absolutely not.

Ok, seriously… yes, it’s not like the food is only edible to women! The main reason I made it “for women” is the portion sizes. All meals are 400 calories and the snacks are 200 calories. This is actually a good-sized meal or snack for anyone, but men typically need more calories in a day than most women do.