While I didn’t design this book specifically as a “weight-loss book”, I did make these recipes as calorie efficient as possible (while still being delicious and filling!) so that they can be used as part of any healthy weight loss or weight maintainance program.

This means that the meals are designed to be nutritious and filling without being filled with empty calories.

In a nutshell, to most effectively lose weight and maintain a healthy weight, you need to be eating healthy balanced meals on a consistent basis and experiment to find out roughly how many daily calories you need to achieve your personal goals. This depends on a lot of different factors, such as; your current wieght, your metabolism, and how much excersize you’re getting in your current lifestyle.

The bottom line is, all of the recipes in this book can be part of a healthy routine that helps you to either lose or maintain your ideal goal weight.

It can, yes.

I’ve tried my best to make these recipes as calorie efficient as possible. They’re designed to be not only delicious, but also healthy and wholesome and can be used as part of a healthy diet whether you’re trying to lose weight or maintain your ideal weight. 

A lot of people love using my “points system” from my book, The Beautiful Body Guide. In case you’re unfamiliar with it, the points system is a method I came up with to be able to keep track of calories without it taking over your life.

Instead of trying to keep track of specific calorie amounts, you can follow a simple food chart where roughly 100 calories = 1 point.

So for example, a regular apple = 1 point. Simple as that.

If you use my points system, it’s very easy to implement using the recipes in this book. For all the recipes I give a rough calorie value and I suggest simply rounding that up or down to the nearest 50 calories.

So for example, if a recipe is 320 calories, you’d round it down to 300 which = 3 points. If a recipe is 240 calories, just round it up to 250 which = 2.5 points. If you’re thinking this is cheating, keep in mind that one banana can vary by as much as 50 calories (70 – 120 calories) – and that’s just one ingredient!

When you round off to the nearest 50 calories, or “half point”, the differences will even themselves out and you can still meet your overall calorie goals – without driving yourself crazy about it!

It just doesn’t make sense to split hairs over a few calories here and there. Keeping things simple and easy to follow means you’re much more likely to stick to it and reach your goals that much quicker!

All the recipes are plant based and vegan apart from the egg-based recipes. I’ve provided vegan alternatives for all except 2 recipes in the book. You’re welcome to try vegan egg replaces, but since plant based egg replacers differ so much from brand to brand I didn’t want to make any claims about a specific brand.