Eat Protein eBook: 30 Macro Friendly Meals

➡️ No Special Diet Required: These recipes in our digital eBook don’t follow a specific diet plan but are perfect for anyone who wants to eat healthier, lose weight, or gain muscle. I’ve personally been eating around 150 grams of protein per day to lose weight while keeping my net carbs under 100 grams, and these recipes work great for that!

➡️ Meal Prep Made Easy: Whether you're cooking for the whole week or just making a quick meal, these recipes are great for meal prepping. With simple ingredients and easy-to-follow instructions, you'll be able to prepare meals in advance and stay on track with your nutrition goals.

➡️ Suitable for Busy Lives: Most recipes are made using basic kitchen equipment. If you're new to cooking, don't worry! All the recipes are beginner-friendly and can be made with everyday kitchen tools.

My health story

Here's the thing, I'm not a die-hard health nut or gym rat...I wish! Losing weight would be much easier, am I right?

Nope, I'm just an average person who noticed the scale slowly creeping up, it getting harder to get up off the ground, and my body starting to rebel with midlife health issues.

Starting Whole Lotta Yum

After getting told I was pre-diabetic and had an immune system disorder, combined with numerous serious food sensitivities, I ditched dairy, gluten, and sugar back in 2018.

Instead, I started focusing my cooking experiments on healthier whole foods instead of the desserts and cookies in my past...and our website Whole Lotta Yum was born!

Fast forward...we've been helping millions and millions of readers put healthy, easy, and delicious recipes on the table quickly.

Protein dreams

In 2023, I had a major health scare and my health literally hit it's worst point. I knew that drastic life changes were in order. While I'd been eating healthy whole foods for many years, I still wasn't losing weight and wasn't managing my health issues very well.

Getting outside help became essential, and I was introduced to high protein macro eating after I started working with a trainer.

Issues I've had for decades disappeared within 2 weeks of switching to tracking macros instead of calorie tracking.

As a former sugar addict, an obsession with sweets and inability to kick the sugar habit led to 20+ years of yoyo dieting. I literally spent 20 years trying to lose the same 20 lbs and kept from sizes 6-16 in my closet depending on where I was at at the time.

Eating high protein macro friendly meals will now permanently be a way of life for me, it had a significant instant impact on my physical and mental health.

Most of the meals I create for Whole Lotta Yum and how we eat at home are high protein low carb since I still have a little weight to lose and am working to build muscle.

I am NOT against carbs at all and think they're essential to our energy levels, brain health, and overall well-being.

My purpose has become to help my readers as much as possible by providing healthy high protein recipes to help them reach their own personal goals.

I know many of you face the same weight loss struggles and also have health concerns. Mix that in with our busy lives and families, it can be hard to balance getting healthy food on the table, taking care of others, and taking care of ourselves.

That's where I hope our eBook can help make your day and week a little bit easier! <3

Are these recipes for a specific diet?

The recipes as a whole, do not represent a specific diet. Most of the recipes would be considered high protein low carb (about 80% of them or more) if you factor in net carbs. The majority of recipes are gluten-free. Any dairy can be swapped with plant based sources.

If you are wanting to eat healthier, lose some weight, or gain muscle, these are all great recipes to help with that!

I have been eating about 150 grams of protein per day and 100-125 grams of carbs per day to lose weight (which ends up being less than 100 net carbs each day), and eat these recipes regularly. So I consider these low carb even if some recipes include ingredients like rolled oats or honey.

I am trying to eat 1500 calories per day, will these recipes help me do that?

If you were to eat one breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinner from our list of recipes, you will definitely be under 1500 calories per day. Most would add up to 1200-1300/day which would leave you extra calories for optional garnishes or simple snacks and meal add-ons as you prefer.

Meal prepping numerous meals like 1-2 lean proteins, 1-2 healthy starches, a snack, and big salad or pot of soup makes it easier to put together last minute meals during a busy week.

Do I need any special equipment to make these recipes?

The majority of the recipes are cooked on a stove top or in an oven. Some are no bake recipes. One recipe is made in a slow cooker but it would be easy to adapt to the stove top. One recipe is for an air fryer, but thats easy to bake in the oven.

We recommend having a large non-stick skillet, a large pot for soups, a blender or immersion blender, and an aluminum baking sheet. Meal prep containers are also helpful for storing leftovers or making double batches for weekly meal prep.

A little about me...

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