Weight Loss Coach Lost 30 Pounds With This McDonald's-Inspired Meal

Are you obsessed with McDonald's but on a weight loss mission? One expert has a recipe to help you get your fix. Liv Jordan is a health coach and weight loss warrior who lost 30 pounds by healthy eating and exercising. She regularly shares recipes that helped fuel her weight loss. One of the most recent? A high-protein burger bowl inspired by McDonald's Big Mac. The total meal has 440 calories and 32 grams of protein. She also shared a few of her other go-to meals.

Ingredients:

• 3.5oz cooked 93/7 ground beef
• 174g raw russet potato
• handful of shredded lettuce
• a few cherry tomatoes & pickles
• 1 tbsp shredded cheddar cheese.

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Ingredients:

• 1 tbsp light mayo
• 2 tbsp yellow mustard
• 2 tbsp sugar-free ketchup
• 1 tbsp sweet relish
• salt, paprika, garlic powder.

1. Cut your potato into wedges, drizzle avocado oil, season with salt, pepper, and paprika, and air fry at 390°F for 15 minutes until crispy outside and soft inside.
2. Cook the ground beef in a pan with salt, pepper, garlic, and onion powder.
3. While that cooks, prep your toppings: shred the lettuce, slice the tomatoes, and pickle.
4. Assemble your bowl: lettuce base, ground beef, air-fried potato wedges, tomatoes, pickles, and cheese.
5. Drizzle your condiments on top — this combo is my go-to Big Mac–style sauce.

She shares her crispy Greek chicken fold recipe in another post with 370 calories and 43 grams of protein.

1. Cook chicken breast tenderloins with lemon, dill, garlic, salt, pepper, and oregano on the stovetop.
2. Grab a Joseph's Lavash flatbread.
3. Spread on 2 tbsp of greek yogurt tzatziki.
4. Add about 3-4 oz of the lemon-dill grilled chicken.
5. Chop up a cucumber, a few cherry tomatoes, and about 1.5 oz of avocado, then sprinkle on some feta.
6. Fold in half and cook both sides in avocado oil on medium heat for about 3-4 mins per side, or until crispy.

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She also swears that her hot honey ground beef bowl is so delicious that it went viral. The meal has 400 calories and 38 grams of protein.

Instructions:

1. Lean ground beef (seasoned with taco seasoning)
2. Sweet potatoes (cooked in the oven at 400°C for 1 hour & then I reheat cubed in an air fryer to crisp up but stay soft on the inside at 400 °C for 8-10 mins)
3. 1/2 avocado with salt & pepper
4. Spoonful of @good_culture cottage cheese.

For breakfast, she recommends her maple brown sugar oatmeal. "The creamiest, high-protein, maple brown sugar oatmeal 🍂🧸 *finally* a protein oatmeal recipe that doesn't taste like protein powder!" she writes. It has 400 calories and 38 grams of protein.

Instructions:

1. 40g oats + 1 cup water → microwave for 1 min
2. Add @pescience Protein4Oats & stir until combined (Maple Brown Sugar – code: LIV)
3. Microwave 30-45 sec more (until your desired consistency)
4. Mix again (it should be thick & fluffy), then layer with 2/3 cup Greek yogurt
5. Add toppings: strawberries, blueberries, banana, drizzle of PB, cinnamon & honey.

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