Do you prefer 3 larger meals or snacking all day -what helps you?!

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  • nycalling6192
    nycalling6192 Posts: 22 Member
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    During a workweek, I don't like to eat while I'm at work. I always feel tired after eating, even eating a small portion. I don't remember who posted above, but I prefer my calories for when I get home from work and doing activities. I can only speak for me, but I'm a lot more productive when I'm hungry.
  • JPW1990
    JPW1990 Posts: 2,424 Member
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    Meals as snacks. I eat slowly, so I make a normal sized meal, eat about 1/3-1/2 of it, save the rest for later.
  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
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    3 squares and a hefty snack. It winds up meaning fewer cals for dessert type treats, coffees, drinks, etc. But it also means being less hungry.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,871 Member
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    Hornsby wrote: »
    kisses71213 wrote: »
    Hornsby wrote: »
    600 cals for breakfast
    250 for AM Snack
    1000 for lunch
    250 for PM Snack
    1000 for dinner
    250 for late PM snack

    Give or take...

    I only wish I could have the cal intake you have!! ;)

    Get a bicycle and ride it a lot :)

    Yup...
  • Athijade
    Athijade Posts: 3,264 Member
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    I eat 2 meals (lunch and dinner) and then snack as needed. Usually I only have a bed time snack and don't need anything in the afternoon. I just have never enjoyed eating in the morning (I actually feel sick if I do) and big meals feel better to me.
  • rocknlotsofrolls
    rocknlotsofrolls Posts: 418 Member
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    I don't eat breakfast, I just drink coffee, and then I divide my other 1100 calories up between lunch and dinner.
  • cavia
    cavia Posts: 457 Member
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    4 meals 2 snacks. I like 2 breakfasts.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
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    Three meals. Three snacks. Most days.
  • toniangu
    toniangu Posts: 2 Member
    edited April 2015
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    What's been working for me usually is light breakfast with emphasis on protein, med-large lunch, medium-ish dinner. I'll snack on a little bit of fruit in between meals if I feel like it. I'm also a big coffee drinker so I think that helps me not feel like having to snack all the time!
  • Sarasmaintaining
    Sarasmaintaining Posts: 1,027 Member
    edited April 2015
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    I do 16:8IF and have an eating window of 11am-7pm. I usually break my daily fast between 11-noon with my largest meal of the day. Then I may or may not have a snack late afternoon. And then I have a second meal between 6-7pm. I very rarely eat after 7pm, though I do usually have a couple evening beers on the weekends.

    Meal timing is a preference thing, just experiment and figure out what works best for you :)
  • David_2015
    David_2015 Posts: 231 Member
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    Breakkie - 700
    Lunch - 300
    Dinner - 400
    Snacking - 700

    Love knowing I'm never more than an hour away from having something to eat!!
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    edited April 2015
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    3 meals (usually all decent sized and similarly sized) + (lately) a planned (smaller) snack. At least when I'm on plan.

    I like having more time between meals and only added the afternoon snack because I tend to go from noon to 9:30 between lunch and dinner.
  • lectric102002
    lectric102002 Posts: 19 Member
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    I've done the 3-hour diet for years. I eat every three hours, as exactly close to that time as possible. As soon as I get up, a piece of fruit or handful of cereal, breakfast at 8:00, 100 calorie snack at 11:00, lunch at 2:00, 400 cals or so, another 100 to 150 cal snack at 5:00 before I go home. Dinner at 7:30 to 8:00, try to stay around 400 cals, then frozen yogurt before bed. I'm never hungry and have lost 40 pounds in 5 months.

    Try it. It works.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
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    People are different. I'd hate that and I always end up eating more when I snack more, even with healthy snacks. I just tend to find snack foods less satisfying than a real sit-down, cooked meal.
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
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    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    People are different. I'd hate that and I always end up eating more when I snack more, even with healthy snacks. I just tend to find snack foods less satisfying than a real sit-down, cooked meal.

    I'm like that too. Many of my snacks are really just my meals eaten in a couple of segments a couple of hours apart. I have a hiatal hernia so I can't eat a big meal at one time, but if I eat my entree and one side in a sitting, then wait for about 2 hours I can eat the other side dish and dessert if I have one. If I tried to eat it all at once, I would be in excruciating pain (that feels like a heart attack) for an hour or two until it digests.

  • 970Mikaela1
    970Mikaela1 Posts: 2,013 Member
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    6 or 700 calories at lunch. All the rest at dinner. 12 to 1400.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,150 Member
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    I like having two meals with snacking thrown in.
  • hyIianprincess
    hyIianprincess Posts: 302 Member
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    I munch on something typically every 2-3 hours. I prefer smaller meals. Easier on my stomach. That way I don't get that heavy, sluggish feeling afterwards.
  • Winterlover123
    Winterlover123 Posts: 352 Member
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    Small things through the day starting at 10am, big dinner around 6:30 - 7pm-ish for me :) That's just how my work day tends to work out
  • PeachyPlum
    PeachyPlum Posts: 1,243 Member
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    I skip breakfast and eat two fricking giant meals.

    It's awesome.

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