How often do you usually eat a day?

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  • RaeN81
    RaeN81 Posts: 535 Member
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    6 times a day, sometimes more. 200-300 cals each time usually.
  • jorinya
    jorinya Posts: 933 Member
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    Usually three times a day. Breakfast @ 8-9 am, although I'm up around 5.30 (just have water, later coffee). Lunch @ 2pm. Dinner @ 6-6.30pm. Snack if I'm hungry between lunch and dinner. That's it really.
  • tameka333
    tameka333 Posts: 7 Member
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    Seriously think I over eat reading everyone's comments!
    Between 6-7am breakfast
    Snack around 9.30-10.30
    Lunch between 12-1.30
    Snack again 3-4pm
    Dinner around 6.30-7.30
    Then done for the day
  • tpilews
    tpilews Posts: 6 Member
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    Sometimes I only eat once, but mostly I eat twice a day with some small snacking, usually late at night.
  • Allelito
    Allelito Posts: 179 Member
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    I'm actually currently experimenting with this to find out what would be ideal for me.
    I used to eat 6 more or less equally small (calorie-wise) meals/snacks, but I never really felt satisfied, so lately I've tried mixing it up a bit.
    I've tried having a small breakfast, fairly big lunch, small snack, medium dinner, and then snacks for the rest of my calories. The big lunch seems to do good for me as I'll feel full/satisfied for much longer. :)
  • kickassbarbie
    kickassbarbie Posts: 286 Member
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    6am, 11 am, 5pm,
    Little snacks or mini meals 200ish calories.

    1pm and 8pmish
    meals of roughly 400-500 calories

    10.30pm
    Last snack (hot chocolate and whipped cream and mini Marshmellows. Everytime.)


    I'm a constantly slightly peckish person so little and often works better for me. I did try 3 meals a day but I just gravitate towards the fridge or the cookie in starbucks anyway between meals.
    What ever works for the person!
  • Chewitz
    Chewitz Posts: 217 Member
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    Whenever I'm hungry

    But have 3 meals a day... no set times
  • kpodaru
    kpodaru Posts: 133 Member
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    i used to eat 5x/day but since cuting out grains, i'm just not that hungry anymore so now it's 3x/day. i also eat at set times - 7am, 1130-1145am, 530pm and have since 2012.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
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    Tatarataa wrote: »
    Hi,

    I was wondering how often you usually eat a day? Do you have set mealtimes or something like an eating rhythm (eg like eating every 3 hours)?

    breakfast at 6
    snack at 9.30
    lunch at 12
    after work snack at 3
    supper at 6
    grazing all night long (all night, all night long... c'mon sing it with me .. all night lo-ong, all night, all night long)
  • 47Jacqueline
    47Jacqueline Posts: 6,993 Member
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    Not enough. I try to get three meals in, but I'm really bad at snacks. If I skip a meal, I end up grazing all evening.
  • CMB1979
    CMB1979 Posts: 588 Member
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    Once around 1030-1130am then fast until the next day.
  • Toadstool_
    Toadstool_ Posts: 120 Member
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    9:30am - Breakfast
    11am - Snack
    1pm - Lunch
    3:30pm - Snack optional. As I get used to eating better though, I find I don't often manage this one too.
    7 or 8pm - Dinner

    Spreading the food out over the day works better for me than 3 main meals.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,372 Member
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    I don't have set meal times and eat when I'm hungry. Breakfast anywhere between 6am and 8am, then either lunch or a snack if I'm hungry before 11am, then typically something else around 1-2pm, then dinner around 5-6pm.

    So, 4 meals. I rarely do 3, as it's hard for me to go without food for more than 3-4 hours, unless I have a really big meal.
  • ExRelaySprinter
    ExRelaySprinter Posts: 874 Member
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    Normally 5 times a day:

    Breakfast 8-9am
    Lunch 12
    Small Meal 3.30-4pm
    Dinner 7pm
    Dessert or Sweet Treat 7-8pm
  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,658 Member
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    Three times a day. Timing depends on whether it's a workout day or not. Usually nothing before 10AM.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,565 Member
    edited May 2015
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    It varies depending on my work/school schedule. 3 meals and dessert every day, a snack if I have time/calories, and a banana or Quest bar on weekends to wake me up before work.

    Banana/Quest bar 2:45-4:45 in the morning (I work at 5 on Saturdays and 3 on Sundays)
    Breakfast 7-10:30
    Lunch 10-2 (if I have a shift at work where I don't get a lunch break, I eat majorly early)
    If I have a snack that's 3:30-4
    Dinner 6-7 (and as late as 9:45 in the fall/winter)
    Dessert 8-10
  • ruggedshutter
    ruggedshutter Posts: 389 Member
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    Three

    10:00 Breakfast ~250 cal
    11:30 Lunch ~750 cal
    19:00 Dinner ~1000 cal
    sometimes I'll grab a snack in the evening after dinner, depending upon if I have any calories left over
  • sandryc79
    sandryc79 Posts: 250 Member
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    Breakfast. 8 am
    Snack. 11:15 is
    Lunch 1 pm
    Snack 4 pm
    Dinner 7pm

    Some days snack at 9 pm

    This varies in time because my lunchs and breaks vary. Also 2-3 days a week I get up at 5 am and swim laps, then ride into work with my boyfriend so those days I eat breakfast really earlier.
  • mom2kpr
    mom2kpr Posts: 348 Member
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    Generally twice a day. Morning coffee - 8am, lunch noonish (trying to aim for 500 cal), dinner 6/6:30 (1000 cal). I love large meals - more satifying to me. Small meals leave me wanting more - I never feel satisfied. I would love to aim for one meal a day around 6, but I get too hungry by noon.

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