How and when do you eat your calories?

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  • HikeCyclist
    HikeCyclist Posts: 153 Member
    edited August 2015
    What happened was that he didn't understand my question, it seems.
  • HikeCyclist
    HikeCyclist Posts: 153 Member
    I guess I was wrong to clarify? It's a crazy world ha ha
  • happysquidmuffin
    happysquidmuffin Posts: 651 Member
    Eat anywhere between 700-950 calories by the time I'm off work at 4, then I can have 500-800 calories for dinner and late night snacking depending on if/how much I work out that day
  • robspot
    robspot Posts: 130 Member
    HikeCyclist wrote: »
    What happened was that he didn't understand my question, it seems.

    No, that's what I meant. You can ask what you like, people will often ignore your question and answer something else. I was being sarcastic. Sorry :D
  • ki4eld
    ki4eld Posts: 1,213 Member
    Lunch is my heavy meal. I don't do well with breakfast, so the most I'll have is an egg or a protein shake. I usually eat a pretty full lunch and a good sized afternoon snack. By dinner, I may or may not want to eat. That can really mess up my daily protein goal, so I focus on lunch and my afternoon snack and let the rest of the day work itself out.
  • curvy_gamer_loses
    curvy_gamer_loses Posts: 126 Member
    edited August 2015
    I eat 1200-1400 calories a day. So I tend to spread mine out like this:
    8am-9am: 350 cal breakfast (so...medium-ish? for me at least)
    11am-12pm: 250-300 cal lunch (light)
    3-5pm- 150 cal snack (light)
    6pm-7pm- 400-500 cal dinner. (heavy?) If I have any calories to "spend" I will have a small snack at night.
    If I eat a light breakfast (250 or less) I am usually STARVING an hour later and lunch won't fill me up. Then I will snack nonstop all night.
  • DeterminedFee201426
    DeterminedFee201426 Posts: 859 Member
    HikeCyclist wrote: »
    Hey all. I have decided to take a different approach to eating my calories today by eating a higher calorie breakfast, a medium calorie lunch, an even lower calorie dinner... Only because I feel that I skimp on my calories sometimes during the day and because of that, get extra hungry at night. This does not work with me, it works against me.

    Out of curiosity, does anyone else do this? If not, when do you eat the bulk of your calories? Or do you spread them out evenly across the day? Or just eat as much as you feel that you need to, whenever you need to? And most importantly, why do you do this? Thank you!
    I normally have a small breakfast heavy lunch and light dinner
    all the other calories go to snacks thoughout the day or drinks.
  • vivmom2014
    vivmom2014 Posts: 1,649 Member
    Oh I would panic if I didn't have PLENTY of calories for night eating! That means very light breakfast and lunch.
  • Pinnacle_IAO
    Pinnacle_IAO Posts: 608 Member
    I am not sure meal timing matters for overall weight loss, but I have found that my meal schedule helps with fat loss while I maintain weight.

    BREAKFAST: 12pm
    LUNCH: 3:30pm
    DINNER: 7pm

    And in the mornings I always get in some cardio in a fasted state for fat loss. I was told this would not work, but since I began, my body fat dropped from 23% down to 15%.

    We all hear differing opinions here, but I am willing to try different things. This produced results, so I just kept at it.

    Best of luck to you! :)
  • HikeCyclist
    HikeCyclist Posts: 153 Member
    robspot wrote: »
    HikeCyclist wrote: »
    What happened was that he didn't understand my question, it seems.

    No, that's what I meant. You can ask what you like, people will often ignore your question and answer something else. I was being sarcastic. Sorry :D

    ahhhhh gotcha. Online discussion boards are just as bad as text. It's easy to take things out of context.
  • HikeCyclist
    HikeCyclist Posts: 153 Member
    I'm also PMSing, I should add. Ha.
  • KittensMaster
    KittensMaster Posts: 748 Member
    9-6

    If I eat an early breakfast it makes me hungry!

  • Primmalim
    Primmalim Posts: 13 Member
    I only eat two meals a day since I'm not hungry in the mornings at all. The rest of my calories come from small snacks throughout the day until I go to bed.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    edited August 2015
    I only eat about 600 calories during the day. 300 for breakfast, 300 ish for lunch. Maybe an extra 150 if I'm heading straight to the gym after work. The rest is in the evening, straight up until I go to bed. Or Saturday because I'm a calorie banker. My dinners are rarely over 400, and then I have a nice 400 calorie "dessert" as well. I'm in maintenance so obviously these numbers are a little higher on somedays.
  • carliekitty
    carliekitty Posts: 303 Member
    i eat huge breakfasts for the most part. Like today 862 calories for breakfast. I usually skip lunch or have cucumbers, carrots, peppers, and some fruit or a couple low calorie greek yogurts. I eat a normal dinner and then have a 300 calorie snack before i go to bed. I skip lunch cause i workout at lunch time =)
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    I usually have a bunch of smallish meals. It's a lot easier to get many nutrients in when I eat a larger variety of food and that works better if I eat a bunch of small meals. I don't get hungry and I don't get stuffed, so that's nice, too.

    But it depends on the day. If I'm going to be swimming a lot, I'm going to have a bigger breakfast. Different days bring different things.

    I really do try to spread it out and eat a variety of food, though.

    Breakfast is always high-fiber. I like it and they say it's good for weight loss, so bonus there. :)

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