Breakfast Biggest Meal of Day?

xfirmx

I'm thinking about making breakfast my biggest meal of the day. Usually I have dinner as my biggest meal. Has anyone reversed their biggest meal from dinner to breakfast and if so, has it helped in not feeling so hungry? I'm curious to see what others have experienced.

DeguelloTex

I eat bigger meals as the day goes on, but that's personal preference. If I eat a big breakfast, I'm hungry all day.

quiltlovinlisa

DeguelloTex wrote: »

I eat bigger meals as the day goes on, but that's personal preference. If I eat a big breakfast, I'm hungry all day.

This is me too.

You can certainly give it a try but big breakfasts leave me hungry at dinner time. Where a light breakfast (under 200 calories) gives me enough leeway to have a snack before bed and works better for me.

Artemiris

Breakfast is my biggest meal, but I have it at 11/12 a.m. (Intermittent Fasting)

kshama2001

I've found an 800 calorie breakfast doesn't keep me fuller for much longer than a 400 calorie breakfast, so stuck with that. But no sense in taking a poll - see what your body prefers.

southhamptonmike

I try not to eat anything big. that's what got me in trouble. all my meals are small portions. I try to spread my protein throughout the day.

lemurcat12

I experimented and found that I like a 300-400 calorie breakfast, as that allows me to get in a good amount of protein, among other things, but more than that makes no difference to my hunger throughout the day. (In fact, if I wanted to cut calories currently, I'd likely cut a few at breakfast.)

I don't tend to get hungry before lunch (I mean, after eating this breakfast--I am hungry for breakfast), and I enjoy eating the calories more at lunch or (especially) dinner, so that matters to me. YMMV.

cocates

On the weekends, we tend to have bigger breakfasts. I usually start getting hungry around ~2-3pm. This is inconvenient for me because that's when I am doing chores or running errands.

Like others have said, I think it's just personal preference. Try it and see if it works for you. As long as you do not go over your allotted calories, it doesn't matter.

shadowfax_c11

I have a job that requires a high level of activity (10k steps by noon) and my breakfasts run around 400 calories. I find I am just getting hungry around 11-12 when I am ready to go to lunch. When I first started CICO I would be ravenous by 10 am so I took a hard boiled egg with me and had a mid-morning snack for the first couple of months but my body adjusted to the changes and I stopped needing that to help me get through. My lunches are usually 4-500 calories and Dinners are 6-900 usually but sometimes over 1,000 if I have the calories and want pizza. My daily calorie goal for a 2 pound per week loss is usually around 2500 with exercise adjustments from all of the walking I do.

For me this works.

You just have to experiment with different things to find what works best for you. Sometimes you just have to push through being a little hungry. But if it is really intolerable then you should make some changes to what you are doing.

Francl27

I usually have smaller dinners as well. My biggest meal is either breakfast or lunch.

codename_steve

My most successful days are about 450 for breakfast (including 90 calories of mocha). This helps me be satisfied with 450ish for lunch, 500 for dinner, and 100 for my post dinner chocolate. So I guess most of my meals are pretty close to even.