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    How many calories do you average for dinner?

    Posts: 332 Member
    edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
    Dinner is always my biggest meal and I wonder how many calories others consume during their evening meal. For me, 500-750 around 6-6:30pm and I have some kind of snack around 8pm and go to bed around 10.
    Not necessarily looking to change right now but curious. :)

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    • Posts: 4,979 Member
      I pretty much have the same numbers as you OP, with a snack at 8pm.
    • Posts: 26,368 Member
      200-400, 500 on a good day. I get hungrier during the day than at nighttime and it's easier for me to deal with hunger at night than during the day.
    • Posts: 1,657 Member
      3-400 if I cook for myself, 500 or so if I'm cooking for DH and I... I prefer a small dinner and lots of snacks after instead :D
    • Posts: 2,248 Member
      edited October 2015
      800-1000

      If I'm running behind on my macros I sometimes feast and end up having a 1800-2200 meal to hit my macros lol
    • Posts: 15,487 Member
      During the week I balance all at 300 - 400 calories as I eat more during the day.

      On weekends these dinners can 2/3 of all my calories usually.
    • Posts: 2,238 Member
      800-1500 as it tends to be my one large meal of the day (although sometimes I eat the 1500-calorie dinners in 2 servings a few hours apart, but I don't always log them as separate meals).
    • Posts: 1,119 Member
      300-500 most days of the week. On Friday, can be upwards of 2000 calories.
    • Posts: 860 Member
      300-500 which is what I average for every meal. Sometimes breakfast is a little lower than the rest, but not much.
    • Posts: 3,213 Member
      Francl27 wrote: »
      200-400, 500 on a good day. I get hungrier during the day than at nighttime and it's easier for me to deal with hunger at night than during the day.

      Me exactly.

    • Posts: 2 Member
      I'm 500 - 700 on average. sometimes less
    • Posts: 12 Member
      Francl27 wrote: »
      200-400, 500 on a good day. I get hungrier during the day than at nighttime and it's easier for me to deal with hunger at night than during the day.
      I'm so envious of you! My hunger and snacking habits are far worse at night, can't burn off any of it
    • Posts: 15,357 Member
      I save most of my calories for night. Dinner (and ice cream if room) is about 900-1000 calories.
    • Posts: 360 Member
      I'm in the same range as you. I tend to have 40% of my calories for dinner. Sometimes, that includes a drink or a nighttime snack, but not always. I think it's mostly because I'm not sure (haven't calculated/weighed) what I'll make for dinner, so I like to have a little buffer.
    • Posts: 4,397 Member
      Around 1000.
    • Posts: 6,652 Member
      Usually 1600-1800, not counting dessert.
    • Posts: 95 Member
      Around 300-500 on week days, 400-800 on weekends
    • Posts: 105 Member
      It's individually my biggest meal - 500.
    • Posts: 13,575 Member
      During the week about 800-1000, on the weekends 1400-2000. I eat only one other meal/snack. Most of my calories are consumed at dinner.
    • Posts: 1,303 Member
      Anywhere from 500-1000 calories typically. To put it into perspective, lunch is anywhere from 400-800, and then there are snacks either during the day or after dinner. Ultimately I don't try to allocate calories to a certain meal other than bare minimums so I don't have to skip one.
    • Posts: 171 Member
      500-700 as an average.
    • Posts: 10,740 Member
      Pretty much the same. Around 600-800 calories, depending on exercise and whatever...but usually in the 700 neighborhood. I tend to eat a very small breakfast of about 200 cal, and then 400-600 at lunch and the rest of my calories at dinner.

      I don't snack at all (personal preference, not a targeted plan type of thing). I just include snack-type stuff, sweets, whatever, in with my 3 meals.
    • Posts: 3,103 Member
      Depends whether I count the Scotch before, the wine during and the beer after.
    • Posts: 1,372 Member
      700-800.
    • Posts: 161 Member
      My typical meal is 110 calories :) my main meal is breakfast!
    • Posts: 13,575 Member
      SmashleyBak wrote: »
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      I'm so envious of you! My hunger and snacking habits are far worse at night, can't burn off any of it

      Why can't you burn it off??
    • Posts: 332 Member
      rsclause wrote: »
      Depends whether I count the Scotch before, the wine during and the beer after.
      #myhero
    • Posts: 332 Member
      Thanks everyone! I don't have a target calories per meal but that seems to be how it works out most days. :)
    • Posts: 44 Member
      110 calories? How is that possible? :o
    • Posts: 436 Member
      1100 to 1500 on standard running days, 2000 on long run sundays

      it's my biggest meal of the day when I get all my cal/macros hit
    • Posts: 161 Member
      chaparra71 wrote: »
      110 calories? How is that possible? :o

      Well, I don't want to give anyone any bad ideas lol. But, in my case, I consume the most calories in the morning, so I don't see a smaller dinner as harmful.
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