What meal should be your most calories?

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  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
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    I've lost 22 kg since April by eating:

    250 calorie breakfast
    250-300 calorie lunch
    The rest for dinner/dessert.

    I eat dessert about half an hour before bed.

    You can eat whatever/whenever you like and lose weight so long as you stick to your calorie limit.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    edited October 2015
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    Orphia wrote: »
    I've lost 22 kg since April by eating:

    250 calorie breakfast
    250-300 calorie lunch
    The rest for dinner/dessert.

    I eat dessert about half an hour before bed.

    You can eat whatever/whenever you like and lose weight so long as you stick to your calorie limit.

    My breakfast is generally under 300
    Morning munching is about 100
    Lunch is about 4-500
    After work snackage is around 200
    Daytime munching around 200
    Dinner is about 500
    Evening munching is about 200-400

    (I'm in maintenance though so eat around 2200-2300. When losing my munching gets cut down a bit, so about 2-300 cals but that's still enough for chips / ice cream, and I probably have slightly smaller calorie lunches)
  • robertw486
    robertw486 Posts: 2,390 Member
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    rabbitjb wrote: »
    mmarie_3 wrote: »
    maidentl wrote: »
    Meal timing, carb timing and calorie distribution are irrelevant. As long as you achieve a caloric deficit, you will lose weight.

    This true if your only goal is to lose weight. If it is for muscle building and performance enhancement, meal timing is vert important.
    That's debatable too

    I agree. There was recently some discussion and links about eating vs fasting before a workout, and the differences were next to nothing.


    The only down side I have to eating really big towards the end of the day personally (and the timing really doesn't matter here IMO), is that I can only eat so much at once, then I have to graze for hours and keep munching until late at night. If I do this after a hard bike ride or something my appetite isn't always there, and sometimes I just get sick of eating and wish I could take a little nutrition pill to get all my protein and nutrition done with.
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
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    mmarie_3 wrote: »
    maidentl wrote: »
    Meal timing, carb timing and calorie distribution are irrelevant. As long as you achieve a caloric deficit, you will lose weight.

    This true if your only goal is to lose weight. If it is for muscle building and performance enhancement, meal timing is vert important.

    Not really. Meal timing is like the last 1% anyone should be worried about. Calorie intake is still 99% of the equation despite timing.
  • krithsai
    krithsai Posts: 668 Member
    edited October 2015
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    Hornsby wrote: »
    mmarie_3 wrote: »
    maidentl wrote: »
    Meal timing, carb timing and calorie distribution are irrelevant. As long as you achieve a caloric deficit, you will lose weight.

    This true if your only goal is to lose weight. If it is for muscle building and performance enhancement, meal timing is vert important.

    Not really. Meal timing is like the last 1% anyone should be worried about. Calorie intake is still 99% of the equation despite timing.

  • isolina16
    isolina16 Posts: 3 Member
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    maidentl wrote: »
    Meal timing, carb timing and calorie distribution are irrelevant. As long as you achieve a caloric deficit, you will lose weight.

    Thank you helpful. I have made my lunch ríe biggest since í get home so late from work or school. I eat a light fish veggie dinner. Well í Jope for the best. I'm sure I'll figure it out.
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,626 Member
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    The one where I'm hungriest. It's usually early.
  • tkfunkyfrogg
    tkfunkyfrogg Posts: 58 Member
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    Breakfast is most, lunch is second, and dont really do a traditional meat and potatoes for dinner, instead opting for two smaller snack/meal hybrids. Im never really hungry for dinner so use those last meals to meat the macros.
  • randomsue
    randomsue Posts: 179 Member
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    Are you hungry later in the evening since you had dinner so early?
  • 85Cardinals
    85Cardinals Posts: 733 Member
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    Taco Bell 4th Meal
  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,641 Member
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    85Cardinals wrote: »
    Taco Bell 4th Meal

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  • Sarajvz
    Sarajvz Posts: 30 Member
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    maidentl wrote: »
    Meal timing, carb timing and calorie distribution are irrelevant. As long as you achieve a caloric deficit, you will lose weight.

    This.

    For myself, I prefer to eat my biggest calorie meal at around noon (my first meal of the day).
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,150 Member
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    Doesn't make any difference. Weight loss all comes down to CICO.
  • rjugy12
    rjugy12 Posts: 22 Member
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    If u lift weights it should be the first meal but non lifting its up to u
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,867 Member
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    happy hour...
  • sardelsa
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
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    rjugy12 wrote: »
    If u lift weights it should be the first meal but non lifting its up to u

    I lift and my largest meal is dinner
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,695 Member
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    The one you like. Just don't exceed your calorie intake.

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  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
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    For me it's lunch but it's really up to you.
  • urloved33
    urloved33 Posts: 3,323 Member
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    first meal of the day for me.

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