Do you have a calorie limit for each meal and snack?

Francl27

I don't. Typically if I eat too much earlier in the day, I end up less hungry later anyway, so it's not a huge deal (as long as I don't make bad choices).

jdhcm2006

Yes, I do have a basic guideline of how many calories I want certain meals to have. I try to keep my meal during the day lighter, so I can have a bigger dinner and after-dinner snack. So I tend to keep my breakfast between 100-200 calories. After breakfast snack is about 200-250 calories, and lunch is about 190-220 calories. Then dinner is generally 400-500 calories, and after-dinner snack is normally 500-600 calories.

Evamutt

I have the same thing for breakfast every day, lunch, snacks vary but i like to have the most calories for dinner 600-800 including evening snack so i don't get hungry after dinner

solieco1

Nope - too OCD for me. I wish MFP would stop putting up that stupid window asking me to set them.

SLLRunner

I like a bigger breakfast but I don't aim for any calorie amount per meal. I pay attention to overall daily and weekly calorie counts.

Gotrek1

I ignore my exercise calories because I find them inaccurate... I don't limit my meal calories but I do find I eat the bulk in the morning (600-800) have a light lunch/snacks in the afternoon and often no supper (Just not hungry because I'm busy working on stuff) or a very very light supper/snack.

I stopped watching TV which was a really good way for me to stop snacking. I just keep busy in my shop or play games

endlessfall16

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CorneliusPhoton wrote: »

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No. My plan is always to eat delicious and satisfying meals and I can't do that if I'm restricted to a calorie count per meal. For example, a chef salad made with everything I want would be a 700 or 800 calorie dinner but a ribeye steak dinner is more like 1,200 calories.

I do much better moderating the frequency or number of times I eat per day rather than robbing calories from one meal to apply them to another.

Isn't that pretty much what you are doing though? Without counting them, you are still saving all of your calories for your less frequent meals (while robbing your missed meal(s) blind). <snip>

Meals that I don't want aren't "missed" though. My meals are based on hunger as well. How hungry I am when I wake up determines the size of my breakfast. And the size of my breakfast tends to impact the size of my dinner. If I had a huge breakfast my dinner is usually smaller. If I had a huge breakfast and a large dinner a few days in a row - again because that's how hungry I am - chances are good I'll skip a meal later or maybe fast for a day simply because I don't tend to want to eat when I'm not hungry. It all balances out for me. YMMV.

That's kinda what I do.

I don't do calorie limit for meals, days or anything. I just limit the size and the number of the meals for the week. My important meals are normal size or a lot.

ashjongfit

Sort of. Breakfast is when I'm least hungry so it's typically 300ish of my 1900 calories. I try to have 400-600 cals for lunch and 600+ for dinner, whatevers left is for a snack or saved for another day depending. I do more of a weekly calorie amount though and go by my hunger so it varies day to day

ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken

lightenup2016 wrote: »

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It depends really. If I know dinner is going to be something like pizza I will try to have less calories all day so that I can have enough pizza to satisfy me. Other days I don't really try for a specific range at meals. I just try to eat enough to satisfy my appetite. Which around PMS is tough work. That seems to turn me into a face stuffing pig.

All of this!! I've recently begun "allowing" myself about 300-400 more calories each day during PMS. It helps me put a limit on eating, while not having to completely ignore my bigger appetite. I've read that we burn more calories during that time anyway, and for me it usually seems to even out. I also sometimes save calories from earlier in the day if I know we're having a special dinner.

The week before and the first few days of "that time" I don't lose any weight what so ever. It makes no difference how I eat. I will hold steady, but will not lose. About 3 days "in" I see a pound or two drop off. Likely it's water weight, hopefully a little fat too. I have come to just ignore that the scale even exists for about 10 days out of the month!

billglitch

i self imposed a cal limit that was a little lower than MFP. I try to stay under that for the day...I dont have limit for each meal

Aaron_K123

I don't really have a limit other than my daily limit but when I portion out cooked meals I tend to consider 500 calories to be a meal. That said by that definition often have two meals for dinner so I don't treat it as a limit, more like a serving that helps me keep track.