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Daily calorie intake success question

clkeenan77
clkeenan77 Posts: 2 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
How have people been successful at dividing their calories throughout the day? I've been doing roughly 25%breakfast, 30% lunch and 45 dinner.

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  • rosebarnalice
    rosebarnalice Posts: 3,488 Member
    Mine is closer to 15%breakfast, 25%lunch, 40%dinner, and 20% snacks
  • CafeRacer808
    CafeRacer808 Posts: 2,396 Member
    Satiety/hunger management is highly individualized. What works for me won't necessarily work for you, and vice-versa. Sometimes I skip breakfast entirely, while other times it's my second biggest meal of the day.

    The best thing for you to do is to play around with different meal sizes - and even the number of meals you eat throughout the day - until you find something that works for you.
  • nowine4me
    nowine4me Posts: 3,985 Member
    Yeah, you really need to do what works for you.I do 3 meals 300/500/600 and 2 snacks of 200 for 1800 total.
  • melissawill2017
    melissawill2017 Posts: 1,131 Member
    I guess mine is close to a 20/30/50 split. I don't eat snacks very often so I'm not factoring them in the percentage. I can get by with a light breakfast or only drinking coffee as long as I have a filling lunch. Dinnertime is always when I eat the majority of my calories and doing so will usually hold be over till bedtime.
  • markswife1992
    markswife1992 Posts: 262 Member
    edited February 2017
    i don't consciously divide them. one day, i wasn't hungry, so i didn't eat until dinner and ate all my calories in one meal. other days, i feel hungry, so i eat every couple of hours. it doesn't seem to have any effect on my weight loss.
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