Anyone else spread out their calories like this?
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Woodsmoke
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Wondering if anyone else does this?
I generally have a limited calorie lunch and breakfast, but save my calories for a big meal in the evening? I don't get the chance to eat big meals during the day due to early starts and short lunch breaks, and my evening meal can be anywhere up to 1000 calories, but I still fit in to my daily calorie goal.
Anyone else do this? I've still been losing weight (provided I cut short my snacks), so something must be right...
I generally have a limited calorie lunch and breakfast, but save my calories for a big meal in the evening? I don't get the chance to eat big meals during the day due to early starts and short lunch breaks, and my evening meal can be anywhere up to 1000 calories, but I still fit in to my daily calorie goal.
Anyone else do this? I've still been losing weight (provided I cut short my snacks), so something must be right...
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Do whatever suits. Quite often I'm left with 800 caps for dinner because my breakfast and lunch are often light.3
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Yup. Most of my calories are eaten after 730pm0
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Sort of: dinner is definitely my largest meal of the day, but I spread things out a lot more - kind of the six small meals model, although dinner is usually the only time I eat anything hot. My standard break down right now is 185/250/250/100/550/200. That last meal is usually a beer, so I don't know if it counts as a meal.3
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"Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a beggar": generally, that's how I go. Meal timing doesn't matter.1
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My dinner is my biggest meal - 600-900 calories most nights. I eat a lower calorie breakfast as I'm just not hungry early in the AM.1
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I do the same thing! 200 calories for breakfast, 300 or so for lunch, and that leaves me with 1000 for my evening meal plus whatever I exercise. Makes it work at home with a husband who isn't watching what he eats - we can both eat whatever we want!1
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I have 100-300 calorie breakfast, about 400 calorie lunch, about 500-600 calorie dinner and 100-300 calorie left for snacks which are usually consumed in the afternoon or after dinner.
As long as your calories are within your goal you can split them up however you want.0 -
190 calories for breakfast, 420 for lunch. That leaves me with 870 calories for dinner and snacks.1
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I think it really depends on the person. I am a grazer and eat small snacks constantly so I don't even really have traditional meals, except breakfast.
If this works for you then keep doing it. Eating is dependent on lifestyle and meal preferences so if you've found what works for you I say do it, but everyone is going to be different. The only thing that isn't different is you have to eat less than you burn consistently to lose weight1 -
I do right now, but not on purpose. I'm trying to make a conscious effort to shift more calories to lunch and distributed throughout the day so I'm not left scrambling trying to find 800 calories at dinner and making poor choices.0
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Totally! Depending on how much coffee I drink, Breakfast is around 300 cals, lunch is about 200 and that means I can eat anything I want for dinner. Last night I had two Chicago hot dogs from Sonic!! Only 840cals, so I was still under my calorie goal for the day.0
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i am the opposite.... i usually eat 400 calorie breakfasts and a few snacks throughout the day, have about 300 cal for dinner left.0
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This is almost exactly how I break down my meals. That's what I prefer.
Yesterday I did 250 Breakfast / 300 Lunch / 500 Dinner / 1500 Evening Snacks1 -
I've found that I either don't get terribly hungry in the morning or that morning hunger is much easier to deal with than hunger later in the day. I'm 0/600/800 with 300 for snacks in the afternoon and after dinner.1
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I try to, I always find I'm hungrier in the late afternoon and the evening, so I tend to eat the majority of my calories then.0
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I've always had my largest meal in the evening. For quite awhile I actually did IF and that was my only meal.1
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Daytime desk job, and rather sedentary even then until workouts - no food until generally 9-10 pm, sometimes 6 pm, until midnight or just past.
It's whatever works for you to adhere and sustain.
If methods are done during the diet that you can't wait to stop when you have lost the weight - generally spells disaster for maintaining the loss.
Do now what will work later for using.1 -
I pretty much do the same as you OP.
I tend to like eating 300-400 calories for breakfast and lunch each, then have a large dinner of around 1000 calories, give or take a bit depending on the day. Sometimes I half the calories for supper and have a snack of the remaining amount while I watch Netflix.0 -
My intake is between 1400-1500 calories a day, and I usually have around 7-800 left by dinner.1
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Yep, if I start eating in the morning it is hard for me to stop. So coffee and maybe a probiotic juice in the morning, small lunch and then family dinner. Otherwise it makes my husband crazy that I'm not eating. Probably because I have always easily out eaten him lol0
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