Calories per meal?
Trex5009
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How many calories are in each meal of your day? For me it's
-900 for breakfast
-400 for lunch
-400 for dinner
-150 for snacks
-900 for breakfast
-400 for lunch
-400 for dinner
-150 for snacks
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I do about 500 each. Give our take a few0
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I don't really eat breakfast, so lunch and dinner are each around 500-600, with about 250 for snacks.0
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Totally personal preference. If I force myself to eat breakfast within the first 3-4 hours of getting up, I feel ill. I also get hungrier earlier and run our of calories faster. It doesn't affect my day at all.The whole "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" has been debunked time and time again.8 -
Depends on the day and the amount of exercise.0
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Somewhere around 400-600kcal usually. I might omit some snacks in favor of a larger 1000kcal+ meal sometimes.0
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No - breakfast obviously is important to YOU because you spend most of your calories on it. I am also a breakfast eater - I need food in the morning. But that's personal preference and doing what works for me. No one else needs to eat breakfast just because you or I eat breakfast.
Same with how you split your calories during the day. Calories don't care what time it is - they perform the same at all hours of the day. Eat too many and you gain, eat a deficit you lose. When you eat them is personal preference.4 -
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Breakfast about 300 calories, dinner 800-900, and the remaining 300-400 either on lunch or various snacks throughout the day...usually snacks.0
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On average, breakfast 475, lunch 475, dinner 950. But varies from day to day.0
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This is why losing weight and staying healthy is so difficult for many people. Good advice turns bad through Chinese whispers: You need energy to live. Breakfast is the first meal of the day. If you don't eat regularly, it's easier to overeat later. If you overeat a lot, you get overweight. This turns into "breakfast is the most important meal of the day". Common sense isn't all that common! I think most of us fall for these myths.4 -
Roughly
Meal 1 140
Meal 2 340
Meal 3 340
Meal 4 500
Meal 5 900
Meal 6 7600 -
Breakfast 100-300
Lunch about 400
Dinner about 500
Snacks 100-300 usually in afternoon and evening0 -
Roughly split like this on average:
Breakfast 500
Snack 100
Lunch 500
Snack 200
Dinner 1000
Dessert 200
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I don't do breakfast and I don't do snacks.
First meal around 650
Dinner around 13500 -
Eclectic. It is whatever it ends up being for that day.0
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I get up around 7, don't eat until 10-1030. Like someone posted above, if I force myself to eat when I wake up, I get physically ill. Usually 200-300 cals. Lunch (usually around 1 pm) 400-500. Dinner (between 6 and 7 pm) 700-800. Sometimes do snacks, sometimes not. Depends on the day and how cals play out.0
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My breakfast is usually slightly over 300 calories. I weigh out a cup of grapes (anywhere from about 150 to 172 grams, depending on how they fall in the cup), add a 6oz container of Greek yogurt, and crumble a granola bar on top. It's got a bit of protein, carbs, and fat which IMO works to keep me full on fewer calories.
Lunch is around 4-500 calories.
Supper 5-600
And I snack. But I also exercise daily. Typically, it's at least a 2-hour walk or an hour on the fitness glider, or, if I walk less than an hour, I'll do both. And strength training with light dumbbells three times a week. Eating back 50% of exercise calories usually gives me about 1700 or more to work with, which I use on snacks or to pad my meals. It can mean the difference between, say, mustard on my veggie patty or hummus.0 -
I would say typically
Meal 1 180
Meal 2 120
Meal 3 400
Meal 4 500
Meal 5 300
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On a typical workday:
Breakfast ~325
Lunch ~350
Dinner ~500-700
Plus snacks.0 -
My most common breakdown is 300/500/700, plus snacks and wine, but it does vary a little. Yesterday I was around 700 for each meal, and some days I hit more like 300 for each. I'm trying to eat according to my hunger level instead of external rules.0
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I like to do 700-800 for lunch and dinner. Plus probably 50 ish calories for coffee (half and half and sugar) depending on how much I drink that day. I don't eat snacks or breakfast. Except sometimes I'll have chocolate before bed like 85 calories worth.0
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Usually around 200 for breakfast, 400 for lunch and 600 for dinner (I'm not really a snacker so I don't bother allotting calories for snacks, if I have some leftover at the end of the day I may have something small before bed). It varies, but that's what I'm usually around, sometimes a little less. My calorie goal is 1200 for the day, so it works out nicely.0
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200 breakfast
400-500 lunch
500-800 dinner
No snacks.0 -
1500-2000 for the one meal a day - call it breakfast or dinner, usually 9-10 pm.0
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Normally I just have coffee for breakfast, eat about 300 calories at lunch and then save the rest for the afternoon and evening when I'm most hungry. My goal is 1300 a day.0
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About 300 to 400 per meal.0
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Breakfast is usually under 200, which is also about 2-3 hours after I have woke up. Lunch is 300 and dinner around 700. If I don't meet the 1200/day I'll add in a snack, but I don't normally snack. My calorie goal is 1442, but I'm usually around 1200-1300.0
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Breakfast: 450-500kcals: usually porridge, yogurt and fruit.
Lunch: 500kcals: something easy such as a wrap, sandwich, soup, etc.
Dinner: 500-600kcals: something hot with the family, like Shepherd’s pie.
Snacks: 400-500kcals: one mid-afternoon which is usually crackers, spread and vegetables and one after dinner which is usually fruit, oats/nuts and yogurt.
I’m a maintainer, but I haven’t quite sustained a meal balance yet. My total goal is 2000-2100kcals0 -
0 - 600 for breakfast
500 - 700 for lunch
700 - 1200 for dinner
0 - 1000 for snacks
There's nothing special about eating first thing in the morning or calorie timing in general - we all have loads of energy in our bodies already.
My son has a very physical job (builder) and his breakfast is often a glass of milk and a couple of spoonfuls of peanut butter, light and late lunch (such as a sandwich) and then eat a huge meal in the evening.
Breakfast is one of my tools for maintaining my weight, when I need to eat more I have a bigger breakfast, when I want to cut some calories I skip it. I enjoy it but don't need it.1
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