How do you distribute your calories?

banana_butterfly

I do 250 breakfast, 500 or so at lunch and 600 or so at dinner usually. What about you?

cwolfman13

Highly variable...I don't do the same *kitten* everyday.

pinuplove

A quick look back at the weekly view shows I usually eat around 50% of my calories at the evening meal (family time, and my husband cooks a lot so I'm not willing to skimp there), 25% at lunch, 15-20% at breakfast, and the rest is snackage. Weekends vary greatly though.

nmjordan

Mine are also variable, but usually breakfast and dinner have the most, with like 300-500. Lunch is hit or miss and snacks are usually about 200ish.

Momepro

Try to keep breakfast and lunch and snacks under or around 300ish and dinner gets all my leftover and excerise calories, so between 600 and 1500 depending on how active I was.

fuzzylop72

210 at breakfast, the rest at dinnerish

Lounmoun

Usually split my calories up like so: 100-300 breakfast, 400 lunch, 500-600 dinner, 100-300 snacks.

sardelsa

Typically looks like this:
Breakfast: 400-500 cals
Snack 1: 200-400 cals
Lunch: 300-600 cals
Snack 2: 200-400 cals
Dinner: 800-1000 cals
Dessert: 100-300 cals

darrenbradshaw82

I haven’t found a breakfast under 300cal that gets me through to lunch while at work. On weekends, no problem, just week days

Sp1tfire

500 breakfast
300-400 lunch
500 dinner
600 snacks

whosshe

Usually

Breakfast: 45 calories (from sugar in my coffee)
Lunch: 400-500
Dinner: 500-600
Night time snack: 100-200

Ebony_Kitty

Depends on whether I am traveling or not (one the road 15 days a month). When home, I eat about 400-500 for breakfast, a small lunch when I get back from my exercising (running or biking), and then the rest for dinner and a small treat, usually cereal or fruit for dessert. So probably 500/200/800/200. I maintain on 2300 but trying to drop a few pounds so I’m trying to short myself about 600 calories per day.

Psalm1139

I eat less than 300 for breakfast most days. Roughly 400 for lunch, 600 for dinner and 200-400 for snacks depending on my exercise. Some days I skip breakfast and/or lunch to have pizza or other such deliciousness. I'm not a particularly healthy eater, I aim more for calories than macros or nutrition at this point. I've tried eating primarily healthy and it never works well for me. No matter how much I eat my brain tricks me into thinking I'm starving so I eat nearly constantly. If I eat a Poptart for breakfast I'm good until lunch. If I eat eggs, a banana, a glass of milk, and some veggies, I'm hungry 15 minutes later. Well I mean I'm craving something and feel hungry... Maybe after I lose weight I'll work on the quality, not just the quantity of my food...

Chieflrg

Typical day cutting for a meet while cutting.

250-300 breakfast
300 cals of protien for brunch
300 cals snack mid day
800 cals of seasoned meat/rice or pizza
1000-2000 cals of ice cream, cookies, chocolate etc...

When bulking, I usually have more pasteries and pizza than on a cut.

tar2323

240 cals throughout the day on milk for tea and sugar-free sweets (candies) if I want one, and my first proper meal at 6pm (usually around the 500 cal area) and the rest on ice-cream or baked crisps whilst watching Netflix 1200 total.

TavistockToad

something like this on work days:

300 cal breakfast
400 cal lunch
2-300 cals of snacks in afternoon
700 cal tea

weekends vary

murp4069

M-F, something like this:
150 breakfast
400 lunch
150 snack
600 dinner
100 dessert

Give or take depending on if I have exercised that day or not. If so, then a little more. If no exercise, a little less.

Weekends are highly variable. Husband and I typically go out to dinner on Saturday nights, so I'll eat very lightly during the day or depending on the restaurant I may fast until dinner. Sundays we typically have a larger Sunday dinner, so again I'll eat pretty lightly during the day. Since Sunday dinners are homemade and I have a lot more control over how many calories something has, I would rarely fast like I might for a Saturday dinner where calories are a lot harder to predict.

JennJ323

Breakfast 100-200
Lunch 300-400
Dinner 500-600
Snacks 100-200

Totaling around 1200 a day

Need2Exerc1se

Typically it's
Breakfast: 0
Lunch: 300-400
Dinner: 900-1100 on weekdays, 2000-2500 on weekends
Snacks: 0

acbraswell

Average 1600 Calorie day:

Breakfast - 400
Morning snack - 70
Lunch - 450
Afternoon snack - 150
Dinner - 500

stanmann571

50-60% dinner
25-35% lunch
The rest breakfast,
Except on the weekend when it tends to be 35-45% late breakfast and the rest dinner.

kathakraz

Weekdays:
600 breakfast
600 lunch
600-1000 dinner
0 snacks

On weekends, I'm all over the place on number of meals and calories in each based on schedule and activity.

tmaths

It varies me, but I'm going to try that old phrase my mom told me about for years

" eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauper"

So for an 1850 cal day I currently do this

Breakfast - 625 cal
- 1.25 cup vector cereal
- 1 cup silk almond milk
- 2 peanut butter toasts

lunch - 420

- Eat smart- Southwest/Sweet Kale
- Cloverleaf spicy tuna( or another flavour )

Dinner- 550 cal

It varies depending what I feel like cooking

Snacks- 250 cal

Vector bars, clif bars, this is also where I throw in if I had honey in my tea etc

That comes to 1845, close enough to 1850

However, want to try the above ( eat more at breakfast ) idea, in which case, I can see it breaking down like this for an 1800 day

700 breakfast ( to get me through work ( desk job ) up to lunch )
450 lunch ( to get me to 4 pm, when I need that last burst of energy to get home )
250 snacks (eat on way home for a quick burst of energy or while at work )
400 dinner ( since at that point I'm winding down, playing vid games, etc and don't need as much energy as during the day

I'm a creature of habit, so I can stick to something pretty easily, and get used to it.

HoneyBadger302

Pretty evenly, with a slightly bigger dinner most days, but talking like a 200 calorie difference most of the time.

I eat 3 meals and will have one snack (usually some pre-portioned mixed nuts) if I'm getting really hungry in the late afternoon at work...if I don't feel the need for the snack, then I skip it.

mamabear1114

Breakfast and lunch are both usually about 300. Dinner is about 400-500. And like 900 worth of snacks for real. I’m pregnant so I’m just in a constant state of grazing. My stomach is squished so eating big meals is difficult. Works for me.

toxikon

Usually 500 for lunch, 700 for dinner and an evening snack.

abbynormalartist

It varies but this is my usual weekday breakdown...

Breakfast - 130
Snack - 100
Lunch - 200
Afternoon snack - 80
Dinner - 600
Evening snack - 200

I like a lot of little things to snack on while I'm at work and then a big dinner with my family.

ccrdragon

Breakfast - 50 (sometimes I like cream in my coffee)
Lunch - 500-700
Dinner - 500-900
Snacks - 0-300 (depending on appetite and lunch/dinner)

kokonani

1200-1700 Calories all for lunch or late breakfast.

joelchmielak1

I don’t worry about it. My meals range from 250-400 and my snacks range from 90 to 220 If I go to max on all 3 meals and 3 snacks I’ll be at slightly over my calorie goal of 1800. Most days I end up over 1800 around 2k and still lose over the course of the week.

lulalacroix

Mine completely varies depending on hunger levels, whatever workout I may be doing that day, if I've banked calories, whether or not I'm working.