Eating all of my calories at dinner

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  • ecw3780
    ecw3780 Posts: 608 Member
    Eat when you are hungry. I personal try to have between 200-300 calories at breakfast and lunch, but that just because any less and I get hangry. As long as you aren't hording your calories so you can eat a big mac every night, I think your probably fine. Now, if you are having a big mac every night, I worry about your risk for high cholesterol and other health problems, but it's still all calories in and calories out.

    Lastly, because this doesn't get said enough, your body does not re boot at midnight, so as long as you are in a deficit, it doesn't matter when you eat.
  • RobinvdM
    RobinvdM Posts: 634 Member
    Calories should be split up in a way that works best for you. If you aren't a morning person and you don't like to eat, then keep it light and simple and finish up your cals at night (if that is what works for you.) If you are starving yourself at any point of the day, you are doing it wrong :P

    Calories being rationed equally throughout the day is too difficult a plan to follow (at least in my experience) so just eat what you want, when you want it and enjoy going to bed on a very full stomach :) If you pig out at night, those cals will stay in your system through the night and into the morning. You just won't notice cause you're sleeping, haha :)
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    My trainer recommends 4-5 meals a day. She doesn't specify the amount of the meal but eating regularly. I think the downside of eating so much at dinner is that you don't have a lot of time to burn it off before bedtime. I think the reasoning behind the multiple meals is to give yourself energy throughout the day. But if you feel fine with what your doing, I wouldn't say to change it. But everyone is different.
    Why do you need to burn it off before bedtime? Why is that the deadline? Your body continues to burn (and store) energy throughout the day. Hopefully your trainer's reasoning has more to do with your energy levels and optimum performance.

    Everyone knows that metabolism stops after dinner....

    Does your trainer have a degree from University of BroScience?
  • ska41
    ska41 Posts: 15 Member
    I eat very few calories during the day. Mostly just coffee, water and a small lunch. Then I have enough calories for basically whatever I want for dinner.

    ^^^^This. It works really well for me. Eating breakfast or a large lunch makes me really hungry much sooner and I hate going to bed kinda hungry and "rumbly". I discussed this with the Registered Dietician who's keeping a friendly eye on my weight loss just two days ago and he says it's perfectly fine.

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