What is your main meal, lunch or dinner?

smaerose

I have gravitated to having lunch rather than dinner as the main meal of the day, even though culture, dinner is traditionally the big one. Dining out is less elaborate over lunch, and I would rather keep things simple and light toward the end of the day.

What is your main meal?

SCoil123

My largest meal has always been dinner with the exception of brunch once a week

DancingMoosie

Dinner. I cook for myself and my husband and we eat together. We do lunch on our own.

texasredreb

Dinner. I save 3/4 of my calories for dinner.

wmweeza

Breakfast

biggiwig4483

Largest meal breakfast, medium lunch and small dinner.

csplatt

Early dinner - 5 or 5:30

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concordancia

Mine are usually about equal. Hubby gets an extra starch for dinner, so his dinner is usually bigger.

He is slender, strong and the only issue with his blood work is that his cholesterol is below normal; he can have lots of extra things that would be a PITA to carry to work for lunch everyday.

umbramirror

biggiwig4483 wrote: »

Largest meal breakfast, medium lunch and small dinner.

This exactly, except on weekends when sometimes lunch becomes the main meal.

AnnPT77

Varies by day, along with the number of meals (2-4). I'm retired, and my favorite active pursuit (on-water rowing) is seasonal here, so that creates some flexibility and seasonal variation.

Usual summer pattern (now) is light breakfast, medium lunch, medium to large supper/dinner. (I'm used to using "Dinner" in part to designate the big meal: In my neck of the woods, a big "Sunday Dinner" happens about 1PM. ).

In Winter, the two meal pattern is fairly common fo me: Medium brunch, large supper/dinner.

None of the differences seem to make a difference for weight loss (I'm in year 3 of maintenance), and the day-to-day/seasonal variations are there to serve my satiation patterns under different circumstances.

QoLmatters

Dinner on weekdays and lunch on weekends usually.

LyndaBSS

I've just recently switched my bigger meal to lunch.

pierinifitness

Dinner.

lynn_glenmont

It depends on the day.
On a long work day, "afternoon snack" (actually a series of no-prep snacks as hunger recurs) is often my biggest meal. When I'm finally done working, I'll often just have light supper that attempts to fill in whatever protein, fiber, etc. deficiencies in my day.

seltzermint555

Dinner's my largest almost always...but for me it's VERY important that my lunch is at least 400 calories. If it's not, I tend to get a little grumpy and crave snacks. Through several years of trial and error I've found what works best for me is a very small breakfast (usually under 200) then at least 400 for lunch, which gives me a little more than 1/2 of my daily calories left for dinner.

Katmary71

Definitely dinner, lunch is a large salad though.

ginnytez

I prefer eating lighter at lunch--breakfast, small morning snack, salad with protein for lunch, small afternoon snack, then dinner some protein, carb, veggies. Eating too heavy at lunch seems to drag down my afternoon energy. Or maybe I just like grazing?

ducttapebowtie

Dinner is bigger just kinda by default. I work most days until 4. I don't intentionally do IF, but it just ends up that way. I get up at 6 and by the time I'm hungry (11 or so), my job is busiest. If I eat "lunch" it's pretty small and takes like five minutes or less to make/eat.

springlering62

I try to keep all three fairly equal, with room for large’ish snacks after lunch and dinner. Snacks of choice right now are buttered popcorn with truffle salt in the afternoon, and a big bowl of cottage cheese, strawberries, blueberries, balsamic vinegar and a few grams of grape nuts. Yum!!!

Learned years ago, no popcorn after dinner. For some reason popcorn gives me crazy, colorful, exhausting, vivid dreams and nightmares. No other food does that to me. Weird.

goldthistime

umbramirror wrote: »

biggiwig4483 wrote: »

Largest meal breakfast, medium lunch and small dinner.

This exactly, except on weekends when sometimes lunch becomes the main meal.

Me three. I love eating like this (large breakfast, medium lunch, small or no dinner), for acid reflux and other reasons, but it makes social dinners difficult.

Danp

My main meal is dinner at about 8pm. I tend to be hungry at night regardless of how much I eat during the day so it makes sense for me to eat most of my calories then.

To accommodate this I tend to naturally limit my calorie intake during the day when I'm rarely hungry and seeking food. I'll have a light breakfast or coffee in the morning, almost never eat lunch (generally only if there's a special occasion) and perhaps a mid-afternoon snack if I feel like I want it. Generally about 80% of my calories go into a big dinner (and treats).

Keto_Vampire

Always been dinner throughout my life...dinner to me meaning last meal of the day, which happens to be in the morning (night shifter). To make things even more confusing/disorienting with time of day, I generally disregard viewing things as "breakfast" foods (eggs, cereal, oats, etc.) or "dinner" foods (meat, vegetables, etc.) and consume both types of foods because time of day makes no difference to me (arbitrary time of day eating habits people have decided upon society to follow)

nexangelus

Depends on where in the world you are from and if it is called supper, tea or dinner. In the UK they call lunch dinner and dinner tea...yeah confusing...but a cultural thing. Back home in Zimbabwe we call the evening meal supper...anyway, my three meals (morning, afternoon and evening) are pretty evenly caloried and macroed...so brekkie, lunch and supper for me ; )

amusedmonkey

Lunch is traditionally the biggest meal here, so that's my biggest meal more often than not. Dinner is often light unless I'm going out, and breakfast is all over the board from non-existent to sometimes huge.

corinasue1143

4 meals a day, definitely most volume at 4 pm. Usually more calories, too, but not always.

NovusDies

smaerose wrote: »

I have gravitated to having lunch rather than dinner as the main meal of the day, even though culture, dinner is traditionally the big one. Dining out is less elaborate over lunch, and I would rather keep things simple and light toward the end of the day.

What is your main meal?

Different cultures though do treat lunch as their biggest meal.

I don't eat breakfast and I eat the overwhelming majority of my calories at lunch. I am usually not hungry for an evening meal so I tend to eat a small snack. Because I eat so light I am able to control my acid reflux with no medication so that is an added benefit.

sardelsa

Dinner for me, I like to save at least 1000-1500 cals for it most days

etherealanwar

I usually have a cappuccino for breakfast and then my large meal can be lunch or dinner depending on the day and my hunger levels.

lemurcat2

My meals are often similar sized, but to the extent I have a larger one, it's dinner.

Dinner is my most important meal, whatever size it is. Lunch is eaten at work at my desk, so that could never be my most important meal.

grimendale

Dinner tends to be my bigger meal. I do my runs after work, and I don't want to be logy because of too much food in my gut, so eating most of my food afterwards works for me. Plus, my wife tends to skip lunch, so she's hungrier at dinner, so I tend to cook larger meals to help her out as well.