How many cals in one meal?

Jewlz280

I use IF too.

My one or 2 meals...are huge! That is how I like to consume my calories.

YUP! And you know, I go through swings of this. Sometimes I'm snacky and need to munch on small meals all day. Other times, I may get up and eat a huge breakfast and then go all day and not eat a thing until dinner. Just rubbed me wrong for someone's life to be so generalized and attempted to be put into one tiny standardized box.

FrauHaas2013

Yeah, 1600 calories seems like A LOT unless you're an exercising fiend. My meals typically average anywhere between 200-500 calories each. Snacks are usually 100-200.

Jewlz280

I "SURPRISE" meal every now and then, say when you go out, is NOT going to be dangerous or hurt you. In fact your body will dance at the extra calories every now and then. BUT that being said that amount of calories day in and day out if definitely going to affect the size of your backside !!! You need to ask yourself WHY do you need to eat like that?

It wasn't me -- but even if I wanted to eat that much, I don't see that it would matter. If I was USE to eating that way or if it was a meal with a high fat and protein content, it would be very easy to do.

Jewlz280

I have a question and honestly, I'm only asking because I already have a firm belief in mind, but hey, maybe that is wrong. So, what better way to get varied answers than to ask on here? I could be wrong or maybe someone has info I could see. So, here goes.... How many calories do you typically consume in one meal AND do you feel there is a maximum that is 'healthy' to consume in one sitting? Long story short, I was told emphatically today that consuming 1600 calories in one meal was 'unhealthy' and 'dangerous'. For ANYONE. Irregardless of their size, sex, eating patterns, athleticism, etc. So, what's the consensus?

a big man who is doing manual labour as his job and working out in the evenings may need 4000 calories a day or more. If he eats 2 meals a day, then that's 2000 cals a meal. so no, what they said is not correct

Also, even if someone only needs to eat 1600 cals/day, if they only eat one meal a day then that meal would have to contain 1600 calories.

thirdly, even if someone overeats by 1600 cals/day once in a while, it's not *dangerous* unless they have a pre-existing medical condition that makes it so. Most people will eat more calories than that on a special occasion with no ill effects. Overeating on a regular basis is not good for health, but it doesn't become dangerous until you get to morbidly obese amounts of body fat, and that takes habitually overeating for a very long time. There's a big difference between doing something habitually for a very long time and doing something once in a while.

so basically, I totally disagree with whoever said that.

Additionally, don't worry about consensus for these issues.... find out what doctors and dieticians say.

YESSSSSSS!!!

Jewlz280

It makes absolutely no difference whether you consume all your daily calories in six meals or one.

Eating six 300 calorie meals is effectively the same as eating one 1800 calorie meal.

People do this all the time. Some people eat one meal a day. Some people eat eight. It doesn't matter.

I typically have around 350-500 for breakfast, 400-600 for lunch, and anywhere from 600 to 1500 for dinner+dessert depending on how active I was that day.

thank you

some people like to break it down so they fill fuller all day long...........the only true benefit.......and maybe u might get sick from eating a lot of food at one time every day.

Thanks folks! I knew how I felt about it, but had just wanted to make sure that if anyone knew of any research or whatever, they could link it for me. She linked ONE article talking about overeating, but the conversation moved so fast, I didn't get to read it but I have a guess as to what it would say "Overeating in general is unhealthy when calories over time are in excess". DUH.