How do your calories split across meals typically?

Mr_Boy

I'm quite interested how many of my daily calories go to breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks, and I wondered how other people do it... I seem to typically be something like this:

Breakfast: 25% (250-350 kCal)
Lunch: 15% (250-300 kCal)
Dinner: 40% (600 kCal)
Snacks, booze, tea/coffee: 20% (300 kCal)

What about you lot?

For me, breakfast is the hardest one (other than the temptation to eat Snickers and McCoys crisps), it's very easy to go WAY over. Then I have to lose all my post-dinner luxuries like the one triangle of Toblerone

gabbygirl78

I eat whatever I feel i want as long as I remain with in my calorie goal for the day. i don't eat a certain percentage for certain meals... as long as I am at a deficit still at the end of the day then I will accomplish my goal

kbcara

I'm terrible...

0% breakfast
40-45% lunch (550-650 kCal)
40-45% dinner (550-650 kCal)
10-20% snacks (150-250 kCal)

Keiras_Mom

Breakfast 20%
Lunch 20%
Dinner 40%
Snacks/Wine/Booze 20%

dauvis

Roughly this...

Breakfast: 10%
Lunch: 30%
Dinner: 50%
Snack: 10%

This wasn't planned or anything. Heck, I doubt that this is a good split.

3foldchord

I guess pretty similar.
B/L/D/S
300/350/400/300

Usually 1450-1500 calories a day.

I don't eat "on schedule" sometimes it's sit-down meals, sometimes it grazing all day long.
I started a part time joba few months ago and my 'lunch break' is at odd hours plus I keep a snack with me because of hypoglycemia... So it' still a lot go grazing for me.

Cheechos

A very loose general thing that ends up happening with my intake is me spending about 300-400 calories per meal (usually three meals a day) and then using the rest for snack-type things. My goal is around 1800 calories, so over half of those are meals and the remaining percentage goes to snacks.

Chieflrg

I never really paid attention, but depending on my exercise load, I would guess it would be ...

breakfast 500-600 cal
mid morn 350-500 cal
lunch 500-700 cal
mid evening 600-900 cal
dinner 1200-3000 cal

Escape_Artist

Meh, depends

Meal 1 = about 60% to 70%
Meal 2 = Whatever is left

Normally I wil eat anywhere between 700 to 1000 calories in the first meal, depending on how hungry I am

CaffeinatedConfectionist

0% breakfast
10% lunch
50% dinner
40% snacks

I do almost all my eating in the late afternoon and evening. Coffee is the breakfast of champions. :drinker:

chemteacher1987

Breakfast: about 40%
Lunch: about 20%
Dinner: about 40%

Estimations of course

feelin_gr_8

Mine is probably about the same as you OP

teresamwhite

I'm terrible...

0% breakfast
40-45% lunch (550-650 kCal)
40-45% dinner (550-650 kCal)
10-20% snacks (150-250 kCal)

This is pretty much me...I know I should eat breakfast, but its really difficult for me, I am just not hungry when I get up, and once I get to work there is very little time. These last few weeks I've made an effort to get at least a piece of fruit and a cup of tea in me before 10AM.

fbmandy55

Breakfast 200-400 cal

Lunch 400-500 cal

Dinner/snacks 1000 cal

I'm usually most hungry in the evening

DopeItUp

Lunch: 700-800 (~30-35%)
Dinner: 1000-1100 (~45%)
Beer: 400-600 (~20-25%)

Average day is 2300-2400 total.

cwolfman13

It depends...my meals are generally in the 500 - 600 calorie range unless I go out or something. My snacks, desert, booze, etc can often be as much as 1000 calories depending...but then again, I pretty much eat non-stop from lunch on. My actual lunch tends to be my biggest "meal."

jpolinisse

Breakfast: 30%
Lunch: 40%
Dinner: 20%
Snacks: 10%

2,000 - 2,400 calories

The bulk of my calories are consumed before the end of the work day. I work out after work and need to be properly fueled.

MzLaLa29

I'm doing six meals a day. I shoot for 200cal/meal. Doesn't always work but as long as I don't exceed 800 by lunchtime I get to eat dinner. YAY! Just kidding

CaffeinatedConfectionist

I'm terrible...

0% breakfast
40-45% lunch (550-650 kCal)
40-45% dinner (550-650 kCal)
10-20% snacks (150-250 kCal)

This is pretty much me...I know I should eat breakfast, but its really difficult for me, I am just not hungry when I get up, and once I get to work there is very little time. These last few weeks I've made an effort to get at least a piece of fruit and a cup of tea in me before 10AM.

I don't know if you SHOULD eat breakfast, unless eating breakfast helps you for one reason or another. I feel like it's dealer's choice. People have had success with IF, some people have had success with grazing. Some useful reads on meal frequency/timing:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/820577-meal-frequency-rev-up-that-furnace-lol
http://www.biolayne.com/nutrition/carbs-at-night-fat-loss-killer-or-imaginary-boogeyman/

Juliarosemary66

I tend to split mine as : b and l 40%, d 50% and s 10%. I never used to eat breakfast but I find a170cal fruit smoothie can keep me going through a busy morning and a lunchtime workout at the gym. For me not getting too hungry is the key!

mmm_drop

Weird, looking back they are pretty much an even 25% for each meal and snacks.

SlinkyAndHerAmazingBunsOfSteel

Roughly...

Breakfast: 200
Lunch: 350
Dinner: 500-600
Snacks: 200
Drinks: 100-150

It just depends on what I feel like eating that day

bcattoes

On days I work, it's usually (out of approx 1600)

6% breakfast
20% lunch
0-16% snacks
Whatever is left for dinner / dessert

On days I don't work, it varies a lot depending on what I am doing that day. And calories are higher on the weekends.

1longroad

I usually eat 5 to 6 times daily, small meals. Since having surgery and complications, that is all out the window. I don't have much of an appetite, so if I am hungry, I eat!!

mkcmurphy

I take my total and divide by four. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are that number, snacks make up the rest.

lisalsd1

Usually about like this:

B'fast- 300 cals
Post workout- 100 cals
Lunch- 300 cals
Snack- 200 cals
Coffee/Teas- 100 cals
*I try to keep it around 1000 cals before dinner

Dinner- 500-700 cals
Late snack- 100 cals
*I try to stay around 1500-1800 cals/day; on the days I use weights, I try to stay less than 2000cals

smc864

Breakfast -- 30%

Lunch -- 25%

Dinner -- 25%

Snacks -- 20%



I didn't do it on purpose, but looking through my diary those numbers seem to be pretty consistent. I like a big breakfast


(edited for spelling)

firstsip

I'm terrible...

0% breakfast
40-45% lunch (550-650 kCal)
40-45% dinner (550-650 kCal)
10-20% snacks (150-250 kCal)

This is pretty much me...I know I should eat breakfast, but its really difficult for me, I am just not hungry when I get up, and once I get to work there is very little time. These last few weeks I've made an effort to get at least a piece of fruit and a cup of tea in me before 10AM.

No, you don't need to eat breakfast. If you feel better with something in you in the morning, go for it. All of the claims that "breakfast is the most important meal" or "your metabolism will shut down without breakfast!" have long since been debunked (please see psulemon's great input in a recent post that had a bit of a kerfluffle over the issue: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1130705-i-ve-put-on-5-pounds-in-the-past-2-weeks ).

In keeping in line with that, I'm usually:

Lunch: 30-40%
Dinner: 50-60%
Misc (dessert? after-dinner snack? before-dinner snack?): 10-20%

MinnesotaManimal

My days normally look like this

breakfast < 1% ( cup of coffee black and or bcca and or caffeine pill)

Early am workout

Lunch 0-25%

Dinner what ever is left. I frequently eat 1500+ calorie dinners and hit my macro nutrient goals and seldom feel hungry and never have energy or fatigue issues when working out with weights or running.

Inshape13

Breakfast-350
Protein/Pre-Workout-250
Lunch-300
Protein/Snack-250
Dinner-550
Snack/Sweets-150

Give or take if I am running or doing weights it may be a bit higher on certain days.

avskk

I tend to just have coffee with a little creamer for "breakfast" (50 calories or less), have a lunch between 250-350 calories, mid-afternoon snack of 50-200 calories, dinner between 350-500 calories, and the rest is either snacks & booze or just left to give me a bigger deficit.