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What meal do you eat the most calories?

50poundshed
50poundshed Posts: 34
edited February 8 in Food and Nutrition
What is y'all's biggest meals of the day with the highest calorie intake? I think I need some ideas on how to spread my calories out more evenly!
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  • CptJinxx
    CptJinxx Posts: 81 Member
    Since I follow intermittent fasting routine; it's breakfast at 4 PM after my workout, about 1000~1200 calories.
  • MrsSWW
    MrsSWW Posts: 1,585 Member
    It depends on the day and the meal - sometimes my biggest meal can have the fewest calories.
  • nytrifisoul
    nytrifisoul Posts: 499 Member
    Dinner is my biggest meal. I am never hungry during the day so I usually skip breakfast and lunch and eat a huge dinner and a snack before bed.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    Dinner. I'm famished after working out.
  • Sam5x5
    Sam5x5 Posts: 9
    During the week it's my post workout meal which is normally dinner, I get about 1200 cal. On weekends for some reason it will be my pre workout meal (breakfast), moslty since I do cardio after lifting during the weekend
  • Ainar
    Ainar Posts: 858 Member
    Dinner, which is first meal of the day for me, after working out. It's about 1.5 - 2k calories. Then couple of hours later another meal of around 1.5k calories. I usually have just tow meals in a day cos I do intermittent fasting.
  • Holly_Roman_Empire
    Holly_Roman_Empire Posts: 4,440 Member
    Usually dinner, but whatever I have for evening dessert can be a close second. You don't have to spread calories out evenly throughout the day to lose weight.
  • fruttibiscotti
    fruttibiscotti Posts: 986 Member
    Lunch or dinner
  • gabrielleelliott90
    gabrielleelliott90 Posts: 854 Member
    Dinner for me. They do say you should eat breakfast like a king/queen though. I won't do that though as I don't want to use all my calories up on breakfast when I've still got the rest of the day.
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Typically dinner. But sometimes dessert has more calories than dinner.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    My lunch and dinner are usually fairly similar, but I seem to have about 100 more cal at dinner.
  • avskk
    avskk Posts: 1,787 Member
    Usually dinner and/or post-dinner snacks or booze.
  • pierremignon
    pierremignon Posts: 172 Member
    Either lunch or dinner, but the latter most of the time.
  • smc864
    smc864 Posts: 570 Member
    I just started intermittent fasting so lunch is definitely by biggest meal of the day. It used to be breakfast.
  • suzyfj8
    suzyfj8 Posts: 257 Member
    My three main meals are roughly the same amount of calories :)
  • ilmb87
    ilmb87 Posts: 216 Member
    Dinner.
  • Scarlett_S
    Scarlett_S Posts: 467 Member
    If I know I am having lunch out, then that will usually be my most calories. Otherwise, its dinner, because that is when I am the hungriest, the least busy, and seem to want to eat the most.
  • 13Strong
    13Strong Posts: 502 Member
    I try to get most of my calories in during the day - snacks or lunch. However from old habits, most often than not Dinner ends up being my largest meal.
  • fsucrack
    fsucrack Posts: 68 Member
    I try to make breakfast my biggest meal and then taper off. I have been focusing on eatting breakfast like a queen, lunch like a princess and dinner like a poor person. It helps to keep my energy up during the day and I sleep better at night.
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    Dinner.

    I eat a small breakfast, a morning snack, a moderate lunch, and then I eat a large dinner since I'm hungry as there's no time for afternoon snacking.
  • MayaSPapaya
    MayaSPapaya Posts: 735 Member
    I actually usually eat the most calories in snacks. It works and it keeps me from bingeing.
  • mortuseon
    mortuseon Posts: 579 Member
    I try to make breakfast the most calorific meal, but often it's dinner purely because I'm so hungry.
  • LosingItForGood13
    LosingItForGood13 Posts: 182 Member
    Breakfast or lunch dinner try to keep a little less calories
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Dinner and evening in general. I take in most of my calories after 5 PM. My breakfast is usually around 400 - 500 calories or so...lunch is usually 500 - 600...I usually have an afternoon snack and/or pre/post workout snack that is usually around 500 calories and from then on I just eat to total around 2700 - 2800 calories per day.

    I also like beer...a lot.
  • mcibty
    mcibty Posts: 1,252 Member
    Usually dinner, circa 900-1,000 calories. NOM.
  • abadvat
    abadvat Posts: 1,241 Member
    If you consider pre-post then that's the one... Otherwise breakfast!
  • oc1timoco
    oc1timoco Posts: 272 Member
    I eat 5 meals a day. That works best for me. Biggest at Bfast with about 5-600 calories. then tapering off to the last meal about 300 calories. Then my Eatback is separate from the meals usually around 100-200 calories. Like I said this works best for me because I'm not so hungry in the evening after starting out with such a big meal
  • deanjou59
    deanjou59 Posts: 737 Member
    It depends....but usually dinner.
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    lunch, and it isn't even close.
  • Carnivor0us
    Carnivor0us Posts: 1,752 Member
    Breakfast for me is usually half my calories or slightly more than half.
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