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Get most of my calories at dinner - how bad is that?

brookie2983
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Hello!!
I'm fairly new. As I was looking through my diary (2 weeks) I really started to notice that my dinner calories are so much more than anything else. Curious - how bad is it to skip a meal and load up at night?
Would love to read any thoughts and recommendations!!
Brookie
I'm fairly new. As I was looking through my diary (2 weeks) I really started to notice that my dinner calories are so much more than anything else. Curious - how bad is it to skip a meal and load up at night?
Would love to read any thoughts and recommendations!!
Brookie
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not bad at all assuming you are maintaining a caloric deficit
btw: i do the same thing, dinner is by far my largest meal, like close to 50% of my cals0 -
It's not bad. I love to do this and it works for me. Sometimes I have 200 cals throughout the day (in coffee/milk/sugar) and have my other 1000 for dinner. It doesn't matter when you eat your cals as long as you stay within a deficit.0
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< Dinner is usually biggest meal over here too. Functionally for my day it just works better for me, also my appetite is naturally low until about 3 pm, and don't let people feed you the "it slows your metabolism" BS because that's just what it is, BS. What the others said about getting your macros/calories in > out is what you need to worry about, not meal timing.0
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I don't think it is bad, but don't go all day without food. My biggest problem is after diner when my husband sits and pigs out. that drives me crazy0
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I like having big dinners, it usually helps me knock out for the evening.0
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I do this too, simply because dinner is the only time I can actually sit down and cook something proper. Breakfast and lunch have to be really quick, so dinner is usually the only "real" meal I get.0
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