How do you break down your meals?

kimgravel

Do you allot a certain % of your daily calories per meal? Do you wing it during the day and adjust your dinner accordingly? I just worked out my averages over the last little while and it works out to:

Breakfast: 15%
Mid morning snack: 7.5%
Lunch: 30%
Dinner:36.5%
Evening: 11%

I know everyone is different, but I'd just like to get a good idea of what works for other people. Thanks!

Halcyon3608

I allow myself 1500 calories per day, broken down as follows:

Breakfast: 350 (23.3%)
Lunch: 350 (23.3%)
Dinner: 600 (40%)
Snacks: 200 (13.3%)

However, every day ends up being a little different. My breakfast today was only 240 calories, my lunch will be 460, I brought cupcakes to work for St. Patrick's day so my snack will go up to 240, I'm walking home to the tune of 250, and dinner will be whatever's left.

Martucha123

For me its more or less this:

Lunch 600-800
Snacks 400-200
Dinner 600

total 1600
more on weekends,
post workout counted separetly

Floridaboiler

I honestly just wing it, I eat pretty much the same thing every breakfast, my lunches are similar and then dinner varies. I just work hard to control the snacking so I can hit my daily goal.

LordBezoar

I honestly just wing it, I eat pretty much the same thing every breakfast, my lunches are similar and then dinner varies. I just work hard to control the snacking so I can hit my daily goal.

This pretty much sums up my methodology as well.

MB_Positif

I am not the calculating type. I try to keep my main meal calories low because I like to eat all day long.

_GlaDOS_

No. I just eat.

LorinaLynn

I wing it. But I get a little twitchy if, after lunch, I don't have about 1000 calories to use for dinner and an evening snack.

bigd65

I also wing it but I add about 350 cals a day first thing in the morning for exercise, even though i workout in the evening. So if I go over 350 cals doing the exercise its a bonus. I take all my calories for that day and divide it by 7 meals last one being at 7:30 p.m. and just make sure by the end of the day I am under all my totals. Most of the time I am over on protein by about 100 grams and over on fiber by about 25 grams but everything else I stay under and i never have a chance to get hungry, sometimes it hard to eat all the calories but I lose weight and have to workout because I already have put my exercise cals in the mix

Snapplejac

Quite a big breakfast, good sized lunch, less for dinner.

jewol

My average daily calorie total is 1,625. That breaks down as follows:

Breakfast - 24% (about 400 calories)
Mid-morning snack - 10% (about 155 cals)
Lunch - 23% (about 385 cals)
Mid-afternoon snack - 9% (about 125 cals)
Dinner - 34% (about 560 cals)

Aureilie

I eat pretty much the same things for breakfast and lunch every day so it usually ends up breaking down to:

Breakfast: 12%
Lunch: 29%
Dinner: 40%
Snacks: 19%

The snacks percentage floats around a bit, I don't always use it all or sometimes I'll have a bigger meal and less snacks but that's a roughly accurate breakdown.

funkycamper

Totally wing it. I quite often have the same breakfast and similar lunch while dinner varies but, like yesterday, I was meeting a friend for lunch at a sandwich shop with huge yummy sammies so I ate a smaller breakfast and smaller dinner and really enjoyed a pig-out lunch. As long as the calories fit the goals and the macros are close enough, it's all good.