Poll: How many meals a day do you eat?

devilwhiterose

4.

Breakfast
Early Lunch
Late Lunch
Dinner

Small snacks in between all that.

rmartin72

Three Meals a day. I feel I need to eat 5 very small meals per day not sure though.

mrsdizzyd84

Three meals a day with two snacks nestled in the midst:

Early - Meal
Mid morning - snack
Noon - Meal
Mid afternoon - Snack
Evening - Meal
And occasionally when I need it a late evening/pre-bedtime snack.

Total: 2,550 calories / day.

This for 1800-2000+ calories a day. If I could cut the number of meals/snacks down I would, but my stomach can only hold so much. Honestly, I feel like I don't even have a chance to get hungry anymore. LOL.

Troll

i eat 2 big meals at about 500 cal, and 4-5 small ones

MariFitBody

7 -8 meals depending how hungry I am. I snack a lot and Im always hungry.
Pre breakfast 4am -5am

Breakfast 8am

Snack 9am

Lunch 11am

Snacks (2) 1pm - 3pm

Dinner 6pm

Post w/o 9pm

About 2200 cals a day

MehiraDeOro

It depends on the day for me,I eat breakfast, then at one of my jobs I'm allowed to eat while working so I usually eat when I first get there, then another meal about halfway through my shift, and another when I get home.

So usually 3-4 meals a day and various snacks, very rarely I'll only eat 2.

iuew

3, with a snack / dessert after dinner.

Spanaval

Really depends. Sometimes, 3, sometimes less. There are days when I tend to just snack.

Nelski

I eat 4-6 times a day. A few days a week I usually do intermittant fasting, so basically just skiping breakfast so I will eat around noon then most likely a snack around 3 or 4 before I workout, then a protein shake after I work out if I do strength training, then dinner around 6 or so then usually a snack 8 or so.
Days I don't IF just add breakfast to that around 6am.
It's hard to say how many calories are alotted for each time because it changes, you could look at my diary to get an idea. Just depends what I'm eating and how hungry I am at the moment. On average I eat 1600-1900 a day with higher days on the weekend.

81Katz

Meals 3 but never huge meals, also 2-3 snacks if needed.) It starts like this, I have breakfast, a mid-morning snack, later lunch, then dinner, sometimes a small snack a bit after dinner. If I don't have the mid-morning snack then my lunch is sometimes earlier then I might have a snack late afternoon a bit before dinner, then no snack after dinner.

*Basically, on average at least 5 times a day I eat.

reztib

4-6, most times 5.

elfo

Breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner, and sometimes a lite late snack if I had an early dinner (5-6)

AmandaPandah

Four meals.

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Night snack (usually a sandwich)

Then I'll have fruit or something in between sometimes.

ickybella

I eat a lot. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, plus 2 protein shakes plus two snacks.

JoniBologna

5-6. 3 "meals" and 2-3 "snacks".

XxXHillaryXxX

Around 6-8.

BeccaB1981

I eat at least 6 times a day. My typical schedule is:

7:30 Breakfast 200-300 cals
10:00 snack 100 cals
12:00 snack 100 cals
2:00 lunch 300-400 cals
4:30 snack 150 cals
7:00 dinner (cals depend on what I have left for the day)

redcat17

5-6

Three meals and two or three snacks, depending on the calories throughout the day.

Sharyn913

I use my juicer for my morning "breakfast" before I leave for work and the rest of the day I eat what I want when I want, as I get hungry. I have family dinners each night as well.

Nothing is strategically planned as far as how many times I eat or how many calories as each meal. I follow what my body is telling me. Although, after dinner (6-7pm-ish) I do try to keep my calories and snacking to a minimum!

chachita7

3 complete meals + 2 snacks (one mid monrning/ one mid afternoon)

phoenix8633

I have 3 meals a day and 2 snacks a day (healthy of course)!

thistimeismytime

Meals 3, Snacks 3. I eat every 2-3 hours.

^^This!! Food, glorious food!! I don't wanna go too long without you!:bigsmile:

bcattoes

It depends by what mean by "meal". I have seen posts on here where people say they eat 5-6 meals a day and like to keep them at 300 calories. I call that a snack, not a meal.

During the week I eat tlike this:

Breakfast: 103 calories so not a meal
Morning Snack: 0 - 80 calories
Lunch: 250 - 350 calories usually
Afternoon (pre-workout) snack: 200 - 300 calories
Dinner: 900-1300 calories
Dessert: 0 - 150 calories

The only thing in that list I consider a meal is Dinner.

On the weekends I may graze all day and never have a meal, or I may only eat only one big meal and no snacks. Or I may go crazy and eat 2 huge meals. Weekends are wild cards for me.

DominiqueSmall

I eat 6 meals a day

4thehardman

Breakfast
Pre-lunch snack
lunch
pre workout snack
postworkout snack
dessert
pre dinner dessert
dinner
dessert
high calorie self distruction
fruit
midnight snack
I'm working on it!
jk xx

BGSchultz

6

Nelski

Breakfast
Pre-lunch snack
lunch
pre workout snack
postworkout snack
dessert
pre dinner dessert
dinner
dessert
high calorie self distruction
fruit
midnight snack

This is my dream day. :ohwell:

angie_sample

i eat 5 times a day. It works for me.

runlaugheatpie

on workdays:
something within 30 min of waking
breakfast about 1.5 - 2 hours later
sometimes a snack
lunch
snack
something on the way home
dinner

I work 2+ hours from home which makes a long day for me - since a couple of months I'm eating this way with limited carbs (no bread, pasta, rice) and mostly protein/veg/fat for the rest and it actually keeps my hunger down more than when I was eating grain-based carbs.


on weekends it's about 3 or 4 meals max but if I run there could be another snack in there.

sherripaxton

5. Breakfast, snack at 10:30, lunch, snack at 3:30 and dinner at 6. Cup of herbal/green tea before bed.