Calorie Curiosity

lunchlady1208

I am curious as to how many calories you have in each meal....approximately.......I was only eating 100-200 cals for breakfast and then I found some material on a website saying that should be the biggest meal of the day....350-500 cals for everyday folks, and a bit more if you are trying to lose weight, healthy choices high in protein....so I was just wondering what other people do.

lunchlady1208

Oh, the idea behind the big breakfast being to jump start your metabolism for the day....

lunchlady1208

....bump....;)

Spanaval

When you eat and how much you eat with each meal is irrelevant to weight loss. I'm not a breakfast person, and skip it often. Mostly, I eat all my calories after noon, either in a few bigger meals, or a whole bunch of snacks.

irisheyez718

I normally have about 450 or so for breakfast and lunch, and 500-600 for dinner. The rest are snacks.

lunchlady1208

Mmmmm....snacks...lol
I've tried switching those to fruits...............So far, so good...O_o

robdahlgren0506

I agree, the whole "kick start your metabolism" thing is just bro-science. There was never any direct evidence that eating often or early changes metabolism. It's all about WHAT we eat, not WHEN we eat it.

hippietofugirl

I try to stay within this range

400 breakfast
500 for lunch
600 for dinner

and 100 cal snacks

I save most of my calories for dinner because I usually stay up late and don't want to get hungry at night

JustPeachy044

I think a bigger breakfast is generally recommended b/c the "average" person who skips breakfast tends to overeat later in the day, not only eating the bulk of the day's calories later, but eating way too many calories consisting of nutrient-lacking junk foods. I would suppose for someone who is careful about how much s/he is eating, counting calories, it wouldn't matter so much when the calories are eaten. I personally used to succumb to the "average" and if I skipped breakfast or ate a very small one, I would do just what I described, with the justification that "well, I didn't eat (much) this morning, so I am ok" if I thought about it at all.

I look at my morning calories as pre- and post-workout versus breakfast calories, usually a protein drink (150 calories or so) before and a yogurt-fruit smoothie (350-500 calories, depending on the workout intensity and my appetite) after.