Meal organization

cnateb
cnateb Posts: 4 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I have the default Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snacks meal list. Was thinking of changing it around. I eat kind of erratically. I've seen that some people split the day into hour blocks. Anyone have ideas for someone with unpredictable meal schedule? Is the breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks thing probably best. I've heard that it's good to space meals out over the day. Is it really that important, or is creating a calorie deficit enough? For example, today, I ate breakfast at 9am, lunch(if you can call it that) at 4:30 and dinner about 8. I'll skip a meals sporadically if I'm busy. Guess I could do meal1, meal2, meal3?


Thoughts?

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  • bdamaster60
    bdamaster60 Posts: 595 Member
    you could just log all your stuff in one big list. At the end of the day, just watch the totals. Just a thought.
  • NaomiJFoster
    NaomiJFoster Posts: 1,450 Member
    I've been toying with the idea of making mine:

    Breakfast
    Morning snack
    Lunch
    Afternoon snack
    Dinner
    Evening snack


    I don't always have all those snacks, but I usually have two. Right now they're all going into the same 'snack' category. It's not that big of a deal though, and so far I've just been too lazy to change it.
  • alaskaang
    alaskaang Posts: 493 Member
    I truly dont think the time you eat makes much of a difference, it's the totals that matter. I've just left mine on the defaults. It's just a matter of preference in how you organize your entries, so if Break, Lunch and Dinner don't work for you, then change it up..
  • concordancia
    concordancia Posts: 5,320 Member
    I have a friend who has second breakfast and high tea.
  • midnight333
    midnight333 Posts: 149
    I have a fun one. It doesn't say Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. It also isn't in alternating order with snacks. Maybe as an alternative idea for you perhaps? Good luck with whatever you choose though. :smile:
  • chaser1977
    chaser1977 Posts: 70 Member
    As posted above timing on meals not NEARLY as important as macros for the day, i have some friends that had broken the day up into 4 hr blocks 8-12 12-4 4-8 ect i imagine if you are looking at intermittent fasting or want to corelate how you feel (hungry) with what you eat and when you eat it that could be beneficial. i have added post-workout and snacks as catagories for me for that reason.
  • fanipack
    fanipack Posts: 28
    I do Meal 1 , Meal 2 , Meal 3 , Meal 4 , Meal 5 , Meal 6 , Meal 7 , Meal 8 , Meal 9 , Meal 10 , Meal 11 , Meal 12.

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