Largest meal of the day??
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trink68
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What is usually your largest meal of the day? Mine is dinner.But I am thinking I should make it breakfast
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I keep hearing that either we are supposed to break up our meals into five small meals a day or your lunch should be the largest. I am not sure which is true.0
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It doesn't matter when you take in your calories; just take them in.
As for me, it's dinner, by necessity. I can't really bring food with me easily, so I bring prepared foods to work and eat properly at home.0 -
Mine is lunch. A big lunch makes me eat lighter at dinner & gives me something to look forward to after breakfast.0
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I eat 5 meals, but dinner definitely tends to be the biggest.0
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I keep hearing that either we are supposed to break up our meals into five small meals a day or your lunch should be the largest. I am not sure which is true.0
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It doesn't really matter which you prefer if your calorie intake is the same. I prefer several small meals throughout the day.0
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I enjoy a large dinner - if I ever have a large lunch I just end up wanting a large dinner as well! :laugh:0
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I have 6-8 meals a day with lunch being the largest on most days and sometimes its breakfast.0
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I keep hearing that either we are supposed to break up our meals into five small meals a day or your lunch should be the largest. I am not sure which is true.
It isnt a myth if you are trying to build muscle, just if you think it will help you lose weight faster. the eating more often thing works wonderfully for me :-)0 -
All of my meals (6) tend to be the same amount of calories. There are some exceptions depending on what I am eating for Dinner that Dinner would be my biggest calorie intake.0
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Dinner! Just because that's when I'm most hungry.0
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mine is quite often dinner- dinner is my favorite meal so i always try to save some extra calories for that.
lately i've been spacing my calories out more evenly though with snacks and smaller meals distributed throughout the day.
i never feel hungry or deprived that way because i am ALWAYS eating haha.0 -
I do my harder work outs in the morning and more walking/elliptical work in the afternoon evenings, I can't get hungry enough for a decent breakfast unless I eat less for dinner. I try for net 1300 calories a day, and do 400 for breakfast, 500 lunch and 400 dinner. I usually eat my work out calories back in snacks or mid-meals. If I know that we are doing something different for dinner (eating out or eating something special) I modify my other meals to accommodate.0
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Lunch is my largest meal of the day because I eat dinner late and don't want to sotre up too much calories then...0
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What is usually your largest meal of the day? Mine is dinner.But I am thinking I should make it breakfast
Mine is almost always supper (I live in Maine, so "dinner" generally refers to the noontime meal here, so I use "supper" for clarity).
I have a moderate breakfast and eat my lunch as a bunch of snacks throughout the day, then when I get home I have a solid supper.
I don't ascribe to any theory about snacking maintaining metabolism or anything magical like that - but I do feel that it helps keep me away from the vending machine at 10AM when I start getting peckish if I can simply start in on my healthy lunch, and the 2PM doldrums tend to go away when I can nosh on a banana and some almonds, which tend to keep me satisfied until I get home for supper.
So I guess the big question for you is - why do you feel breakfast needs to be the big meal for your day? Because someone told you that eating a large meal at supper is somehow not metabolized by the body and turns instantly to fat instead? Or because you find yourself hungry mid-morning and you'd like some more sustenance to get through the day?
To lose weight, watch your calories taken for a week. Don't worry about timing of those calories.
To lose weight with optimal health benefit, also track your macros (protein, fat, carbs) and eat them in reasonable proportion.
To lose weight with optimal health benefit and the least hunger, time your meals so you are eating when you are hungry.0 -
I skip breakfast, eat a very big post workout lunch, and a very big dinner, and then I snack up until bedtime.0
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Lunch has been my biggest meal lately. But I would like for Breakfast to be my biggest meal0
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Dinner0
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Dinner.0
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Dinner. I've always been a big dinner eater.0
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