How do you.....

LALA200137
LALA200137 Posts: 8
in Health and Weight Loss
divide up your daily calories into your different meals and snacks??

Laura

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  • melissaeertmoed
    melissaeertmoed Posts: 9
    200 cal breakfast, 300 cal lunch, 400-500 cal dinner and snacks whenever im hungry usually two or three fiber one/ protein bars thru the day
  • whierd
    whierd Posts: 14,025 Member
    I really don't portion out my calories the same each day.
  • 55in13
    55in13 Posts: 1,091 Member
    I started with the big one - I eat dinner with the family and have whatever we are having - and just divide the rest approximately. I sometimes don't eat breakfast and if I do it is light. You may be different. Try planning a menu and add, subtract and move until it works. You might take a normal pre-diet day, calculate it and then compute what % you ate during what part of the day if you want to approximate what you did before with less. I cut out day time snacks completely because they were a big source of empty calories though.
  • PepperWorm
    PepperWorm Posts: 1,206
    400 cal breakfast, 400 cal lunch, 500 cal dinner, and 150-200 cal snacks in between.

    Yep.
  • tamani0727
    tamani0727 Posts: 6 Member
    I find myself eating about 350 for breakfast, 400 for lunch, and around 450 in the evening. With exercise there is compensation for more calories. It is great to be able to watch it all in the process!
  • LALA200137
    LALA200137 Posts: 8
    Thanks all...........food for thought.
  • majope
    majope Posts: 1,325 Member
    I generally go 300-400 for breakfast, 400-600 for lunch, and 600-1000 for dinner, with 400-600 or so for snacks.
  • momzeeee
    momzeeee Posts: 475 Member
    -I'm in maintenance
    -I do 8:16 iF
    -I only eat two meals a day with no snacking
    -i don't track my calories, except to spot check my macros a couple times a month

    But, I make my first meal my biggest of the day (at 11am) and then my second meal is slightly smaller (6pm). On average the first is probably around 1,000-1,200 calories and the second one is 700-1,000 -give or take a few :)
  • Iron_Lotus
    Iron_Lotus Posts: 2,295 Member
    I eat and see where the day takes me
  • Phrick
    Phrick Posts: 2,765 Member
    It varies widely, breakfast can be anywhere from 190 to 400 depending on what I'm in the mood for and my schedule (aka, when I know I'll be able to snack!). I try to keep lunch around 350-400 and for dinner I try to keep at least 600 available though I seldom use that much. Then I get to have a snacky treat before bed! I also usually snack around the 200 calorie mark a couple of times per day.
  • Warchortle
    Warchortle Posts: 2,197 Member
    Normally like a 1200 calories in one meal with about 4 servings of whey and a snack.
  • toutmonpossible
    toutmonpossible Posts: 1,580 Member
    I really don't portion out my calories the same each day.

    I don't either. I see how things go during the day, and several days a week I do Intermittent Fasting so I don't eat until noon to 1.
  • majica8
    majica8 Posts: 210 Member
    I don't really, but I tend to have the same/similar things for breakfast and lunch so just end up having the same for each meal every day. I'll change it around if I need to, i.e. if I'm going out for a meal so I know I'll need more for dinner I'll eat less through the day or just skip meals.
  • myogibbs
    myogibbs Posts: 182
    My nutritionist says eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch & a pauper for dinner. It really doesn't work out that way for me b/c dinner is the family meal...or if I go out, it will be at night. I try to follow that & then exercise to compensate for a bigger meal at night. It is all about planning...If you eat natural foods, like veggies, you can eat a LOT more without sacrificing calories, as long as you prepare them without a lot of fatty stuff, like cheese & butter. My new favorite is a vidalia onion with a little olive oil (I found some infused with garlic...yummy) in a glass dish with a cover....put a small amount of olive oil on there & some Tony's seasoning...cover & microwave for about 5-8 minutes...SO YUMMY ...blooming onion...you can do that with roasting zuccini or squash too...you can eat a bunch...& it is SO GOOD. Good luck!!!
  • Warchortle
    Warchortle Posts: 2,197 Member
    Meal timing and windows are largely irrelevant.
  • caly_man
    caly_man Posts: 281 Member
    my best days are during the work week and not on the weekends, for me, that means leaving most of cals for the end of the day.

    breakfast: 300 kcals

    lunch & afternoon snack: 500 kcals

    dinner & late night snacks: 1000 kcals

    on the weekends i tend to only have 2 meals during the day because it feels like prepping food and eating 3 during the weekend feels like so much work, so much scheduling
  • jasonpclement
    jasonpclement Posts: 146 Member
    you can divide them however you want. I really liked eating a moderate breakfast, super small lunch and snack, and massive dinner!. my schedule has switched recently, so I am on the eat small meals all day bandwagon, but i still try to have 800 calories for my last hour or two awake. I never go to sleep hungry :)
  • Gwen_B
    Gwen_B Posts: 1,018 Member
    I just always eat healthy and don't think about calories throughout the day and I have never gone over.
  • hungryhobbit1
    hungryhobbit1 Posts: 259 Member
    There are certain things I have every day. The cream in my coffee, the wine after dinner. So I add these things to my diary right after breakfast and plan my lunch and dinner after my work out (except on rest days, when I plan right after breakfast.) It depends more on what's in the fridge/pantry than how many calories everything has. I make modifications to my dinner if I can't get a reasonable portion in with the same food the rest of the family is eating, but usually this isn't any more complicated than removing a portion of starch/grains.
  • Cp731
    Cp731 Posts: 3,195 Member
    OP that's a really pretty profile pic.
    That's up to you to decide and you can find out what works best for you.
  • BarackMeLikeAHurricane
    BarackMeLikeAHurricane Posts: 3,400 Member
    A few calories for coffee in the morning and BCAA's before I workout, then the rest for dinner.

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