Time of day versus when you consume your calories

I'm a bit like that too- I don't think there is a specific guideline as to when you should eat your calories. If you're hungry then eat I reckon- I tend to have breakfast and a very small lunch and try and save as many calories for dinner and evening snacks as I can. I'm still losing weight so it's all good!!! xxx

Eating throughout the day is supposed to help keep your metabolism at a steady burn, and I really do 'try' to do this. I think what is MOST important is trying to keep your daily calorie intake at a good level and trying to make wise and healthy food decisions. Make the calories (however many there are or when you eat them) count towards making your body healthy!

I eat most of my calories at supper time and I've lost consistently. As long as you stay with your calorie goal for the day it doesn't matter what time you eat them at all.

In theory, it does not matter at all what time of day you eat the majorityt your calories. Really the only thing that matters is KCALS IN vs. KCALS OUT = WEIGHT LOSS OR WEIGHT GAIN. The reason that its usually a good idea to try to have an even intake of calories throughout the day is so you never really get that "bloated/ tired" feeling that you get your after a big meal. If you get that feeling you will be less motivated and have less energy for movement or a workout during the day. Also, that "bloated/tired" feeling comes from your body having to commit the majority of its blood flow to aid in digestion after a big meal. If you eat smaller meals and snacks then your body will have to commit less blood to digestion and will be able to commit more to your skeletal muscle. If you have more blood flow to your skeletal muscle then you will have more energy for movement. Personally what I do is eat the majority of my calories during the end of the day after I workout. A good rule of thumb is to eat the majority of your calories after your hardest workout of the day. Hope this helps!! Feel free to ask me more questions.

Thanks Andrew

I do the reverse to all of you , I have many doctors and dieticians, and they ALL have said the same thing to me, that the meals should decrease in size and caloric value, for example, I have a large breakfast, and medium size lunch and a very small dinner.

For me this works very well for the following reasons,

1. In the morning our bodies need to wake up and needs enegry! for brain function, bowl movement, and stamina through out the day. I could not loose because I would eat a smaller breakfast and medium lunch, and bulk up all the rest of the calories at dinner time, thus this leads me to my next point.
2. When we sleep our bodies are at rest mode, if we eat alot of foods, and or most of our calories at night, then we go to bed a few hours later, our metabolic rate slows down, and we have all this food just 'there' in our bodies.

So I have the largest meal of my day in the morning, sometimes, as I have been doing in the last few days, I have a medium meal in the morning (because I have been feeling a little sick in the mornings) and I have a medium to large lunch, and a very small dinner (with almost no carb intake)

This has worked tremendously well for me, and many other people I know.

I hope this helps.

Now I know that this is not the best way to loose weight and that I am going to get shot down in flames for saying it. But I am NOT a breakfast person. If I try to eat before 11 at the earliest then I feel awful. I don't recommend that anyone skips breakfast, but I just cant eat it. So instead if I'm in work (and therefore up earlier) I have a yogurt at 10:30, if not I have lunch at 12, a small meal at 4pm with my toddler and then my dinner at 7:30ish once she is in bed and then I snack throughout the evening. I stick to my cals and so far its worked for me. I think you have to go with the way that YOUR body is programmed not what the experts recommend. Just my 2penny (C) worth.

A book I recently read (either "YOU on a Diet" or "The Best Life Diet") said to eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper. I've had to rearrange my intake around a bit but the pounds are coming off way faster, especially when I stay out of the kitchen a few hours before bed. It's been an adjustment but well worth retraining my body to be in control. Hope this helps. Good luck!

Now I know that this is not the best way to loose weight and that I am going to get shot down in flames for saying it. But I am NOT a breakfast person. If I try to eat before 11 at the earliest then I feel awful. I don't recommend that anyone skips breakfast, but I just cant eat it. So instead if I'm in work (and therefore up earlier) I have a yogurt at 10:30, if not I have lunch at 12, a small meal at 4pm with my toddler and then my dinner at 7:30ish once she is in bed and then I snack throughout the evening. I stick to my cals and so far its worked for me. I think you have to go with the way that YOUR body is programmed not what the experts recommend. Just my 2penny (C) worth.

Wow , I was the same, I could not stomach breakfast AT ALL, never ever. If i ate in the mornings I would feel so horribly ill and sometimes even throw it all up by lunch time. This was hard for me to overcome.

I tried everything to begin losing the weight, and nothing was working, so I was sent to specialists and dieticians, and had a few tests done, and all concluded that I HAD to eat breakfast. So I had to start. I tried for too many years to loose weight with how MY body is programmed, and MY way and my bodies own programing was the reason I was still obese.

Not all experts talk rubbish, and after seeing so many, you kinda come to see which ones are baloney and which ones are not.

Alot of the weightloss drop for me has been a combination of a few things, when I have learned to eat at the right times, the right amounts, the right foods and the right amount of physical activity. I had to learn to eat in the mornings in order to kick my body into wake up mode.

Though, I know not everyone is the same, and well it may be safe to say that, the doctors I have been to have treated me as an individual, looked at the way my body was programmed, and worked out what was wrong with that programing, and I worked very hard to fix it, and now I eat breakfast every single morning, and have lost 20 kilos in about 4 months.

But everyone is different.