Which meal...

Ashleypeterson37
Ashleypeterson37 Posts: 347 Member
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
in your food diary usually is the most calories per day? I usually eat anywhere between 500-600 (closer to 500) during breakfast time to fuel the rest of my day and have my lunch and dinner meals around 300-400 cal.

Would be interesting to see what everyone else's numbers are!

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  • scubacat
    scubacat Posts: 346 Member
    mine are about 300 for each meal and another 300 calories worth of snacks for the day
  • ambercole
    ambercole Posts: 426
    I have 5 meals all roughly around 300 calories.
  • MyNameIsNotBob
    MyNameIsNotBob Posts: 565 Member
    Depends. Sometimes it's 300/300/300 with room for snacks. Sometimes it's 200/200/700 (like today... ouch) with room for snacks. Others it's 500/300/300, or 300/500/300. It just depends on the day and what my plans are. If I know one of my meals is going to be large, I try to make the other ones smaller. If I start out with a large breakfast, it's hard to get the other meals to stay small because I feel hungrier throughout the day. If I'm on the go a lot, I might not have a proper meal, but instead just have 100 calories every hour... but, in general, 300/300/300 + snacks is about right for me.
  • kgool
    kgool Posts: 177 Member
    I do the most at breakfast, in fact I eat like 3 little meals from 6a-11a which are all "breakfast" including oatmeal around 11 which lets me eat half of what I am going to eat for lunch around 1:30 and the other half around 4pm. This makes me eat very little for dinner. Seems to work for me and keep the metabolism high.
  • ImperfektAngel
    ImperfektAngel Posts: 811 Member
    My snacks seem to add up to the most calories
  • cardbucfan
    cardbucfan Posts: 10,571 Member
    Dinner definitely. I eat with my family after my son's swim practice and we eat normal, healthy meals-I just eat smaller portions than I used to. Snacks add up too because I lump all my snacks for the day into one bin rather than "am snack, pm snack, post dinner snack"
  • Ashleypeterson37
    Ashleypeterson37 Posts: 347 Member
    Snacks add up too because I lump all my snacks for the day into one bin rather than "am snack, pm snack, post dinner snack"

    I lump all my snack together to.

    I have always heard from friends and family and even my nutritionist that breakfast should be the biggest meal of the day...wonder how true this is? I guess what I'm doing is working so no need to change it until I plateau, I suppose!
  • heyitsmekatie
    heyitsmekatie Posts: 544 Member
    mine is heaviest at dinner. i am a night time snack-aholic and i know i had better have as many calories available as possible when i get home from work. i usually have around 200 cal for breakfast and 300 for lunch which leaves me a wonderfully delicious 1000-1100 cal for dinner and snacks.
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