9-5-ers gym/meal question

I eat breakfast when I wake up, lunch on my lunch break, then around 4 I usually have a snack so I have more energy for the gym. After work I go to the gym for about an hour, then I go home and eat dinner, which usually ends up being around 7:30 p.m. after that I have some dessert at whatever time before I go to sleep lol, hope that helps.

I usually eat breakfast as soon as I wake up (6-6:30ish). I try to take my lunch to work, and include an easy to eat while working snack for bout 10am (almonds are my current go to). We have a gym at my work, so I usually try to get in about 30 minutes during lunch and then eat afterwards (my boss isn't super strict about lunch--but I usually eat lunch at my desk while working on emails and such). About 3-4pm, I will have another snack I brought from work (lately carrots and yogurt dip). I pick my daughter up from school and head to the gym so she can play in the kids area while I work out (usually 6:30-7:30ish). Then we go home for dinner (crock pot is my best friend in the entire world!). We eat together, finish the homework she didn't get done in her after school program, read together and then go to bed. This is my plan MWTh which is our normal gym days. TF we go straight home and eat something that did not come from a crockpot (sometimes--lol). Saturday and Sunday mornings we also go to the gym. I get my longer workouts done then.

Hope this helps.

I'm a morning person - up at 5:45/ 6 to try to get to the gym for 6:30 / 6:45 (Wed / Fri). Light breakfast of a quick omelette. Usually back at the house by 8 ish (glass of milk / banana) then off to work for about 9 / 9:15. I can't go after work because I just know that even if I could control when I finished (and usually I end up there longer than I want) I have no motivation for the gym by then, so I would just end up doing nothing! Also try to fit a visit in over the weekend

I am still not all that consistent with my gym habits. Trying to get better at it, but it's a work in progress. FWIW, when I do go to the gym, my day looks like:

• Breakfast when I get to work (around 9)
• Lunch midday - 12-1pm-ish (packed, usually at my desk)
• Usually a small snack before the gym around 5-5:30pm -- a banana or a handful of nuts and raisins or something similar -- just to give me a boost and stave off the hunger.
• Gym for about an hour around 6-7 or sometimes a 6:30-7:15 spinning class. Get home by 7:30 generally.
• Dinner when I get home and cook it, usually around 8pm.

I don't love eating dinner that late 'cause I'm usually starving. But I simply can't eat a full dinner before working out. And I am NOT a morning person, so try as I might I just can't get in the habit of going to the gym before work.

I eat breakfast at 7:30, have a small snack around 10:30, lunch at 1:30/2, another snack mid-afternoon, and then I go to the gym around 6 and do a 35 minute workout. I usually eat dinner around 7:30 and sometimes have a snack sometime before bed.

I have breakfast/snacks/lunch provided at my office, so I don't eat anything until I get to work around 9:30 or 10 a.m. Some days, I'll have a piece of fruit or a few almonds around 12 p.m., and then usually eat lunch (soup and raw veggies) around 2 p.m., with one more snack around 4 p.m. Depending on where I am for calories and how I feel, I'll sometimes do one more pre-gym snack before I leave work at 6:30. Then, gym, home by 8 and dinner after that.

Even I feel depressed after reading that.