How many calories at each meal?

Whatever makes you happy.

Totally up to you! There is no right or wrong answer

I've noticed I naturally end up having around 300 for breakfast, 400 for lunch, 700 for dinner and the rest on the milk in my coffee! Of course this varies from day to day! Sometimes I like big lunches!

Personally I am not a breakfast person, so a granola bar works well for me. I do 140 to 200 for breakfast, around 300 to 400 for lunch, then have a small snack in the afternoon and the rest for dinner. This is what has worked well for me. The majority of my calories are consumed at dinner since that is the shared family meal, but the other 2 I can plan out easier cause it is just me that I have to worry about feeding.

Some days I have a larger breakfast, other days I have a larger lunch but I try to make those two meals about 1200-1250 calories total. Throw in a 500-600 calorie dinner, 250 calories worth of nighttime snacks, and 30 minutes on the exercise bike (now three days a week) and I'm running about a 250 calorie daily deficit. I've got about six pounds to go, so I'm in the 0.5 lb/week losing range at the moment.

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I'm supposed to eat 1570 calories a day to lose weight. How many calories should I eat at each meal? What percentages of my daily calorie intake?

Yeah, whatever works. For me, most days I eat a majority of my calories early in the day and have light dinners. Just helps me sleep better.

But some days, I eat super light for breakfast, and then chow all my calories for lunch. That keeps me full for the rest of the day anyway.

This highly depends on personal preference but I also had this question with my own plan since I was having trouble getting through my workouts on some days. I found it worked out well if I took my total calorie requirement and divided it by the number of meals that I have that it worked well. By no means do I follow this religiously but it's a loose guideline that has worked out for me. In my case, that was 1370/4. I tend to do light breakfast, medium lunch, light dinner, plus snacks in the middle of the day. I usually pack breakfast, lunch and snack/s for work the night before so that's how I planned it out.

I do 200-300 for breakfast, 400-500 lunch & 700 dinner, not that i stick to it but dinner is my main meal so I always allow for more calories at night.