My day breakdown (I eat like a hobbit: elevensies anyone?):

5:45am Light 1st breakfast (oatmeal and protein powder or cereal and milk)
Walk dog
8:00am Second Breakfast (egg, string cheese, pb bread, or similar items) I try for 1 serving of protein packed food, 1 carby food, and 1 fat based food item.
Noontime walk or yoga
12:30pm Lunchtime. I batch cook on the weekends so my lunches are pre-prepped. I add a serving of fruit too
3:00pm Afternoon snack, usually greek yogurt
5:30pm Dinner time! I like to have a post-dinner treat too
Evening kickboxing class 2X a week or maybe second dog walk
8:00pm Before bed oatmeal with protein powder for muscle recovery

I eat three meals albeit not big bkt or lunch plus an afternoon snack and snack after dinner.

I eat my whole egg plus 3 eggwhites veggie omelet daily. I toss in a shredded carrot, purple cabbage and kale mix into the raw egg mix that has sriracha in it for the garlic overtone and color. One piece "dry" toast. Eat this late morning. Have a chicken breast "sandwich" (I use only one slice of bread cut into half and make the chicken breast meat sorta fit).
I eat that at about 11 when I can. Does that count? airpopped popcorn with evoo and seasoning salt about 4 pm and dinner later.

If I eat early in the morning I am just hungry and eat more the whole day. Usually my 9- 9:30 omelet and my early lunch anywhere from 11am to noonish.

I'm a 3-squares-a-day and I avoid snacking. That way, I feel like I've actually eaten a meal.

If I do small meals, or graze all day, I never feel like I've eaten, so I continue to eat, and end up eating more overall that if I had grouped my calories into 3 arbitrary bunches called meals.

The exception is if I'm going to play sports after work and don't have time for dinner beforehand. Then I'll eat some trail mix for energy & protein so I don't crash.

Murple
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Most days three "main" meals, plus extra apples during the day, Evenings.......................................

Good days for me are generally 3 meals a day with some fruit or something if necessary.

Hmm . . .

I do "three plus snacks". I start with low point meals for breakfast and lunch - not small, but low point. Dinner may be low points followed by snacking, or it may be a large meal out and less snacking. Protein at all meals.

But my basic strategy is focused on making sure I have points at the end of the day for what I might want at the end of the day.

I try not to have typical days, but sometimes I can't help it. Working from home much of the time leaves me some latitude meal-wise. Some days are pretty standard with three meals a day and little else in-between. Others are more picking at food all day long. Three (or more) small meals with some snacking in-between aren't out of the question either.

What I really try to pay attention to and to some extent am still trying to figure out is what works best and whether there's any method to the madness. Of course, I have no real complaint with the current system but at times I feel like I might do better over the course of a day if I upped my intake earlier in the day. Most days I do pretty well after noon. I do almost always save some points for after dinner. Experience tells me I'm going to need them almost every time.

I like what some of you do with a small 'pre-breakfast' snack followed up a while later with something more filling. That might help some of my desire for snacking mid-morning. Thanks for the suggestion.

Light breakfast but start with a banana. Egg whites w/ turkey sausage crumbles 1/4 cup. Usually a light lunch salad grilled chicken on it or maybe a grilled chicken sandwich with a small salad. Dinner fairly heavy definitely main meal of the day meat grilled, baked and a salad and fresh vegetables of some kind.