How do you distrubute your daily calorie allowance?

Miz_CYW
Miz_CYW Posts: 5 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Do you divide your daily calorie allowance by three? Is your breakfast bigger than lunch or dinner? Is dinner your biggest meal?

I'm allocated 1,400 calories per day and I've decided to eat approximately 465 for b'fast and dinner, 310 for lunch and one snack of about 155 calories. I'm starving in the AM and have an issue with late night snacking, which is why I made b'fast and dinner my largest meals.

What's your strategy around this?

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  • H_Ock12
    H_Ock12 Posts: 1,152 Member
    I have a protein shake early in the afternoon and consume the rest of my calories in a meal within four hours. I'm also doing IF with a 19/5 or 20/4 split.
  • lulalacroix
    lulalacroix Posts: 1,082 Member
    I use an 16:8 IF schedule. So my breakdown is by time, not meals.
  • Meganthedogmom
    Meganthedogmom Posts: 1,639 Member
    I eat 1600-1900 calories depending on my workouts. Lately I haven't started eating until around noon, except for coffee & creamer. So I'll have about 400-500 calorie lunch, 200 calorie snack in the afternoon, about 600 for dinner and if I have dessert or more snacks, another 300-500 calories. Approximately. So I eat most of my calories later in the day.
  • nono706
    nono706 Posts: 25 Member
    I like to get in about half my calories right away in the morning- I feel like it sets me up for my workouts, and helps my energy level through the day.

    Through the rest of the day I eat 2-4 small meals and snacks like salad, popcorn with nutritional yeast, chia pudding, an ounce of almonds.

    I don't log my dinner (I have young children and dinner is such a whirlwind around here) so I try not to eat any of my exercise calories back- but if I'm really hungry and I've hit my limit for the day I will eat something else.

    With dinner I generally eat as many veggies as I want, and a reasonable portion for whatever our main dish is.
  • NoAnalHere
    NoAnalHere Posts: 97 Member
    I eat 1500c and my meals get larger throughout the day lol. I'm a huge fan of large dinners so dinner is 700c, lunch is 500c, and snacks throughout the day is 300c. I have coffee in the morning and usually don't eat anything else until well into noon. If I'm starving then breakfast will be 300c and no snacking. If you're someone who needs food fuel in the morning then skipping breakfast isn't a good idea. It's whatever works for you within your calorie goals
  • MrsPinterest34
    MrsPinterest34 Posts: 342 Member
    edited March 2017
    1 eat 1490 calories.
    Average breakfast 200-300c
    Average lunch with snack 400-500c
    Average Dinner with snack 600-700c
  • inertiastrength
    inertiastrength Posts: 2,343 Member
    I fast until 1, have a protein bar and then come dinner and the evening I eat the bulk of my calories. I'm a raccoon; I like to rummage in the evenings.
  • BoxerBrawler
    BoxerBrawler Posts: 2,032 Member
    I'm a breakfast person so I eat most of my calories in the early morning - mid afternoon.
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