Calories per meal?
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Trex5009
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How many calories are in each meal of your day? For me it's
-900 for breakfast
-400 for lunch
-400 for dinner
-150 for snacks
-900 for breakfast
-400 for lunch
-400 for dinner
-150 for snacks
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I do about 500 each. Give our take a few0
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I don't really eat breakfast, so lunch and dinner are each around 500-600, with about 250 for snacks.0
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Totally personal preference. If I force myself to eat breakfast within the first 3-4 hours of getting up, I feel ill. I also get hungrier earlier and run our of calories faster. It doesn't affect my day at all.The whole "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" has been debunked time and time again.8 -
Depends on the day and the amount of exercise.0
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Somewhere around 400-600kcal usually. I might omit some snacks in favor of a larger 1000kcal+ meal sometimes.0
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No - breakfast obviously is important to YOU because you spend most of your calories on it. I am also a breakfast eater - I need food in the morning. But that's personal preference and doing what works for me. No one else needs to eat breakfast just because you or I eat breakfast.
Same with how you split your calories during the day. Calories don't care what time it is - they perform the same at all hours of the day. Eat too many and you gain, eat a deficit you lose. When you eat them is personal preference.4 -
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Breakfast about 300 calories, dinner 800-900, and the remaining 300-400 either on lunch or various snacks throughout the day...usually snacks.0
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On average, breakfast 475, lunch 475, dinner 950. But varies from day to day.0
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Roughly
Meal 1 140
Meal 2 340
Meal 3 340
Meal 4 500
Meal 5 900
Meal 6 7600 -
Breakfast 100-300
Lunch about 400
Dinner about 500
Snacks 100-300 usually in afternoon and evening0 -
Roughly split like this on average:
Breakfast 500
Snack 100
Lunch 500
Snack 200
Dinner 1000
Dessert 200
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I don't do breakfast and I don't do snacks.
First meal around 650
Dinner around 13500 -
Eclectic. It is whatever it ends up being for that day.0
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I get up around 7, don't eat until 10-1030. Like someone posted above, if I force myself to eat when I wake up, I get physically ill. Usually 200-300 cals. Lunch (usually around 1 pm) 400-500. Dinner (between 6 and 7 pm) 700-800. Sometimes do snacks, sometimes not. Depends on the day and how cals play out.0
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My breakfast is usually slightly over 300 calories. I weigh out a cup of grapes (anywhere from about 150 to 172 grams, depending on how they fall in the cup), add a 6oz container of Greek yogurt, and crumble a granola bar on top. It's got a bit of protein, carbs, and fat which IMO works to keep me full on fewer calories.
Lunch is around 4-500 calories.
Supper 5-600
And I snack. But I also exercise daily. Typically, it's at least a 2-hour walk or an hour on the fitness glider, or, if I walk less than an hour, I'll do both. And strength training with light dumbbells three times a week. Eating back 50% of exercise calories usually gives me about 1700 or more to work with, which I use on snacks or to pad my meals. It can mean the difference between, say, mustard on my veggie patty or hummus.0 -
I would say typically
Meal 1 180
Meal 2 120
Meal 3 400
Meal 4 500
Meal 5 300
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On a typical workday:
Breakfast ~325
Lunch ~350
Dinner ~500-700
Plus snacks.0
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