Calories per meal?

Trex5009
Trex5009 Posts: 171 Member
in Food and Nutrition
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
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  • rdix333
    rdix333 Posts: 111 Member
    I do about 500 each. Give our take a few
  • leisterz
    leisterz Posts: 1 Member
    I don't really eat breakfast, so lunch and dinner are each around 500-600, with about 250 for snacks.
  • Bluetail6
    Bluetail6 Posts: 2,874 Member
    Depends on the day and the amount of exercise.
  • Mycophilia
    Mycophilia Posts: 1,225 Member
    Somewhere around 400-600kcal usually. I might omit some snacks in favor of a larger 1000kcal+ meal sometimes.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,488 Member
    Trex5009 wrote: »
    leisterz wrote: »
    I don't really eat breakfast, so lunch and dinner are each around 500-600, with about 250 for snacks.

    But breakfast is super important.. you need energy to start your day

    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.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Trex5009 wrote: »
    leisterz wrote: »
    I don't really eat breakfast, so lunch and dinner are each around 500-600, with about 250 for snacks.

    But breakfast is super important.. you need energy to start your day

    No it isnt
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    Breakfast about 300 calories, dinner 800-900, and the remaining 300-400 either on lunch or various snacks throughout the day...usually snacks.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    On average, breakfast 475, lunch 475, dinner 950. But varies from day to day.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    Trex5009 wrote: »
    leisterz wrote: »
    I don't really eat breakfast, so lunch and dinner are each around 500-600, with about 250 for snacks.

    But breakfast is super important.. you need energy to start your day
    This is why losing weight and staying healthy is so difficult for many people. Good advice turns bad through Chinese whispers: You need energy to live. Breakfast is the first meal of the day. If you don't eat regularly, it's easier to overeat later. If you overeat a lot, you get overweight. This turns into "breakfast is the most important meal of the day". Common sense isn't all that common! I think most of us fall for these myths.
  • watts6151
    watts6151 Posts: 887 Member
    Roughly

    Meal 1 140
    Meal 2 340
    Meal 3 340
    Meal 4 500
    Meal 5 900
    Meal 6 760
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,426 Member
    edited September 2017
    Breakfast 100-300
    Lunch about 400
    Dinner about 500
    Snacks 100-300 usually in afternoon and evening
  • sardelsa
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
    Roughly split like this on average:

    Breakfast 500
    Snack 100
    Lunch 500
    Snack 200
    Dinner 1000
    Dessert 200
  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
    I don't do breakfast and I don't do snacks.
    First meal around 650
    Dinner around 1350
  • GlassAngyl
    GlassAngyl Posts: 478 Member
    Eclectic. It is whatever it ends up being for that day.
  • Aerona85
    Aerona85 Posts: 159 Member
    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.
  • estherdragonbat
    estherdragonbat Posts: 5,283 Member
    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.
  • boulank
    boulank Posts: 51 Member
    I would say typically
    Meal 1 180
    Meal 2 120
    Meal 3 400
    Meal 4 500
    Meal 5 300
  • Pamshebamm181
    Pamshebamm181 Posts: 92 Member
    On a typical workday:
    Breakfast ~325
    Lunch ~350
    Dinner ~500-700
    Plus snacks.

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