Calories per meal?
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My most common breakdown is 300/500/700, plus snacks and wine, but it does vary a little. Yesterday I was around 700 for each meal, and some days I hit more like 300 for each. I'm trying to eat according to my hunger level instead of external rules.0
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I like to do 700-800 for lunch and dinner. Plus probably 50 ish calories for coffee (half and half and sugar) depending on how much I drink that day. I don't eat snacks or breakfast. Except sometimes I'll have chocolate before bed like 85 calories worth.0
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Usually around 200 for breakfast, 400 for lunch and 600 for dinner (I'm not really a snacker so I don't bother allotting calories for snacks, if I have some leftover at the end of the day I may have something small before bed). It varies, but that's what I'm usually around, sometimes a little less. My calorie goal is 1200 for the day, so it works out nicely.0
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200 breakfast
400-500 lunch
500-800 dinner
No snacks.0 -
1500-2000 for the one meal a day - call it breakfast or dinner, usually 9-10 pm.0
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Normally I just have coffee for breakfast, eat about 300 calories at lunch and then save the rest for the afternoon and evening when I'm most hungry. My goal is 1300 a day.0
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About 300 to 400 per meal.0
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Breakfast is usually under 200, which is also about 2-3 hours after I have woke up. Lunch is 300 and dinner around 700. If I don't meet the 1200/day I'll add in a snack, but I don't normally snack. My calorie goal is 1442, but I'm usually around 1200-1300.0
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Breakfast: 450-500kcals: usually porridge, yogurt and fruit.
Lunch: 500kcals: something easy such as a wrap, sandwich, soup, etc.
Dinner: 500-600kcals: something hot with the family, like Shepherd’s pie.
Snacks: 400-500kcals: one mid-afternoon which is usually crackers, spread and vegetables and one after dinner which is usually fruit, oats/nuts and yogurt.
I’m a maintainer, but I haven’t quite sustained a meal balance yet. My total goal is 2000-2100kcals0 -
0 - 600 for breakfast
500 - 700 for lunch
700 - 1200 for dinner
0 - 1000 for snacks
There's nothing special about eating first thing in the morning or calorie timing in general - we all have loads of energy in our bodies already.
My son has a very physical job (builder) and his breakfast is often a glass of milk and a couple of spoonfuls of peanut butter, light and late lunch (such as a sandwich) and then eat a huge meal in the evening.
Breakfast is one of my tools for maintaining my weight, when I need to eat more I have a bigger breakfast, when I want to cut some calories I skip it. I enjoy it but don't need it.1 -
It varies among ranges.
breakfast: 300-500
lunch 400-600
dinner 700-10000 -
Breakfast - 300
Second breakfast - 350
Elevenses - 250
Lunch - 600
Afternoon tea - 200
Dinner - 800
Supper - 5004 -
300 for breakfast.
300 for lunch.
1100 for dinner, wine, dessert.
200 in snacks/more wine if I go to the gym.0 -
breakfast 500
lunch 300
Dinner 600
snacks 500
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Breakfast - 0
Lunch - 400-500
Dinner - 800-900
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I use pretty wide ranges, I just make sure the meals balance to hit my calorie goal for the day.
Breakfast: 100-500 calories
Lunch: 300-800 calories
Dinner: 250-1,000 calories
Snack: 0-300 calories0 -
I don't really do meals. If I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, then I'll have 250 cals or so after my mid-day workout, then I start eating when I get home form work, and keep eating until my remaining 1800ish cals are used up.0
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During the week it's usually something like
Breakfast: 0
Lunch: 250-350
Dinner: 1000 - 1400
Snacks: 0 - 150
Much higher and much less organized on the weekends.0
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