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: 2,984 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: 9,487 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: 905 Member
    Roughly

    Meal 1 140
    Meal 2 340
    Meal 3 340
    Meal 4 500
    Meal 5 900
    Meal 6 760
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 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.
  • avskk
    avskk Posts: 1,787 Member
    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.
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    edited September 2017
    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.
  • JennJ323
    JennJ323 Posts: 646 Member
    edited September 2017
    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.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    200 breakfast
    400-500 lunch
    500-800 dinner

    No snacks.
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    1500-2000 for the one meal a day - call it breakfast or dinner, usually 9-10 pm.
  • shimmer_glo
    shimmer_glo Posts: 103 Member
    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.
  • ejbronte
    ejbronte Posts: 867 Member
    About 300 to 400 per meal.
  • FeelingAlive
    FeelingAlive Posts: 117 Member
    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.
  • 2writteninshadows2
    2writteninshadows2 Posts: 7 Member
    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 2000-2100kcals
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    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.

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