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How do you distribute your calories?

banana_butterfly
banana_butterfly Posts: 29 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I do 250 breakfast, 500 or so at lunch and 600 or so at dinner usually. What about you?
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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Highly variable...I don't do the same *kitten* everyday.
  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,871 Member
    A quick look back at the weekly view shows I usually eat around 50% of my calories at the evening meal (family time, and my husband cooks a lot so I'm not willing to skimp there), 25% at lunch, 15-20% at breakfast, and the rest is snackage. Weekends vary greatly though.
  • nmjordan
    nmjordan Posts: 37 Member
    Mine are also variable, but usually breakfast and dinner have the most, with like 300-500. Lunch is hit or miss and snacks are usually about 200ish.
  • Momepro
    Momepro Posts: 1,509 Member
    Try to keep breakfast and lunch and snacks under or around 300ish and dinner gets all my leftover and excerise calories, so between 600 and 1500 depending on how active I was.
  • fuzzylop72
    fuzzylop72 Posts: 651 Member
    210 at breakfast, the rest at dinnerish
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    Usually split my calories up like so: 100-300 breakfast, 400 lunch, 500-600 dinner, 100-300 snacks.
  • sardelsa
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
    Typically looks like this:
    Breakfast: 400-500 cals
    Snack 1: 200-400 cals
    Lunch: 300-600 cals
    Snack 2: 200-400 cals
    Dinner: 800-1000 cals
    Dessert: 100-300 cals
  • darrenbradshaw82
    darrenbradshaw82 Posts: 5 Member
    I haven’t found a breakfast under 300cal that gets me through to lunch while at work. On weekends, no problem, just week days
  • Sp1tfire
    Sp1tfire Posts: 1,120 Member
    500 breakfast
    300-400 lunch
    500 dinner
    600 snacks
  • whosshe
    whosshe Posts: 597 Member
    edited February 2018
    Usually

    Breakfast: 45 calories (from sugar in my coffee)
    Lunch: 400-500
    Dinner: 500-600
    Night time snack: 100-200
  • Ebony_Kitty
    Ebony_Kitty Posts: 41 Member
    Depends on whether I am traveling or not (one the road 15 days a month). When home, I eat about 400-500 for breakfast, a small lunch when I get back from my exercising (running or biking), and then the rest for dinner and a small treat, usually cereal or fruit for dessert. So probably 500/200/800/200. I maintain on 2300 but trying to drop a few pounds so I’m trying to short myself about 600 calories per day.
  • Psalm1139
    Psalm1139 Posts: 31 Member
    I eat less than 300 for breakfast most days. Roughly 400 for lunch, 600 for dinner and 200-400 for snacks depending on my exercise. Some days I skip breakfast and/or lunch to have pizza or other such deliciousness. I'm not a particularly healthy eater, I aim more for calories than macros or nutrition at this point. I've tried eating primarily healthy and it never works well for me. No matter how much I eat my brain tricks me into thinking I'm starving so I eat nearly constantly. If I eat a Poptart for breakfast I'm good until lunch. If I eat eggs, a banana, a glass of milk, and some veggies, I'm hungry 15 minutes later. Well I mean I'm craving something and feel hungry... Maybe after I lose weight I'll work on the quality, not just the quantity of my food...
  • Chieflrg
    Chieflrg Posts: 9,097 Member
    edited February 2018
    Typical day cutting for a meet while cutting.

    250-300 breakfast
    300 cals of protien for brunch
    300 cals snack mid day
    800 cals of seasoned meat/rice or pizza
    1000-2000 cals of ice cream, cookies, chocolate etc...

    When bulking, I usually have more pasteries and pizza than on a cut.
  • tar2323
    tar2323 Posts: 141 Member
    edited February 2018
    240 cals throughout the day on milk for tea and sugar-free sweets (candies) if I want one, and my first proper meal at 6pm (usually around the 500 cal area) and the rest on ice-cream or baked crisps whilst watching Netflix :) 1200 total.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    something like this on work days:

    300 cal breakfast
    400 cal lunch
    2-300 cals of snacks in afternoon
    700 cal tea

    weekends vary
  • murp4069
    murp4069 Posts: 494 Member
    M-F, something like this:
    150 breakfast
    400 lunch
    150 snack
    600 dinner
    100 dessert

    Give or take depending on if I have exercised that day or not. If so, then a little more. If no exercise, a little less.

    Weekends are highly variable. Husband and I typically go out to dinner on Saturday nights, so I'll eat very lightly during the day or depending on the restaurant I may fast until dinner. Sundays we typically have a larger Sunday dinner, so again I'll eat pretty lightly during the day. Since Sunday dinners are homemade and I have a lot more control over how many calories something has, I would rarely fast like I might for a Saturday dinner where calories are a lot harder to predict.
  • JennJ323
    JennJ323 Posts: 646 Member
    Breakfast 100-200
    Lunch 300-400
    Dinner 500-600
    Snacks 100-200

    Totaling around 1200 a day
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    Typically it's
    Breakfast: 0
    Lunch: 300-400
    Dinner: 900-1100 on weekdays, 2000-2500 on weekends
    Snacks: 0
  • acbraswell
    acbraswell Posts: 238 Member
    Average 1600 Calorie day:

    Breakfast - 400
    Morning snack - 70
    Lunch - 450
    Afternoon snack - 150
    Dinner - 500
  • stanmann571
    stanmann571 Posts: 5,727 Member
    50-60% dinner
    25-35% lunch
    The rest breakfast,
    Except on the weekend when it tends to be 35-45% late breakfast and the rest dinner.
  • kathakraz
    kathakraz Posts: 65 Member
    Weekdays:
    600 breakfast
    600 lunch
    600-1000 dinner
    0 snacks

    On weekends, I'm all over the place on number of meals and calories in each based on schedule and activity.

  • tmaths
    tmaths Posts: 58 Member
    It varies me, but I'm going to try that old phrase my mom told me about for years

    " eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauper"

    So for an 1850 cal day I currently do this

    Breakfast - 625 cal
    - 1.25 cup vector cereal
    - 1 cup silk almond milk
    - 2 peanut butter toasts

    lunch - 420

    - Eat smart- Southwest/Sweet Kale
    - Cloverleaf spicy tuna( or another flavour )

    Dinner- 550 cal

    It varies depending what I feel like cooking

    Snacks- 250 cal

    Vector bars, clif bars, this is also where I throw in if I had honey in my tea etc

    That comes to 1845, close enough to 1850

    However, want to try the above ( eat more at breakfast ) idea, in which case, I can see it breaking down like this for an 1800 day

    700 breakfast ( to get me through work ( desk job ) up to lunch )
    450 lunch ( to get me to 4 pm, when I need that last burst of energy to get home )
    250 snacks (eat on way home for a quick burst of energy or while at work )
    400 dinner ( since at that point I'm winding down, playing vid games, etc and don't need as much energy as during the day

    I'm a creature of habit, so I can stick to something pretty easily, and get used to it.


  • HoneyBadger302
    HoneyBadger302 Posts: 2,113 Member
    Pretty evenly, with a slightly bigger dinner most days, but talking like a 200 calorie difference most of the time.

    I eat 3 meals and will have one snack (usually some pre-portioned mixed nuts) if I'm getting really hungry in the late afternoon at work...if I don't feel the need for the snack, then I skip it.
  • mamabear1114
    mamabear1114 Posts: 140 Member
    Breakfast and lunch are both usually about 300. Dinner is about 400-500. And like 900 worth of snacks for real. I’m pregnant so I’m just in a constant state of grazing. My stomach is squished so eating big meals is difficult. Works for me. :)
  • toxikon
    toxikon Posts: 2,383 Member
    Usually 500 for lunch, 700 for dinner and an evening snack.
  • abbynormalartist
    abbynormalartist Posts: 318 Member
    It varies but this is my usual weekday breakdown...

    Breakfast - 130
    Snack - 100
    Lunch - 200
    Afternoon snack - 80
    Dinner - 600
    Evening snack - 200

    I like a lot of little things to snack on while I'm at work and then a big dinner with my family.
  • ccrdragon
    ccrdragon Posts: 3,375 Member
    Breakfast - 50 (sometimes I like cream in my coffee)
    Lunch - 500-700
    Dinner - 500-900
    Snacks - 0-300 (depending on appetite and lunch/dinner)
  • kokonani
    kokonani Posts: 507 Member

    1200-1700 Calories all for lunch or late breakfast.
  • joelchmielak1
    joelchmielak1 Posts: 48 Member
    I don’t worry about it. My meals range from 250-400 and my snacks range from 90 to 220 If I go to max on all 3 meals and 3 snacks I’ll be at slightly over my calorie goal of 1800. Most days I end up over 1800 around 2k and still lose over the course of the week.
  • lulalacroix
    lulalacroix Posts: 1,082 Member
    Mine completely varies depending on hunger levels, whatever workout I may be doing that day, if I've banked calories, whether or not I'm working.
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