How do you distribute your calories?

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banana_butterfly
banana_butterfly Posts: 29 Member
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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: 41,874 Member
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    Highly variable...I don't do the same *kitten* everyday.
  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,874 Member
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    210 at breakfast, the rest at dinnerish
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,426 Member
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    Usually split my calories up like so: 100-300 breakfast, 400 lunch, 500-600 dinner, 100-300 snacks.
  • sardelsa
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
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    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
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    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
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    500 breakfast
    300-400 lunch
    500 dinner
    600 snacks
  • whosshe
    whosshe Posts: 597 Member
    edited February 2018
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    Breakfast 100-200
    Lunch 300-400
    Dinner 500-600
    Snacks 100-200

    Totaling around 1200 a day
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,576 Member
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    Typically it's
    Breakfast: 0
    Lunch: 300-400
    Dinner: 900-1100 on weekdays, 2000-2500 on weekends
    Snacks: 0
  • acbraswell
    acbraswell Posts: 238 Member
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    Average 1600 Calorie day:

    Breakfast - 400
    Morning snack - 70
    Lunch - 450
    Afternoon snack - 150
    Dinner - 500
  • stanmann571
    stanmann571 Posts: 5,728 Member
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    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.

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