How do you distribute your calories?
banana_butterfly
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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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Highly variable...I don't do the same *kitten* everyday.3
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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.0
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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.0
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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.0
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210 at breakfast, the rest at dinnerish
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Usually split my calories up like so: 100-300 breakfast, 400 lunch, 500-600 dinner, 100-300 snacks.
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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 cals3 -
I haven’t found a breakfast under 300cal that gets me through to lunch while at work. On weekends, no problem, just week days1
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500 breakfast
300-400 lunch
500 dinner
600 snacks0 -
Usually
Breakfast: 45 calories (from sugar in my coffee)
Lunch: 400-500
Dinner: 500-600
Night time snack: 100-2000 -
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.0
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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...0
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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.0 -
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.0
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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 vary0 -
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.0 -
Breakfast 100-200
Lunch 300-400
Dinner 500-600
Snacks 100-200
Totaling around 1200 a day0 -
Typically it's
Breakfast: 0
Lunch: 300-400
Dinner: 900-1100 on weekdays, 2000-2500 on weekends
Snacks: 00 -
Average 1600 Calorie day:
Breakfast - 400
Morning snack - 70
Lunch - 450
Afternoon snack - 150
Dinner - 5000 -
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.1 -
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.
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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.
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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.0 -
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.0
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Usually 500 for lunch, 700 for dinner and an evening snack.0
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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.0 -
Breakfast - 50 (sometimes I like cream in my coffee)
Lunch - 500-700
Dinner - 500-900
Snacks - 0-300 (depending on appetite and lunch/dinner)0 -
1200-1700 Calories all for lunch or late breakfast.
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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.0
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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.0
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