What’s usually your biggest meal of the day?
zanhuor
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Just curious!
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Medium sized meal mid-day, larger meal in the evening, then snack before bed.1
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My evening meal0
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Dinner. If my evening meal is too small I get hungry when I'm falling asleep.1
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Breakfast!3
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Mid day Monday through Friday. Evening Meal on weekends as hubby is home then.0
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From a nutrition perspective, my fiance's private nutrition practice recommends a few tips and tricks:
- Try to make breakfast your largest meal. A balanced breakfast with starches, protein, and fruit gives your body the energy it needs to perform its best during the day. You also will break your overnight fast with the nutrients you need to get off to a good start!
- Dinner can have a ton of variety, but try not to load up on starches. She typically recommends a protein (fish, chicken) plus a vegetable. If you prefer a starch, go with a baked potato or brown rice
- Post dinner snack / want something sweet? Go with a fruit such as pineapple or strawberries
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Typically, breakfast. I enjoy breakfast foods the most and having a large breakfast makes me less hungry throughout the day. I usually eat something very small for lunch and then a larger dinner.1
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Snacks.3
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Breakfast for sure. Like @DougBobrow mentioned, starches and fruit and protein. I typicaly stop eating by 7-8pm at night and workout in the morning before I eat breakfast. So for me, breakfast is the biggest meal.4
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Dinner for me. Can eat fairly light up to that point but when it's dinner time I'm ready to eat heavy.6
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Enthusiast84 wrote: »Dinner for me. Can eat fairly light up to that point but when it's dinner time I'm ready to eat heavy.
What does eating heavy usually mean for you?0 -
Most of my calories are used at that mealtime.2
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Dinner is my biggest meal and sometimes my only meal with I'm IF'ing2
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Snacks
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Varies by day, as does the number of meals/snacks I eat, and what time of day I eat them. I try to spread protein across all the meals I eat, and to make sure I get some fats when eating veggies (on speculation, in case it helps with utilizing the fat-soluble ones). My only timing rule is to wait after taking thyroid meds, before eating, as per directions. (Eating right before bed doesn't give me reflux or interfere with my sleep, as it does for some people).
For anyone who does not have a relevant health condition, and who isn't an elite athlete trying to squeeze out that extra 0.5% of performance, timing of eating is mostly a matter of personal preferences and needs, as far as I've been able to determine.4 -
Definitely dinner0
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DougBobrow wrote: »From a nutrition perspective, my fiance's private nutrition practice recommends a few tips and tricks:
- Try to make breakfast your largest meal. A balanced breakfast with starches, protein, and fruit gives your body the energy it needs to perform its best during the day. You also will break your overnight fast with the nutrients you need to get off to a good start!
- Dinner can have a ton of variety, but try not to load up on starches. She typically recommends a protein (fish, chicken) plus a vegetable. If you prefer a starch, go with a baked potato or brown rice
- Post dinner snack / want something sweet? Go with a fruit such as pineapple or strawberries
What? No lunch?
And for weight loss it makes no difference when you eat what, it matters that you eat less than you burn.
I eat my big meal for dinner. It's the only time of the day I can actually sit and enjoy a meal.11 -
My total calories eaten in after dinner snacking is roughly the same as my breakfast, lunch, and dinner calories.5
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Honestly it depends on how I'm feeling and what day it is. If it's the weekend then I like to have a large breakfast, light lunch, and moderate dinner.
If it's during the week and I'm heading to the office, either a really light breakfast or no breakfast,followed by a heavy lunch and maybe a light snack around 5.
If I'm working from home, a moderate breakfast, grazing, light lunch, light dinner.0
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