What’s usually your biggest meal of the day?
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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 -
JeromeBarry1 wrote: »Snacks.
If I consider them all together, this is true for me also on a lot of days.2 -
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
There’s no science-based evidence to support any of that. It sounds like the kind of stuff you read in Dr.Oz articles in a women’s magazine.
Anecdotally, I don’t eat ‘breakfast’ until somewhere around noon. My largest meal is dinner, usually around 6:30 pm and usually well over 1000 calories. My post-dinner snack is ice cream almost every night. I’ve lost 75 pounds and maintained the loss for almost a year and counting.11 -
Weekdays is definitely dinner. During the week I tend to eat like 75%-80% of my calories at night
On the weekend it's a bit different and it really depending on what I'm doing. For example if I'm planning on a long bicycle ride then it'll be breakfast as I'll be fuelling up so I have enough energy to last me peddling for several hours. If I'm socialising it will be whichever meal I'm socialising over and if I have nothing planned it tends to be pretty evenly split over the course of the day.1 -
Usually snacks. Unless my hubby has made something delicious and heavy for dinner. Never any breakfast, makes me feel sluggish and hungry the rest of the day if I eat early.1
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I tend to spread my calories out quite equally between my meals. The smallest meal I eat is my second one. Other than that roughly the same calories divided into 4 meals.1
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Breakfast and dinner are my biggest meals. For breakfast I like 2-3 eggs and either oats or toast, a good sized serving of fruits or veggies, milk, plus coffee. For dinner, it's usually some sort of protein, a bunch of veg, and some kind of starch.
My natural tendency is to have light lunches as I get caught up in whatever I'm doing and don't really think about eating. But I do try to have something so that I can meet my protein goals for the day. Lately I've been having either tuna or cold chicken plus a Greek yogurt of some kind. If I get hungry before dinner I have an apple.1 -
Dessert 😳... I have dessert after breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I have a problem... lol6
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Usually dinner is the highest calories, sometimes lunch. My breakfast is the smallest meal of the day. I prefer to have most of my calories later in the day.0
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The evening/ right before bed. Pound down about 3/4 or 3200ish cals of my 4500 allotment at that time lol0
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Lunch is my biggest (nearly 50% of my calories), dinner is my lightest unless I'm not hungry in the morning, in which case breakfast is my lightest.2
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Breakfast: 1,000 kj
Lunch: 1,000 kj
Dinner: 5,000 kj
Any kj earned from exercise go toward snacks.0 -
Usually 70% of my cals are dinner and snacks after1
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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
And this is why I was unsuccessful in my previous weight loss attempts. Because I thought I had to have breakfast and make dinner my smallest meal. No offence but I disagree with all these points7 -
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
Eating breakfast spikes my appetite for the rest of the day. It's a bad choice for me.
Universal advice like this is usually ill-advised, since eating patterns are irrelevant for most people except super elite athletes. Everyone needs to find an eating pattern that works best for their nutrition goals, their satiety, and to fuel their workouts.
For me, that's delaying eating until around noon, and eating my largest amount of food right before bed, which happens to be my dinner. I go to bed early! I also have starch with my dinner.9 -
Dinner and snacks. I never eat breakfast, and I eat a light lunch. I find I'm even hungrier during the day if I eat early...so I put off starting to eat till lunch and then load up later in the day.1
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Usually dinner for me. Sometimes lunch on a Saturday if we go out to eat somewhere. Lunch during the week is usually just a couple of hundred calories, I don't usually bother with breakfast as such (although may have a yoghurt mid to late morning).0
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I try to save more calories for dinner but its either lunch or dinner or they get the same amount of calories.0
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I save half my calories for dinner and my post-dinner snack (usually chocolate). That's a bit over 1,000 calories, of which about 700-750 a protein-rich dinner and the rest whatever the heart desires.
Eating a large breakfast doesn't agree with me at all. I used to skip it for years.0 -
They’re all the same size 500 calories for 3 meals and no snacks. I’m never hungry. Only a little when I wake up. I burn 400 calories a day at the gym0
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