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What’s usually your biggest meal of the day?
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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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Evening meal for me. This meal usually accounts for 1/2 to 2/3 of my daily allowance. I've lost 75 pounds and am maintaining with this pattern.2
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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
People pay money for advice like that? Wow!
For me It's mostly either no breakfast or a light breakfast, a medium sized lunch and a large evening meal plus two or three snacks at any time of day.11 -
On work days, it's my midday meal. At home? Supper0
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On weekdays my evening meal is largest. On weekends it is usually my midday meal.1
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During the week it’s dinner. It changes on the weekend depending on what we’re doing.0
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Breakfast by far!0
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Dinner for sure. Dinner, lunch, then breakfast is my smallest.1
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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
Great advice. I recently read an article that backed up everything you've stated. In addition, it mentioned no sweets in the morning, as it will leave you longing for more throughout the day.14 -
Dinner. I have coffee with my flavored creamer in the morning, a small afternoon snack if I'm hungry, and dinner. Works with my natural eating pattern, easier for me to keep my deficit even when traveling and racing.1
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I eat at 10 and 3-4ish as that seems to be my natural hunger times so my brunch and dinner are about equal at 500 calories or so and it sometimes leaves room for a snack.1
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KimmieCapone wrote: »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
Great advice. I recently read an article that backed up everything you've stated. In addition, it mentioned no sweets in the morning, as it will leave you longing for more throughout the day.
Advice that purports to tell every single person exactly when and what they should eat is pretty much worthless. Some people do best with a big breakfast, some don't. Some people like fruit for dessert, some don't. Food preferences and timing are individual.
I like something sweet in the morning with my coffee when I get to work. Usually it is a protein bar and a piece of fruit. Certainly doesn't leave me "longing for more throughout the day."9 -
Lunch is the main meal at our house. My husband and I work evenings, so I prepare a cooked meal at noon. We pack what most people would consider a lunch "to go" for our evening meal at work.
We still snack in the evenings when we get home, though.
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Dinner. I tend to want to snack at night, but am usually fine in the mornings/afternoons. This way I'm full all the way through bedtime. Also I eat breakfast/lunch at work, and my husband isn't dieting so I'll usually make a "normal" meal for dinner and prepare our work meals separately.0
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When I don't end up snacking on office treats my ideal day goes like.
Coffee with Cream until noon.
Medium Sized Lunch
Pre Workout Protein snack fo some kind
Large Dinner
Bedtime Snack0 -
I try to make it breakfast, but a lot of times it ends up as dinner. The people I eat with tend to just eat a lot of food before bedtime aka dinner.0
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Mine is always dinner. I'm so busy in the morning and afternoon that I can get away with small snacks so I can eat a 700 cal dinner when I get home.0
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KimmieCapone wrote: »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
Great advice. I recently read an article that backed up everything you've stated. In addition, it mentioned no sweets in the morning, as it will leave you longing for more throughout the day.
Lol was the article from yahoo, popsugar, some other biased site?? Articles aren’t credible either, they’re just entertainment. And the sweets thing is subjective. Also the advice listed from the nutritionist post is bogus....
I’ll continue eating my cookies and cereal right before bed😂💪🏻7 -
During the week dinner for sure. Sometime I will only snack and not really have another meal depending on my workout that day and how hungry I am. On weekends we do family brunch and that’s definitely my largest meal those two days.0
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Other than on days I am going out to dinner, when I save room at other meals and have a big dinner, my meals currently are all around the same size. But to the extent they differ, its more likely that breakfast and lunch will be a bit smaller and dinner a bit bigger (or I'll have a little room for an immediately post dinner something special).1
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