Eating your biggest meal at lunch!

It won't help for weight loss. To make it simple, if your body needs more than you eat, you loose weight.
If you eat your biggest meal at lunch, it won't change anything, since it's the overall that matters

I have found that when I eat a larger lunch, it keeps me fuller longer, which means I am not eating dinner at 5:30. If I can hold off until 6:30 or 7, then the chances are better that I will not snack later that evening. Which means less calories and more weight loss for me.

That's what my parents do. They are in thier 70's and since they aren't as active as they uses to be this helps keep thier weight down. I was thinking of doing the same. The more I eat at night the worse off I am.

Just been to the Doctor to start my weight loss program. Her recommendation was to not eat one "big" meal at any time but to break it up to 5 or 6 meals in a day. This has 2 benefits. It keeps the body in longer digestion periods increasing the metabolism making it (the body) feel like it's being fed. Important if you've had cycles of feast and famines and your body has taught itself to save for the famine times. Also, it helps keep the blood sugar levels leveled. I've only been doing this for a couple of days, so I can't give a yea or nay on the success, but it does make sense. She also recommended no snacking or eating after 6 unless I've just completed a cardio work out.

I definitely eat my biggest meal at lunch, but it's only a difference of 100 calories. My diary is public to see a typical day for me. I find that I have to go the longest between meals for lunch and dinner, and I workout before my dinner in the evenings. I need the fuel or else I won't have the energy to workout. I also have an afternoon snack (usually an apple). It works well for me and I'm not tempted to snack all afternoon at my desk. I also make sure it has plenty of protein, or else I'll just be hungry an hour later even if i ate 400-500 calories.

My schedule is 250 calorie breakfast, 400 or so calorie lunch, 100 calorie snack, 300 or so calorie dinner and a 150 or so calorie snack. That's a baseline of 1200 calories and I tend to go over that a bit for a total of 1300.

I often do on the weekends, but during the week I have a desk job so I have a pretty light lunch. Otherwise I get sleepy in the afternoon.

I have started eater larger lunches (but not necessarily my "largest" meal) for two reasons:
1. I'm fueled up for my workout, and not running on empty.
2. I'm less hungry and less cranky in the evenings, when it finally comes time to eat dinner. (Since dinner is after I get home from the gym, it's usually late to be eating a large meal.)

The one downside for me is that I tend to get sleepy/sluggish after lunch.

Switch up play around with your food to see what works best for you. Never hurts to try we are all diffrent have fun and good luck to you.

Due to my client schedule I do this and it has helped me. My lightest meal is dinner and I love it that way. My lunch is heavier than other meals but not substantial enough to put me in a food coma, LOL.

I am specifically responding to the "eat after 6" thing. According to both my nutritionist and personal trainer: Your body has no idea what time it is. If I was unable to eat after six, I wouldn't be able to eat dinner period because I don't go to the gym until 6 and I don't get home until 8.

If I am hungry right before bed, they would rather me have a very small snack (i.e. a baby bel cheese, or a half a slice of turkey) than go to bed with my stomach growling. I asked both of them if this was advice they were giving me because they both know my schedule and workout regiment and they both said the advice was applicable to everyone.

As far as the OP's question: It turns out for me that my highest caloric intake is during lunch, but that is because I don't eat starches for dinner to try to keep my carbos in check (advice the nutritionist gave me that is not necessarily applicable to everyone else). I do try to eat 5-6 times per day and stay under my 1600 cal goal no matter what exercise I do (My diary is public, if explored you will see that I have stopped logging exercise on this site. I don't want MFP to alter my cal goals, I want to be able to see exactly how much I have left. I track exercise cals via my polar HRM.)

Anywho. Good luck everyone!

Just been to the Doctor to start my weight loss program. Her recommendation was to not eat one "big" meal at any time but to break it up to 5 or 6 meals in a day. This has 2 benefits. It keeps the body in longer digestion periods increasing the metabolism making it (the body) feel like it's being fed. Important if you've had cycles of feast and famines and your body has taught itself to save for the famine times. Also, it helps keep the blood sugar levels leveled. I've only been doing this for a couple of days, so I can't give a yea or nay on the success, but it does make sense. She also recommended no snacking or eating after 6 unless I've just completed a cardio work out.

I like my big meal at night. You won't overeat if you take 5 mins to plan.

I think it's worth a try. I find I'm more satisfied and don't feel like so hungry later on

All I have to say about this is...I live in Italy. The Italians have a small breakfast, huge lunch, a small snack later on during the day, and a small dinner. It‘s rare when I see obese people walking around here. Maybe we can learn a little something from them.

I eat two lunches.. Breakfast at 7. Snack at 930 (sometimes if Im hungry depends on bfast) lunch at 11 and lunch at 2 dinner snack at 4 dinner at 6 ish... I try to make each meal around the same amount of calories. Around 2-300 calories. I dont always eat every snack, it depends on the day.. Or if I plan a huge meal I will go lighter on the calories for rest of meals so it evens out. I dont think it matters when you eat them. I think the issue is if you go to light during the day you may binge on dinner.. Maybe then a bigger lunch would be better.