calorie per meal allowance

This may have been posted somewhere before so if so please just direct me..

I am on a 1200-1300calorie day diet. I was wondering if someone has somekind of calorie per meal allowance. I find myself not eating a lot during the day then at night realizing I still have 600-700 calories left to eat and don't feel like eating that much so miss out.. Any suggestions as to proper meal allowance?

Breakfast  300 cal
Snack 100 cal
Lunch  350 cal
Snack  100 cal
Dinner 400 cal

Total: 1250

hope this helps! :)

I'm fairly new to this.  I'm also on a 1200 cal/day diet.  I try to have about 300 cals per meal (break/lunch/dinner) & that leaves 3 snacks of ~100 cals per day--- 300 + 300 + 300 + 300= 1200 cals/day.  It has worked for me so far & I've kept 8 lbs. off since Sept. 1st without much effort.  I hope this helps:) oh, & of course, lots & lots of water................... 

Generally:

300-350 Breakfast

150 (MAX) Snack

300 Lunch

500-600 Dinner

150 (MAX) Snack

Total: 1550

Sometimes I go WAY under these numbers...but these are what I consider safe :)    Sometimes I only have a 60 cal yogurt or a nice big 500 calorie egg white/ham wrap for breakfast...it varies :)

I'm at between 1300-1400 cals a day, and here's mine:

Breakfast: 300 cals

Morning snack: 240

Lunch:  200 cals

Afternoon snack:  90 cals

Dinner: 500-600 cals

I also eat the same things every day until dinner, so that i know how much I've had and how much I have left.

 

How come do you guys eat 500 -600 for dinner? I usually eat a light dinner and heavy breakfast ( around 500 in the morning time) and moderate lunch.

Because for me it's a lot easier for "steak and potatoes" to add up to 600 than it is for eggs, wheat bread and flax seeds.  I HATE and I mean HATE eating breakfast, but I do it because I'm supposed to.  I'm not going to force 500 calories down only to feel like poo the first 4 hours of work :)  I think 350 is more than enough for a breakfast. It's all personal preference.  A 300 calorie dinner is boring to me, a 3oz piece of fish and steamed spinach?  Not exactly how I roll :)

Breakfast - 350

Lunch - 300

Dinner - 500

Spare - 150

With the spare calories i tend to have fruit, tea with milk, snacks etc

Sometimes i have more spare calories and i just add with snacks and things

I agree with Angel...I like coming home from work and sitting down to eat a "real" meal.  Meat, veggies, and some kind of grain.  I also am of the opinion that since the time between dinner and breakfast is the longest, I should eat more at dinner to tide me through...that's my opinion though, and many will disagree.  And people are different.  If you prefer to eat more in the morning and that works for you, than that's great :)

I'm also not much of a morning person so getting up and making a breakfast that's more calories just isn't realistic for me.

Thank you! I appreciate all your input. I think I am definitely undereating early throughout the day... Guess I'm gonna have to work on that one LOL!