How many calories do you eat per meal?

Everyone's calorie intake is different, which means everyone's calories are different per meal. I was just curious what everyone's meals look like. Is breakfast your biggest meal of the day? Do you eat 5 small meals and then some snacks? How much of your daily calorie intake does lunch take up? Just curious!

-Adrea :]

I love breakfast, so it's usually about 400 calories for me (cereal+milk or hot oatmeal and a banana)

I usually have another piece of fruit or a yogurt for a mid-AM snack

Lunch I'm not a huge fan of, but it usually is about 300 calories (a salad, some tuna, some hummus, soup, or more cereal :)

3 pm is usually time for another 100 calorie snack

Dinner: usually about 500

Dessert (always dessert) anywhere from 25-200 cals... depending on my day :)

That totals about 1500 calories. Give or take

B 300 - 600 snack 100-200 snack 100-200 L- 500ish snack 100-200 snack 100-200 D- 300-600

so if I hit all the high numbers i'd get 2100 calories on a deficite of about 1000. I dont really eat a dinner either that's 510 calories of peanuts at some point during the day.

I do 300 for breakfast, 300 for lunch, 400 for dinner, 250 for snack today's breakfast: 1 packet of maple and brown sugar oatmeal, hot chocolate, and 1tsp caramel syrup 295 cal.  lunch: a chicken wing, a baked sweet potatoe, 4 french fries, water 280 cal. Snack: 4 peanut butter crackers, 2/3 cup marshmallows, water 240 cal. Dinner: a chicken wing, 11/2 cup peas and carrots, a slice of bread, 4 peanut butter crackers, diet dr. pepper 393 cal. 

I forgot I am a late nite eater and I eat up to 1250 calories a day

I eat anywhere from 900-1000 calories a day. 

Breakfast usually is about 160 calories (fat free milk and 1/2 cup cereal)

Lunch usually about 400 calories (lettuce tomato Sandwich)

Dinner is about 300 calories (baked chicken, biscuit, and a veggie/salad)

Snacks usually are 40-140 calories (fruit, veggie, and cheese platter or a few cookies, or granola bars)

I drink water, diet cokes, and sugar free 0 calories drink mixes all day which contains 0 calories in all of those.

^ Your body needs AT LEAST 1200 calories, the bare minimum.




Daily I aim to eat 1200-1350.

Breakfast - 300
Snack - 100
Lunch - 300
Snack - 100
Diner - 300-400
Snack - 100

+/- a few calories here and there. Once in a while I come short. And once in a while I eat more depending if I have a larger deficit that day due to a longer workout session.

I aim to eat 1700 a day and usually it's something like this.

Breakfast: 250
Snack:200
Lunch:400
Snack:200
Dinner:450
Snack/Treat: 200

I have just started maintaining my weight and my burn metre is at 1770. I only aim for 1700 because i use cooking spray, a little extra cottage cheese or spreads and a diet soft drink etc that i don't accomodate for. I also give myself a little space for error.

1770 is for when i am sedentary so i burn about 1900 a day when i stop being lazy lol. So sometimes i have about 300-400 calories left at night so i will use that as my treat time. Depending on how hungry i am, i will have a cupcake or a chocolate or something sweet but if i am really hungry, i will make an omelet and have some yoghurt, crackers with pb etc to fill me up.

My worst time for eating everything and anything is in the afternoon, so that is why i have a bigger lunch :)

Breakfast: 120 (Cereal)

AM Snack: 70-100 (apple, granola bar)

Lunch: 250 (salad from school salad bar)

PM Snack: 100 (Cereal, 2 cookies, fruit+yogurt)

Dinner: 700 (MEAT+ potatoes, Stirfry+Dessert, Pizza, Sandwiches+Dessert)

 

Hmmm...  is that ballanced? No Idea the analysis tool always gives me an A?

 

I try to have some kind of meat for dinner, I like to not eat too much all day and then have a good dinner in the early evening. I have lost 15 pounds in 3 months like this so i think it's working! I am very sedentary (not injured just very lazy) but on days i do sports I eat more.

Breakfast:500 calories
Lunch: 400
Snack: 100-200 calories
Dinner: 400 calories
Snack: 100-200 calories

Soo -- around 1700 calories :]

Anywhere from 200-500 :) depends really on what I feel for~

I eat 1500 calories a day.  It usually breaks down like this:

• Breakfast - 150 calories
• Snack - 100 calories
• Lunch - 150 calories
• Snack - 100 calories
• Dinner - 800 calories
• Snacks - 200 calories

As you can see, I usually eat a big dinner.  It seems to work out well for us and don't put as much pressure on my wife to make something 'healthy' every night because I'm counting calories.

My goal is 700-900 a day, but if I hit 1,000 that is still ok.  My day is something like this:

B - Bananna (120)

L - Lean Cuisine (200-250)

D - Chicken and veg and glass of wine. (150+60+150)

Snacks - Quaker minis and/or carrots (100-150)

This all adds up to about 800.  If I eat much more than this I would never lose weight, because I'm only 5'2'' with a small frame. 

kelly, I'm sorry to tell you that even people who are 5'2" need a lot more than 1000 calories, and can lose weight eating much more than that. The reason you can't lose weight at a healthy level is because your metabolism is shot.  If you continue doing this, your metabolism will continue to slow, and you will have to eat less and less to continue to lose weight.

The absolute minimum for an adult woman, even if you are only 5 feet tall, is 1200.

 

Original Post by kellylredman:

My goal is 700-900 a day, but if I hit 1,000 that is still ok.  My day is something like this:

B - Bananna (120)

L - Lean Cuisine (200-250)

D - Chicken and veg and glass of wine. (150+60+150)

Snacks - Quaker minis and/or carrots (100-150)

This all adds up to about 800.  If I eat much more than this I would never lose weight, because I'm only 5'2'' with a small frame. 

 

im 5ft 3 with a Very small frame i am losing on 1400-1600 easily (though i am quite active).. if you gain on more than 1000 it means you killed your metabalism and you need to fix it ASAP before the problem gets worse.

I eat about 400cals for breakfast then 200-250cals for the meals after that eating 6 meals a day every day.

 

My goal is somewhere under 1550 per day. Usually my day will be

Breakfast- Cereal (about 250 w/ milk), or Oatmeal + OJ (about 200ish), or Poptarts (400 w/ OJ) Usually something sugary bc I can burn it off throughout the day

Lunch- usuallly eat carbs here- some pasta(about 200), or a sandwich (200), or eggs (for protein)

Dinner-usually light and before 7 - soup (about 250), or salad (depends) or some grilled chicken(only about 150 if use small portion!) , or eggs

Snacks- 100 calorie pack, veggies or fruit try not to eat chips but do occasionally just one serving and i put it in a baggie

Thats about 1200, but it fluctuates higher sometimes :)

I'm 18, 5'3", 158.5lbs - I usually end up eating around 1600 calories per day

Breakfast:  200-300 calories

At school (2nd breakfast): usually around 250

Lunch: 500-600 (this is always my biggest meal of the day)

Snacks: usually around 200

Dinner: around 300

Original Post by leiela:

Original Post by kellylredman:

My goal is 700-900 a day, but if I hit 1,000 that is still ok.  My day is something like this:

B - Bananna (120)

L - Lean Cuisine (200-250)

D - Chicken and veg and glass of wine. (150+60+150)

Snacks - Quaker minis and/or carrots (100-150)

This all adds up to about 800.  If I eat much more than this I would never lose weight, because I'm only 5'2'' with a small frame. 

 

im 5ft 3 with a Very small frame i am losing on 1400-1600 easily (though i am quite active).. if you gain on more than 1000 it means you killed your metabalism and you need to fix it ASAP before the problem gets worse.

I eat about 400cals for breakfast then 200-250cals for the meals after that eating 6 meals a day every day.

 

 Yeah, my metabalism sucks.  I work an office job (7am-4pm), have an hour commute (eats breakfast while driving) and don't exercise.  I probably burn about 1,700 a day on a good day, which means that if I eat 1,000 cal, there is only a loss of 700.  My activity level is 0... and I'm not really interested in changing that.  There are too many video games to play and not enough time in my day..... Thanks for the advice though.  You look great in your pics!

kellyredman, if you have a deficit of 500/day, you'll lose a pound a week, which is the recommended safe rate. So if you eat 1200, you'll have that deficit. But eating so little is going to seriously damage your body. I don't want to be harsh, but what you are doing is not healthy. By eating so little, you are only making your metabolism worse, and it will get harder and harder to continue to lose weight. You don't have to exercise, but limiting your calories this much will not help you in the long run.

My daily goal is 2250 (5'9" Moderately active)

My first meal I'll either have a regular 500-700 calorie meal or a 200-250 calorie protein bar.  Then I'll snack on another bar or something with about the same amount of calories, or less.  My lunch will be 500-700 calories, followed by another 200-250 cal snack.  The last meal will depend on how much I actually ate during the day, whether I have a full meal or a protein bar. 

I adjust my intake during the day depending on how hungry I am and what food is available.  Most of the time I come in around 2000, but I can range between 1700 and 2500 per day.  I tend to burn over 3000 cal a day, so I don't really worry about it when I go over the recommendation.