Eating Most Calories for Dinner..

Hey guys,

Lately I've been having about 200 cals for breakfast, about another 200-300 for lunch which leaves me with 1200 for dinner! I mean, it's great for me 'cos I don't really get hungry during the day and it means I can sit down with my family and have a normal home cooked meal with them :)  But, is it healthy?!

I'm allowed up to 1650 cals per day, so I'm normally well within my limit (but still over 1200kcal) but I've read different things; some people say if you eat heavily at night then you're more likely to store it as fat while others say that as long as you don't go over your calories during one 24 hr period, it's ok.

And I'm upping my daily burn with an hour's cardio everyday, but I just wondered if anyone else tends to do this..

Thanks :)
Az xx 

i think it's healthy.  if you were getting hungry during the day, then you would want to switch some of those calories to earlier in the day, but if it's working for you, i don't see any reason to change it.

Since one of my biggest challenges has been learning portion control, I'd say that the big dinner is counter productive, at least for me it would be.  As elin said, if it works for you that's good thing.

As far as I've been able to find out, it makes no difference when you eat or how much you eat at a sitting.  A calorie is a calorie.

if what they say is true, i.e.

a calorie is a calorie

AND

it doesn't matter when you eat, just how many calories you eat in a day

then it shouldn't matter that your calories are concentrated at night. sure if you eat more calories earlier in the day, you have the chance to 'burn them off', but if you're in deficit for the first half of the day, and simply pack it on during the second half, it'd be much the same thing. at least that's how i understand it. hope that makes sense.

Thanks everyone - I've tried to spread things out a little more evenly now throughout the day..

 Someday's are still a little 'dinner heavy' though :)

Thanks for putting my mind at rest!

last night i had only 800 calories before i went to a concert, so i grabbed a soft pretzel to munch on (had about half).. and then had a bowl of wor wonton at about 11:30 afterwards lol.. I work till nine, so i eat my dinners very late. I say do whatever works for you as long as your giving your body some food in the morning.