What's your food schedule?

Some people have to eat little meals all day, some people like to do the "3 square," etc.  What's your schedule?

I'm a big fan of eating a little bit at (fairly) regular intervals. 

My schedule tends to be:

• Coffee in the morning and during my commute (7a.m.-8:30a.m.)
• A piece of fruit (99.9% of the time it's a banana) at about 8:30-8:45a.m.
• Luna Bar or SB Diet granola bar at about 9:45-10a.m
• Veggie Wrap at about 1-1:30p.m.
• Yogurt or Cottage Cheese around 2:30p.m.
• 1 more piece of fruit at about 3:30p.m.
• Diet Coke during the commute home (4:45-5:45p.m.)
• Sometimes a light snack when I get home, but not always
• Dinner anywhere between 6:30 and 8:30p.m., and dinner is sometimes a real meal and sometimes it's half a can of soup (the BF and I both cook, but sometimes you're just not up for it, you know?) and maybe some raw veggies.

By the time I hit the road to head home from work, I'm usually between 600 and 800 calories for the day, leaving some room for a nice dinner at home, but I feel like I eat all day!

Well I guess I do the "3 Square" meals a day route.

Bfast-7am

mid morning snack if needed somewhere in between.

12pm lunch

same as above- afternoon snack if needed.

Dinner 5pm

I only snack if Im really hungery otherwise I just plan on 3 meals a day w/snacks.....

So far its working because I have lost 22 lbs. since Jan 23. Everyones different though.... ;-)

I love the "3 square meals" idea

For breakfast (7:00 am):
  Big bowl of oatmeal
  coffee
  couple pieces of fruit

For Lunch (12:00 pm):
  Salad
  Soup
  or sandwhich with fruit

For Dinner(5:30 pm):
  Rice
  steamed veggies
  cereal for dessert =)
 
I change it up, but if I start snacking, I have a hard time stopping...so this way I discipline myself.

well, when I'm being good, it goes something like this:

7:00 am- breakfast shake

10:00 am-fruit and yogurt and almonds

12:00 pm-lunch

3:00 pm- shake

6:00 pm- dinner

8:00 pm -cottage cheese and veggies or salad

7:30 - Breakfast (egg beaters and english muffin)

10:30 - Fruit

12:30 - Lunch (sandwich and salad)

3:30 - Granola Bar

5:00 - Fruit

7:30 - Dinner (rice and fish or chicken)

9:30 - Skim milk

I also feel like I'm eating ALL DAY LONG, but I've found that this schedule works best for me.

6AM: 1 banana, 1/3 cup shredded wheat, 1/3 cup yogurt, 1 hard boiled egg
-walk 1.5 miles to work-
8:30: coffee with milk, a few nuts and raisins, under 1/4 cup

10:30: cottage cheese with pineapple, 1/2 cup

12:30: 12 pieces of sushi (salmon rolls) and 3 small pieces of salmon sashimi, salad

3 PM: 1 hard boiled egg, 1 fruit cup

6 PM: a few nuts and raisins or 2 triangles of laughing cow cheese
-subway home-
7:30: chicken with spinach or a salad with hummus and crackers ( I omit a snack or two if I am going out to dinner)
8 PM: 1/2 cup low cal ice cream or a small chocolate
GYM

10 AM - breakfast (I've never been a morning eater... I just can't. So I push it pretty late... but it's a huge big deal I'm even eating breakfast at all!!!)

11-1 - workout (sometime between these hours)

1-2 pm - lunch sometime around then

6 pm - wine spritzer while I start dinner

7-8 pm - dinner (wait until my DH gets home so we can eat together.. and yes by then I'm usually starving)

9 pm - snack

11-12 - bedtime

I probably should eat my snack between lunch and dinner, and I do this sometimes. BUT I have a long habit of having a late-night snack, so I plan one in. If I eat a snack earlier, I will be likely to also have a snack at 9 too... even if it's just habit...

mini meals :)

8:00
10:30
1:00
3:30
6:00

that is my goal anyway :)

I do three meals, but I eat a wide variety of healthy snacks through the day.

For a little different spin on things, here is what I aim to eat each day (I'm not this anal, I just used Excel to calc percentages hehe)

Breakfast - 27.5 %

Morning snack -  10%

Lunch - 25%

Afternoon snack - 10%

Supper - 17.5%

Evening snack - 10%

I never in my life thought I'd ever purposely go to the mini-meal thing.  But I've fallen into it here lately.

7:20 Breakfast
11:00 Snack (Breyer's Lite Yogurt)
12:20 Exercise (track walking/running)
1:00 Lunch (Wendy's Crispy Chicken Sandwhich)
3/4:00 Snack (maybe more yogurt or something else)
6/7:00 Dinner
?:00 Evening Snack (again, something lite)

It's strange.   I've always... I mean all 33 years of my life been a big 3 meals a day kind of guy... but now with this diet it's really changed my habbits.  Expecially as i'm logging every calorie (+ or -) into my notebook and getting my daily total after each change.

I do the lots of small meals thing...I feel like it keeps my blood sugar more sable- which is something I worry about a lot because almost everyone in my family has diabetes (except me so far! yay!)

8:00 egg, egg white and bell peppers

10:00 fruit

12:00 lunch( ususally 200-300 cals)

2:00 snack (yogurt with oatmeal in it)

4:00 snack (veggies and nuts)

6:00 oatmeal

6:30-8:00 dance class

8:30 dinner (usually 400-500 cals)

I get teased at work because I am ALWAYS eating it seems, but this way I never feel like I am deprived.

I eat only during a 4-hour window each day.  It's called 20/4 fasting.

I eat during 1-5 pm

I consume my 1350-1550 calories in 6 courses:

1st course:  brake fast with whole grain cereal

2nd course:  fruit -- usually an orange

3rd course:  soup and sandwich

4th course:  fruit -- usually an apple

5th course:  veggies and sandwich

6th course:  dessert -- yogurt, cheese stick, grapes

What I have for fruits depends on the availability of fresh fruit.

Yoohoo, today I hit a new low at 178.8, total 76.2 lbs lost.

I've often wondered if people at work talk behind my back about how much I eat, because it must seem like I'm eating ALL the time, ha ha.  Especially when it's loud stuff, like carrots...

I guess I actually do the three meals thing, I'd never thought about it!

I'm like this:

-1/2 cup soymilk or something before the bike commmute (8:15)
-bowl of oatmeal or shredded wheat after (9:00)
-fruit or carrots or peas for a snack (11:00)
-sandwich, or leftovers, or fruit and plain yogurt for lunch (1:00)
-more fruit and veggies for a snack (3:30)
-dinner: say, baked salmon, steamed green beans and salad (8:30)

I snack, but they tend to be small snacks: my real calories come from my meals.   I average 1700 cal/day.

I also swim for 1 1/2 hours a day, lift weights three times a week, and do yoga, so sometimes how little I eat is governed by how safely I think I can get around on my bike in the city without getting lightheaded!

So far I haven't had any trouble losing weight, but it's probably because I'm perfectly happy losing it super-slowly.  I've given myself five years: I'm almost half-way there!

I tend to do three meals/two snacks.

8:30 or 9:30: cheerios with soymilk and a hard boiled egg

10:30-12:00: kashi bar/luna bar/clif bar

1:00-3:00: sandwich with some sort of fruit

4:30-5:30: anything, usually another bar

6:30-9:30: dinner (now it's chicken and pasta/rice)

I only really feel hungry at night (like now) but I know that I eat all the time, essentially...so I don't feel bad!

6:30 Breakfast - usually a healthy cereal

9:00-9:30 Snack - usually a piece of fruit

12:00 lunch - most of the time it is leftovers from a healthy dinner

2:00-2:30 Snack - again a piece of fruit

5:30 Dinner

8:00 Snack - pudding or toast or something

I am typically a three meals kinda gal.

7:30 amy's organic black bean burrito and a small cappacino

11:30 am  usually some lean cuisine thingy and some jello

5:30 pm some lean protein (usually chicken breast or salmon) and lots of veggies. 

If I get really hungry I might have an apple or some carrots or something.

I munch most of the day , cause im a slow eater...but basically I

300am (yes that is early)

2 cups of puff wheats and block tofu

700 am (right now)

munchin of cut veggies

900am (my lunch hour)

serving of veggie beef mixed with bran, a mashed veggie mixed with bran and a egg pattie(egg white with salsa, nuked), diet coke

1200 pm

BLock of Tofu with cinnimon, splenda and becel spray, 1/2 garden salad

300 pm

a meal replacement shake-CHOCOLATE...YUUUUMMMERS! 1/2 garden salad

600pm

A protien Veggie food, a veggie mixed with bran, diet coke, kelp baked with salsa and tsp sour cream

900pm

tea and tofu, or tea and fruit

I am a nibble all day kinda girl.  This is my during the week routine:

7:00 a small breakfast (usually a South Beach Diet wrap)

8:30 a piece of fruit or a yogurt & my daily supplements

10:00 something nibbly (low fat graham crackers or rice cakes)

Noon lunch (usually one of the low cal, low fat lean cuisine meals)

2:00 another snack (whatever I feel like or have stashed in my office)

6:00 dinner, usually lean meat thrown on the George with seasonings and a ton of fresh veggies, yum!

On the weekend:

7:00 a small breakfast (usually cereal)

8:30 a piece of fruit or a yogurt & my daily supplements

4:00 realize that I've forgotten to eat all day because I have been so busy running errands and generally enjoying life but now I am STARVING and then I usually eat out

I'm a big fan of mini-meals. Usually, my schedule is something like this: 6:15 am-breakfast (a big bowl of cereal and a banana) 9:15 am-2nd period snack (granola bar) 11:30 am-6th pd. snack (piece of fruit) 1:00 pm- lunch (a sandwich and maybe some graham crackers or dark chocolate or something) 3:30 pm-sometimes an afternoon snack (some carrots or something) 5:45 pm- dinner (this varies, but its a hearty meal) 8:00 pm- nighttime snack-- sometimes its a little bit of icecream; other times it might be fruit or pretzels)

yeah, i know that's a lot. food=fuel :)