[Jessie_777]

usually eat per meal? I ate 465 for breakfast....it wasn't the most healthy breakfast, but it wasn't total crap either It seemed like kinda a lot, but then again this whole calorie counting is sorta new with me.

[breakfastsurreal]

meh i have no clue...i count the carbs I have anywhere from 10-20 carbs a day
if i had to guess on cals, id say maybe 1300? I like counting the carbs though because I am full after every meal and I don't have to eat a lot to be full...the carbs always made me hungry like 2 hours later after eating a huge meal.

[Jessie_777]

Originally Posted by breakfastsurreal

if i had to guess on cals, id say maybe 1300?

Break, is that per meal or day?



I went and checked out the harris benedict calculator and it said I should be eating 2236 calories per day if I want to lose one pound a week. Which I'd love to lose 2 lol so I'm going to cut that just a bit. Is there one meal you tend to eat more cals on?

[paperclippy]

I usually have about 300-350 for breakfast (depends how much milk I pour on my cereal!), about 300 for lunch, and about 600 for dinner, with snacks here and there and at least 2L of water. Sometimes I have more for dinner and less snacking. Sometimes I snack, have lots of dinner, and have more snacks! On workout days I will always add a Dannon fruit at the bottom yogurt which is about 150 cals, which I eat right after my workout, and sometimes an extra glass of milk.

I like to have dinner be my big meal of the day and have lunch be the smallest, so I eat Lean Cuisines for lunch that are between 200 and 330 calories. (I only have LC and water for lunch, nothing else.) This way I have a lot of flexibility as far as what I eat for dinner goes -- if I really don't want to cook, I can have a sandwich from Boston Market and still be in my safe calorie range. I've kind of fallen off the fitday.com bandwagon, so I don't know how many cals I've been eating lately, but I haven't changed my eating habits much so I'm guessing I've been eating somewhere around 1300-1600 lately. Since we had junk food in the house, I've been having a piece of cake and a glass of milk each night which probably adds 300-400 cals or so.

[katia]

I try to eat around 1800 a day, which is usually 3 meals of around 400 calories, with a couple of snacks. Nothing's really set in stone, but each meal is usually at least 400 calories.

[Ahealthierme]

I always strive for 300 cals. per meal and snack, (300cals 5 times a day- I usually eat around 1500 cals overall.) In my opinion though if you go a little crazy during breakfast I think it's fine, breakfast IS the most important meal of the day!

[NYCT1981]

i try to eat more during the day and less in the evening and at night. i work out after work, so i like to get in most of my calories before that -- a lot of people say it doesnt matter when you eat as long as you stay a certain calorie level, but for me, its better to eat less in the evening/night. its weird though, because i was brought up by a mom who cooked every night, so at "dinner time" i am automatically thinking "where is my meat, carb and vegetable accompanied by a side salad???"

[dona]

I'm trying to keep it between 1200 & 1400 calories per day.. I'm doing a video workout once a day and with my caloric burn that should result in about 2.5 lbs a week which I've been hitting for over 6 weeks. You figure you have to cut 3500 calories a week to lose one pound or 500 calories a day. With my current weight I burn about 3000 per day so I should continue to lose at that rate. As my weight goes down I know I will lose slower..

[WastedThermos]

I try eat more in the mornings and afternoon than in the evening because there are so many downsides for me to eat a lot for dinner or afterwards. So, ideally I eat about 300-400 cals for breakfast, 300-500 cals for lunch and then around 340 cals for dinner. I try to eat between 1500-1800 calories a day, so the extra calories I try to spread between breakfast and dinner in 100-200 calorie snacks.
If I eat less at night then I'm more likely to eat breakfast the next day and so my body has kind of adjusted to that sched.