[one small bowl]

I like most of my calories at breakfast and the least amount at dinner. I don't worry about the breakfast calories, I sort of watch lunch calories and then adjust my dinner to fit the remaining calories. Works for me, I hate going to bed with food in my stomach. This has always been so, if I binge, it was always between breakfast and lunch. lol

[chickadee32]

I eat 1200-1500 cals daily. I'm hungriest and snackiest in the evening, so (on weekdays, at least) I usually consume 500-600 calories spread across breakfast and lunch, and then the remainder of my calories at dinner and later in the evening. Weekday breakfast is typically a skim latte and a Fiber One bar (210 cals total), and lunch is usually a small serving of leftover dinner or something that includes lean protein, veg and fruit. Dinners usually run in the 300-500 calorie range and include lean protein, veg and sometimes a starch, and then the rest of my calories are eaten in evening snacks. Sometimes that means a small/light but real dessert, but more often my evening snacks are things like 0% greek yogurt, berries, nuts, popcorn, etc. I pay close attention to my macronutrient ratios, and target 20-25% calories from fat, 25%+ calories from protein, and try to get 25g fiber per day.

[Beach Patrol]

I keep my count under 1500 daily - sometimes I will cycle up to 1680-1800 (maybe once a week). A usual day for me is

Breakfast 7:30am
2 cups coffee (100 cal)
Egg sandwich w/2% cheese (310 cal)

Snack 10am
Cashews (160 cal)

Lunch 12:30pm
Green Giant Healthy Vision frozen veggie w/1 can chicken (260 cal)
1 piece fruit (60-130 cal depending on the fruit)

Snack 3pm
100 calorie pack goodie

Dinner 6pm
Grilled Turkey Burger w/cheese (360 cal)
1 Sugar Free Jello Puddings (60 cal)

Total for day: 1480 calories

I don't count my exercise as negative calories - it's just for fitness sake!

[DogLoverRN]

I keep between 1200-1400. My day usually consists of Special K or Cheerios for breakfast with 1 cup of skim milk so that is around 200 calories. I have a lean cuisine for lunch. I have a snack of about 100 calories. Dinner is about 350-400 calories and then another bowl of cereal before bed. That gives me 5 times a day to eat and I drink a ton of water all day long. If I were to eat a bigger dinner I would leave out the cereal at night. What is challenging for me is that I work 12 hour night shifts 3 days a week and that makes meal spacing a little difficult sometimes.

[ma26]

Beck- I was wondering with your steady calorie counts. You have been eating the same the whole time you have been losing weight. Did you encounter many stalls and plateaus? One of the reasons I didn't start out on the lower end of the calorie spectrum was because I was afraid I'd hit a plateau and then have no room to reduce my caloric intake. Also was the weightloss much faster and then slowly became less as your weightloss progressed?

Congratulations you have been so successful. You are quite an inspiration. I'm sure you get a ton of questions as a result.

[Rumple]

I tend to eat 1200-1300 calories a day. Generally, it's 200-300 for breakfast, 300 for lunch, 400 for dinner, and 200 for "dessert," which is normally something like bruleed grapefruit or a small orange with a square of dark chocolate. I do have a strict timing schedule for calories eaten, though. I must have 600 of my calories before 2:00 p.m., and the other 600 have to be gone by 7:00 p.m. I'm not sure why, but it works better for me if I don't eat at night.

[LisaTcan]

I eat 1200-1400 a day. Like a lot of other people I don't eat breakfast and save my calories for later. I generally do:
B = 50 (1/2 cup of juice) and black coffee
L = 400
S = 200
D = 600 - 800

I eat out a lot with friends and my boyfriend so it works best for me to save most of my calories until the evening.

[Glory87]

I am in weight loss mode and aiming for 1400 calories a day. I know that I am rarely hungry after dinner, but I am often "snacky" at work in the afternoon, and I love a nice big lunch/dinner so I plan my day to accommodate how I like to eat.

B - 200 calories

L - 500 calories

S - 100 calories

S - 100 calories

D - 500 calories