I do, and let me tell you, it is working for me! I don't feel deprived at all, or like I am on a "diet." I have been a "night-eater" for as long as I can remember -- and now that I am serious about counting calories, I typically eat very light throughout the day leaving the bulk of my calories for dinner/evening. I shared in another thread that I begin my day with a deficit of 150-170 to allow for my single-sized Edy's that my amazing hubby lovingly picks up for me (at my request, because I don't trust myself at this point to have more in the house ).

I tend to only eat about 700 calories until evening (300 breakfast, 300 lunch, small snack 100). I eat a whole foods', organic when we can afford it, 'clean' diet so I feel pretty satisfied throughout the day.

There is something about having the bulk of my calories in the evening that makes me feel like I am not restricting at all (though I do count every bite and eat around 1600-1700 a day)

Anyone else do this?

I definitely feel the need to eat a lot more at night than in the day. It is the time I'm most likely to binge so I try to leave some calories for it. At this weight, I have dropped my calories to about 1200-1400 a day. For instance, today, I have eaten about 800 calories, so I still have about 500 left or so. It doesn't feel like I have a ton of food at night, but I'd like to...does that count? I most definitely eat very little in the morning and as the day progresses, it increases.

Yes! I totally understand what you mean.

Also, I'm in college and I'm very, very, very involved in extracurriculars in addition to my classes and my job, so on a typical day, I get back from my meetings at half past midnight. And I know, from experience, that after a long 9am-12:30am day, I like to come home and have a snack. So like you, I've been careful to portion out my calories smartly during the day.

I have met SO many 'night eaters' (even people of healthy sizes) that I wonder if some component isn't biological - definitely not giving anyone a green light to binge just sayin' maybe it isn't all in our heads, the desire to snack in the evening.

I believe calorie in/calorie out so it doesn't really matter *when* I am eating something so long as it is within my planned range of calories.

It also helps when people typically want to go out (to dinner), I have more wiggle room.

I save the bulk of my calories for dinner...I eat dinner with my family every night and I dont want to be a hassle and have to eat something different... but in general I'm not very hungry in the morning and if I'm busy I dont feel hungry at all

I definitely bank my calories for the late afternoon/evening. I really am just not terribly hungry early in the day, so I keep it very light until mid-afternoon, when I start up with eating the bulk of my day's calories.

I think it goes to show how different we all are; practically every piece of dieting advice I've ever seen on the subject is pretty insistent that you should start with a good breakfast, but eating more than a small amount of my calorie budget early in the day makes it much more difficult for me to stay on plan.

I am the same way. Not hungry too much during the day and starving at night. So I eat most of my calories after four and I am losing weight.

Ditto here! I wouldn't be able to handle making my family something different for dinner so I just plan for a healthy dinner for everyone and eat pretty much half of my calories then. I'm staying between 1200-1400 and eating around 600-700 during the day and the rest for dinner/snack.

Same here...my family has always been a "dinner" family. During the day I'd eat (I thought) very little, then have a big meal. Looking back now I realized I ate more during the day than I thought...that's why I got up to more than 220 pounds.

But even now I prefer to eat a larger dinner. I HATE the feeling of going to bed hungry and waking up even more hungry...

I could "not eat" until dinner if given the opportunity. I just forget to eat. But that's how I gained so much weight--I would starve myself until I got home and then binge until 2am. Forget single serving Edys...I'd have a big 2500 calorie dinner and then polish off a 1200 calorie Ben & Jerry's...maybe have a bag of popcorn too. So every week I probably gained a pound...

mmm good times.

blech.

I still can't stand to eat breakfast. But I try to eat before 1pm, that's my rule--if I don't eat before 2pm I have to go out and get something RIGHT NOW.

That is exactly what we do too. And I have lost 25lbs and hubby lost 30 in a little over 6 weeks.

I was going to post, but Sugar Sherry did it for me! This is exactly me - I'm fine with healthy choice meals, salads, or soups at lunch - but I need to eat after work!! I save calories for both dinner and snacking :-)

i'm definitely a night eater. i'll have 200 cals for breakfast, around 500 for lunch .. & the rest in the evening! i'm still not quite sure how many calories i need a day. i'm using free dieting, so we'll see!

I save the majority of my calories for evening so I can eat dinner with the family. It has really worked for me. I actually struggle more on days when I somehow end up eating a lot of my calories during the day, and have to have a really light dinner. Temptation to snack at night is a real problem on those nights. I do much better eating light through the day and having a good meal in the evening. Guess it just fits my natural way of eating better?