This was a question that I had when I was trying to scale back a few pounds just a few months ago. I didn’t want to rely on appetite suppressants, but I wanted to instead make sure I was getting the right amount of nourishment at each meal to sustain me without going off the deep end and ruining my diet at any one meal.

Especially dinner, which is the one meal you shouldn’t eat a huge amount of calories because you don’t burn them all off in your sleep, yet this is the meal that everyone seems to really go for the gold with calorie wise because we are at home from work and relaxed, and well, quite hungry from the day.

What I’ve been doing, or trying to do, is eat a breakfast that only consists of fruit, preferably an in-season fruit like right now strawberries is my fruit of choice. I load up on it too, I eat a lot, so that I’m actually full.  Except I know that fruit digests in the system very quickly and that it won’t stick with me for long. So what I do is when the fruit wears off about an hour and a half later, I eat a hand full of raw, natural walnuts.

This actually usually tides me all the way to lunch around noon, but honestly I’m quite ready to chow down at that time, nice and hungry from my morning “fast”.  This seems to work for me. I’m not saying it would work for everyone. There are some people that believe that loading up for breakfast is the best way for them to curb their appetite throughout the day, but I’ve found I actually eat better throughout the day by doing this as a rule of thumb. I don’t always, but it usually works for me.

Since I didn’t take in that many calories for breakfast between the nuts and the strawberries or whatever other seasonal fruit I ate, I usually make my lunch fairly large. I try to consume about 550 to 600 calories, and that seems to satisfy me. It’s even better if I can squeeze in a post lunch workout after my stomach has been digesting for about two hours time.  Then, I try to limit dinner to about 400-500 calories, if possible, since I’ve also usually had a snack that’s about 150-200 calories between lunch and dinner. This seems to work for me for maintaining my healthy weight.

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