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Lunch Hour Energy Budget
A lunch hour energy budget allocates adequate midday calories and protein for afternoon focus—avoiding under-fueled slumps and starch-only crashes.
A lunch hour energy budget allocates enough midday calories and protein for four to five hours of desk focus—not saving so aggressively that 3 p. m.
becomes a vending free-for-all, nor overeating pasta that triggers a deeper slump. Budget roughly thirty to forty percent of daily intake at lunch on standard workdays, adjusted for training time.
Logged meals reveal chronic under-fueling faster than willpower.
Common questions
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Should lunch be the biggest meal on workdays?
Often yes for desk schedules—unless you train hard at 6 p.m., when a larger dinner may fit better. Keep total daily protein adequate; shift budget, do not delete afternoon fuel.
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