how many times do you eat a ou eat a day?

I'm no expert, but I've heard from many sources that fasting or going long periods of time without eating is actually bad for your metabolism. Apparently it tends to trick your body into thinking it's starving and it goes into calorie/fat conservation mode. What I've heard is best is eating small, lighter/healthy meals every 3-4 hours or so. This is supposed to curb your appetite and rev your metabolism too..... Over working your digestive system is not a good thing to do. You need to allow time between meals for your digestive system to rest. It is not how much you eat in one meal that makes you fat or slim, as what you eat. If over 50% of your diet is made up of proteins, fats, and simple or processed carbohydrates (pastries and pasta) then you'll get fat. If 60% of your diet is vegetables, and 20% is fruits, then there is no way you'll get fat. 60% vegetables - (of this total 60% should be eaten raw, the other 40% can be eaten cooked): Raw carrot for example is 240c/lb. Celery 90c/lb., pumpkin 160 c/lb. 20% Fruits: take for example banana which is among the fruits that carries the highest caloric value per pound is just 350c/lb. Most other fruits carries lest than the 350. 10% complex carbohydrate: potato for example (sweet or irish) is 400 c/lb. Yam is even less. However on the other hand of the processed carbs, the well recommended brown rice fetches 1600 c/lb while white rice 800 c/lb. Flour which is the main ingredient in pastries and pasta 12,000 c/lb while whole wheat is 1,700 c/lb. 10% protein: for example chicken 500 c/lb, beans ranges from 600 - 750 c/lb. nuts ranges from 2500 - 3500 c/lb. As seen above in terms of caloric value per group of foods, if you maintain approximately 60% vegetables, 20% fruits, 10% carbohydrate (mainly complex carbohydrate), 10% protein of which 1% or less is fat, then you should not have a fat problem. In addition since each food has its own caloric value, having a very wide variety of foods over period is more effective to prevent fat accumulation. Therefore filling your stomach at each meal would not be a cause for becoming fat. When you fill your stomach at each meal, especially at breakfast, a message of abundance is sent to the brain. This is important in that the fatty cells will not be signaled to store fat. As a result you will be less likely to become fat. (Please note that many times when persons believe they are loosing fat, it is really muscles that is being lost) Another advantage of filling your stomach at each meal is that you will not become hungry as often. Hence you'll find that naturally you'll be having just 3 meals per day without even the desire of snacking between meals. Drinking water between meals is important, not just for the many benefits of water, but also for keeping your stomach filled. You will become hungry very often if your stomach is not filled, not because your metabolic system has improved, but because you're not eating enough and your system is craving more. Once your system is satisfied, then the crave goes away. One thing you need to note is once your stomach feels full, stop eating immediately.

I would normally would eat 3 times in a day,except when I am very busy,then I would as many snacks as possible to compensate for the meals.

I usually eat two or three meals a day and two snacks. An afternoon snack and a night time snack.

I try to eat breakfast when I wake up just so I'm not hungry all day. I eat a small snack for lunch to ease the hungry then eat dinner and a few snacks at night.

I eat when there's food, I eat when I'm hungry, and I make sure I eat a few times a day so that my body doesn't go all wonky. Having a child around also means that I'm more inclined towards regular meals, as it's more healthy.

I eat whenever I am hungry. I usually eat breakfast and dinner though. I sometimes skip lunch.