3 Large Meals or 5 Small Meals

If you confine your calories to three meals, your blood sugar levels are more likely to dip, making you feel famished and hunger strikes, your body protects itself by storing extra calories as fat instead of using them for energy, which may cause you to pack on some pounds.

You should eat three 300 to 400 calorie meals per day, with two 100 calorie snacks in between, such as half a cup of edamame, two cups of raspberries, half a small avocado, one hard boiled egg, or 12 almonds.