Sometimes when we've got weight loss in mind, it's not a matter of how much food we eat in a day, but the manner in which we go about eating it.
A lot of people that suffer with being unhappy about their body weight are very busy during the day, and often don't have the time to take proper digestion seriously.
In college, for example, it's not that uncommon to encounter students that are so busy preparing for exams and term papers that they may only eat one meal a day.
By the time they get around to it, that one meal ends up being huge, unhealthy, and hastily eaten.
They gorge themselves, because they haven't eaten all day, and that suddenly influx of calories is a great way to add a little extra around their midsection.
They don't call it the "freshman fifteen" for nothing.
Mistakes like that are easy enough to undo while we're young, but become much more difficult as we continue to get older.
As a general rule, the longer we go between meals, the slower our metabolism tends to go.
A faster metabolism is better, because more calories get burned passively, and without necessarily having to do work specifically to burn them.
In a sense, our body will tend to take care of itself, as long as we understand how it likes to operate.
At the very least, this is why it's important to set aside time each day for three square meals, of comparable size and wholesomeness.
Some fitness experts will even take this notion a bit farther, and say that it's much better for your digestive system to enjoy five or six small meals throughout the day, literally eating every few hours.
You end up getting about the same number of calories by the end of the day, but your system is constantly processing food instead of stopping and starting again.
Believe it or not, if we can trick our stomachs into thinking we're never really that hungry, it will tend to do most of the hard work for us when it comes to getting rid of excess body fat.