Multiple small meals?

 Not needed. Three larger meals, six smaller meals, whatever. It sounds like the point of regular meals (whether lots or a few) is to keep your body from clicking into a "must save some for later" mode.

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Karen Collins, MS, RD, CDN, with the American Institute for Cancer Research, noted that in a recent study, the baseline metabolic rate (how fast the body burns calories) was unaffected by differences in meal timing. "Other studies also show that eating frequency has no effect on a person's overall metabolic rate," says Collins.