Heh...I don't keep track, but maybe it works out to something like that.
I follow the rule of trying to eat every 3 hours of so to keep my metabolism at full speed (and also to avoid putting myself in the situation of being very hungry, which is when I usually cave for carbs). Basically I still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and have snacks between...and over time my "meals" have gotten smaller and my snacks a little larger, although meals are still slightly bigger than snacks....? Confusing, I know. Even though I probably technically do eat 5-6 small meals a day, it's less overwhelming to just think about it as eating every 3-4 hours.
Aside from the metabolic and blood sugar benefits, it also takes some of the "power" out of food and of meals...for me, it's somehow much easier to think about it as "hey, time to eat some veggies and protein" than "damn, where should I go for lunch?"...semantics, I know, but it works...and I eat because I have to/want to rather than I "should" (that, and I'm on a student schedule, so traditional meal times have no real meaning anymore!).
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