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Also, I wanted to re-enforce what CFD said about 5-6 meals a day. The write up I just posted is the reason for that. The body doesn't store things as fat immediately. It takes a little while. When you eat a huge meal all at one time, you overload your body with calories, because it will fill up glycogen stores.
For example, if you eat two meals in a day that are 1000 calories each, and your body only has the capability of storing.. lets say 600 of that in glycogen, that means the other 400 calories are going straight to that big butt or gut you're trying to get rid of.
On the other hand if you eat 4 meals that are 500 each, your body will fill up glycogen stores without needing to store any extra. This effectively lets you eat the exact same amount of food, but not storing a bunch of extra calories as fat.
This is the same reasoning you're not supposed to skip meals (cough breakfast cough). People who skip meals have more body fat usually, because of the overeating at the meals they DO eat. 2000 calories a day is not treated the same by your body if you eat them all at once, compared to eating them in 3 or 4 (or 5) meals.
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