Eating 5-6 smaller meals a day is great.  Defintion: breakfast/snack/lunch/snack/dinner/snack...keeping your body fueled will keep it's "furnace" burning, enabling you to constantly be in a state of burning calories and it will keep your metabolism up.  It's hard to do and takes time to prepare, but worth it.  When you skip a meal, your body thinks it is being starved and will hold onto whatever you feed it next as fat...