Are you still stuck in the three-heavy-meals-a-day rut? Do you think that the six-meals-a-day routine is not meant for you? If your answer to both questions is yes, then don’t worry you are not alone. Technically, how many meals you eat in a day doesn't matter, but how you spread your total calorie consumption in the day does affect your food habits. Research has time and again proved that those who eat six small meals a day are more successful at eating healthy and losing unwanted weight. Let's understand why. *Images courtesy: © Thinkstock photos/ Getty Images

Are you still stuck in a rut of three-meals-a-day cycle? You think six-meal diversity deal is not meant for you? You think eating beyond your allotted three meals would mean a failure on your heath goals? If your answer to all the above three questions is yes, then don’t worry you are not alone. Research has time and again proved that limiting yourself to traditional breakfast-lunch-dinner format is not a recipe of good health. Your new recipe for health is- six is better than three. Let us now dig the how and why of it and understand why eating six meals a day might just be the recipe to lose weight. *Image courtesy: © Thinkstock photos/ Getty Images