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Help to keep your calories per day in check.

Trying to keep each meal and snack in control when you are working on cutting calories can seem like a pain.  You may eat to much one meal and feel you have to skip one or cheat and try again tomorrow.  But this is an easy way to help you eliminate or at least make these problems become less frequent. 

One of the best ways to keep your diet in check is to take the amount of total calories you want to intake within a day and divide that by the amount of meals you usually have.  This will give you an average of how much you should consume per meal.  Now take into account snacks and food consumption per meal.  Understanding that you should eat the most during breakfast to kick start your days energy and metabolism.  At the least people snack at least 2-3 times a day.  Between breakfast and lunch, between lunch and dinner, and after dinner. So keeping in mind that if you eat healthy snacks you can control those calories and still keep you feeling satisfied between meals.  For dinner you should always try to make a 1:2 ratio for meat and veggies.  1meat:2veggies. This will help keep calories down for your last meal and keep you healthy and your metabolism running a little longer through out the night.

If you would like help The Automatic Meal Planner is an amazing little helper that can show you the calories and foods you can have for how ever many meals you punch in. check that out at www.eatthismuch.com\

Enjoy!