A good way to help maintain your healthy diet is to keep track of your daily calorie expenditure. This simply means that you need to be aware of how many calories you need to consume daily. When you have determined just how many calories you need to take in daily then the disbursement of your calories per meal come into play. You will still be eating your 3 main meals a day (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) and a bigger chunk of your daily calorie expenditure needs to be delegated to your top 3 meals. The other items you eat, which can sometimes be referred to as snacks, should not be a top priority for your calorie count. That means you have to assign a calorie number per snack and you need to keep in mind that the calorie number needs to not be higher than one of your top 3 daily meals. When you assign a calorie number to each of the meals you consume you need to be aware of if you are maintaining the number assigned. If for one of your snacks and/or meals you have eaten less than the number of calories delegated, then you need to add those lost calories onto another meal. When you are trying to keep your metabolism rate fast then you need to make sure your body is getting the consistent number of calories per meal.