I really don't eat allot at one time. My problem is I eat late at night. I am up till 2 or 3am so I am eating just about everytime I get up to take a piss. Just a bite here and there but they add up after 20 trips to the fridge.
It's about total calories, not time of day. When I first got in shape a decade ago, I had no appetite during the day and was hungry at night. I tried to do the "six meal a day" thing, but was still hungry at night, so finally I said "fucck it", and stopped fighting my body. I just counted total calories, and made sure I didn't go over my planned total for the day. If this meant I ate little or nothing until 6pm, then consumed 1400 calories between 6pm and bedtime, so be it. I did this for like 6 months or more, and guess what? I lost a ton of fat.
Eventually, I was able to change my eating patterns to eating 5 meals a day to support muscle growth, and have maintained that for years, but my early fat loss experience proves that no matter how many fancy nutritional theories you hear about, it really is about "calories in/calories out".
