Avoid cold drinks and sweet drinks -- drink tea or water!

Avoid cold drinks as this confuses your digestion with what appears to be colder weather and therefore generate more fat cells.  Avoid sweet drinks or pseudo-sweet diet drinks because again your body responds inappropriately.  Drink no soda pop, but instead develop a taste for teas.  Hot tea is excellent and therapeutic for your body.  If the weather is too warm, then do room temperature tea.  Water is the best drink.  But cold water or ice water is not recommended....  room temperature water is best for your body.

What size meals should we eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner?

One of my favorite health professionals is the Chinese doctor who runs New Earth Acupuncture in Thousand Oaks, CA.  I'd like to repeat the special diet advice that she recommends:  Eat like a king in the morning, queen for lunch, and a pauper for dinner.  In other words, you should have your largest meals earlier in the day but explicitly avoid a large heavy meal in the evening.  Why?  Your metabolism slows down into the evening as you prepare for sleep.  Having a lot of food in your stomach when you sleep is NOT good because this will convert to fat layers when your metabolism is lowest during sleep.  This is often responsible for the love handles around the belly that are so hard to lose.