not entirely true.
If your body has a constant intake, it wont store as much energy. By cutting out meals, your body goes into storage mode for whatever food you ate prior or will eat next.
Snacks, adding snacks to your full three meals, yes will gain weight. But if you cut the meals down slightly, and add a small healthy snack every few hours inbetween meals will actually boost your metabolism and help you to lose weight.
Hey, I lost 10 lbs in two weeks going through air force PT, and another 10 lbs the 3 or 4 weeks afterwards. So it is possible to lose what you want, but I'm sure if you tried to jump right into that kind of excercise we did you'd probably keel over, I almost passed out the first day and I considered myself somewhat fit at that time.
Im at the weight I want now but still have the gut, so I do a LOT of running. With weight training once or twice a week so I dont lose my push up and sit up numbers smile.gif