Not sure about more and smaller meals. What about the people on here part fasting and eating only twice.

I have been averaging 1200 to 1400 calories per cron o meter. That should mean the weight is dropping off.

should I be eating more I wonder?

I think the critical ingredient to losing weight or gaining muscle is patience.

You won't become super thin in a month or two and you won't become a bodybuilder in 3 months (or even a year or two). Just monitor progress weekly to make sure you are on the right track.

A better statistical measure then, is that of a moving average with period 3 weeks. Simply add the weights for the last 21 days and divide by 21.

I think the critical ingredient to losing weight or gaining muscle is patience.

dang it!  I wasn't born with that!  And I missed that day in kindergarten 

I can look at that two ways. I learned about paleo when Neanderthin came out. I was doing the Zone diet at the time, one in a long list of dietary fads I tried. Macrobiotics, vegan, whole-food vegetarian...the mind reels. When I read Neanderthin it made a lot of sense to me. I read the paleodiet page on the Internet and the reasoning behind it just added up a heck of a lot more than vegan/vegetarian/diet-of-the-month screeds. I couldn't seem to stay on the diet, though. I've tried many times over the years and always ended up feeling deprived, or get freaked out about too much fat, or get food cravings that I would finally give in to.
I finally took stock of my physical condition. Grains give me inflamed tendons, kind of a low-level throb and ache in them especially the elbows. My energy would fluctuate or be kind of low and I have experienced depression I think due in large part to my probable low-level allergy to grains. I just didn't have a robust feeling of wellness.
I began drinking a dark-green smoothie as part of my paleo diet and that seemed to stop the cravings I would get in previous attempts. It's been since October 2009 now and I don't see any reason why I can't go on like this indefinitely. Definitely feeling better, stronger and have lost about 15 lbs on an already slim frame.

interested in the dark green smoothie. More details please?

I am managing the rare cravings fine though. Mostly they are just habit. I had a s h i t day at work yesterday and thought I need a glass or three of wine.

I didn't and I didn't have any. No alcohol in the house!

January 28 2010.  I was at 228 lbs (I'm 6' 2").  As of my last weighing a couple of days ago I was at 220.5.