First off, nice plan! It's good to shoot for something like you have outlined and not some nutty diet. I've been calorie counting with MyFitnessPal for about a month and a half now. I am on a plan to lose 1.5 pounds a week. In my opinion, slow weight loss is better, my doc kind of advised me. Losing 10 pounds in 2 weeks, most times just comes right back the second you stop doing whatever you did to lose that weight.

So good luck!

I say go with the or here. I've been told that smaller, more frequent meals can help lose weight. Your body keeps it's metabolism going if you eat something small in between meals. I try to eat some fruit between breakfast and lunch and, I think, it's helping. I am less hungry and tend to eat less at the next "big meal" since I had a healthy snack in-between.