Healthy eating is being able to eat when you are hungry and continue eating until you are satisfied. It is being able to choose food you like and eat it and truly get enough of it - not just stop because you think you should. Healthy eating is being able to use some moderate constraint on your food selection to get the right food i.e. the food pyramid but not being so restrictive that you miss out on pleasurable foods. Healthy eating is giving yourself permission to eat sometimes because you are happy, sad, bored, or just because it feels good. If you always use food for emotional reasons, you might want to think about another way to cope with uncomfortable or painful feelings.
Healthy eaters eat three meals a day or much along the way.
Listen to your body. Meal time should vary depending on your schedule, your hunger and your proximity to food. Healthy eating is trusting your body to make up for your mistakes in eating i.e. sometimes overeating or undereating. Most importantly, healthy eating takes up some of your time and attention, but keeps its place as only one important area of your life.