Do you eat 3 meals a day or many small meals a day?

It seems when your trying to lose weight everyone you know wants to give you advice on how to lose weight and one reoccuring theme I keep hearing is you need to eat many small meals a day to get your system going to burn fat,so I decided to ask everyone who has been doing this for a while what do you do?Do you eat 3 meals a day or do you eat many small meals aday?