If you have diligently followed everything correctly for your health and weight throughout the working week, but believe that you can now reward yourself by letting go on the weekend, you might want to brace yourself for some disappointment. If you start slacking off from Friday night through Sunday night, you’ve wasted a third of your week being unhealthy. Instead, anticipate that the weekends will be way more tempting for you and try to plan accordingly. Make weekends count. Plan your meals and have healthy snacks like fruit, vegetables, low-fat dairy products and healthy desserts ready. Stick to portion control. Just because it’s a weekend doesn’t mean you go supersize! If you’re going to eat out, set food and drink boundaries before entering a restaurant, and don’t make impulsive choices that increase calorie intake. If you do indulge, have a plan to compensate it the next day by eating low-calorie meals or skipping snacks. You have extra time on weekends to cook new, healthy recipes. Give full expression to your culinary creativity. You could also give yourself time for meal prep for the coming week.
