The diet is most effective when it is well planned... and the best diet plans and programs include a day off.

Most people don't take that day off and others use it to destroy their whole week!

Above all, it's about how to use it right... Here, I will tell you its importance and how to use it :

• Power: this day should give you the power to keep going on your diet for a whole week. It can be very helpful in making your patience grow when you face a hard-time or a hard decision.

To be able to take the decision not to go ahead and eat something you really want to eat , focus that you will not totally prevent yourself from it and remind yourself that you can eat it in your free day.

Nobody can remain on a hard diet for life, so if you are going to break the diet anyway, it better be calculated.

• Metabolism: When you eat the same amount of calories a day, given that you do almost the same amount of effort a day, you are adjusting your metabolic system to burn a certain amount of calories.

Breaking your diet gives your body a chance to re-adjust its metabolism back to normal and challenge it to burn higher calories, given you will exert more effort on that day!

This is why people lose weight during their diet and as soon as they break it, they just regain the weight so easily, as their bodies were adjusted during the diet, to burn a low amount of calories per day and their stomachs to digest only certain types of food.

• Psychology: your body accumulates stress every time you prevent it from something it desires. And stress has a very negative effect on your body and affects your hormones, raise your cholesterol and destroy your metabolism. Aside from stress eating, only being stressed out for a long time can make you gain weight. So take this day to release this stress by enjoying something you've been wanting all week.

How to do it right!

• Calculate the calories in what you want to eat that day. So you may eat a variety in small quantities, on one item in a, relatively, large quantity; but don't let it go out of control

• Remember all what you've been through all week and how much effort it took and this will be enough to prevent you from letting it go in vain in one day.

• You might as well want to exercise on this day; at least, to burn what you've ate! And eat what you want in the morning so that your body has enough time to burn this food instead of storing it. And remember "If you can't burn it, don't eat it!"