7 Tips to best use your cheat day

Are you on a diet? Take a break! It's one of the most essential factors of a diet plan's success; as it helps your body release all the stress and emotional distress which your body has accumulated during the past week. Releasing these negative energies, re-adjusting your metabolism and emotions is crucial because they can raise your cholesterol level. which has a backfiring effect in gaining weight instead of losing it. So here are some hot tips on how to best use this day off in order to get the maximum benefit out of it.

1- Plan your day off: don't gain on that day what you've been trying to lose all week!! You have to know how many calories you're consuming, even on that day. Especially if you are depending more on the diet than on exercise in your plan of losing weight

2- Burn those calories: take a day off, eat what you want; but we want to burn those calories, nonetheless. So there's no harm in exercising a little or doing more effort to burn as many calories as you can.

3- Make it a Weekend day: it's very healthy to put your day off on a weekend day. On a day where you don't have to go to work, where you don't face stress in any way. Instead, make it your relaxation day, go to the park with your kids, clean your house (burns a lot of calories by the way); or do something fun on that day.

4- Enjoy it! The more you enjoy that day, not only the food but the whole day as well, the more you will be able to stick to your diet the next week and the more successfully you will be able to release all the stress, emotional distress, re-adjust your metabolism and lower your cholesterol

5- A lot of something or a little of everything: eat either a good quantity of something you really want or little quantities of many things you desire. But in both cases, don't let it get out of your hands.

6- Prioritize: make a list of all what you want to eat in an order of priority. It will help you the best to eat what you craved for the most all week. Don't go for the natural "availability bias" - to eat what's available and closer to you instead of what you really want. Don't do that, at least not on your day off!

7- Timing: always eat in the morning rather than at night, and remember to split your meals in 3-5 small meals rather than one meal of a huge quantity as it will take your body longer to digest and burn... which means more likely to store as fat!!