If you are what you eat, then on every Saturday I'm a chocolate frosted Krispy Kreme donut. But, only on Saturdays. I have found that the key to sticking to a healthy diet is to allow yourself one "Cheat Day" per week. On this One Day, I enjoy snacks, buckets full of pasta, movie popcorn, cake -- you name it. If I want it, I eat it. By allowing myself this "cheat day," I find that I generally do not get any cravings for any of these off-limits foods during the rest of the week and, subsequently, I am able to stick to my 6 day healthy diet almost effortlessly.

The key, as you probably figured, is to make sure that your cheat Day does not become cheat Days. That being said, I think that if you opt to employ a Cheat Day type tacitc, you will find that the urge to carry-over the poor eating habits of that one day into the next seldom becomes problematic. As a matter of fact, most times I am so sick of desert and pizza by the end of my cheat day that I have almost no desire for those foods until the end of the following week. Now, in no way am I suggesting that eating like a glutton once a week is in any way healthy. I mean, what the heck could possibly be healthy about eating a chocloate bar? -- that is, unless it is dark chocolate, which has been proven to help lower blood pressure. But, let's face it, we're humans. We are not machines, capable of resisting every temptation that may come our way. With that being the case, eating well on a regular basis can sometimes become a very difficult thing, especially when you may be pressed for time and a delicious Whopper is just so quick and easy. It is at this point where most diets fail; when people deprive themselves of the foods they enjoy for so long that they simply throw in the towel.