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 allowing myself one "Reward Day" per week helps me eat clean for the rest of the 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.

The key, as you probably figured, is to make sure that my reward day does not become reward days. That being said, I feel that by employing a reward day-type tacitc, 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 reward 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 piece of cheesecake?

But, let's face it, we're human. 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.

Do any of you guys follow a strategy of this kind? And if so, do you take a full reward day or just endulge in a reward meal or two throughout the week?