The Weekend Diet plan, from Good Housekeeping, uses just these 2 days of the week and a 1,200 calorie-per-day meal plan to jump start your healthy eating and increase activity to feel better by Monday. Research shows that most people eat more and exercise less on the weekends, thus leading to as much as a nine-pound weight gain in the course of a year. Making each weekend a spa-like experience will help drop the pounds.

Choose one item from their planned recipes and also include a 50-calorie snack.

Breakfast recipes or suggestions for dining out
Lunch recipes or suggestions for dining out
Dinner recipes or suggestions for dining out
50-calorie snack suggestions

SALTY

1 Ak-Mak Stone Ground Sesame cracker with 1 Tbsp. mashed avocado OR 2 plain Ak-Mak crackers
1 1/2 Tbsp. hummus with 1/2 small red pepper, sliced, for dipping
1 Tbsp. soft herbed goat cheese with 1 stalk celery
10 baby carrots with 2 Tbsp. salsa for dipping
20 thin pretzels with 1 Tbsp. Dijon mustard for dipping

SWEET

10 mini Miss Meringue chocolate or vanilla cookies
7 strawberries with 2 Tbsp. Cool Whip for dipping
1 Breyers All Natural Pure Fruit Bar
14 frozen grapes
3/4 cup fresh raspberries

SIPS

Blender Cappuccino
Herbal Tea Cooler

Increase your level of activity over the weekend. Some suggested mini-workouts include biking, tightening your tush, jogging for focus and mixing it up while walking. Read more about these quick and easy exercises here. Good Housekeeping's Weekend Diet also suggests relaxing, at-home spa treatments. Some suggestions are a sugar and olive oil scrub in the bath to release tension, hand massage, a salt and shampoo scalp massage or a foot soak followed by lotion and booties.

Weekend Diet Links

Official: www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/diet/weekend-diet-plan

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID1Xx-r88Ns

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