You’ve just successfully completed your first week on the Jenny Craig Program. Or you’ve just reached your halfway mark. Or you just need an inexpensive “indulgence” for no specific reason other than to make you feel good and help keep your life – and psyche – in balance.

Life is too short not to reward ourselves. After all, one of Jenny Craig’s main “success factors” is maintaining a balanced approach to living – which includes pampering yourself and taking well-deserved time to nurture mind, body and spirit.

If you had a reward “wish list,” most likely new cars, homes, jewellery and exotic holidays would be at the top. But often it’s the little things that can make the biggest difference. Not only do they lift your spirits and put a spring in your step, they do so … affordably!

Here are 15 inexpensive indulgences that can turn an average day into a terrific one. The best thing is that each of them costs $10 or less!

To Buy:

• A new nail polish colour
• Your favourite magazine
• A simple bunch of flowers for home
• A DIY hair treatment
• A box of new flavoured herbal tea
• A new hair or outfit accessory
• A best-selling paperback at a used bookshop
• A fat free soft serve frozen yoghurt

To Do:

• Go to a half price movie session of the latest blockbuster
• Rent a movie you missed at the cinema but have been dying to see
• Buy a skim latte at a café and watch the world go by
• Go lawn or ten-pin bowling
• Go swimming at a local community pool
• Toss water balloons around with your children
• Give yourself a face mask or another at-home spa treatment
• Meditate
• Place a cucumber slice on each closed eyelid and relax for five minutes