Lighten up your lunch with new summer salads. Mix and match to make your own: Start with a whole grain or legume like whole wheat pasta, lentils or barley, add roasted non-starchy veggies like bell peppers, carrots and onions and toss with your favorite light vinaigrette.

For a fun way to get the family out for a hike, try geocaching. Geocaching is an outdoor treasure hunt using a handheld GPS (or smart phone equipped with GPS), plus clues and coordinates from a site like geocaching.com to find hidden containers of goodies called geocaches.

Not sure what to include in your food diary? For each entry consider including: the food, how much you ate, what time, what you were doing while you ate (driving, watching tv, etc.), how hungry you were and your mood.