Splurges should be carefully planned and reasonably infrequent. If you let Chitosan enable you to splurge more often than you used to, you will undo all of your good efforts. Splurges are difficult to categorize because by their nature they are spontaneous. In general, however, I feel that you should try to limit them to no more than 20 grams of fat and a maximum of 300 extra calories. (If the splurge contains food groups from the Eating Program, the extra calories you should count are those above and beyond what you typically eat. For example, at lunch your plan may call for 1 serving of meat and 2 grains, which would equal 270 calories. If you decide to have a hamburger instead, which contains 330 calories, your extras would only amount to about 60 calories). Of course, since most of that extra is fat, 1 or 2 grams of Chitosan will take care of it.
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