THE FAT BLOCKER EATING PROGRAM: THE SPLURGE ALLOTMENT
We’re all human, and that means that none of us can be perfect all the time. When it comes to eating, despite our best intentions, we sometimes get the urge to splurge. Fortunately, splurging can be a good thing, at least up to a point. Psychologists have found that allowing for some imperfection, whether it’s in dieting, exercising, or accomplishing any difficult task, helps us stick to the task in the long run. In context with the Fat Blocker Eating Program, occasional treats are easy to deal with because you can use Chitosan to block the fat and hence some of the calories and unhealthy side effects of the fat in these treats. The long-term result is that you can stay on the rest of your sensible eating plan much more easily—and the splurge ends up doing you more good than harm.
I should warn, however, that there are two potential pitfalls to splurging. One is that you have to be careful to avoid a splurge becoming an all-out binge. One piece of cheesecake is fine; an entire cheesecake is not desirable! That’s why we should approach these foods with caution. I like to figure out in advance what my treat will be, when I’m going to eat it, and how much of it I’ll eat. Then I take the appropriate amount of Chitosan before eating the splurge food. If I’m ordering my treat in a restaurant, I also decide in advance how much of it I’m going to eat. I remove the excess before I start to eat and have the waiter take it away.
The other risk with splurging is that we get to rely so much on Chitosan’s ability to negate the negative of fat that we keep splurging. Inevitably, that means we’ll gain weight. For the Chitosan never absorbs all the fat we consume. For one thing, you can’t eat enough Chitosan to eliminate all the fat you can consume if you are really overeating. The practical maximum of Chitosan you can take before a meal is about 4 grams. At most, that will eliminate 24 grams of fat. But a McDonald’s Big Mac contains about double that. So, if you eat as many cheeseburgers as before and eat your Chitosan, you’ll cut down on fat, calories, and weight. But if you splurge regularly on extra Big Macs, you’ll gain weight, and probably lots of it.
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