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I need some Protein bars

SoreArms

SoreArms

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OK, I know most protein bars are full of junk and are generally no good. However, my work schedule is going to be pretty hectic for a few months and there will be times when I will not have time to get to my desk and eat or drink a shake. I don't want to go without eating so a protein bar might be the best alternative for me. What are some of the better protein bars out there?
 
actually I do too like ASAP

JKRUSZ1 diet board guru and future diet board mod and protein bar extraordinaire, what bars should we eat?????????????
 
Myoplex or Nitrotech carb sense......peanut butter. or smores......never anything more than 2g of sugar............
 
JKurz1 said:
Myoplex or Nitrotech carb sense......peanut butter. or smores......never anything more than 2g of sugar............
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I checked these out this weekend. I bought a Myoplex cookies and cream carb sense to see how it tasted, it has 21g of carbs, which isn't really low carb, but the wrapper says something like only 2g of impact carbs. WTF?! Dietary fiber 2g, sugars 0, other carbs 19g.

I'm confused :confused:
 
SoreArms said:
I checked these out this weekend. I bought a Myoplex cookies and cream carb sense to see how it tasted, it has 21g of carbs, which isn't really low carb, but the wrapper says something like only 2g of impact carbs. WTF?! Dietary fiber 2g, sugars 0, other carbs 19g.

I'm confused :confused:
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the rest of the carbs are sugar alcohols, carbs that are supposed to be very 'slow digesting' so as not to have an effect on insulin in the body

but the jury is still out on that in the real world for sure!
 
Bran987 said:
the rest of the carbs are sugar alcohols, carbs that are supposed to be very 'slow digesting' so as not to have an effect on insulin in the body

but the jury is still out on that in the real world for sure!
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what I'm mostly confused about is how to treat these carbs. When I log my meals, do I ignore 19g of carbs and only log 2g, or do I log them all? I'm guessing that it would be best to log them all in which case they do not fit into my diet.

Any 2-3g (total) carb bars out there?
 
SoreArms said:
what I'm mostly confused about is how to treat these carbs. When I log my meals, do I ignore 19g of carbs and only log 2g, or do I log them all? ?
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That is what the general public is confused about at the moment as well
IMO count them all
 
The way my diet is currently structured to fit my schedule, the places where I could need the bars I can't use the carbs so I guess I need another solution.
 
SoreArms said:
The way my diet is currently structured to fit my schedule, the places where I could need the bars I can't use the carbs so I guess I need another solution.
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it's probably better than nothing.
but
maybe we can come up with something better
what macronutrients do you need at those times and why?
 
I'm currently doing a 50/30/20 P/F/C. My roughly calcualted BMR (bodyweight x 12) is around 2400 cals, but I rounded down to 2000 cals to make a small deficit. So I scatter 100 g of carbs through out the day in the following manner

non-WO day
Meal 1 carbs
Meal 2 no carbs
meal 3 carbs
meal 4 no carbs
meal 5 carbs
meal 6 no carbs
meal 7 no carbs

Wo day
meal 1 carbs
meal 2 no carbs
meal 3 no carbs
meal 4 no carbs
meal 5 carbs
meal 6 carbs (post WO)
meal 7 no carbs

meal 1 is between 6:00-7:00 AM at home, so it is controlled, I usually have brown rice and eggs or protein and oatbran shake. Meal 3 is my lunch break and meal 5 is at a time when I can almost always be at my desk, so I usually have brown rice and chicken (yeah, everyday). The times where I might need the bars, or a quicker source of nutrition, is at meals 2 and 4 since I am not guaranteed to have time to be at my desk to have my shake (oh yeah, meals 2 and 4 are protein and udos oil shakes).

Since needing to eat something like a protein bar would be unplanned (emergency case), throwing something with 21g of carbs at meals 2 or 4 would screw up the rest of my day. But I guess you are right, it's better than eating nothing.

I hope there's a 2-3g total carb alternative.
 
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SoreArms said:
I'm currently doing a 50/30/20 P/F/C. My roughly calcualted BMR (bodyweight x 12) is around 2400 cals, but I rounded down to 2000 cals to make a small deficit. So I scatter 100 g of carbs through out the day in the following manner

non-WO day
Meal 1 carbs
Meal 2 no carbs
meal 3 carbs
meal 4 no carbs
meal 5 carbs
meal 6 no carbs
meal 7 no carbs

Wo day
meal 1 carbs
meal 2 no carbs
meal 3 no carbs
meal 4 no carbs
meal 5 carbs
meal 6 carbs (post WO)
meal 7 no carbs

meal 1 is between 6:00-7:00 AM at home, so it is controlled, I usually have brown rice and eggs or protein and oatbran shake. Meal 3 is my lunch break and meal 5 is at a time when I can almost always be at my desk, so I usually have brown rice and chicken (yeah, everyday). The times where I might need the bars, or a quicker source of nutrition, is at meals 2 and 4 since I am not guaranteed to have time to be at my desk to have my shake (oh yeah, meals 2 and 4 are protein and udos oil shakes).

Since needing to eat somethign like a protein bar woul be unplanned, throwing something with 21g of carbs at meals 2 or 4 would screw up the rest of my day. But I guess you are right, it's better than eating nothing.

I hope there's a 2-3g total carb alternative.
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you will probably be ok with bars in this case. I am pretty sure there is no debate that you have to count them as calories, but whether or not you have to count them as CARBS is the Q.

you could rearrange a couple carb meals to be the bar meals or just go with the bars and see how it works out.

or use the bar as one meal and not 2

yeah big help I am

the other meal could be one of my (no/low carb) favorites and also requires no refridgeration or preparation: Beef or Turkey Jerky with a serving of your favorite kind of nuts (raw, not roasted or salted)

sorry I couldn't help more!
 
If anyone is interested, this is a workbook I made on excel that I use on my pocket PC. I use it to log all my meals and it counts all my macros and calculates my pecentages. I have a database with all the foods I consume, so that all I do is copy the cells from the database sheet into whatever day and meal I ate it at. In this case I used it to create three possible meal arrangements for the day. Use it if you like it.

Not exactly perfect percentages as far as 50/30/20 goes but good enough approximations IMO.

http://f1.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/[email protected]/lst?.dir=/MacroSamples&.view=l
 
Bran987 said:
you will probably be ok with bars in this case. I am pretty sure there is no debate that you have to count them as calories, but whether or not you have to count them as CARBS is the Q.

you could rearrange a couple carb meals to be the bar meals or just go with the bars and see how it works out.

or use the bar as one meal and not 2

yeah big help I am

the other meal could be one of my (no/low carb) favorites and also requires no refridgeration or preparation: Beef or Turkey Jerky with a serving of your favorite kind of nuts (raw, not roasted or salted)

sorry I couldn't help more!
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I wouldn't want to have the bars for 2 meals, I dont to have them at all, so they would only be used in emergency cases only. I guess if I only need them now and then it might not be so bad, I was just surprised by the carb content for something called "carb sense". Maybe Jkurz knows something to make me feel more at ease about eating these since he seems to like them.
 
I make my own, funky protein cookie
whey
soy isolate
natty P butter
oats
flax seeds
wheat germ
oil
egg

lotsa P, fiber, no sugar
 
ISS Research Pro42 bars used to be really good, but now they changed the formula to include partially hydrogenated oils so I would not recommend them anymore =\
 
Ulcasterdropout said:
I make my own, funky protein cookie
whey
soy isolate
natty P butter
oats
flax seeds
wheat germ
oil
egg

lotsa P, fiber, no sugar
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this sounds interesting, can you give me more details, bud? How do you prepare it, how do you preserve it (in other words, if you're not going to eat it for maybe a week or more), etc....?

thanks
 
SoreArms said:
this sounds interesting, can you give me more details, bud? How do you prepare it, how do you preserve it (in other words, if you're not going to eat it for maybe a week or more), etc....?

thanks
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everything keeps in the freezer :)
 
SoreArms said:
good catch, I got so excited about the idea I didn't notice the oats.

that's why they pay you the big bucks around here
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I have a hard enough time taking care of myself, and now I gtta watch you and Bran too.....
 
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