Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter cups (HIGH PROTEIN, LOW CARB, SUGAR FREE ALL...

Now I sound like a party pooper, but for me at only 4 months out, I just don't want to waste protein and calories on "candy", too much of a trigger for me, I'm trying very hard to make a life change, not fit in my old way of eating into my new smaller stomach...it won't work. Goid luck with those, protein shake for me.

you could make a home made  high protein granola all natural at home with less cal.  oats, all natural pb, egg, vanilla seteva drops, vanilla, crushed walnuts, dried cranberries, and unsweetened dark chocolate mix and bake 350/ 20 min.  great to crumble in high protein yogurt for a nice crunch and a taste of chocolate with out the sugar and over doing it.  Just a though 

 

jen

My shake, made with 1 scoop Chocolate Splendor, 1 c unsweetened almond milk, 1 TEASPOON PB2 (1/6 of a serving):

    147 calories        23g protein              7g carb            4g fat  (25% of calories from fat)

two Quest Cravings PB cups:

   240 calories         20g protein            10g carb           17g fat  (64% of calories from fat)

one Quest Cravings PB cup:

   120 calories         10g protein               5g carb           8.5g fat  (64% of calories from fat)

 

My dense proteins run along the same nutritional lines as my shakes, or else I don't eat them, the one exception being the one serving of catfish or salmon I have once a week because my bariatric nurse manager urged me to have that due to the beneficial fat.

The biggest deal with this for me is that I don't want to eat substitute candy/cookie stuff because, for me personally, it would be too easy to translate protein bar enjoyment into crap food enjoyment, which is how I got to the point where I needed surgery in the first place.

That's how I roll.  Other people may be different.

High in calories, High in fat. Maybe once in a blue moon when you need a chocolate fix it would be ok, but I wouldn't regularly have these in my diet.  

These kinds of foods are the reason we got into trouble with our weight in the first place. Foods like this are head fakes. "Oh, it has protein in it! It must be good!". Yeah, ummmm, no. Step away from the head fakes. 

Agreed: )

Meh. I love them.. yes, saved them for near maintenance.. but with the caveat of the disclaimer- as long as you are not triggered to eat them willy-nilly, they are a good high protein/high fat (satisfying) treat. I still find 1 cup satisfying and filling and I'm almost 2 years out. I have one or two a week. I like my fats, so it wasn't ever a deal-breaker for me, only finding the space in the limited cal range I stuck with to get to goal kept me from having them with any real frequency. I much prefer these to the real thing anymore though- and I've had  both since goal- the real deal feels too sugary and more important- does not fill me up. So bonus, satisfying snack, good macros (by my plan) and darn tasty too.