Question:
Carb Solutions Candy Bar? Are we aloud to have this?

I came across recently to Carb Solutions Candy Bar and was curious if any other post op's also eat this? I want something a lil sweet every once in awhile but I will not eat candy or anything with alot of sugar. Well when I saw and tried a piece of this bar it tasted just like chocolate it was really good to good to be true I read the contents several times it has: 100g Fat Cal, 11g Total Fat, 5g Sat Fat, 20g Sodium, 15g Total Carb, 2g Protein, 0g of sugar..... The carbs seems to be a lil high but it has no sugar would I be ok to have this during those certain times that I crave something sweet or would it be best to aviod these like the plague. I have no idea what to do and I ask this question because i'm scared to sabatoge may weight loss.. Thankyou.. RNY OPEN 5/22/03 270/195 -75 still going    — AlleyCat (posted on October 24, 2003)

October 24, 2003
Hello. You and I are about 5.5 months out. On occasion (like my period when I'm craving chocolate) I will have one of those sugar free candy bars. I usually choose the Atkins caramel peanut cluster (has 6g protien) and about the same calories and carbs as the carb solutions with a little protien to boot. They are wonderful and hit the spot. Be careful though, if you are sensitive to the sugar alcohols, you can get gassy and have diahreah (which is good for me sometimes because I always seem constipated). If you crave it, I don't see that one of those would hurt you once in a while. Enjoy!
   — Happy I.

October 24, 2003
Kelly~I've tried these when I really have a sweet craving. I eat only 1/4 of a bar at a time, so it's only 25 calories, which I can spare. A bar will last me for weeks. If I can get rid of a sweet craving with a low-calorie, low-carb, no-sugar, tastes-good treat, I say why not?
   — Vespa R.

October 25, 2003
Like the others said. I haven't had these but I buy the Carb Solutions High Protein bars which aren't a chocolate bar but do have a decent sweet taste to it, especially the chocolate chip cookie dough. Kemps no sugar added ice cream bars would actually be a better choice and they taste great and have chocolate coating - 50 calories, 4 grams of carbs total (2 sugar), 1 gram of protien.
   — zoedogcbr

October 25, 2003
I occasionally have a sugar free candy bar (CarbSolutions, Carbolite or Russell Stover) but not often. And I never had one before reaching goal. They are sugar free so you won't dump from them but they still have a lot of calories and NO nutrition. And, if you eat too much of theses candies, you will get BAD diahrrea. The first one I had was two days before my tummy tuck and I was so sick from it that I didn't have to take the laxative the night before the surgery.
   — Patty_Butler

October 25, 2003
I have never seen a protien bar which had that little protien before
   — D P.

October 25, 2003
DP - it's not a protein bar - it's a candy substitute and just happens to be made by a company that makes nutritional products as well. Many companies are jumping on the junk-food substitute bandwagon.
   — [Deactivated Member]

October 26, 2003
I totally agree with what Ruth said. When I was looking at all the different "protein bars" at Trader Joes the other day I could see a lot of them were as high in calories as a candy bar and had very little protein. I was thinking then, shoot why wouldn't they all jump on the bandwagon? A candy bar cost $.50 and a "protein bar" is almost 2 bucks. They'd be stupid not to try and pull it off. So buyer beware. Read lables. If it tastes to good to be true, it's probably just a candy bar in disguise. LOL
   — sherry hedgecock