I thought that I would do a little research today on Protein Bars seen as I am deciding they are now going to become a part of my diet and help assist me in my goal to loose weight.
What I know at this stage is that protein is great because it helps to fill you up and keep you feeling full for longer. I'm also focusing my trials with protein bars on ones that are low in carbohydrates and have less than 200 calories in them.
I'm focusing on the carbs because of the Keto Diet. It's not that I am going to cut carbs from my life all together but lowering my carb intake will help my body reduce in fat. For more information on the Keto Diet, check out this link http://www.ruled.me/guide-keto-diet/
I'm also aiming for less than 200 calories, if I'm lucky around the 100 calories mark because this is the amount of calories I allow myself as a snack. Therefore I can add a protein bar into my diet as a snack and not be adding any extra calories to my daily calorie allowance.
For those of your who don't remember my allouwance it is as follows:
Breakfast = 300 to 400
Lunch = up to 600
Snacks = aiming for 200 per day
Dinner = allowing up to 800
Total of 2000 calories daily.
Now if anyone pays attention to what I right about eating then you'll know I haven't managed to stay all that true to this, but these are the rules I am going to be able to follow in the near future.
Now really pulling apart my allowance:
Breakfast I can often get up to 500 or 600 calories for that meal. I'm OK with this as eating a bigger breakfast is actually healthy for us.
Lunch, while I was eating 2x ham salad sandwiches I was eating over 600 calories for that meal, however now I am no longer allowing myself so many carbs after the middle of the day. Salads, Stir Fries, Bunless Burgers, Brown Rice and Vegetable Fry Up, pasta less vegetable lasange, etc, are all meals that I am going to make which will be below the 500 calories mark per meal (if not less).
Dinner, I allow up to 800 calories for this meal because I like to eat with my partner and I don't want him to cook something specific for me that won't be enough for him. Now this where I need to focus on changes, ie cutting out carbs, controlling my portions but on average I very really eat a dinner that has more calories in it than 800. I would average around 600 calories here.
Snacks, this is where I am going to be having the Protein Bar. They are less than 200 calories and one of them (hell if I'm lucky half of one of them) is enough to keep me going in between meals. The aim for this is to find a protein bar like 'Lo Carb' bar I had the other day which filled up after I'd eaten less than half of the bar. This is a perfect, low calorie, low carb and filling snack which I am replacing with fruit. That's what my snack was before. For a little bit of info on Protein Bars have a look at this link https://www.verywell.com/what-are-the-benefits-of-eating-protein-bars-2507020
Now from what I have written I'm going to work out some new calculations
Breakfast = 600
Lunch = 500
Dinner = 600
Snacks = 200
Total = 1900
Now the thing is I want to make sure I'm still eating at least one piece of fruit a day. They generally average 100 calories so I can eat one of them and still be staying at my allowance of 2000 calories a day.
The fruit I am going to add will be at my breakfast time/morning tea seen as they are high in sugar, so I'll still have half the day to burn the sugar off instead of having it sit in my belly if I eat it closer to dinner.
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