Atkins bars and shakes- 1000th post

[Desertthorn]

I agree Kevin, Shakes and Bars are frankenfood and personally, I think the bars taste like chocolate covered cardboard and the shakes are just plain nasty...not to mention unhealthy. But I can see if folks where they are better than the alternative - carbs in a cup
I have yet to find a decent Induction friendly shake recipe. There may be one out there, but I haven't found it.

[SunnySmile501]

Originally Posted by Chicklady

Long ago, I had my mouth wired shut after I busted it upon a car accident. I made a "shake" out of chef boyardee. It's surprising what you can drink

My too-skinny neice had some major jaw surgery that required her jaws to be wired shut for eight weeks. For the first time ever she gained a lot of weight and fast. She found she could make about anything liquid enough to suck through a straw. She didn't get full as fast as she did when chewing and swallowing her food, so she gained weight fast. She was drinking Slim Fast shakes and gaining like crazy.

[SunnySmile501]

Originally Posted by Chef Kevin

I take 2000mg a day too. 1000mg each time. I just can't eat that early.
The pill doesn't make me sick at all, but i do have the later in the day side effects...

ick!!!

You can do anything you set your mind to do. I had the same problem when I started Atkins, with an abhorrence to eating early since childhood.

I knew I needed to change my eating habits, so I made a list. At the top was "Eat breakfast before 9:00 a.m." It was the hardest thing on my list, but I made up my mind that it was something I needed to do and I could do anything I chose to do. The first day I choked down breakfast at 11:00 a.m. Not exactly 9:00 a.m., but it was progress. I also had to stop eating by 7:00 p.m. so I would be empty and hungry by morning. It took a month, but at the end of the month I was hungry for and eating breakfast between 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m.

I had changed bad habits of a lifetime and was rewarded with weight loss and no more meds for acid reflux. I had been taking 160mg of Nexium for years and still had acid reflux that kept me up at night.

Sunny!

[Thinker]

Atkins Bar Mathematics. When some of their Advantage Bars have 15 g of cars, 4gr of Fibre and 3 of Sugar Alcohols ---- how do you get to 3 Net Carbs?????

[liv]

Good thinking, Thinker.
It is glycerin. They do not have to put it on the label as a sugar alcohol but they add it
Here is a viewpoint about it

Glycerine is another sweet additive that manufacturers add to low carb bars. Here again, you'll find that, because manufacturers claim glycerine does not raise blood sugar, they omit it in the carb section of the label information or, if they do list it, they do not include it in number of diet-counted "impact" carbs. (Glycerine is sometimes spelled Glycerin and is another name for glycerol.)

This is from this internet article view ( a good read)
Marketing Tricks: Net Carbs, Sugar Alcohols, Tricky Portion Sizes

[Chicklady]

Originally Posted by Thinker

Atkins Bar Mathematics. When some of their Advantage Bars have 15 g of cars, 4gr of Fibre and 3 of Sugar Alcohols ---- how do you get to 3 Net Carbs?????

15-4-3=8 cut off the left side of the 8=3

[Sarina D]

Originally Posted by Chicklady

15-4-3=8 cut off the left side of the 8=3

Good one Chick...you crack me up!

Sarina
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Heaviest weight last year- 400 lbs. (2007)
April 1, 2008 - 387 lbs.
Atkins start weight – 347 (July 19, 2008 )
(100 lbs. lost as of Oct 2, 2008 - Hit 300 lbs. on this day )
Current weight – 251 lbs.
Goal weight - 150 – 160

[Brook]

Originally Posted by Chef Kevin

OK!
For the 1000th time this week!

Atkins bars and shakes are Frankenfoods.
Don't use them on induction!
I don't care what the Atkin's website says.
Dr. A has a list of foods to follow in the book.
Have you read the book?

Second, they have sugar alcohols and nasty stuff in them and probably should be avoided all the time.

Eat real food!
Learn what real food is, stop relying on prepackaged convenience foods. There is a reason they can sit on a shelf for two years. Try that with a steak or a head of lettuce.

Many people on here have written that these bars and shakes cause them to stop losing weight or cause gut problems. It's not a good thing to eat.

Ok, I think that covers it enough.
~Chef

I know we don't know each other well, Kevin..but .. Thank. You.

Low carb junk food is still JUNK FOOD!

[Sarina D]

Originally Posted by liv

Good thinking, Thinker.
It is glycerin. They do not have to put it on the label as a sugar alcohol but they add it
Here is a viewpoint about it


This is from this internet article view ( a good read)
Marketing Tricks: Net Carbs, Sugar Alcohols, Tricky Portion Sizes

That is a really helpful read Liv, thanks for taking the time to post it.

We have to continue to strive to eat whole foods and not processed "foods" that are not good for our systems.

There are plenty of other ways to make shakes from real foods if one requires a liquid form. There is so much garbage in these shakes and bars that are on the store shelves....just take a peek at the label of ingredients...it's hair raising.

Sarina
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Heaviest weight last year- 400 lbs. (2007)
April 1, 2008 - 387 lbs.
Atkins start weight – 347 (July 19, 2008 )
(100 lbs. lost as of Oct 2, 2008 - Hit 300 lbs. on this day )
Current weight – 251 lbs.
Goal weight - 150 – 160