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Just had my 6 week check and was graduated to all food. My doctor said to get Protein Bars. Ultimately high Protein, low carb, low fat and low sugar would be great. I find they either have too much fat or too much sugar. Which do you use?

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I like Quest and Pure Protein.< /p>

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Think thin bars are amazing!

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Atkins' CaramelChocolate Nut Roll...delicious!

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Thank you all! I'll have to try some of them. I bought a few random bars the other day. I had 1/2 of a Think Thin and it was pretty good. Not too dry at all.

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Think thin bars are amazing!

I like the THINK THIN...

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Every time I walk by these somewhere like GNC or smoothie King or the grocery, I feel so tempted. Then I stand there and look at every single nutritional label and put them back one at a time. They all seem to have so many calories or so many carbs in them it is as bad or even worse than the number of calories in a candy bar. Yeah, I know that they are more nutritionally sound and are a good Protein source, but still....

One of the last big diets I was on was TOPS, which really isn't a specific diet. I remember eating Luna bars for lunch very often at that time. 9g of Protein 180 calories, 5g fat, 11g carbs.

Then I think that I could just make an Isopure shake for 100 calories and get 20+g of protein and 0 carbs.

It would be neat if they could do the same with the bars as they do with the shake powder.

Low cal, low carb, high protein and decently tasty.

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I like the Quest bar because it has some of the lowest net carbs of any bar I've found. Less than 5 if I remember right. But they are very hard to chew straight out of the wrapper. I give them a couple of hours sitting on the dashboard of my truck, or 10 seconds in the microwave and they are much better.

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Atkins bars..... Be careful of bars being too high in sugar and carbs. Atkins had the least of these from what I have found.

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