Protein bar instead of a cookie

Dear Cidezines,

It's like, do those people stay under a rock? Maybe they're reincarnated Flintstones. What the hell?!
Whatever the hell, it is my theory those people just have nothing going on. Nurses are thee worst, ironically.
I would bet quite a few of your coworkers would empathize with you, dear. You are not alone.
Oh and tell your old man to keep HIS cookies and crap elsewhere. The back of his pick-up, I don't care. Seriously.
On the other hand, C, I never eat anything K, special or un-special. The ingredients are tortured
(way way over-processed), and the "nutritional content" is literally spray-on vitamins.
Can you get the heck out the breakroom, off your floor and out of your building during your breaks? If not, can you bring
ultra-pasteurized skim milk to slooowly savor a cookie with? Maybe your favorite savory snack, even if it has fat and protein.
Can you go somewhere else and eat the snack? You can find a way, girl.
This is an opportunity for you to be outraged (not to be confused with the word enraged) that these cookie "monsters" are
perpetuating and exploiting yours and others' weight and health vulnerabilities.
Message me anytime,
Emmy

The protein bar probably filled you up longer. Good idea, IMO. Unless you're REALLY craving a cookie. Then eat the cookie, or you might end up eating both...

180c vs 130c of junk food

I woulda gone for the cookie. =p


Next time grab a Quest bar!

I love protein bars (real protein bars, Special K is all about their "we're healthy" branding more than anything.) Yup much better than a cookie. Protein helps build and repair your muscles whereas the cookie would have have no nutritional value and been all sugar.

I do agree though, special K is meh. Quest is better!

Balance Bar in chocolate mint. They are spectacularly tasty-I'm talking girl scout thin mint tasty here. Processed chemicals be damned! I'm eating my freakin' cookie with protein.

Yep. You, ma'am, have awesome taste in protein bars!

Why thank you. I actually had to quit eating the balance bars. But I did find another brand that tastes just as good only minus the crunch. It's still a cookie though. A tasty, tasty, cookie with the texture of a perfectly chewy brownie... crap. Now I have to go eat one. Yay cookies!

180c vs 130c of junk food

I woulda gone for the cookie. =p


Next time grab a Quest bar!

there is a chocolate chip quest bar! It's like a cookie but with protein. yyyyuuummm.

Best solution: bake cookies, add protein powder to the dough. Seriously, I've done it before and I shared the cookies with my roommates and a dozen cookies disappeared in like an hour. Then you get protein and cookies

I don't think it's a win or fail as long as you can work that snack into your daily calories. I usually go for something that is plain and natural, like a piece of fruit. I do get a bit worried when looking at the nutrition labels of prepackaged foods - preservatives, sweeteners, nutrients added to replace the stuff that has been refined. I figure if I go with something easy and natural - a small handful of nuts, or an apple - I can't go too wrong.

I try not to be tempted by sweets at work. Most of that stuff is made of the same few basic ingredients, white flour sweetened with corn syrup, dyed and artificially flavored to mimic the appearance of different foods. I can't help but think how boring and low in nutrition those foods are. I am starting to prefer my healthier, varied stuff from home - fuji apples, whole wheat honey bread and some homemade mini pizzas made with stone ground wheat, chicken and veggies. I can cook anything that I want with whole healthy ingredients and make them 2 x healthier than the store bought stuff. I just turned some plain greek yogurt into dark chocolate pudding - with no added sugar.

I'd say its a win - you swapped something that you classified as 'junk' for something more healthy. Regardless of whether that one swap was a wash, you are training your brain to choose healthy food over junk, and that is definetely a long-term win!