My Diet Treat – Diet Bars

I don’t always have time to have a good meal.  Sometimes I am busy and don’t have time to cook.  Other times I am just too lazy to fix anything.  Or I just feel like having something sweet but I don’t want to eat junk food.  Those are the times I grab myself a diet bar.
I have several of them, stocking up when they are on sale.  I am careful about the ingredients.  Many times a diet bar is just a glorified candy bar, with as much sugar and fat as a chocolate bar.  I choose bars that are high in protein and low in sugar and fat.  I also look for bars that don’t have a lot of calories and are filling enough to hold me over until it is time to eat.
Even though I am no longer dieting I watch what I eat carefully.  I have lost 140 lbs by making healthy choices and having reasonable amounts of food.  My goal is to maintain my weight by having a way of eating that is healthy but doesn’t deprive me of things I enjoy.  For me, diets are something that I go on and then I go off.  If I deny myself tasty things I will eventually become frustrated and give in to my cravings and overdo it.  Then I have found it is much harder to go back to my previous way of eating.  What works for me is a way of eating that I can live with long term, hopefully permanently.  It needs to include a wide variety of things, lean meats, fresh fruits and vegetables and of course, chocolate.  Who wants to stick with a way of eating that doesn’t include chocolate?  Eating diet bars is a way to get my sweet fix without feeling guilty or sabotaging my efforts to stay at a healthy weight