Quest Bars and Stalling

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(Reina Noemi) #1

Has anyone experienced stalling when consuming or over consuming quest bars or quest foods in general? I love quest bars, especially the birthday cake flavor and Idk i feel like it could be contributing to my stalls perhaps. I have a feeling I should maybe quit eating them altogether but its so hard! I still cater to my sweet tooth despite being keto and the quest bars help a lot, along with other keto sweets.

(The amazing autoimmune 🦄) #2

I don’t ever eat bars. I feel like they are a fake food and I try to focus on real food. Highly processed food is not good for anyone.

Many people report having difficulty with fake sweeteners, so it very well could be kicking you out of ketosis.

(Alex) #3

definitely a correlation there. gotta give up the sweet stuff if you want to greatly reduce your sugar cravings / potentially get past a stall

(Dawn Michelle) #4

I’ve got to agree. You’ve got to drop the sweet stuff. It is derailing you. Once you get off of it, you won’t miss it. Just give it a few days.

(Janelle) #5

I looked at the carbs on those things and said no way.

(Robert C) #6

Keto is about being in ketosis - not whether you eat quest bars or not.
Eat a quest bar and run 5 miles - probably you will stay in ketosis.
Eat a quest bar at 9 AM and 11 AM as snacks and then, even if under net carbs for the day - probably not in ketosis.

Just like anything else - you should test blood ketones if you suspect anything (quest bars, artificial sweeteners, coffee etc.) is stalling your success.

It doesn’t matter if an athletic 200 muscular male can down 4 a day - you may not be able to tolerate any.

(Janelle) #7

Well, I’m pretty sure I couldn’t eat anything else for the day and stay in ketosis. Their BS claims about 4 net carbs should be regulated.

This is the Birthday Cake bar.

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(Bunny) #8

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(Ethan) #9

This is likely due to a few factors:

  1. Processed and artificial ingredients
  2. Whey protein spiking insulin
  3. Fiber that is actually being digested
(Robert C) #10

I agree a quest bar should be it (carb wise) for a whole day - but it won’t because people think of them as a snack.

I think that quest bars are fine after you hit your goal weight.
Until then - ALL carbs should be incidental from green (mostly leafy) vegetables.

They do not help you hit your goal.
They do help you want to stray from your plan.

(Allie) #11

Artificial sweeteners screw lots of people up, as do fake foods that are supposedly keto friendly because people mistakenly believe they’re OK to binge on when they’re not.

(Kay) #12

Unfortunately the sweeteners might be contributing to stalling, why not try ditching the bars for a while and see if it helps? I can’t do sweetners as they stall me out

(Janelle) #13

Finding the same sad thing. I gave up sweeteners a week ago and I think I’ve broken a 5 week stall.

#14

Whew, Quest bars are barely food in my humble opinion. I mean, I know you can chew n’ swallow 'em and all, but dang.
Truly, if you can choose real, whole foods in this lifestyle, you are better off. If you must indulge, hit up some of the blogs like Low Carb Yum, I Breathe I’m Hungry, Low Carb Maven, All Day I Dream About Food, etc., and make yourself a sweet food that is made of ingredients you can pronounce and buy at the market. That, or consider learning to like 90% dark chocolate, which tastes quite sweet over time after you’ve quit eating frankenfoods.
Ideally, sweet foods should be rare—a weekly treat, not a daily one perhaps. :wink: It’s hard to give up those items, but in the long run, you want to train yourself to a whole different mindset and way of eating—choosing foods that are optimal for the body rather than just something that will “fit” into a carb limit.

It’s a journey! It doesn’t happen overnight, but it can happen when you are mindful.

(Scott) #15

My first thought was “that’s not real food”. When I saw 24g carbs I thought I would drop that like a bad habit.

(John Collyer) #16

Have you tried resisting your sweet tooth for a trial period?

It took me a while to realise that allowing myself 'occasional ‘treats’ was only frustrating the rate of improvement.

After a couple of weeks without frequent ‘treats’ I realised that my sweet tooth was just a habit and not an inescapable addiction. After decades of bad eating habits it was bound to take a little time to develop good ones.

I still enjoy small slices of birthday cake etc at social events, but I don’t crave them at other times. It’s even easy to ignore the little biscuits that often come with coffee. It saves money to give up snacking too.