Atkins Chocolate Chip Granola Bars

It’s not fair that I blogged about how eating dark chocolate is good for you — yet if you’re trying to lose weight, you can’t eat it. (Unless you have amazing self-control, which I don’t have.)

So here’s a delicious alternative. When you’re craving a 3 pm pick-me-up, these Atkins chocolate chip granola bars are yummy. Being the geeky label reader that I’ve become, I’ll go ahead and tell you they’re 220 calories, with 6g fiber, 17g protein, and only 1g sugar.

The way I translate this: the calories are worth it because the fiber will help you feel full, the protein will give you energy and help raise your metabolism (so you can burn calories while you read blogs — woohoo), and less than a gram of sugar means you won’t crash and burn from a sugar high. You can eat one of these, guilt-free. mmmm. I just did.