gwilson, I agree with you, we don't even think about dinner til 7pm but I must eat something before bed or else I'm starving and will wake in the middle of the night because I'm hungry. this was a problem even before I started low carbing. I generally have a cup of herb tea with sweet and low and a piece of string cheese. I keep meaning to try those recipes for low carb bread type things but I'm kind of afraid I'll be wasting my time. Who knows if I'll like them. As for the protein bars, They don't seem to have caused a stall, but I'm certainly not crazy about the flavor, therefore, I'll often have only a third of one, just because we've stopped for coffee and my husband is having a donut. Now adays though, i usually insist we stop at some fast food place where I can order a salad or even a hamburger without bread. My biggest stall so far was my french vanilla coffee creamer, but i switched to light or heavy cream and lost 3 pounds this week so I guess I unstalled.