At 180° Fitness in Gloucester, ON, we help you lose weight and become your fittest by aiding you to achieve a healthy lifestyle. We don’t believe in all the calorie counting, strict diets and other severe restrictions, but guide you toward eating healthy and choosing a wide variety of food. It’s a sustainable eating pattern that allows you to eat anywhere, whether at home, at a party or in public, and never feel deprived. Every day we get questions about specific types of diets, such as diet with no carbs. Are these types of diets successful? Are they healthy? Are they sustainable?
Is a no carb diet the same as a low carb diet?
There have been a multitude of low carb diets that have been touted for years, but more recently, a no carb diet has come to the foreground. These diets can be super restrictive and ultimately unhealthy. Consider all the food that contains carbs. You can easily give up some of the foods with no effect on your health and even health benefits. Foods like baked goods, sugary treats, refined flour products and those with sugar are included in that group. If you’re giving up all carbs, it would include food like vegetables, nuts and healthy food that provide fiber and valuable nutrients you need.
No carb diets can affect your health negatively if done for very long.
Cutting out any one of the macronutrients can severely limit your intake of like, fiber, vitamins, minerals and other important nutrients. Since many foods contain both carbs, protein and healthy fat, it further restricts the intake of macronutrients, too. Some foods, such as vegetables, contain carbs, but also provide antioxidants that protect the body from the cellular level. Sticking strictly to a no carb diet completely eliminates fiber, which is necessary for good heart health, lower blood pressure and a healthy digestive system.
It’s almost impossible to stick with a strict no carb diet.
Consider all the foods that contain carbs, bread, pasta, yogurt, milk, fruits, vegetables, beans, legumes, baked goods and grains. That leaves only meat, fish, cheese, eggs, butter and other oils. Some people choose foods with carbs, but that also have a high fiber content, which means most of the carbs aren’t digestible, but it’s still restrictive. It’s hard to maintain the diet, since it restricts so many foods. Whether eating at a friend’s house or in a restaurant, your selection is severely limited. That means most people fail to continue the diet for very long.
- Whether you’re counting calories or counting carbs, it makes losing weight more of a task. Instead, learning how to choose food wisely is the best way to lose weight.
- While low carb diets have been shown to provide some benefits, such as weight loss, there are few studies on no carb diets over the long haul.
- Reducing your carb intake helps prevent diabetes and prevent complications for those who already have diabetes, but it isn’t necessary to wipe out all carbs, just choose those that are healthier.
- 180° Fitness, we believe that you don’t have to follow ridiculously restrictive diet plans to get benefits, including weight loss. We make weight loss and healthy eating easy, so you can lose weight and keep it off permanently.
For more information, contact us today at 180 Fitness