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FAQs

What are the carb foods to avoid? ›

Here are a few examples of high-carb foods that you should avoid: bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, and sugar-filled snacks like candy bars and cakes. By cutting out these types of foods, you'll be on your way to achieving the healthy body and mind you've been searching for.

A diet that allows oatmeal, pasta and bread is a friend of ours — as long as they're all whole grain. That means that they're lower in fat than their refined counterparts, plus they have high amounts of fiber and vitamin B. Oats, quinoa, barley, and rye all have the stamp of approval from HCLF eaters.

1. Sugary Foods. Most people already think of many of the foods in this category as unhealthy treats. Candy, soft drinks, and sweet desserts such as cake, chocolate, and ice cream are all expected entries on a list of carbs to avoid to lose weight.

Cookies, candies, cakes, ice cream, and packaged sweet bakery items qualify as processed desserts. They share common traits like added sugars, refined flour, and unhealthy fats that make them problematic for health after 50. The added sugars and refined carbs in sweets and desserts cause rapid blood sugar spikes.

Food and drinks allowed on a no-carb diet include meat, fish, eggs, cheese, butter, oils, water, and plain coffee or tea. If you're less stringent, you can also eat nuts, seeds, non-starchy vegetables, and high fat fruits like avocado and coconut since these foods are low in net carbs.

Oats are technically a high-carbohydrate food, with 70.7g carbs per 100g oats. However, the type of carbs that oats contain are known as 'complex' carbs – a primary energy source for our bodies. Oats are complex carbs because they contain plenty of fibre, both soluble and insoluble, as well as beta-glucan.

Severe carb limits can cause your body to break down fat into ketones for energy. This is called ketosis. Ketosis can cause side effects such as bad breath, headache, fatigue and weakness.

What is the most filling low-carb food? ›

Carbohydrates are a major energy source we get from food, and they're in just about everything. Sneaky sources of carbs include meats, seafood, dairy, nuts, sauces, supplements, and spices.

Morning carbs are better than late-day carbs.

If you're going to eat sweets or simple carbs like bread, pasta and pastries, it's better to do so in the morning or early afternoon, when we are most insulin-sensitive, rather than at night, Garaulet said.

Whole-wheat toast and whole-grain crackers contain complex carbohydrates and fiber, which slow the rise of blood sugar. Pair it with peanut butter, which is filled with protein and healthy fat, and you'll stay full until the morning. "Peanut butter contains healthy fats that raise serotonin levels," says Young.

Examples of complex carbs include starchy vegetables (white and sweet potatoes, peas, corn), legumes (beans, lentils), and whole grains. Choose these carbs to get the most nutrition with the least impact on blood sugar.

"Eating refined carbs like bread, rice, pasta and cookies [in excess] will increase our belly fat. If we want to lose it, we should focus on eating nutrient- and fiber-rich carbs such as vegetables and low-glycemic fruits," says Djordjevic.

A low-carb diet generally limits grains, legumes, fruits, breads, sweets, pastas and starchy vegetables, and sometimes nuts and seeds.