1. Your Workouts Suffer
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The primary source of energy for fueling all exercises like endurance and resistance training, is carbohydrates. So your energy will go low if you cut down on carbs. One’s ability to produce force and power will decrease if the stored carbohydrates in your body decrease.
2. You Get Really Moody
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Carbs, no matter if they are whole grain or refined, it increases the brain’s levels of the feel-good neurotransmitter serotonin. Now you know the trick to switch your mood!
3. You Don’t Poop
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Sounds like a nightmare? Well, the fiber in your body is mostly from the intake of whole grain and apparently 92% of U.S adults don’t get enough of the grains. Fiber helps stabilize blood-sugar levels and reduces the risk of obesity, and chronic diseases, but it also keeps bathroom habits regular.
4. Your Energy Levels Drop
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Did you know whole grains are a great source of vitamin B, iron, magnesium, which are critical in maintaining energy levels? A lot of people already have deficiency in magnesium. Cells slow down without a healthy supply as they work as a fuel source.
5. Your Risk of Heart Disease and Diabetes Goes Up—Or Down
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It makes a big difference on the type of grains you have cut down on. For example, refined carbohydrates drive up palmitoleic acid which is the body’s levels of a fatty acid, to raise the risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease. On the other hand, whole grains can lower risk of heart disease, stroke, obesity, and type 2 diabetes and improve blood-cholesterol levels.
6. Your Cravings Subside
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Refined carbohydrates send blood-sugar levels through the roof, hence a rollercoaster ride activates addiction centers in the brain, leading to subsequent cravings. Intake of fiber-rich whole grains, can keep blood-sugar levels from plummeting to prevent cravings.
7. You Catch the ‘Low-Carb Flu’
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When you cut down on carbs, it results in dry mouth, bad breath, tiredness, weakness, insomnia, dizziness, nausea, brain fog and you feel like you have the flu. This happens because the brain’s main source of energy is carbohydrate, so when you cut down on that your brain starts running on fumes and the glycogen stored gets low or depleted. When the glycogen is gone, the body starts breaking down fat and runs off ketones which are carbon fragments.
8. You lose water weight
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You know how you get excited when you go on a carb diet and find out that you’ve lost weight, well, don’t be too excited because you didn’t lose the fat, you only lost the water inside your body. We start using the stored glycogen which is formed by carbohydrates, which helps us lose water weight.