Cutting out carbs can fuel fatigue

PUT your hand up if you have ever gone through an intense health kick and started exercising every day and cut out everything that doesn’t look like a fruit or vegetable.

The buzz word used nowadays is “clean eating”, as if to say we were not properly washing out food prior to consumption. So that means no potato, pasta, rice, some fruit, most dairy, chocolate, bread and everything else that’s great in life.

Seems like a healthy change in theory, but in fact it can be detrimental to your energy levels, resulting in significant fatigue and making you grumpy 24/7 (even more than you were).

Think about it. You have just eliminated all of your fuel and decided it’s time to get that bum moving and put your body through the “wringer” all at the same time.

It creates a glorious double whammy effect that pretty much means your health kick will last for a maximum of one month before you go straight to an Italian restaurant for the biggest bowl of pasta you’ve ever seen.

This can be the same for already fit athletes who become more restrictive with their sources of carbohydrate and put themselves through an intense program of training.

We all need to be mindful about being very restrictive with carbohydrates and combining this with more exercise than you’ve ever done, as it will only end in either fatigue or injury.

The best way to approach this situation is progressively increase your exercise each week by 10 per cent and slowly make changes to your diet and “clean it up”.

Remember, you only need to be 70-80 per cent on the money with your diet and you will see amazing changes without cutting out your favourite foods.

THE BUZZ WORD USED NOWADAYS IS ‘CLEAN EATING’, AS IF TO SAY WE WERE NOT PROPERLY WASHING OUT FOOD PRIOR TO CONSUMPTION MITCH SMITH