The Pros And Cons Of Canada’s Favourite Trendy Diet Plans

Recently, various diet plans and weight loss solutions are highly popular in Canada and all over the world. People believe dieting means to follow the specific diet plan to lose their weight, but what they don’t realize is that dieting does not intend to deprive.

I have given an overview of some popular diet plans. Note one thing none of these plans fits into the “ lose 50 pounds in a week” niche. All plans are long term eating plans. I will help you to make a choice through this blog.

Look at the pros and cons of the most popular diet plans:

#Trend 1: Intermittent Fasting 16/8 

(16-hour fasting/8-hour eating)

What is it? Also known as an intermittent energy restriction. It is a fasting and eating pattern where you jump between these two windows. You are allowed to eat a normal amount of food for a small period of ‘eating window.’ It’s not about which foods to eat, but it’s all about when you should eat them.

 

Pros:

• Slow aging process
• Maintain metabolism
• Leading to the weight loss
• Easy to follow
• No calorie routine
• Unrestricted eating allow
• Lower your blood sugar

Cons:

• Hard to maintain socially
• May promote overeating
• May reduce physical activity
• May not be advisable long term

#Trend 2: Keto Diet

What is it? Keto diet is the low-carb, high-fat diet, and low carbohydrate diet. When your body is at the ketosis stage, it burns your body fat for energy instead of carbohydrates.

Pros: 

• Lower the body sugar
• Good for diabetic patients
• Slower the aging process
• Burn fats

Cons: 

• Hard to maintain long-term
• Restricting root, veggies, grains
• Not suitable for you gut’s microbiome

#Trend 3: Whole 30

What is it? The whole30 is a for 30 days short term nutritional reset plan. The diet brings whole foods and discards of sugar, grains, soy, legumes, alcohol, and dairy products.

Pros: 

• Short term diet (30 days)
• No fasting or awkward mealtime
• Coffee is allowed
• Eat wholesome, real food

Cons:

• Super restricted
• Avoid coconut even single spoon of based ice cream
• No cheating for 30 days
• Completely zero sugar
• No alcohol

#Trend 4: Paleo Diet

What is it? Also known as a caveman diet. You have to eat animal protein, natural carbohydrates (fruits and veggies), nuts, and the foods available and eaten by humans in Paleolithic times, including meat, fish, and plants. There is no dairy, and processed food included.

Pros:

• Good for losing weight
• Improve your health
• Allow some flexibility (80:20)
• Calorie-dense meals
• More nutritious

Cons:

• Expensive (wild game, grass-fed meats, and nuts)
• Avoid many grains
• Not suitable for vegetarians
• Loss of fiber
• Cut out dairy

#Trend 5: Flexitarian Diet

What is it? It is a semi-vegetarian diet with a smaller consumption of an animal product. It focuses on more veggies and plants we can add in the diet to take away animal products. It is more flexible than a totally vegetarian diet.

Pros:

• Easy to follow
• Inexpensive
• Lower rate of diabetes, cancer and heart issue
• Support weight loss
• Flexible

Cons:

• Hard for non-vegetarians
• Low iron intake
• Low B12 intake

Choose a diet plan which is appropriate to your body. Keep in mind: your diet should be balanced because your goal is to lose weight, not undermine health. Before choosing any diet plan, you have to discuss it with your dietitian.