There are some foods that you must avoid if you want six pack abs. Generally, we tend to consume these foods out of laziness and availability, but you can’t be careless when you’re working on your six pack. I have listed the 10 Foods To Avoid If You Want Six Pack Abs.

Muscle Building: Worst Foods for Abs #1

Whole milk

To build abs you need to cut down on calories. So consume low fat milk and avoid whole milk due to its high calories.

Muscle Building: Worst Foods for Abs #2

Commercial peanut butter

 Peanut butter is one of the best foods you can consume if you want to build muscle, due to its high protein content. Peanut butter is also a great post workout snack. But try and avoid consuming commercial peanut butter. The packaged and ready-to-eat peanut butter is rich in fats, calories and additives.

Muscle Building: Worst Foods for Abs #3

Diet foods

In order to build muscle, it is important to have a balanced diet which includes carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Diet foods and diet meal plans prevent you from consuming a balanced diet. Plus there is an urge to consume far more calories when you are on a diet.

Muscle Building: Worst Foods for Abs #4

Crackers:

Crackers are recommended for good digestion, but they are prepared with refined flour and sugar, both of which are not good for building muscle.

Muscle Building: Worst Foods for Abs #5

Processed cheese:

`There is a different between fresh organic cheese and processed cheese. The worst enemy for building abs is processed cheese – it lacks nutritional value, contains fats, salts and excess calories.

Muscle Building: Worst Foods for Abs #6

Ice cream

It may be a tempting way to cool off, but it can prevent you from building abs. Ice cream is rich in calories, artificial sweeteners and flavors.

Muscle Building: Worst Foods for Abs #7

Refined grains

`Not sure what a refined grain is? It’s an ingredient found in foods like white rice, white bread, and regular white pasta. The unrefined stuff (whole wheat, brown rice and quinoa) is always healthier. Pennsylvania State University researchers found that people who ate whole grains in addition to keeping a healthy diet—of fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy and protein—lost more weight from the abdominal area the group of people who kept the same healthy diet but ate all refined grains.

Muscle Building: Worst Foods for Abs #8

Red and processed meat

The same 20-year study found that people who ate more red and processed meat gained weight, too—about one extra pound every four years. In another study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers worked with more than 370,000 people and found that folks who ate the equivalent of a small steak a day gained about five pounds in five years.

Muscle Building: Worst Foods for Abs #9

Diet soda

It’s easy to get fooled by the zero-calorie label, yet sodas made with sugar substitutes are believed by many to play a role in weight gain. A new study published this month found that people who drank diet soda gained almost three times the amount of abdominal fat over nine years as those who didn’t drink the no-cal stuff.

Muscle Building: Worst Foods for Abs #10

Potato products

 

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine followed the weight changes of more than 120,000 men and women for up to 20 years. The participants were checked every four years and, on average, they gained 3.35 pounds each time—so almost 17 pounds by the time the study was finished. The foods associated with the greatest weight gain? You guessed it—potato chips and potatoes.