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Follow these instructions for a whole month and see how it works. Write down these, post them on a daily visible place,educate yourself. Lets do this.

And most people know that for those ab muscles to show through you have to eat very clean. After all, getting six pack abs is 80% diet and only 20% exercise. But exactly what to eat is still something of a mystery to many.

Here are some simple eating rules for six pack abs from male fitness models who actually have six pack abs. I’ve gathered and adapted these eating rules from various sources over the years, and these are the rules I try to follow:

• Do not eat foods made from white flour. Do not eat any white bread or white pasta. Foods made from white flour are high glycemic (high sugar index) which means they are easily changed by your body into fat. Instead of white flour products, eat products made from “whole wheat” flour. Examples include whole wheat bread and whole wheat pasta. Oatmeal is good too.
• Do not eat any flour products after 4:00 p.m. After 4:00 p.m. only eat vegetables(broccoli, spinach, brussel sprouts, etc.) as your carbs. Your metabolism slows considerably in the evening - starches consumed late in the day are more likely to be converted to fat.
• Make sure to eat protein every day to help build and maintain muscle. Muscle requires a lot of energy to maintain, so it helps you burn fat 24 hours a day even when you are doing nothing. Eat lean sources of protein, such as beans (any type), peanuts, fish (salmon, tuna for example), steak (the “round” varieties are lean), and get a tub of pure whey protein powder to mix in smoothies or water.
• Do not eat any food at all after 9:00 p.m. until the next morning. It’s fine to drink water at night though. Midnight snacks are a great way to get fat.
• Do not drink soft drinks. Do not drink fruit juice or energy drinks. Only drink water or tea, and maybe low-fat milk. Anything else has too much sugar and artificial ingredents, most of which will not help you lose fat.
• Drink at least 8 glasses of water a day. You might think this will cause you to gain water weight but the opposite is true. Your body always wants to protect itself from thirst and starvation. If you drink lots of water, your body thinks, “Hey there must be a lot of water in this environment so I don’t need store as much water.” The opposite is true as well. If you cut back on water, your body thinks, “I need to retain water because there doesn’t seem to be much around.”
• Obviously stop eating junk food - candy bars, cookies, pie, chips, cake, ice cream. You can have one “free meal” per week when you can eat that stuff. Otherwise stay away from junk food like the plague. Next time you want to eat a donut, just remind yourself that you will be wearing that donut around your middle a few hours from then.

It can be hard to change eating habits. But if you really want to lose that belly fat and those love handles and get six pack abs, you have to change what has not worked for you in the past.

(via imperfectatbest)