Milk is not a health food if you want six pack abs. It has a surprising amount of sugar even though it doesn’t taste sweet, and it’s a liquid calorie, the easiest kind to overdo. That’s why I don’t drink any milk.
“Milk does a body good,” right?
That’s what we all grew up hearing. No. Milk has a surprising amount of sugar in it. You just don’t notice, because it doesn’t taste sweet the way soda or juice does.
Why liquid calories are the problem
Most liquid calories are basically sugar, and sugar in liquid form absorbs even faster than sugar in solid form. Soda hits faster than candy. Fruit, where the sugar comes packed with fiber, absorbs far, far slower than either.
Liquid calories also don’t register as food. You drink a glass of milk with dinner and you still eat the same dinner, so the calories go on top of everything else. There’s a study that shows exactly this: the jelly beans vs soda study.
Milk, juice and soda are in the same bucket
- Soda. You already know sugary drinks aren’t friendly to six pack abs.
- Juice. Apple juice, orange juice, any kind of juice is just as bad as soda. Just as much sugar, just as many calories.
- Milk. Less obvious, because it doesn’t taste sweet, but it still brings sugar and calories that don’t fill you up.
And if you’re fasting in the morning, cream or creamer in your coffee breaks your fast even though it doesn’t feel like eating.
What I drink instead
For years I drank large amounts of coconut water because I thought I needed it for hydration. It was just more liquid calories. Now I use a zero calorie electrolyte powder in water and get the same thing without the sugar.
Water, zero calorie drinks, and your calories from real food you actually chew. Make that switch and you’ll be shocked at how much easier it gets to stay in a deficit, because you’re not giving up a single meal. Cutting liquid calories is tip four in my top 10 tips for getting six pack abs.
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This is general fitness information, not medical advice. Some images in the video are AI-generated visualizations, and they’re labeled.
