The battle to lose weight is often fought with a few of your favorite foods. Some foods like pizza and ice cream are easy to pinpoint as those you shouldn’t eat while trying to lose weight. Other foods sneak in the list hurting your journey to weight loss. Here are the top 10 foods to stay away from while trying to lose weight.

1. Fried Foods

Fried foods taste yummy, but fill your tummy with grease and calories. Fried foods contain little nutritional value so they lead you to consume more calories.

2. Alcohol
Alcohol is usually filled with sugar. The nutritional value is zero. Alcohol is simply drinking your calories and could lead you to even eating more.

3. Salad Dressings

Not all salad dressings are bad for you, but your salad could be actually harming your weight loss efforts. Cream based salad dressings are usually made with mayonnaise or sour cream. That “healthy” salad could be packed with over 1,000 calories.

4. White Bread

White bread is in most pantries waiting to be toasted, thrown together with some meat or served on the side of a meal. The problem with white bread is that it has little nutritional value. It is full of sugars and only leaves you wanting more.

5. White Rice

White rice is almost the same as white bread. Most people think it is healthy, but it lacks in nutrition. It helps the body store excess fat which doesn’t help at all if you are trying to lose weight.

6. Cereal

Cereals are packed with carbohydrates, calories and sugar. The portions are small so pigging out is very easy. The fiber levels are great, but the sugar and carbs wreak havoc on your waistline and appetite.

7. Potato Chips
If you can eat only one potato chip, you may be a superhero. Potato chips are empty foods lacking nutrition and stuffed with salt and grease. Most people indulge in triple the serving size.

8. Smoothie

Most smoothies aren’t made with only fruit and ice. Yogurt, fruit juice and protein powders saturate smoothies with sugar and calories.

9. Energy Bars

Many energy bars are just candy bars with another name. They are packed with carbohydrates, sugar and fat.

10. Soda

Sodas are filled with sugar and carbohydrates. They do nothing but boost your energy and then crash it. They also make you want even more junk.