A couple of weeks ago at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, actor Forest Whitaker shocked fans with his new, slim physique. The 48-year-old actor, director and producer – who usually sports a burly figure – presented Oscar winner Sandra Bullock with her Best Actress award at the glamorous ceremony.

In 2007 Forest had to gain 70 pounds for his role as Uganda dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland, for which he won the Best Actor Oscar, but after filming he says he got “serious” his diet and exercise routine. While Forest works out by doing martial arts and going hiking, the secret to his weight loss is his vegan diet.

“I’ve been trying to take care of myself,” he told Rachael Ray on her talk show recently. “I did meet with a nutritionist … and he talked to me about the way I was eating. I shifted the way I was eating, the way I was living. I started working out. I just wanted to be able to live a really good life.”

Other actors who have lost and maintain their weight on a vegan or vegetarian diet include Rubben Studdard, Ginnifer Goodwin, Alicia Silverstone and Ellen DeGeneres.

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Comedic actor Jim Carrey seems to be taking his acting seriously these days, resorting to a tomato juice diet to lose weight for his new movie I Love You Phillip Morris. Joining actors like Christian Bale, Jim dropped the weight to play a flamboyant con man who comes out the closet in prison.

“In the last week or so I was literally having this little tomato drink once in a while and I had water and supplements so I could stay alive but there was really nothing of substance,” he said. “In the last two days before the main shots where I look really skinny, I just stopped eating completely and had a little taste of water, like an African runner.”

The 48-year-old actor hadn’t lost his sense of humor, but said he felt so drained and exhausted after embarking on the extreme diet.

“I was completely raw, like an old man in the last two days, no energy whatsoever, it was sadistic.”

In a scene in the movie (which opens in cinemas this weekend), Jim is lying on a prison bed, but you can clearly see his rib cage protruding rather disturbingly.

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When actress Kirstie Alley went on The Today Show to promote her new show Big Life she didn’t think she’d have to defend her new weight-loss program. Interviewed by Meredith Viera, the show suggested that Kirstie’s Organic Liaison product was actually a front for and shares its profits with the church of Scientology.

The 59-year-old practically lost her cool saying the insinuations are “bullshit” and that the church’s leaders are in no way connected to her diet program.

“It’s not true,” she said in the video interview after letting the expletive slip. And when questioned about whether the profits go to the church she said: “No, they don’t. I’m way too cheap for that.”

Kirstie’s interview with Meredith continued as they spoke about her food compulsion and its comparison to her previous addiction to cocaine, why she’s filming a reality TV show when she actually hates reality television, and how her Organic Liaison product actually works.

Later on Twitter, Kirstie continued to vent saying she was blindsided and that The Today Show should be ashamed of themselves.

Nicole Sullivan, the star of Rita Rocks on Lifetime signed on with Jenny Craig to lose the 35 pounds she gained while pregnant. She started the program five months ago and this week, just one month before her 40th birthday, she revealed her amazing bikini body in a national commercial spot. She says,

“After having Beckett, I dreamed of a day where I’d feel comfortable enough in a swimsuit, let alone a bikini, to join my husband on pool-side play dates. Getting into a bikini again and feeling as good as I feel now.”

Sullivan is thrilled to have lost the weight and she’s proud that her kids can see her as healthy. Even her husband lost 25 pounds of ’sympathy weight.’ She recently bought a size 4 pants, something she hasn’t done since she was 21 years old. Since she loves clothing she considers this a real accomplishment.

“I feel like I can wear anything in my closet. And I can buy stuff that’s really cute.”

Losing 35 pounds in 16 weeks is just a little over two pounds a month.

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Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe may be embracing her ‘curves’ but now since she’s in the media spotlight people are taking notice in more ways than one. Oprah Winfrey loves her to pieces and thinks she’s the next best thing since sliced bread and Howard Stern on the other hand thinks she needs to lose weight or she will never get another acting gig again.

Despite all the hoopla about this new actress who even knows if she has been approached by Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers but we do know that the company AcaiSupply.com has already contacted her about endorsing their weight loss product for one year. The CEO of the company wrote in a letter to Gabourey,

“The only way you can reach your goal of someday winning that Oscar is by being active, fit, and most of all, healthy!”

According to the company the herbal supplement, Acai Berry, helps you lose weight by increasing metabolism, energy and fat oxidation while at the same time it fights fatigue and provides antioxidant support.

Thus far Gabourey has not responded but we can guess that AcaiSupply is one of many companies who are bombarding her with lucrative contract deals. Who knows if being morbidly obese will hurt her acting career but one thing is sure, it’s definitely hurting her health.

Former Playboy playmate and Girls Next Door Kendra Wilkinson has been dealing with the baby blues lately. In one of her latest episodes on her reality TV show Kendra, she turns to a sauna suit her brother bought her for Christmas, which is suppose to help her lose weight by sweating.

The snippet above is pretty funny when she models the suit for her husband and football player Hank Baskett, who first looks at her shocked and then rattles off an expletive.

“Do you realize that in a month I haven’t shed one f**king pound?” Kendra says visibly upset in the video, clutching her stomach. “What the hell is this?”

Her poor husband is sweet about the whole incident trying to support her, but it’s refreshing to see the real side to baby weight. Photoshop doesn’t exist in the real world and all those celebrity moms who dramatically lose all their post-partum pounds three months after giving birth after truly supernatural.

A few weeks ago Kendra appeared on the cover of Ok magazine, heavily (and completely unrealistically) Photoshopped, but let’s hope she’s sticking to her post-baby workout plan.

Ugly Betty actress Vanessa Williams is one hot 47-year-old. How does she do it? She eats healthily, exercises regularly, and avoids stress. She says the older she’s gotten the more she’s learned to stop stressing about the future, because it only causes wrinkles. As Prevention magazine’s April cover girl, she shares her fitness and diet tips.

Because she’s got kids, Vanessa often finds herself making pancakes, waffles and French toast, but she knows to not stuff herself and simply cuts down on the portions. The mother-of-three was one of the few actresses who took an early liking to Pilates before most people even knew what it was.  She says by working out with her trainer, Mari Winsor, she’s developed a very strong core.

Vanessa, however, also realizes the importance of weight training. The former Miss America adds strength training to her usual workouts to add definition to her body – she says Pilates, cardio and yoga can only get you so far. When she feels like she’s in a rut or needs some fresh air from her usual routine, she hikes in the hilly area of her neighborhood. She even sometimes takes a pet with her to create an interval workout.

Dance is another way to shake things up, literally. Vanessa has learned that salsa is a great cardio workout she can alternate with her three-day-a-week treadmill routine. But her biggest asset is knowing that she’s a 47-year-old mother-of-three and is realistic about her weight these days. She’ll never have washboard abs, but she is healthy and in great shape.

The classically trained singer Charlotte Church is looking sexier than ever. She has always been a curvaceous girl, even when she first got her start in the music industry and she was just a teenager. Now, the 24-year-old is down to tiny size 8 dress. After giving birth a couple of years ago she was a size 16 and she followed a strict post-baby diet to get down to her normal 10/12. This week, when she appeared on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (see photo above) she was barely recognizable as she is no longer a teen but instead a svelte hot mamma. She revealed that she has lost approximately 30 pounds simply by eating less. She said,

“I don’t think I’ve ever been this thin. I haven’t exercised – I just don’t eat as much.”

Charlotte credits her healthy weight loss to her rugby player husband, Gavin Henson, who loves her no matter her size. She added,

“I’ve got a great fella who is not obsessed with my weight.”

It’s believed that Charlotte lost the weight by incorporating more protein in her diet. She sure does look great.

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Former Baywatch babe Nicole Eggert has just come off her stint on weight-loss show, Celebrity Fit Club , having lost 15 pounds, and credits her main reason to signing on to gossip magazines and their criticism of her weight gain. But when the offer from the show’s producers came through, it gave her an opportunity to get off her butt and out the house.

But it wasn’t as simple as losing weight – Nicole went for therapy as well to work on her mental issues and to get her spirit back. She says that when she looked in the mirror, she didn’t feel great at all. Nicole, however, also says that the waify look Hollywood is promoting these days is totally unrealistic and not healthy at all.

When it came to the show and the actual weight-loss program she was put through, Nicole said it really tested her heart more than anything.

“I expected to go and put on some boxing gloves and throw a bunch of punches and do 10 million jumping jacks and it was really about teamwork and doing actual Navy Seals training, which is nothing anyone in my age group needs to be doing!”

And now that she’s off the show, Nicole says she uses Kardashian sisters’ weight-loss supplement QuickTrim and is doing a boot-camp workout with them. She also tries to stay away from carbohydrates and bread, opting for protein, vegetables and small portions instead.

“I want get back … to looking incredibly hot again and feeling incredibly hot again. I’m going to continue to use a trainer because I think it’s great motivation and a great distraction in the middle of a hard workout. I believe in [therapy] forever and always have, always will. The day you don’t think you need to work on yourself is the day you should work on yourself harder.”

Celeb Diet Doc Says…
Wow, the Kardashians are really hawking this quicktrim product… it must really work:)  If you believe that I have some swamp land in Florida to sell you. Otherwise great advice from Nicole, but remember all carbs are not the same. You do want to eat carbs in whole foods and not those in refined foods (think breads, cakes, cookies etc).

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Sunshine, one of the contestants on weight-loss show The Biggest Loser, shared some of her healthy eating and weight-loss tips recently.

She says what helps her and her fellow contestants is getting up early and working out in the morning before going to work. Knowing that you’ve got your workout done as well as when those feel-good endorphins kick in, it’ll make you feel great for the entire day.

Another tip is to pack your lunches for work. Because you’re so busy and there might not always be a healthy option for lunch (think vending machines and fast food chains). So when you pack your own lunch you know what you’re eating and exactly how many calories you’ll be consuming – keeping you in complete control of your weight-loss program.

Sunshine also recommends bringing little dumbbells to work so you can workout at your desk if you can’t get to gym every day.