37-year-old Tracey Yukich is the latest person to be booted off the current season of Biggest Loser. Back home in Texas she has spoken with reporters about her weight loss journey since leaving the show and why she’s keeping her total number of pounds lost, a secret. She’s definitely a trooper because she’s getting up at 4am to go to the gym so that she’s home by 7am in order to take care of her four kids and get them off to school. Now that’s dedication. She said,

“We have a very busy life and I really had to make sure I wrote a schedule out that worked for me and worked for my family…I have a two-year-old daughter that I stay home with because I’m a stay-at-home mom, but I knew that I had to find a gym that had a kids club.”

Tracey is hard at work losing the weight and since the finale is only five weeks she’s keeping her weight-loss hush-hush. She knows she still could be a finalist for the at-home prize which is also worth a lot. She said,

“This is the first time in my life that I actually started something and trust me, I’m going to finish exactly what I’ve started and if that means I get to take home that prize, then I’m gunning for it.”

Even though Tracy is one of the more controversial contestants on the show this season it seems she’s got her head on straight and she wants that prize.

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When celebrities want to drop 5 pounds two weeks before a big red carpet event, they call in everyone from nutritionists to personal trainers, to therapists and beauticians. But when a regular Jane like you and me want to, it’s not that easy. Celebrity trainer Gregory Joujon-Roche says it is…

Gregory, who works with his team of holistic nutritionists Holistic Fitness, has worked with Rachel Weisz, Avril Lavigne and Demi Moore, sculpting their bodies and minds as a whole. Speaking to AOL Health, Gregory and his team outlined their exclusive program that’ll guarantee you’ll drop 5 pounds.

1. Cardio
You need to follow an intense full-body cardio program for at least 30 minutes five days a week. Exercises like kickboxing, rowing or power yoga work best because they tone both upper and lower parts of your body.

2. Weight training
Alternating days, you need high-intensity weight training with free weights or machines 3 days a week as well as a minimum of 15 minutes abdominal training.

3. Nutrition
You need to follow a low-fat diet consuming less than 1 500 calories daily, as well as taking multivitamins, drinking 10 glasses of water a day and green tea. The diet needs to include high-fiber foods and proteins so you can keep your metabolism ticking while maintaining your strength.

Other tips the Holistic Fitness team have are never skip a balanced breakfast, buy wholesome foods, keep changing up your daily menu, make sure your portions are realistic and eat organic when you can.

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Access Hollywood co-host Nancy O’Dell is a heatlhy eater and exerciser and she normally runs a few times a week to stay in shape. However, while on Dancing with the Stars her exercise routine most likely changed to dance practice but when she was sidelined because of a knee injury she turned to a nutritional supplement to maintain her great body. In reference to the effects of Isagenix, she said,

“I lost seven pounds in, like, one week.”

Isagenix considers itself to be the world leader in nutritional cleansing. They have various products such as fasting and herbal remedies, shakes, juices and a 30-day cleansing and fat burning packages that has all kinds of concoctions in it. O’Dell likes it because you can eat all the organic produce to your heart’s content. She explains,

“You can eat as much as you want as long as you eat organic fruits and vegetables, and it has all the juices and stuff you drink with it.”

Celeb Diet Doc…
Stick with the fruits and veggies… stay away from MLM schemes.

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Yet another weight related reality show will enter TV land. (Sigh)  With shows like Biggest Loser, Dance Your Ass Off and The Price of Beauty, it’s no surprise that former Jenny Craig spokesperson Kirsty Alley will get her own show. The 59-year-old yo-yo dieter has signed on with A&E for a yet to be titled show of 10 half-hour episodes. You may recall in 2005 her short-lived Showtime series Fat Actress, but that was a scripted show. This new reality show will be a first for Alley. Robert Sharenow, the senior VP for nonfiction/alternative programming said,

“Her personal life has been playing out in the media for years, but this will be the first time she’ll be opening up her home to reveal her real life for the cameras.”

Over the past summer Kirsty did confess that she gained 83 pounds but she was ready to get back on track. Latest tabloid photos of her show no change in her size but maybe the show will motivate her.

Former American Idol and country singer Carrie Underwood has revealed more of her diet secrets: she keeps a diet journal. The 26-year-old says she writes everything she eats down to help her see exactly what she’s eating, and where she deviates from her balanced diet.

Carrie has just released her third album Play On, but she’s not only improved her musical style since appearing on the reality TV talent contest, she’s also become healthier and slimmed down. The food diary definitely seems to be working for the Grammy Award winner as she considers herself a little obsessive-compulsive when it comes to noting down what she’s eaten.

Over the years studies have proven that a diet journal does in fact help individuals lose weight. A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine last year noted that keeping a detailed account of everything you eat and drink, as well as the amount of calories they contain is a great help and a powerful tool. Because you’re writing everything down, you can see exactly where you’re going wrong. Of the 1 685 middle-aged men and women who partook in the study, those who kept a food diary lost twice as much weight as those who didn’t.

So while Carrie’s weight-loss method may not be as extreme as some celebrities’, it certainly is effective.

Last month, model and TV show host Tyra Banks revealed her new body after losing four dress sizes (30 pounds). Over the past couple of years she was leaning on the chubby side but after hard work and dedication she looks like she’s ready for another Sports Illustrated Bikini Issue photo shoot. This week on her show she gets to the nitty-gritty of her weight loss secrets and the fact of the matter is that there was no crazy dieting involved. It was about her exercise plan and managing her eating habits. She says,

“This is a lifestyle change. It’s not about being skinny. It’s about getting in the best shape that you can be.”

During the show Banks confessed that she was having painful, chronic stomachaches that would have her in bed for days. So, she decided to enlist the help of a nutritionist to change her unhealthy habits into healthy ones. Nutritionist Heather Bauer had Banks keep a food journal to identify those foods that make her feel good and those that don’t. On the show this week, Bauer gives the audience some sample lunch and dinner menus and healthy fast food options. Banks chimes in,

“It’s about working with what you’ve got, and knowing and learning what’s right for your body.”

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Reality star Adrianne Curry is back to looking like her fabulous self. As a reminder, she was the winner in season one of America’s Next Top Model and she also is married to the Brady Bunch’s Christopher Knight and the two of them had a VH1 reality show called, My Fair Brady. It’s been two years since their show ended and no one had seen Adrianne in the tabloid spotlight like she used to be. But she recently told Tarts that she was in ‘hiding’ because she had put on so much weight. She said,

“A few weeks ago I went in for my yearly womanly exam and I weight in at 150.5 pounds and I crapped my pants,” She added, “I am on a no-carb diet. So I’ve started eating fish, steamed vegetables, no butter, no sugar, no bread, and no fun and now I’m at 136 pounds. “

Curry mentioned she is working out at the gym but wants to keep her muscle and not get drastically thin. 15 pounds seem like a lot of weight to lose in a ‘few weeks,’ perhaps she meant to say a few months. As for life with Christopher, the two are doing well and they simply decided they didn’t want their lives broadcasted to the rest of the world on their show.
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Kate Hudson did a photo shoot for the December issue of Britain’s Elle Magazine. Inside, she revealed how she lost 20 pounds in order to play the role of a terminally ill woman who falls for her doctor in the movie, Earthbound. The 30-year-old said that she cut out alcohol in order to lose the weight. She said,

“To be in New York for two week and not have one beverage, I’m not sure I’ve ever done that!”

The actress admits that she loves a good glass of wine and also tequila but she made the sacrifice for this movie.
A standard glass of red wine has 68 calories and white wine has 60 so cutting out the alcohol will definitely help those of us trying to lose a few pounds but to lose 20 pounds she surely did something else to lose the weight.
There is not an exact release date but Earthbound will be in theaters sometime in 2010.

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Have you seen Victoria Beckham’s latest Emporio Armani ads? It’s been reported that the former Spice Girl went to gym seven days a week to prepare for the shoot with her soccer-hottie husband David Beckham.

The 35-year-old told Harper’s Bazaar in December that she didn’t want to rely on retouching like so many other advertising campaigns.

“I wanted to look at those pictures in 20 years’ time and say ‘Wow, look – after three kids – I didn’t look bad,” she was quoted as saying in Us magazine.

Watch the behind-the-scenes video of the campaign’s shoot.

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NeNe Leakes from the Real Housewives of Atlanta is doing more than just mouthing off at other celebrities’ style and parenting skills these days. She’s working out with a personal trainer and recently told OK! magazine how she dropped 10 pounds in 2 weeks.

The 42-year-old New Yorker hired Tammy Stokes, the West Coast Workout trainer who created the Live Your Healthiest Lifestyle program that focuses on healthy meals and intense workouts.

“My trainer has taught me to eat breakfast,” NeNe told the weekly British magazine. “She said, ‘NeNe, you have to bite something in the morning to get your metabolism going.’ So I’ve learned to do that, and it works.”

For lunch, the reality TV celebrity eats salads with chicken and when she goes out for dinner only orders appetizers because she feels the portions of the main meals these days are way too big. NenNe is however having difficulty cutting out carbohydrates from her meals. Although she does cut back on them, she refuses to give up her potato chips. When it comes to the show and those calorie-laced cocktails the housewives wolf down, NeNe’s decided to practice moderation. She will still have one once a while, but definitely not every day.

The mother-of-one takes walks through her neighborhood carrying weights when Tammy comes over to her house, but when she hits the gym she either takes one of the group classes or focuses on one-on-one training.

“I feel good. To be honest, I like my size. I’m a 10, and I don’t think that’s fat,” she told OK!. “I’m almost 6 feet. If I were a size 4, I would look anorexic, and I don’t want to look like that. It’s more about getting healthy.”