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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Ok, so apparently there are quite a few foods that can help you lose weight and shed excess pounds. A new study has just added tomatoes to the already long list.

While it’s a no brainer that fruits and vegetables are more likely to help you stay healthy than processed foods, researchers from the University of Reading have found that tomatoes can assist your weight-loss program because the lycopene found in them make you feel fuller (causing you to eat less).

Participants in the small study were given bread filled with cream cheese, enriched with carrot and enriched with tomato, and were asked to note how full they became after eating each. The results showed that the bread enriched with tomato was the most filling. A possible reason? Lycopene reduces your appetite hormones, hence the full feeling.

Although the study was only conducted with 17 participants, lead researcher Dr Julie Lovegrove told the Telegraph that the results were “statistically significant”.

Celeb Diet Doc..
What a ridiculous study? Bread filled with cream cheese doesn’t sound like a recipe for weight loss! I wouldn’t make any conclusions based on a study of only 17 participants. It also leads to a false mindset that weight loss is based on fat, carbs, protein… or in this case lycopene. Remember a lot of these “studies” are funded by companies looking to sell product. Oh and btw, tomatoes will help with weight loss..  as long as it’s not processed into say bread filled with cream cheese. LOL!

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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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Reality star Khloe Kardashian previously lost 25 pounds while on the QuickTrim diet supplements. But this week she told E! News that she has gained five of those pounds back since getting married to NBA player Lamar Odom in September. She explained that when she met Lamar she had quit taking the product basically because she was in love, felt great and didn’t want to take the product anymore. (Endorphins themselves are one mighty weight loss remedy!) Now that she is getting settled into married life she’s ready to start up the supplements again and lose the extra five pounds. She said,

“I am now back on my QuickTrim diet. Lamar’s [her husband] the candy man, and guess who eats all of the candy with him? So, I can eat the candy as long as I stick to working out and staying on QuickTrim. “

Khloe also said she’s glad to be back on the product. Even though she’s not a stick figure like some other reality starts it’s a shame that she’s depending on a product to lose a measly five pounds.

Celeb Diet Doc…
Diet Pills = Fail

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British actress Thandie Newton has starred in films such as Mission Impossible II, Crash and W. She’s simply gorgeous and always looks picture-perfect on the red carpet. In this month’s issue of the UK InStyle Magazine the 37-year-old mother-of-two explains that her fit figure all boils down to good genes workouts at the gym and plenty of yoga. She said,

“I’m a Jivamukti yoga freak – it’s food for my soul. When I’m not working, I’ll drop Rip off at school and Nico at nursery, then I go to yoga.”

Jivamukti yoga isn’t one of the more common forms of yoga but it’s a stimulating exercise that incorporates Sanskrit chanting, meditation and deep relaxation. Newton mentioned that she also does a lot of work with her trainer, Liston Wingate-Denys. As for the genes she says she inherited, her father is British and her mother is Zimbabwean. What a knock-out!

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Emmy Rossum keeps her 23-year-old body tight and taught by heating it up; she practices Bikram Yoga (also known as Hot Yoga). The actress and star of Phantom of the Opera tweeted recently that she was taking Bikram classes.

“Continuing with my new workout kick,” Emmy said from her Twitter account. “105 degrees, 90 minutes of Bikram hell = a really clear mind and a really toned behind. Oh it even rhymes!”

Created by Bikram Choudhury, Bikram takes you through 26 postures or asanas and 2 breathing exercises. As Emmy tweeted, the 90-minute classes are practiced in a room heated to 105 degrees Fahrenheit with a humidity of 40%. Because the rooms are so hot, you will sweat quite a bit, getting rid of toxins in the body. Your muscles are warm, which allows you greater flexibility for deeper stretching, and the heat also helps prevents injuries as well as relieve stress and tension.

Watch this video that explains the practice more.

Cute as Emmy’s personality may be, the Golden Globe Award nominee’s body is scorching hot!

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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.

Scoffing down that cheese burger or polishing off the last of those fries may make you feel satiated for now, but it could lead to depression later down the line. A new study shows that individuals who eat too much junk food tend to manifest depressive symptoms.

The study, which was published in the November issue of The British Journal of Psychiatry, noted that of the 3 486 male and female participants who ate the most high-fat foods, 58% were more likely to display signs of depression 5 years later. Dr Eric Brunner, one of the researchers, told The Daily Mail that diet seems to play an independent role in an individual’s mental health when taking exercise and lifestyle into consideration.

“If your diet is high in foods that make blood sugar levels go up and down like a yo-yo, then it’s not good for your blood vessels and is bound to have an effect on the brain,” Brunner told the news paper.

The researchers said a healthy diet plays a protective role in that the high levels of antioxidants in fruits and vegetables guard you against depression, just like folate in veggies like broccoli, cabbage, spinach, lentils and chickpeas. Fish is also high in polyunsaturated fatty acids.

So it’s finally been scientifically proven that eating a healthy, balanced diet not only improves your physical disposition, it also improves your mental one.

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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.