The inside skinny on celebrity diets and celebrity weight loss

With the nation now fully focused on its alarming obesity crisis, more and more studies are being conducted in an attempt to find ways that help and encourage overweight individuals to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle. One such study looks at the influence of weight-loss and exercise-related podcasts.

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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. Continue reading "NeNe Leakes: Exercise & Diet"

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Cellulite is the bane of every woman’s existence. While there are ways to minimize its appearance there’s no way to completely prevent it from appearing. Kim and Khloe Kardashian, however, have found a new secret to maintaining their “orange peel” with the Velashape.

Velashape is a non-invasive cellulite treatment that uses radio frequencies and light energy with a laser to zap fat cells, shrinking them and tightening the skin. The procedure combines suction and massage treatments and according to its official website, “the net result increases the metabolism of stored energy, increases lymphatic drainage and reduces or shrinks the size of the actual fat cells and fat chambers”.

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Comedian and talk show host Chelsea Handler is on the cover of the December issue of Playboy Magazine.  The 34-year-old hasn’t said if she reveals all but the au-naturalle Chelsea is proud of her shapely body.  On her show Chelsea Lately she will often joke about her large breasts and the fact that she doesn’t need any surgical enhancements.  While on the Jay Leno Show this week she was asked how she got in shape for the photo shoot and she jokingly responded,

“I quit drinking for like a day and a half,” she explains. “And I worked out — but I always work out. So it wasn’t anything major.”

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Cougar Town star Courtney Cox Arquette is a big advocate of the Power Plate. She used the machine as she prepared for her role as a newly divorced mom who is getting back into dating after years of marriage. She said,

“Power Plate Training Machine has dramatically changed my workout. I know that every muscle in my body is being ignited in ways that you can’t do with traditional training. Its uses are limitless. I love this machine!”

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Edward Norton, star of Fight Club and The Incredible Hulk has laced up his shoes and he’s ready to run the upcoming New York City Marathon.  He decided to train for the marathon in order to raise money for the Massai Wildnerness Conservation Trust, an organization he discovered 10 years ago while doing work in Kenya. He has even done some training with Maasai tribesmen who are the Kenyan long-distance superstars.  He now has a 30 person team (including David Blaine, Alanis Morrisette and Maasai warriors) ready for the marathon and they’ll all be raising money to support the cause.

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If you’re having difficulty shifting your baby weight after trying diet after diet and workout trend after trend, why not become a Wii Mommy. Many mothers have joined an online community where they swop stories about how the Nintendo Wii Fit has helped them drop their post-baby weight.

Essentially a video game, the Wii Fit helps individuals lose weight with a series of fun exercises based on games. Julie Maloney lost 60 pounds over the course of a year using her Wii Fit Plus Continue reading "Become a Wii Mommy: Lose Baby Weight"

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It’s hard to resist candy, but it’s even harder on Halloween. Whether you’re going out trick or treating with the kids or going to a party where you know there will be plenty of temptations.  Be prepared for sugar overload. Truth be told all candy is evil and will lead to accelerated aging, heart disease, diabetes, cancer and obesity.. and this is just a sampling of all the horrors that abound with sugar overload. Continue reading "Halloween Calories – the Horror!"

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Previous The Biggest Loser trainer, Kim Lyons, has released a new fitness DVD – one aimed specifically targeted to diabetes patients, called Start Fitness Now: Beating Type 2 Diabetes.

The 3-set DVD series, produced by Watch It Now Entertainment and created with Dr Sheila Singh, MD, Diplomat of the American Association of Family Physicians, is a workout designed by a celebrity trainer but endorsed by a registered physician. Continue reading "Kim Lyons: Diabetes Fitness DVDs"

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After months of anticipation Alicia Silverstone has finally launched her new book, The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet. She’s already heavy on the media circuit this week having spoken with various newspapers and she appeared on The View to promote her vegan-friendly book.

While at the launch party in NYC she told New York Magazine,

“The truth is, there is a list of foods that will make you fat and make you sick and hurt you and make you older and tired and slowly deteriorate.”

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