Ashlee Simpson is on the cover of the December issue of Women’s Health Magazine. Apart from her fabulous cover photo there are photos of her inside the magazine showing off some of her dance moves; bet you didn’t realize she’s a trained dancer. That probably explains how she keeps so fit and lost her baby weight so quickly. In her interview she revealed how she lost her baby weight through good old fashioned exercise and watching what she eats but it was a difficult task.

Just two weeks after giving birth she signed up with a meal delivery service in order to keep herself in synch but she found it challenging. She said,

“It was hard, because I’m an eater. If I want a grilled cheese sandwich, I’ll eat a grilled cheese sandwich.”

Another challenge she came across was working out. She explained,

“I can’t do the treadmill for 45 minutes straight. I wasn’t in a rush to get back to this body for anyone else. It was more like, ‘I wanna look good, I wanna feel good.”

Pushing the treadmill aside, Ashlee got a personal trainer, a home gym and did circuit training. The star also set the record straight about rumors of her going to sweat-fests in order to get thin, and she replied that is was total ‘bull—.’

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Whether they’ve just given birth, hate doing crunches or don’t have a lot of time to spend in the gym, these celebrities have found ways to get enviable bodies. Their trainers spill the secrets…

Ashlee Simpson
Mike Alexander, who has worked with new-mom Ashlee Simpson and her sister Jessica, says the way to rid of the fat that hides your muscles is to work your abs isometrically with strength training exercises such as the plank or wall sit. A strict diet of lean proteins and vegetables will also help.

Jennifer Lopez
Gunnar Peterson helped Jennifer Lopez through her first triathlon and says sleep is often overlooked. When you don’t get enough sleep (even as little as 2 hours less than regularly) you might as well add calories and subtract cardio time, especially when you feel like you’ve hit a plateau in your training.

Jessica Alba
Ramona Braganza’s 321 Baby Bulge Be Gone workouts helped Jessica Alba (and Halle Berry) retain her pre-Honor figure.

“You repeat a 10-minute cardio segment and a 10-minute strength segment 3 times, which adds up to an hour-long workout,” says Braganza. “In addition to traditional sit-ups and crunches, try moves like planking, squat thrusts and oblique exercises on a ball to strengthen transverse muscles.”

Tori Spelling
Tori Spelling’s trainer, Ashley Borden, says exercises that force you use every major body part will work the smaller muscles while keeping your heart rate up at the same time.

Kate Hudson
Constantly being on the road can seriously cut into your gym time, but a Triad ball can help you take your workout with you wherever you go.

“When deflated, they don’t take up too much room in your suitcase and they’re easy to blow up,” says Nicole Stuart, Kate Hudson’s trainer. “Use them to do modified crunches and oblique exercises wherever you are.”

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How is it that celebrities lose their baby weight so quickly? It’s practically inhuman. It takes women in the real world months and sometimes years to lose weight but people like Jessica Alba, Jennifer Lopez and Rebecca Romijn seem to lose it practically over night.  And now a new celeb has joined the ranks of these super-moms, Ashlee Simpson.

Ashlee delivered her son Broxn Mowgli eight months ago and she thought that losing the baby weight was going to be an uphill battle in order to get back her original svelte figure.  But she told Celebrity Baby Blog that she was pleasantly surprised when her body bounced back so quickly.  She said,

“After I had Bronx I lucked out,” the actress-singer admits. “I mean, I’m 24-years-old, [I have] the genes from my mother and I did work out for three months.”

Three months!  Does this mean she doesn’t workout anymore?  She looks great but there has just got to be some secret she’s not telling us!

Ashlee currently stars on Melrose Place and she is married to Good Charlotte band member, Pete Wentz.

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Ashlee Simpson-Wentz revealed her smoking new body at the MTV Australia Awards after having dropped the 25 pounds of baby weight she gained while pregnant.  Her trainer, Ramona Braganza, told Ok Magazine that she did a lot of kickboxing and circuit training.  She said,

“Depending on how quickly you progress I move it along.  With Ashlee I think by January we were pretty much in my second phase of it, and doing really well. Then, I added some kickboxing in, and we did stairs in the house. Some different ways of doing cardio so it wasn’t boring in the gym everyday.”

As for Ashlee’s diet, her trainer advised her to eat anything in moderation.

“She’s from Texas. I’m from India, and if I ate Indian food all the time, I’d have the same problem,” she explains. “It’s having certain foods in moderation, and sticking to lean, and clean meals.”

Braganza also said that she advised Ashlee to drink the newly launched Vitaminwater10 because it’s a flavorful alternative to hydrating with water and new moms need to maintain a good daily intake of vitamins.

Celeb Diet Doc..
These fortified waters are dubious. Here’s the ingredient list:

reverse osmosis water, crystalline fructose (sweetener), erthritol (sweetener), natural flavor, citric acid, ascorbic acid, gum acacia, rebiana (stevia extract), magnesium lactate, natural caffeine, ester gum, guarana seed extract, calcium lactate, niacin, monopotassium phosphate, pantothenic acid, b-carotene, pyridoxine hydrochloride, cyanocobalamin.

I would stay away from fructose sweetened products. Processed fructose can lead to elevated triglycerides (risk factor for heart disease) and fatty liver. While the marketing is inviting and promises better health, you’re better off just drinking water. Otherwise if you’re set on drinking vitamin water, do so in moderation.

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