Amanda Seyfried is all the talk in Hollywood these days. After her knock out performance alongside Meryl Streep in Mama Mia she has worked with Megan Fox in Jennifer’s Body and now she has her own starring role in the upcoming movie, Chloe. Unfortunately, her fame has come at a price as she feels a lot of pressure to be thin in Hollywood and she unwillingly follows a raw foods diet in order to keep her slim shape. She said,

“It’s intense. And sort of awful,” she tells Esquire magazine. “Yesterday for lunch? Spinach. Just Spinach. Spinach and some seeds.”

In previous interviews she has admitted that if she didn’t run and workout there is no way she would have such an enviably slim figure and she wouldn’t get the roles she has been offered in Hollywood. She explains,

“It’s f***ed up and it’s twisted, but I wouldn’t get the roles otherwise. If I’d been a bit bigger, I don’t think they would have cast me for Mamma Mia!”

Amanda looked great while on the red carpet last week, (see photo above) but it’s sad to think that she is so unhappy with dieting and exercising but she feels it’s something she has to do in order to get work.

The 24-year-old is currently promoting her newest film with Channing Tatum called, Dear John.

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Julie Benz is the latest sexy star to join the Desperate Housewives cast. Just like Eva Longoria or Teri Hatcher it seems those stay-at-home moms know how to stay in shape. Julie recently gave some insight into what a daily meal plan looks like for her on a busy schedule. To start the day she has a big breakfast since she has to be on her way to filming by 4am:

Breakfast
Coffee, Fiber One cereal with yogurt and then later an egg and veggie burrito with fruit.

Lunch
Tuna fish with brown rice, avocado with a squeeze of lime, cooked broccoli and water with lemon.

Snack
KIND brand fruit and nut bar of almond and apricot.

Dinner
Persian chicken with a salad and a glass of pinot grigio and for a light ‘dessert’ a cup of chocolate-chip mint tea.

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We keep hearing of more and more celebrities going either vegetarian or completely vegan. Stars like actress Alicia Silverstone, actor Chris Noth and even The Biggest Loser trainer Bob Harper have moved to greener pastures. Now American Idol winner Rubben Studdard has joined the ranks of the green eaters, and he’s lost 100 pounds in the process!

Rubben appeared on The Wendy Williams Show recently and explained how he first started small by going vegetarian 18 months ago and then going full vegan 12 months later. Although he’s never really had a problem with the way he looked or felt, when he turned 28 the Big Teddy Bear as he’s affectionately known decided that he wanted to change his look completely.

For Wendy’s audience, Rubben explained what vegan cooking and a vegan diet is, as well as how he learned to cook vegan meals because he didn’t want to make himself crazy depriving himself and eating the same old boring meals. The soul singer has even found a few great vegan soul food restaurants in the South. He even bragged about his vegan mac and cheese and greens recipes.

Rubben also works out three days a week with a personal trainer for about 90 minutes.

Jennie Garth made an appearance at Grand Central Station recently to help promote better eating habits at the Hidden Valley Veggie Central event. The mother-of-three is the perfect role model for these kinds of events because she grows her own vegetable garden in the front of her house so her daughters are better educated about the benefits of not only eating their vegetables, but also organic foods.

The former Beverley Hills 90210 actress persuade her husband, Twilight actor Peter Facinelli, to turn parts of their Hollywood property into a vegetable garden partly because she missed being able to grow her own fruits and vegetables – Jennie grew up on a farm.

“We have lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, sugar snap peas, and strawberries. The girls love getting dirty and picking vegetables they want to grow every year and watering them and growing them. I let them help me cook them, which puts a different perspective on it,” she says. “I’m not just serving the food to them and forcing them to eat it. They really are invested and they care about what they’re eating. Kids like the vegetables when they’re raw, actually, and they can dip them into ranch dressing or chocolate; I don’t care as long as they’re eating their vegetables!”

Now that’s what I call a super mom.

Celeb Diet Doc Says…
And who says kids don’t love veggies. Jenny is a genius and has her kids invested in their health. They nurture the very veggies they eat… You want your kids to eat veggies then get them invested! Have them make the salad for dinner.. You want to make a bet as to whether they will eat it. I’m willing to take that bet!:)

I always enjoy reading about ridiculous fad diets inspired by celebrities. The latest one is the Air Diet, inspired by Dolce & Gabbana’s campaign featuring Madonna. Created by the French, the diet is pretty self-explanatory – you eat only air.

The biggest and probably only rule of the diet is to eat nothing except water and salt soup. You can, however, do everything else like buying groceries and preparing the food. Setting the table and serving the food. You can even hold it up to your mouth as if you were about to eat it, but then put it back down and not eat it. (Ridiculous hey?!)

Apparently the diet has been around for quite some time, but was made famous by Dolce & Gabbana. According to the Institute for Psychoactive Research in England, the goal is to breathe more by setting aside time every day for concentrated, rhythmical, deep breathing.

“Eventually, the effect will spread over the rest of the day, even when the technique is not being consciously performed, and you will be able to breath deeper. Without any change in the rest of your diet or exercise regimen, you will slowly start to lose weight.”

Celeb Diet Doc…
Sounds like torture to me…

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Molly Ringwald, 1980s starlet and actress on the hit show The Secret Life of the American Teenager, debuted a sexy post baby body in a stunning purple gown at the Oscar’s over the weekend. The 42-year-old strutted across the stage and her X-Generation fans couldn’t have been prouder. Eight months ago she gave birth to twins and she’s already back to her pre-baby shape. When asked how she did it she responded,

“I try to make sure that I eat something green. I think that’s just really a good rule of thumb.”

She goes on to say that she loves all kinds of vegetables but thinks the green ones are the best for a proper diet. It was six weeks after the birth of her children that she made the commitment to get in shape but she approached it in moderation and got regular exercise. Her sensible diet included,

“….cutting down on sweets and upping the vegetables and protein, less starch, and I just worked out a lot, I’d say about three or four times a week.”

Celeb Diet Doc Says…
Upping the greens/veggies is one of the best diet strategies to help lose the post baby weight.

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The Hills reality star Audrina Patridge has a cute little figure. She has shapely curves and a healthy glow and in past interviews she has revealed that she does do light exercise and watches what she eats but she’s not obsessive about it. Most recently, she has revealed that she is a fan of the delivery meal diet plan, Sunfare. Here’s a glimpse of what a typical day’s meal plan looks like for Audrina.

Breakfast

Irish oatmeal with fresh berries and a grande English breakfast tea from Starbucks.

Lunch

A turkey wrap with vegetable soup and a passion fruit iced tea.

“I’ll admit it, I love ranch dressing so the fact that I get a little to dip my wrap in is amazing,” revealed Audrina.

Snack

String cheese, kiwi and a few almonds

Dinner

A perfect portion of steak with veggies and a small side salad.

Audrina’s daily diet plan has good portion control which is something easy to do when you use a meal delivery service. For those of us who can’t afford that, it’s a good idea to hang a chart of food servings on the refrigerator as a reminder of portion sizes and invest in kitchen scales for weighing foods like chicken, steak and salmon.

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Actress Ginnifer Goodwin has joined celebrities like Alicia Silverstone and Natalie Portman in following a vegan diet. At first, the 31-year-old beauty didn’t think she would be able to stick to her new diet, but she seems to have adapted to the new lifestyle pretty well.

Having previously lived off cheeseburgers, mac and cheese, and pizza, Ginnifer didn’t think she’d be able to give up cheese, but she’s not only proved herself wrong, she’s also turned two of her parents vegan after they’ve seen the positive and healthy effects it’s had on her. The Big Love and He’s Just Not That Into You actress says she’s enjoying her food so much more now on her plant-based diet because her taste buds are “awake”.

Ginnifer owes part of her decision to turn vegan to learning more about factory farming and its cruel practices.

“It doesn’t take more than a sprinkling of knowledge about factory farming to drive your commitment and to make it impossible to rationalize supporting the industry,” she says. “Educate yourself! Eliminating cruelty from your life is not only easy, but also very practical and reasonable.”

Ginnifer says it’s so easy to become a vegan because all of the hard work and research has already been done for you. All you need to do is go online to find vegan-friendly foods you’ve always enjoyed and how to order vegan meals in restaurants you’ve always dined at.

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R&B singer and Grammy award winner Alicia Keys is in tip-top shape. In previous interviews she has said that she doesn’t eat meat and dairy and now she says she doesn’t eat fast food either. After she saw the documentary called Food Inc, she decided to swear off fast food for life. Without meat, dairy or fast food she appears to have the perfect diet but she did admit she has a weakness. She explained,

“Delicious, warm soft bread is an indulgence of mine.”

She goes on to say that she likes to eat foods that make her feel good afterward so she chooses foods like almond milk, grilled fish, spinach and she’ll put aloe vera in her juices. She did say that she likes cleanses too but they have to be done correctly and with discipline to get the right results.

Keys healthy eating habits started a long time ago. We often think that once people reach celebrity status they instantly diet and exercise differently, but that is not the case for this rock star. She said,

“I’ve been a healthy eater for awhile. My friend’s father had this incredibly candid conversation with me about food when I was about 12 and that changed everything.”

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Country singer and Dancing with the Stars champion Julianne Hough is in impeccable shape. She exercises regularly, watches what she eats (sometimes) and even makes fitness part of her job as she has recently made her own dance workout DVD. Recently she revealed the inside scoop on her daily food intake and you will be surprised at how much she can eat. She definitely loves her carbs but keep in mind that she dances and exercises regularly so she burns a lot more than most of us.

Breakfast
1 bagel and two fried eggs sunny side up

Lunch
A huge meal including creamy artichoke and spinach dip with tortilla chips, avocado egg rolls, fried calamari and green salad topped with fresh avocado slices.

Snack
chocolate cheesecake

Dinner
Julianne skipped dinner because of eating such a big lunch.

Wow! There are loads of calories and fat in that lunch. She surely can’t eat that very often. Her body is practically a calorie burning machine!

Celeb Diet Doc…
This girl must have the metabolism of an athlete to be able to eat that much and look like that. Even so, she should start dialing down all the refined carbs (bagel, cheesecake, chips) and dialing up the fruits and veggies. Just because Julianne looks great on the outside doesn’t mean that all these refined carb products are not ravaging her body on the inside (think heart disease, accelerated aging, adult onset diabetes).

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