Tag — Celebrity Diets

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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X Factor star Laura White will soon be giving other British beauties like Cheryl Cole and Victoria Beckham a run for their bootilicious bodies. Ahead of the release of her debut single, the 22-year-old has debuted a brand new body. She told Look Magazine that while she was living in the X Factor House she put on a lot of weight because she wasn’t exercising and she was eating anything she wanted to. She lost 30 pounds by doing 50 minutes a day on the cross-trainer and she goes to three Power Plate sessions a week. (X Factor judge Dannii Minogue also uses Power Plate) She now looks great and although she’s on the curvy side she has no plans to lose any more. S [Read more →]

Earlier this year we reported on Nadya Suleman’s weight-loss after giving birth to 8 babies in January. In September she was spotted in her local park working out on a yoga mat with dumb bells and an exercise ball, but it seems the mother of 8 has now lost 145 pounds and trimmed 39 inches off her waist. How? By hitting the gym at midnight.

Nadya joined a local gym and while her babies are asleep, she slips away to work on her body. While the nanny watches the sleeping kids, Nadya visits her gym 3 times a week for 90 minutes. The single mother, who admits that she lost her previous post-baby weight pretty easily because of her genes, has found that working off the new weight isn’t as easy as she thought it would be. Although Nadya instantly dropped 40 pounds simply by giving birth, it was the remaining 100 pounds she had to work extra hard on.

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Jenna Wolfe is the TV anchor and resident fitness fanatic for NBC’s Weekend Today. Her demanding assignments have her throwing punches on American Gladiators and racing up the steps of the Empire State Building and she always pulls it off like a pro. Recently in Fitness Magazine she gave the readers the inside scoop as to how she keeps so fit. She aims to workout six times a week for at least an hour per session and she’ll incorporate various workouts such as boot-camp, weight lifting and cardio. More importantly, she never lets excuses come in to play when she’s on the road. [Read more →]

Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham is no stranger to fad diets.  In the past she’s been linked to seaweed shakes and edamame beans and all the while she continues to be bone thin.  Her latest diet is berries and sashimi and the occasional glass of wine when she’s in the mood to indulge.  One source told the Daily Mail that Beckham wants to be ultra thin for the sake of her clothing line.

“She thinks she’s the best ambassador for the clothes she designs – so she wants to be model thin.”

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If you’ve fallen off the diet wagon recently, don’t feel too bad about it, even movie stars cheat when on their diets when they’re trying to get in shape for a new role. Gerard Butler went on the Bonnie Hunt Show this week and admitted to his sneaky ways.

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The iPhone and its hundreds of free, little applications certainly make life a bit easier (and more fun), and now your iPhone can help you lose weight. A new, free application called Lose It! can help keep you on track by allowing you to set your weight-loss goals, establish a “daily calorie budget” and then record your daily food intake and exercise.

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Oscar winner Russell Crowe is currently producing and starring in the movie Robin Hood.  Of course we’ve seen Crowe ultra fit back in the days of The Gladiator but when he’s off camera he maintains a comfortable weight that’s a bit on the soft side.

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Vanessa Williams, the 46-year-old actress on Ugly Betty recently revealed all to Us Magazine about her diet and exercise regimen. While filming Williams uses the same meal delivery service as Jennifer Lopez and Mel B use, Freshology. The company has a Get Slim Plan where clients eat 1,200 to 1,400 calories a day. Here’s a glimpse at what a typical menu would look like for one day on the Freshology plan:

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The news is out: Katie Holmes is whipping husband Tom Cruise into shape.  Good for her!  It seems the tabloids always point out how Tom bosses Katie around but this time it’s Katie doing the talking.  As Tom is now in his late 40s it’s hard to keep the weight off so Katie offered her help by putting him on a strict diet and exercise plan which includes lowering his carbohydrate intake, cutting out sweet snacks and getting plenty of exercise in the form of running and sex.

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