Kelly Osbourne is not the only one who lost weight during the current season of Dancing With The Stars. The R&B singer Mya has also lost 11 pounds and a dress size while on the show. She originally lost 17 pounds but then gained back a few pounds of muscle as she continued training. So now the petite star weight only 127 pounds. This week, she told the readers of OK! Magazine how she lost the weight. Her dance rehearsals were anywhere from six to 12 hours a day for several days a week. She said,

“Aside from dancing, I do boxing workouts, I jump rope, do crunches and interval training.”

The 30-year-old said that she burned a lot of fat and gained muscle while on the show and she feels like she’s in the best shape of her life. Mya also mentioned that while on the set there was a lot of the flu going around and she did have some flu-like symptoms but she’s ok now.

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Week after week not only celebs but also the dancers on the hit TV show Dancing With The Stars transform their figures from soft to super svelte. And it’s no secret that the show’s intense practices and routines are the real reason behind the slim-down.

“The dancing is the diet, but everyone is different,” professional dancer Karina Smirnoff tells Life & Style magazine. “So if celebrities really want to get the most out of the experience, they implement a healthy diet full of protein.”

The 31-year-old beauty fills her daily diet with egg whites, spinach and tomato for breakfast, fruit for lunch and fish and salad for dinner. The 5-foot-5 dancer weighs only 110 pounds and says she listens to her body because there are foods her system easily digests while there are others that are harder to work off.

Other celebrities who have lost weight on the new season of the reality show are Kelly Osbourne and singer Mya. The 24-yeard-old Osbourne lost 14 pounds during the first 6 weeks of rehearsals and says she can feel how her body is “completely changing”.

Mya on the other hand says she’s not only lost weight, but she’s toned her muscles too.

“My body has gotten more toned,” she told Life & Style when rehearsals for the show began. “I’m seeing a lot more definition, especially in my arms.”

The 30-year-old singer lost 11 pounds in 4 weeks, but still occasionally runs twice a day.

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Hope everyone’s as excited about the premiere of season 9 of Dancing With The Stars as I am! It’s always amazing seeing the body transformations of some celebrities after the gruelling training they’re put through before a new season starts.

Denise Richards gained 10 pounds after her mother died, but the actress went from a size 26 to a 24-inch jeans after just 6 weeks training for season 8 of the dance contest. In the same season, rapper Lil’ Kim slimmed down and her fuller figure became more toned.

Professional dancers Cheryl Burke and Lacey Schwimmer, who have been with the show since season 2 and 7 respectively, both lost 10 pounds after partnering with their celebs.

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Reality star Kelly Osbourne has been in training for Dancing with the Stars for only three weeks and so far she has already lost 14 pounds. The 24-year-old has had quite the public battle with her weight over the years so she’s obviously feeling good about herself considering she has gone from a size 12/14 to a size 8/10. She told Closer Magazine,

“By the end of it I’ll be a lean, mean machine. It’s so amazing, I’ve tried so many stupid fad diets to try to lose weight, when all I needed to do was start dancing.”

Kelly also said that her life has changed because of her experience on the show now that she feels healthy and strong. Apart from her daily 5-hour-long rehearsals she does Pilates twice a week. She said,

“Pilates is amazing, my posture is so much better and I’m even starting to get muscles on my tummy – it’s incredible. I’ve become totally obsessed with Pilates, everyone should try it.”

With the DWTS season just beginning, we’ll have to wait and see how much more weight she loses. Let’s just hope she learns that exercise is the key and that she’ll continue dancing and doing Pilates once the show is finished.

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Mya, the Grammy-winning R&B singer is on the upcoming season of Dancing With The Stars.  She recently told US Magazine that she lost 11 pounds in two months while dancing in rehearsals.  She said,

“I was 138 before I started dancing, then with pre-training with cardio, I came down to 132,”

She compared prepping for DWTS to boot camp where one has to rest, eat properly and focus in order to keep up.  This season the producers are only allowing the dance couples to rehearse up to five hours a day because of injuries in the past season.  For example, Jewel and Nancy O’Dell had to leave the competition early because they over did it while rehearsing.  But still, five hours is a lot of dancing which explains why Mya has lost weight so quickly.  She also said that she became a vegetarian two months ago but she is being careful not to deprive herself in order to keep up with the five hour workouts.  She said,

“My weight may change after I stuff my face!” she jokes. “My weakness is the pasta and the rice!”

DWTS premieres on September 21 and Mya will be dancing with Dmitry Chaplin.

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Celebrities such as Marie Osmond and Marissa Jaret Winokur have said that being a contestant on Dancing with the Stars has helped them lose weight.  There’s now a dancing celebrity, Kelly Osbourne, who has decided to be on the show for the upcoming season and she too plans on getting in shape.  She told Ryan Seacrest this week during his radio show that she’s actually terrified to be on the program but she’s ready for the challenge.  She explained,

“I’m not very graceful, so it’s just something that absolutely terrifies me, and it’s the main reason that I kind of wanted to do it. I wanted to do something different. I wanted to do something that scared me, and I don’t think anything could scare me more.”

Kelly went on to explain that she’s not too concerned about winning but that she wants to do something that she’s scared to do and that she is excited about losing weight.  She said,

“My body is going to get sick and be toned.”

Other celebrities for season 9 of the show include Kathy Ireland, Donny Osmond, Melissa Joan Hart and Aaron Carter.

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The world champion professional dancer Karina Smirnoff is a regular these days on Dancing with the Stars.  And even though she gets plenty of exercise through dance she also needs to do something to keep up her flexibility and remain toned.  According to People Magazine she does this with the help of Gyrotonics which strengthens the connective tissues around the joints.  Smirnoff said,

“Gyrotonics – it’s all based on resistance and you don’t actually use weights. You actually stretch out as you tone up.”

Gyrotonics is done on specialized machines where the user does circular movements that massage the ligaments, tendons and muscle.  Likewise, it protects the joints.  Gyrotonics is great to incorporate in any exercise plan and it’s not just for dancers.  It is also good for joggers and those who like to bounce around at the aerobics studios or any exercise that puts pressure on the knees and hips.  Smirnoff also mentioned that it’s good to do when in recovery:

“It’s one of the best things if you have an injury to recover [from] – beautiful!”

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In Marissa Jaret Winokur’s quest to lose weight before her People magazine photo shoot, the Dance Your Ass Off host has turned to Twitter for help.

Over the weekend the 36-year-old host found that her followers on Twitter offered her more support than her own family. Learning to tweet before she eats helped her choose a healthier option at Starbucks, while afterwards her “tweeters” congratulated and praised her for the choice.

“I guess strangers are like, ‘Come on, we can do this’, while my family is more like, ‘Oh, Marissa is on a diet again’,” Winokur blogged on People.

The Tony-winning actress and former Dancing with the Stars contestant has gone public with her weight-loss mission, hoping to return to her skinnier shape and appear in a bikini in People magazine.

Her latest tweets include “In car heading to work! Oh no CRAFT SERVICES!! Meaning free 7-11 all day long … Lord give me strength!”; “@writerchickmc You are always so supportive!!! oxoxo I am eating a banana and really want a cookie but holding strong! It’s still early!”; and “Good night, I made it under 1300 cal. Today, I’m hungry and have a headache, but it’s worth it right. RIGHT? Is it? I mean really I’m hungry!”

Follow Winokur on Twitter and help motivate her at http://twitter.com/Marissajwinokur. You never know, you might help her reach her target weight and prevent her falling off the diet wagon again.

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The newly re-engaged Melissa Rycroft shared her latest weight loss tip with People Magazine this week: plan a wedding! The former The Bachelor and Dancing with the Stars contestant got engaged to her on-again off-again boyfriend of two years, Tye Strickland, on June 26.

“I’ve heard the stress alone of planning a wedding helps you get into shape for it, so we’ll see if I need to stress myself out a little bit to lose that extra pound.”

Our hearts went out to Melissa after the 13th season of The Bachelor when Jason Mesnick proposed to her during the show’s season finale. Devastatingly, he broke off the engagement on national television weeks later, saying he was still in love with runner-up Molly Malaney. But it seems things have worked out for the reality TV star when 28-year Dallas insurance agent Strickland popped the question last month.

Melissa, however, shouldn’t be worried about dropping any extra pounds for her wedding after the grueling workout she was put through during her appearance on Dancing with the Stars recently. She stayed lean by regularly eating small meals and trained at least eight hours every day to prepare for her performances on the show. If she keeps up her healthy eating habits and only half of her daily dance training, we’re pretty sure Melissa’s body will remain sexily sculpted for the wedding.

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Dancing with the Stars hottie, Cheryl Burke, recently told People Magazine that she gets her inspiration to stay in shape from her equally hot boyfriend and model, Maxwell Zagorski.  She referred to him as a ‘health freak’ and by the looks of those pecs and abs in the photo above he’s obviously an exercise freak too.  Cheryl said,

“He loves to go to the gym and he motivates me, so it’s a good relationship we have!”

Cheryl and Maxwell do both weight training and cardio approximately five to six times a week and Burke said that it’s her boyfriend who has helped her lengthen her muscles by regulating the number or repitions she does when weight lifting.  She said,

“He’s a great influence in my life and vice versa.”

Other exercising celebrities from Dancing with the Stars include Brooke Burke, Kelly Monaco and Kimberley Locke.

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