You’re turning 41, you’ve worked hard on your career, you’ve finally found a suitable boyfriend and you’ve got a rocking body. So sometimes you just need to take a break and flaunt it! That’s exactly what Jennifer Aniston was doing this weekend while on vacation in Cabo San Lucas with a few of her friends.

The actress is in Mexico with amongst others Gerard Butler, Courtney Cox, David Arquette and Sheryl Crow to celebrate her birthday. Jennifer was snapped by the paparazzi while taking in some sun and proved to all middle-aged women around the world that if you have a yogi as a personal trainer and friend you really can have the body of a 25-year-old.

Back in the day she tried the Zone Diet but has since gone off fad dieting and stuck to fresh fruit, green vegetables and lean proteins, avoiding pasta, bread and red meat. Jennifer also relies on a personalized yoga routine created by Mandy Ingber.

In an interview with GQ magazine last year, our favorite Friend revealed that she’s healthier now and more at peace with her body than she was in her 20s and 30s, all because of her healthy diet and regular exercise.

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The controversial high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet made famous by the late Dr Robert C. Atkins could see a revival in 2010 if Monty Sharma has anything to do with it. Sharma, the CEO of Atkins Nutritionals, lost 10 pounds on the diet two years ago and has since been singing the doomed weight-loss program’s praises.

A few years ago celebrities like Jennifer Aniston and Geri Halliwell were big supporters of popular diet. But when Atkins died in 2003 at the age of 72, him, his diet and his company had their reputation tarnished when rumors that the good doctor suffered from heart problems as a result of the Atkins diet. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2005, emerged from it in 2006 and was acquired by Sharma and private-equity firm North Castle Partners in 2008.

Sharma says the company’s downfall was because there were too many products like nutritional bars and slimming shakes on the market, and has now cut back from 100 to 64. The recipes have also been made sweeter, but still only contained 1g of sugar, while the packaging has been made smaller.

Pumping new life into its marketing strategy, Sharma believes the Atkins Diet will see a resurrection with the release of a new book New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Diet for Shedding Weight Fast and Feeling Great Forever. On shelves in March, the book was by three doctors from Stanford, Duke and the University of Connecticut and reminds dieters to eat balanced meals, including vegetables.

“No more of the ‘meat all the time’,” Sharma told Forbes.com. “People have to eat vegetables too.”

Celeb Diet Doc
The original Atkins is too high in animal protein and too low in veggies and fruit. In fact Atkins recommended that users take a fiber supplement, no doubt because many people are seriously constipated on his diet. You can check out a lively debate on the Atkins diet, in the comment section of my post Atkins Kills. In any event this “new and improved” Atkins sounds like a big step in the right direction.

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It’s hard to imagine that Jennifer Aniston was ever even told to lose weight but supposedly when she got her first agent in the early 90s she was told to drop the pounds. Over the years she’s followed the Zone Diet and dabbled in other diets but now she has learned that good health is a balance of the body and the mind. A friend said,

“She used to be so intense and obsessive about her routine, weighing herself and following fad diets….Honestly, Jen has never looked better and it’s because she’s learning to find balance in her life.”

So what’s her secret? First off, she depends on fresh fruits and green veggies and lean proteins such as chicken breast and fish. While filming, she is sure to cut out pasta, bread and red meats. Also, she has her own vegetable and herb garden at her home in Beverly Hills and when she’s out of town she’ll stock up at local farmers markets.
When it comes to exercise Jennifer is an avid yoga practitioner. She follows Mandy Ingber’s Yogalosophy, a hybird workout plan that combines yoga poses with toning exercises. She said,

“In every way, my body just got stronger and everything got stronger. It changed my life.”

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We all know Jennifer Aniston loves yoga, but in a recent video interview her personal yoga trainer and friend Mandy Ingber went on the record as to how well our favorite Friend took to the eastern practice.

Because of the actresses fast-paced lifestyle, constantly moving between meetings and sets and auditions, Mandy didn’t really expect Jennifer to enjoy slowing the pace down in her exercise regime.

“She is a very fast-paced person,” Mandy says in the interview. “I wasn’t thinking that she was going to like yoga. And then it turned out that it really was something that she loved, and it worked to help her get her body where she wanted it.”

But Jennifer doesn’t just stick to regular yoga; Mandy mixes her routine up with a bit of cardio before hitting the mat and then adding toning exercises to the yoga poses.

“Women look to her as the perfect blend,” says Mandy. “She’s very natural. Who has a better body than Jennifer Aniston?”

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It’s great to have friends in high places, especially when you friend is everyone else’s favorite Friend. Yoga instructor Mandy Ingber is one such lucky lady; she’s got her friend Jennifer Aniston to endorse her new DVD, Yogalosophy.

In the DVD’s introductory video, Jennifer confesses that yoga changed her life. The 40-year-old actress says Yogalosophy is one of the funnest workouts she’s ever done and encourages viewers to work hard so they can see the results too.

On Mandy’s website she says that when she changes her emotions, she sees the changes in her body as well.

“Sometimes I am motivated by nurture, sometimes by intensity. My motivational hybrid technique revolves around cycles of change,” Mandy says. “Yogalosophy can help you use the natural flow to recreate your body through intentions, emotions, and other motivational triggers.”

Although Yogalosophy is a word she made up, Mandy says when it comes to the body, everyone is on an equal playing ground. Whether you’re rich or poor, happy or sad, you need to take care of your body and yoga is one way you can not only look after it, but can also get back in touch with it.

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It’s always good to have friends in high places and yoga instructor Mandy Ingber is sure to have a hit workout video considering pal Jennifer Aniston is in the introduction. Aniston and Ingber have done yoga together for years so it’s great that the actress is helping promote Ingber’s new video. Aniston says in the video,

“She brought yoga into my life…it completely changed my life.”

The actress says that Yogalosophy is one of the most fun workouts she has ever had and she suggests to users of the video to work hard, have fun and in the end it will be worth it. Aniston will also be in Los Angeles on Thursday at a launch event for the video with SELF Magazine.

According to Ingber’s website, Yogalosophy is a hybrid technique that revolves around the cycles of change in terms of attitude, emotions and the body. She states,

“Yogalosophy can help you use the natural flow to recreate your body through intentions, emotions, and other motivational triggers.”

Other celebrities who have trained with Ingber include Brooke Shields and Ricki Lake.

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Actress Jennifer Aniston is in great shape. She’s been known to do plenty of pilates, the occasional detox and the Zone diet from time to time. Her latest diet plan is no white starchy foods nor processed foods. One source said,

“Within two weeks of jumping on the no-white-food bandwagon, Jen felt less bloated and leaner.”

The source went on to say that Jennifer is not allowing any white foods in her home and instead eats substitutions such as brown rice for white, egg noodles for pasta, yams for potatoes and brown raw sugar instead of white sugar. In addition, Jennifer is sure to eat a lot of fresh produce and protein rich foods. The source explained,

“Jen’s current diet consists of a lot fruits, veggies, salmon, tuna and even steak.”

Since Jennifer has switched her eating habits she has more energy and feels great.  Be it Atkins, Zone or Eat To Live, they all say not to eat starchy, processed foods. It’s all about self-control and learning to love those substitutions and focus on whole grains, fresh fruit and veggies as well as protein.

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Jennifer Aniston is on the cover of Life & Style Magazine this week and inside it is revealed how she stays so thin even while she’s working on the set of her movie, The Bounty, with co-star Gerard Butler.  An insider told the magazine that while Jennifer and The Bounty gang were out having lunch she shared her dessert with everyone instead of eating it all by herself.  The onlooker said,

“She’s tiny, but she looks strong and healthy. Her arms were amazing, she was in great shape and she looked comfortable in her own skin.”

The past few months Jennifer has been vocal about her new found serenity since turning 40 and she feels better than ever. But for those of you who would like to know how she loses five pounds in five days for those times when she wants to look her best you’ll have to read that in the magazine.  One insider said that she’ll often do the five pounds in five days diet when she starts a new film.  As for her diet while filming The Bounty she jogs apart from doing yoga.

“She routinely gets up at 5 in the morning to run before filming starts. We were filming from 6 a.m. until almost 11 at night, and she had a great energy level the whole time. She was upbeat and smiley and never flubbed a line — and her body looks amazing!”

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Is our favourite Friend Jennifer Aniston a workout-aholic? If reports by femalefirst.co.uk are correct, then she is. It’s been claimed that the 40-year-old actress works out at 3am every morning so she can stay in shape while filming her new movie The Bounty in New York.

“There are a lot of early starts on set, so she has had to get up at 3am to get two hours in the gym before filming at 5am,” a source was quoted as saying on MetroNews.ca. “She is supposed to be playing a 35-year-old, and is concerned she won’t look the part now that she’s 40.”

Apparently, Aniston keeps getting offered parts to play mothers, but turns them down because she wants to play younger characters.

At the beginning of this year, Aniston told Harry Smith on CBS News that she only practices yoga “every other” day for about 45 minutes, with a run before that.

Watch the full interview in which she talks about her nude GQ cover shoot, bowties and her life headlining tabloids.

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Jennifer Aniston turned 40 last week on February 11^th, and she looks amazing. What are her secrets? First off, she participates in a variety of exercise such as yoga, weight training and cardiovascular work on the treadmill and/or crosstrainer. However, keep in mind that she does intensive yoga study and pilates sessions with her trainer, Mandy Ingber, approximately 8 to 10 hours a week. That takes a lot of dedication, time and will power! According to her trainer,

“Jennifer understands that yoga’s essentially a meeting of the physical and spiritual. She brings a real calmness to each pose.”

Jennifer, being only 40 years young, proves that studying and practicing the essentials of yoga makes a difference at various levels, not just the physical, but the emotional and spiritual levels as well.

Jennifer Aniston’s Diet
Jennifer maintains her size 8 figure with the  Zone diet. Her diet consists of a ratio of 40% carbs, 30% fat and 30% protein. Jennifer begins her day with a glass of  freshly squeezed lemon juice.

“Jen has a low-carb diet, so she eats a lot of smoked turkey and lettuce wraps. Recently, she’s adjusted her snacking, which used to include corn chips, salsa and guacamole, and now regularly requests fresh fruit – blueberries are a favourite as they have a low sugar content – and cheeses.”

Jen’s Weight Loss Tip
If she begins to gain weight she replaces foods such as pasta with more veggies.

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