Celebrities are known for their hot bodies and the sometimes controversial or unhealthy ways they get fit. From fad and crash diets to habits that could promote eating disorders, you’ve got to be careful about what kind of advice you take from celebrities.
Some stars, however, try to maintain a healthy balance and relationship with food, even if they are a little strict. If you’re learning about nutrition or weight loss for a massage therapy school class or are just curious about how your favorite celebrities eat and work out, check out this list of tips and tricks that stars swear by to lose weight.
Diet
From regular portion control to odd diet regimes, most celebrities and their advisers recommend lots of veggies and lean protein.
1. The Lunchbox Diet: Stars like Keira Knightley are allowed to eat normal breakfasts and dinners, but for lunch, they eat a lunch box filled with 60% veggies, 30% lean protein and 10% fat.
2. Avoid white foods: Celebrities like John Cusack avoid “white” foods, or foods that have flour, sugar and/or wheat.
3. The Clean Program: Demi Moore is now on the Clean Program, which is a 21-day diet that allows her to eat smoothies and dinner salads.
4. Cutting out alcohol: A story circulated recently that Kate Hudson lost 20 lbs. for a movie role, and her main diet trick was just cutting out alcohol.
5. Vinegar shots: Fergie and some other stars drink a couple of tablespoons of vinegar or apple cider vinegar before a meal to kill hunger pangs.
6. Paleolithic Diet: Also called the Caveman Diet, Elizabeth Hurley and others have tried this back-to-basics way of eating to lose weight. Eat like ancient man by focusing your diet on organic meat, eggs and other fruits and vegetables that can be eaten raw.
7. Cookie Diet: Kelly Clarkson and Mandy Moore tried out the cookie diet: they eat four special fiber-packed cookies instead of breakfast and lunch, and then a normal dinner.
8. Short, strict diets: Gwyneth Paltrow always talks about how much she loves cooking and eating, and that may be why she favors short, strict diets that last only 5 days or so.
9. Cut out liquid calories: Drew Carey lost weight by cutting refined carbs and liquid calories: so no alcohol, frappuccinos or milkshakes!
10. Embrace substitutes: Find substitutes for popular recipes, like Zooey Deschanel, who found that hemp seeds are more nutritious than pine nuts, and her pesto was still a huge hit.
11. South Beach: We’ve heard about the South Beach diet for so long, it’s easy to think it was a stupid fad. But made up of lean meats, whole grains, fruits, veggies and low-fat cheese, it’s easy to see how it’s helped stars like Jessica Alba stay thin for so long.
12. No sugar: Britney Spears gave up all sugar — including fruit and juice — to lose weight.
13. Zone Diet: Jennifer Aniston has reportedly been on the Zone diet for years, meaning that she eats 40% carbs, 30% fat and 30% protein each day.
14. Weight Watchers: Jennifer Hudson is now representing Weight Watchers, which helped her lose a dramatic amount of weight and keep it off.
15. Avoid processed foods: Kate Winslet eats fish and potatoes instead of processed carbs and meats, which are more natural and not as addictive.
16. Drink broth before meals: Cameron Diaz has sometimes turned to eating vegetable broth before starting on dinner.
17. Eat colorful food: Petite Kristen Bell was taught to have a colorful plate, meaning that “the more color you are eating, the more vitamins you are getting.”
18. Fish: Lots of weight-conscious stars turn to lean fish like tilapia to get protein.
19. Eat less: Whether it’s in a healthy way like Charlotte Church or a little too restrictive like Victoria Beckham, celebrities point to better portion control as a sure way to lose weight.
20. Try on your skinny jeans: Try on your skinny jeans every once in a while, and if they don’t fit quite right, that means it’s time to get back to eating well and exercising more, according to Kim Cattrall.
Exercise
Find out which tricks celebrities credit for their great abs and toned bodies.
21. Marathons: Katie Holmes, Giuliana Rancic and other stars participate in marathons and half marathons to motivate themselves to run every day.
22. Having a workout buddy: Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Lauren Conrad, Renee Zellwegger and other celebrities are often seen hiking, running and biking with their significant others or friends to keep them motivated.
23. Recreational sports: Jessica Biel, Kate Bosworth and Cameron Diaz love playing in the outdoors to get their exercise, embracing hiking, surfing and horseback riding.
24. Aquatic workout: Julia Roberts uses a flotation belt as she does cross-country skiing movements and arm exercises in the pool.
25. Pilates: Pilates is a favorite celebrity workout that gives you long, lean muscles. Paris Hilton, Sienna Miller, Hilary Duff and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos are just a few celebrities who do it.
26. Mix it up: Celeb trainers are always talking about how they like to mix up work outs to keep the muscles guessing and their clients interested.
27. Cardio: Most celebrities dedicate at least part of their workouts to cardio, often engaging in some sort of aerobic, heart-pumping exercise at least five times a week.
28. Bootcamp: There are different kinds of bootcamps depending on what trainer or program you follow, but bootcamps like Eva Longoria’s pre-wedding workout usually include squats, ball crunches, walking lunges, pushups and similar moves.
29. Pole dancing: Kate Hudson, Teri Hatcher and Marisa Tomei have all tried pole dancing as a workout.
30. The Bar Method: Kelly Osbourne credited the Bar Method — which mixes pilates, yoga and ballet — with helping her drop major weight.
Lifestyles
Certain celebrities have embraced whole lifestyles that keep them thin and fit.
31. Vegetarian: Carrie Underwood sticks to a vegetarian diet, but is also careful to limit dairy and sugar, which can be temptations for vegetarians to overindulge on instead of meat.
32. Macrobiotic: Gwyneth Paltrow used to be a devout follower of the macrobiotic lifestyle, only indulging in more traditional foods when she was pregnant. Now, some speculate that her restrictive dieting has led to a bone disease called osteopenia.
33. Vegan: Natalie Portman adheres to a vegan lifestyle for ethical and moral reasons, and benefits from the stricter diet, too.
34. Raw: Alicia Silverstone, Donna Karan and Demi Moore all follow a raw food diet.
Daily Habits
From breast feeding to cooking every day, these daily habits can promote weight loss, too.
35. Clean foods: Try out a clean food diet like Jessica Biel, who prefers all natural foods like nuts.
36. Running after the kids: A favorite claim that new celebrity moms make after losing baby weight is attributing the loss to running after their kids, or picking up their babies over and over.
37. Breast feeding: If you’re trying to drop baby weight, do like Bridget Moynahan did and breast feed your baby to help your body lose.
38. Cook for yourself: Jessica Alba has said that obesity runs in her family, and she started cooking for herself when she was 12 to keep track of what she’s putting into her body.
39. Restrict carbs at night: By not eating carbs at night, it was easier for Fergie to lose nearly 20 lbs. after Nine.
40. Drink lots of water: It speeds up metabolism, can keep you feeling full, and helps stars like Halle Berry lose weight.
41. Start your day with chicken: Cameron Diaz sometimes has chicken for breakfast to kick-start her metabolism.
42. 90/10: Jennifer Garner’s trainer recommends eating healthy 90% of the time and eating fun foods 10% of the time.
43. Walk: Scarlett Johansson says she gets most of her exercise by walking around the city each day.
44. Eat your main meal at lunch: To avoid overeating at night before bed, eat your main meal in the middle of the day, while you still have time to burn it off.
45. Green tea: Four cups of green tea daily can reduce cravings and a popular red carpet prep tip..
Desperate Measures
These weight loss tips are risky and may not even result in long-term weight loss.
46. The Master Cleanse: Also called the Maple Syrup Diet, this fad has been a favorite of stars like Beyonce. She lost 20 lbs. for Dreamgirls by drinking a beverage of maple syrup, lemon juice, water and cayenne pepper.
47. Baby food diet: Trainer Tracy Anderson supposedly put Jennifer Aniston on the baby food diet. She was allowed to have 14 servings of baby food and a sensible dinner. The “baby food” is actually pureed ingredients carefully chosen by Anderson.
48. Cabbage soup diet: Sarah Michelle Gellar tried the cabbage soup diet to get rid of baby weight. Basically you eat all the veggie-packed cabbage soup you want, plus a new food each day for seven days, including potatoes, fruit juice, and beef.
49. Grapefruit oil: Jennifer Lopez and Carmen Electra sniff grapefruit oil, which has a smell that supposedly promotes weight loss.
50. Charcoal: Girls Aloud member Sarah Harding has started adding charcoal — bought from health food stores — to her meals to absorb “all the bad” stuff in your body.
51. Blueprint Cleanse: Gossip Girl star Jessica Szohr drank raw juice for 2 1/2 days.
52. Hypnosis: Lily Allen claims that hypnosis helped her go from a size 12 to a size 8.
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