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Now that Christmas is here, we’ve reached the week when many Americans pick up a fork and don’t put it down until the last bowl game is over Jan. 1. But if you’re looking for ways to lose that holiday weight or get healthier in the new year, we offer as our holiday gift to you a collection of tips from celebrities around the world.

Join Jenny Craig

The weight loss plan worked for Kirstie Alley and Valerie Bertinelli, and now Queen Latifah is signing up as a spokeswoman for the program.

The Queen, who has long flaunted her plus-sized curves, will star in a campaign beginning in January that will focus more on exercise and healthy eating rather than shrinking into a particular dress size, according to Jenny Craig’s vice president of marketing.

Lock up the food

Rumor has it that Gary Barlow, who was known among not-very-nice people as the “fat one” in the 1990s band Take That, has asked his wife to lock up all the food-related presents he’s received so he doesn’t bulk up over the holidays.

The singer’s weight peaked at 232 pounds after the group split up, and now he says it’s a constant struggle to maintain a healthy weight, and lovely gift baskets filled with chocolate, cheese and wine from celebrities such as Sting and Elton John aren’t helping matters.

Try fat camp

Other overweight stars in the UK are apparently visiting a super-secret boot camp that caters to famous women who need to lose weight.

The location of the camp is so secret that participants are blindfolded in transit and guaranteed secrecy at the “American-style fat camp,” which involves days full of cycling, yoga, dancing, hiking, circuit training and running obstacle courses, as well as healthy meals devised by the nutritionist from the British “Celebrity Fit Club.”

Models and “Big Brother” contestants have been among the visitors to the camp, which reports the average weight loss during a week of the program (costing 950 pounds) is 13 pounds.

Say the media has the problem

After pictures of a bikini-clad Jennifer Love Hewitt showed a little more skin than the ads for Hanes the actress has recently appeared in, bringing down the criticism of the blogosphere for looking like she’s gaining weight.

Hewitt replied on her blog that she’s not fat at a size 2, and that the media is obsessed with who is gaining weight. She said the media is sending the wrong message to image-obsessed girls that they shouldn’t be happy with their bodies, whatever their size.

Several celebrities have chimed in on the issue, including “Heroes” star Hayden Panettiere, who says the media’s scrutiny of her body “makes me feel awful” and people should have better things to do than worry about her thigh fat. Amen, sister.

(By Sarah White for CalorieLab Calorie Counter News)

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