Celebrity diet news: Gwyneth can’t diet, how Maria Menounos got slim, and the Michael Phelps Diet on SNL
Gwyneth Paltrow says she can’t diet
Earlier this week Gwyneth Paltrow told Oprah that she refuses to diet because she hates the idea that she can’t have something. Instead she works out, a lot.
She calls trainer Tracy Anderson “the exercise genius of all time” and says her program involves cardio dance routines and weight training. Sounds easy, but she’s working out two hours a day six days a week in an 80-degree room.
Losing it, or just hiding it
People online recently ran a package on fitness secrets of the stars, which included the tips that Jennie Garth is working out five days a week and doing a different workout every day; Jessica Alba uses an Expresso exercise bike, which allows her to collect points like a video game; and Brooke Shields is still able to fit into her famous Calvin Klein jeans thanks to spinning, yoga and not eating too many carbs.
Tori Spelling says she hasn’t actually lost the baby weight yet after giving birth to her daughter three months ago. She says she just stopped breastfeeding and is getting ready to start dieting but looks trim in public thanks to Spanx.
Ricky Gervais says call overweight “fatty”
Comedian and star of the much funnier British version of “The Office” Ricky Gervais says that fat people should be shamed into losing weight.
He says there’s not enough stigma involved in being overweight, so people (including himself) aren’t motivated to change. He says people should be greeting their hefty compatriots with shouts of “fatty.”
He’s also got some ideas about grocery store layouts, saying all the unhealthy foods should be “behind a thin door” or require crawling through a tube to get to them. He also notes that he has to buy new clothes every three months because he gets too fat for his old ones.
Tips from the magazines
Jennifer Love Hewitt graced the cover of Health magazine for September, sharing more healthy living tips after losing 18 pounds. She says she eats something small every hour and a half and loves to snack on avocados.
She says she’s allergic to dairy but used to love pizza and ice cream. She’s keeping fit by training for a marathon and doing yoga.
“Access Hollywood” leading lady Maria Menounos is on the cover of Fitness’ October issue, and tells the world she used to be a size 14 but lost the weight before she got famous.
Her big issue was eating too much food, so she consciously slowly cut back on portions until she was eating normally, then added exercise — a circuit plan developed by a trainer that cost her $70. She lost 40 pounds in less than a year and is now obsessed with Krav Maga, an Israeli martial art (see the magazine for a sample).
The Michael Phelps Diet: almost certainly fatal
“Saturday Night Live” last week had Michael Phelps selling his famous 12,000 calorie diet to the masses, suggesting people make meals of things like “a fried turkey stuffed with molasses” and a bucket of Halloween candy.
He calls it “the only diet that lets you eat whatever Michael Phelps eats, and you can tell it works wonders for me” as a picture of a bare-chested Phelps celebrating a win pops onto the screen.
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