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 Celebrities are human, so we have guessed. But one
might beg to differ when watching their countless experiments with putting on
and losing weight, scrutinizing their slender, skinny or portly frames on the pages
of fashion magazines or on the Web. Think of Renee Zellweger who put on 20 kg
(and was paid a million for each) for her star role in the Bridget Jones Diary,
and a year later turned out as emaciated wannabe Roxie Hart in Rob Marshall's
Chicago. So where is the catch?
In fact, celebrity weight fluctuations are often
determined by their career. However, one should not forget that
celebrities
also love fast-food snacks, suffer from bulimia nervosa after their
eighth divorce
and division of property or have children, which often results in plus
5-10 and
more kilos. And they have no other choice than to lose those kilos or
say goodbye
to big screen and Hollywood. Besides, just like us common people
celebrities do
not like to deprive themselves of gastronomic pleasures and prefer
healthy
balanced diets. Celebrities and diets are a common theme of many
magazines and
tabloid newspapers. Most celebrities are permanently under the
spotlight,
followed by a media obsessed with body image.
One of the favorite diets worldwide which proved to
be
highly effective and is popular with many celebrities, including
Jennifer Lopez,
is the Atkins diet. This diet is an innovative way to lose weight as
quickly as
you can, while remaining healthy. This long term weight loss plan shows
you
that changing what you eat can actually help change the way your body
works. By
eating their delicious and healthy foods, you can help yourself reach
your
ideal weight, and then actually maintain it.
The Atkins diet mostly revolves around your daily
carbohydrate intake. The carbohydrates in your body are either used as
energy
or stored as fat. The Atkins diet helps you eat the right kinds of
carbohydrates so that your body begins to burn fat instead of storing
it. This
means eating the right kinds of food like nuts, whole grains, high fiber
fruits
and lean proteins. By not eating too many sugars or white flour
carbohydrates
you help your body eat away at its already large amount of fat stores.
There are many great advantages to the Atkins diet.
You
not only get to lose the weight you want to lose, but you get to do it
in a
more enjoyable way. Atkins diet foods are great tasting, healthy ways to
lose
weight effectively and keep it off. Because you are losing so much
weight, and
eating the right foods you will also be more energized and feel better
about
yourself.
If none of this sounds convincing to you, you
should
look at some of Hollywood's biggest names. People like Jennifer Aniston,
Bill
Clinton, and Alexandra Von Fursenburg are all supporters and users of
the
Atkins diet.
Madonna is a known for her healthy lifestyle. For
years, she's been on the macrobiotic diet. This vegetarian diet is
intended to
improve overall health and is claimed-without evidence-to help cure
diseases,
including cancer. Brown rice and whole grains are the foundation of the
macrobiotic diet. The diet encourages you to eat certain fresh
vegetables and
vegetable-based soups. The diet discourages high-fat foods, foods that
are
extremely cold in temperature, and most animal products, including dairy
products and eggs.
However, a long-term dieting, no matter how
effective
and good for your health it may be, is not always achievable, especially
when a
red carpet event is in a week and your dress is bursting at the seams.
In this
case, everyone is using their own recipes: for Heidi Klum, the best way
to
quickly lose some extra pounds is with sauerkraut; Beyonce Knowles keeps
her
curvaceous body perfect with lemon water cleansing, while Demi Moore
prefers to
eat raw or slightly heated food, and drinks lots of pineapple juice.
Celebrity gourmets such as Italian divas Monica
Bellucciand Sophia Loren cannot deny themselves anything, they eat
everything
in moderation keeping to smaller portions.
It's not by diet alone that keeps celebrities slim
and
fit, because in addition to the army of professional cosmetologists,
beauticians and hairdressers at their disposal, there is usually a
personal
trainer, too. Jennifer Garner and Gwyneth Paltrow are known fans of
jogging in
the morning - exercise helped them to lose the baby weight after the
childbirth. Jessica Alba prefers power training program that is
developed specifically
for her.
And if you have no physical strength, endurance or
willpower, you can always resort to aesthetic surgery and remove the
excess fat
at the waist or have your stomach stapled, as Oprah Winfrey did.
As you see, we can get some ideas from these
celebrities,
but understand one thing - many have access to resources that most of us
have
no hope of, such as personal fitness trainers, nutritionists, free
products for
endorsement, sponsorships, etc.
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