Want to know what celebs like Maria Menounos, Bethenny Frankel and Lady Gaga eat and do to stay in shape? Read on to find out what is trending in the world of dieting and fitness in Hollywood!
Nicole Elizabeth “Snooki” LaValle
Snooki of the reality TV show, Jersey Shore, lost an impressive 42 pounds after giving birth to her first child. She eats a 1,300 calorie a day diet and works out four days a week with her personal trainer, Anthony. She gets “Express Home Meals” delivered to her door. One example meal is a burger wrapped in lettuce, or a salad with chicken and berries. She says she tries to eat mostly meat and vegetables. Exercise wise she tries to avoid too much cardio and focuses on strength training.
Snooki
Victoria Beckham
Victoria Beckham is in amazing shape and it is due to her intense fitness regimen. She runs works out six or seven times a week! Usually she does three miles of running in the morning and then works out with her personal trainer. She also loves doing SoulCycle classes. Besides exercising, Beckham also eats very healthy. She eats a lot of fish, vegetables, and fruit. She also focuses on healthy fats especially in the morning. She loves toast with avocado for breakfast.
Victoria Beckham
Jessica Alba
Jessica Alba is stunning. How does she do it? With the help of celeb health and wellness consultant, Leveque, Jessica follows an interesting diet. It is a “lifestyle diet” and part it is simply being educated about how to approach food in a healthy way. There is no calorie counting, and the diet encourages Jessica to eat food that feels good to eat. If you notice eating something energizes you and causes you to feel better, you should eat it. The point of the diet is to love yourself through food and eat for happiness. So what exactly does Jessica eat? She usually starts the day with a green smoothie that includes protein powder, chia seeds, spinach and nut milk. In general, Jessica tries to have protein, fat, fiber, and leafy greens in every meal. She avoids soy and loves to snack on guacamole because it is so rich in healthy fats. Lunch and dinner usually consists of lean protein, and vegetables. She aims to work out four times a week, and usually in the mornings. She loves yoga and spinning.
Jessica Alba
Jessica Biel
Jessica Biel is known for being muscular and fit. She surprisingly doesn’t follow any particular diet but eats in a manner that she thinks is kind to her digestive system. She avoids gluten, wheat and dairy. A typical day of eating includes paleo pancakes for breakfast with nut butter, a veggie burger with a salad for lunch, and fish or some other lean meat with vegetables for dinner. She works with famous celebrity trainer, Jason Walsh, who has her combining walking lunges, sprinting, cardio workouts and yoga.
Jessica Biel
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga follows fitness guru Harley Pasternak’s 5 Factor Diet. The 5 comes from the name of each of the following elements: protein, complex carbs, fiber, fat and fluids. Lady Gaga tries to eat five meals a day with recipes that contain 5 ingredients or fewer. Her workout is also in 5 phases: cardio warm-up, lower body circuit training, upper body strength, abdominal strength and then a cardio cool-down.
Lady Gaga
Olivia Munn
Olivia Munn is toned and gorgeous. She grew up doing taekwondo and before preparing for her role in X-Men, she began a new diet that she attributes a 12 pound wait loss to. She tries to eat 20-80, where 80% of her diet is fruits and vegetables and 20% is anything she wants. She tries to eat organic plant-based meals as much as possible but also leaves room for enjoyment.
Olivia Munn
Jennifer Aniston
Jenn accredits The Zone Diet and over 10 years of yoga for her awesome physique.The Zone Diet mandates your total caloric intake in a certain ratio which balances carbs and protein. The diet recommends eating five times a day. She usually wakes up and has a glass of warm lemon water with her breakfast. She tries to add a little extra protein whenever she can. For lunch and dinner, she has vegetables or salad with protein. She snacks on apples and almond butter when she needs to. Keep it up, Jenn! You look amazing!
Jennifer Aniston
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman is 50, but sure doesn’t look it! She follows the Eight-Hour Diet which has been growing in popularity in Hollywood. The program mandates eating in a window of only eight hours per day and fasting for the other 16 hours so the body goes into fat burning mode. She eats a lot of lean protein, and believes in eating a little bit of everything in moderation. In terms of exercise, she loves swimming, doing sit-ups and also jogging. Her father was actually a marathon runner.
Nicole Kidman
Gwen Stefani
Gwen has a killer body. Her abs even have their own Facebook page. What is her secret? She follows a vegan, organic diet and loves to workout. Some of her favorite foods are nuts, beets, quinoa, avocado and sweet potatoes. She tries to focus on protein, B-vitamins, iron and omega-3’s which many vegans and vegetarians lack. Gwen does “total body workouts” which workout multiple muscle groups at once. For her abs she does sit ups and uses a stability ball. She often does sit ups while performing. Her energy level seems amazing to us, so this diet must be working for her!
Gwen Stefani
Beyoncé
Beyoncé also accredits her weight loss to a vegan diet. She eats six vegan meals a day that are prepared by her own private chef. Beyoncé has stated she is much more energetic during rehearsals due to this diet. She eats lots of fresh produce, nuts, granola, lentils and soups. She even has her famous husband following the diet. Beyoncé burns a lot of calories when she performs, and usually does circuit and strength training daily.
Beyonce
Nicole Richie
Nicole Richie is as slim as ever. She practices portion control and tries to eat 1,200 calories a day or less. She focuses on omega-3’s, proteins and vitamins. She eats wholesome foods like grilled chicken, brown rice, vegetables and some fruit. She also does juicing which she has stated clears both her mind and body. Additionally, she trains regularly and likes to change it up. She dances, runs, uses elliptical machines and does weight lifting.
Nicole Richie
Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwen is not only a famous actress, but also co founder of lifestyle company Goop. Goop’s website endorses a pretty strict diet, cleansing, and fasting to detox. She avoids sugars, and dairy, and aims to eat mostly vegetables. For exercise, she does an hour of cardio and an hour of weights six days a week. While this regimen seems strict, the results are clear. Gwen is always glowing and looking stunning.
Gwen Paltrow
Khloe Kardashian
Khloe Kardashian has always been beautiful in our opinion, and recently she looks better than ever after loosing some additional weight. Want to know her secret? She follows a special diet under the guidance of her nutritionist, Dr. Phillip Goglia, that is called “G-Plan.” Goglia is co-founder of the nutrition platform that designs a diet based on the user’s metabolic body type. This diet requires Khloe to eat 7 meals a day of mostly vegetables, fruit and fatty fish. For breakfast she usually has a whey protein shake with almond butter. She snacks on fruit throughout the day, and tries to stay hydrated. She avoids dairy, soda, whole wheat bread, juice, and soy products. Khloe works out about 5 times a week and does spinning, hot yoga, and circuit training.
Khloe Kardashian
Maria Menounos
Maria Menounos struggled with her weight in college and after giving birth. Now she seems to have a diet and exercise routine that is working for her. She even wrote about it in her book entitled The EveryGirl’s Guide to Diet and Fitness. She endorses the 50-Year Plan that aims to promote a holistic lifestyle and think about choices about food. It is based on the 75/25 idea; 75% of the food you eat should be health, and 25% can be splurges. For exercise, she doesn’t always have time to workout and simply focuses on moving as much as possible. She wears a pedometer to track her progress, and also enjoys spinning and wrestling.
Maria Menounous
Bethenny Frankel
Reality TV star, natural chef, real estate mogul and entrepreneur, Bethenny Frankel, always looks amazing. She doesn’t believe in following strict diets. She says one thing that helps her stay in shape is keeping healthy food and staples in her refrigerator and freezer. For instance, she will keep white meat turkey and spinach in the freezer and keep a variety of vegetables in her fridge. She believes in drinking a lot of water, and enjoying everything from sweets to alcohol in moderation. She sometimes participates in boot camps and intense spinning but prefers to do yoga at home and exercise with her family.
Bethenny Frankel
Mo’Nique
Mo’Nique lost an incredible 90 pounds and is looking amazing. She follows an elimination diet where she eats no white carbohydrates, ice cream, energy drinks, chips, or sweet drinks from Starbucks. She aims to eat a clean and balanced diet, takes weight loss pills, and does intense workouts 5 times a week with her celebrity trainer.
MoNique
Eva Mendes
Eva Mendes is looking great after shedding her pregnancy pounds. She also follows the 5- Factor Diet where she eats five meals a day that are made up in five parts: lean protein, complex carbs, fiber, healthy fat, and water. Some exercises that she loves includes running, sprinting, yoga, weight lifting and hiking. She tries to exercise four or five times a week.
Eva Mendes
Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian is working with a new celeb trainer named Melissa Alcantara. She is following a version of the Keto Diet which focuses on eating good fats like olive oil to stop hunger pangs, avoiding carbs and not eating processed food. She works out with Melissa six times a week for an hour and a half every morning. She does a mixture of low-intensity internal training, weight training and high-intensity interval training. We think she is looking better than ever!
Kim Kardashian
Madonna
We can’t believe she is 57! She looks great! Madonna is trained by Craig Smith, who is also the creative director of her Hard Candy Fitness clubs. Her cardio focuses on fun and much of it is dance based. She works out at least 30 minutes a day, six days a week. Her workouts are different everyday. She does circuit training, interval training and resistance training. She loves barre training, boxing, and yoga. How about her diet? She loves variety with her diet too. She loves organic cold-pressed juices, salads, and meals with tons of fruits and veggies. We can also hope we look half as good at her age!
Madonna
Megan Fox
Megan Fox follows The Paleo Diet to keep in shape. If you are unfamiliar, the diet focuses on eliminating processed foods and eating foods like meat, poultry, fish, herbs, vegetables, nuts and seeds. It is high-protein, low-carb and low sugar. Fox has stated she feels much more energetic after following the diet. She works out with her trainer 3 times a week at her home and also does Pilates, cardio and spinning classes.
Megan Fox
Kelly Osbourne
Kelly Osbourne has lost a total of 75 pounds and looks beautiful. She has been very open with the public about her struggle with food and emotional eating. She made some key changes that she accredits her weight loss to. Some of her changes include eating breakfast, replacing soda with water, and having a snack in the evening. She eats 4 times a day, and her last meal is a snack at 9 p.m. She works out four times a week at the gym and does intense cardio workouts and strength training.
Kelly Osbourne
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg looks amazing after dropping 50 pounds. What did she do? She followed Rocco DiSpirito’s “Pound a Day Diet.” The aim is to loose a pound every 5 days and avoiding hitting diet plateau’s. It is a low-carb Mediterranean style eating plan. The diet consists of six small meals a day and switching the total caloric consumption by the week to avoid hitting a diet plateau.
Whoopi Goldberg
Cameron Diaz
Cameron Diaz is gorgeous. She follows The Mediterranean Diet which focuses on fresh produce, whole grains, proteins and healthy fats. It encourages eliminating processed foods, sweets and eating late at night. She tries to never skip breakfast and includes a healthy fat like avocado. Diaz believes in doing some exercise everyday. She goes to the gym and often does yoga.
Cameron Diaz
Ariana Grande
Ariana Grande has a beautiful body. She is trained well by Harley Pasternak. Ariana has been a vegan the last few years. She eats a lot of sweet potatoes, raw vegetables like peppers and carrots, and tofu for protein. She snacks on blueberries throughout the day. When she is not performing she enjoys hiking outside to exercise. She also works out with her personal trainer and they focus on circuit training.
Ariana Grande
Kendall Jenner
Kendall Jenner is beautiful and naturally thin. We are jealous! Despite this, she still eats healthy and works out most of the time. For meals she prefers brown rice and grilled vegetables. She also loves pizza, pasta, froyo and avocado. One secret is she drinks a cup of Kusmi Detox Tea at least once a day. For exercise, she likes to stay active mostly through running. She also believes in getting plenty of sleep every night.
Kendall Jenner
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift always looks healthy and beautiful. She practices mindful eating and tries to exercise regularly. She swears by hydration, and healthy eating during weekdays. She mostly eats veggies and fish and tries to avoid sweets. She often drinks the “Swift Shake” which was made for her by Dr. Oz. It contains peanut butter, dried cranberries, flax seeds and chocolate chips. She works out regularly by running several miles each morning and going to the gym.
Taylor Swift
Missy Elliot
Missy Elliot is looking drop dead gorgeous lately. She accredits the first 30 pounds of her weight loss to Shaun T’s “Insanity” workout DVDs. It recommends exercising 25 minutes a day and focusing on interval training. Elliot started to get in shape after she was diagnosed with Graves’ disease in 2008. For dieting, she follows a low carb regimen. Before her diet she indulged in fried foods, sugars and breads. She put her health first and days she feels better than she ever has in her life.
Missy Elliot
Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson quickly put on about 60 pounds back in 2010. She lost the weight by following the Nutrisystem program. She also works out six days a week by running and working out with a personal trainer. Janet says part of her problem was emotional eating due to stress and depression. She learned to substitute other activities instead of turning to food. She also tries to not starve herself and enjoy everything in moderation.
Janet Jackson
Nicki Minaj
Nicki Minaj looks better and better these days. She follows a low sugar, and low starch diet. She avoids baked goods, pasta, desserts and bread. She tries to eat mostly vegetables and fruits. She loves chopped carrots, celery and also regularly drinks green tea as part of her diet. For exercise, she focuses on muscles in her thighs and butts. She loves to dance and work out on the elliptical machine.
Nicki Minaj
Britney Spears
Britney Spears has an amazing figure. It is due to the fact she eats small, well-balanced meals and loves to exercise. She doesn’t eat more than 1,500 calories per day and tries to eat mostly lean protein and high-fiber vegetables. Her breakfasts usually consist of an egg white omelet or oatmeal. For lunch she eats salad with chicken or salmon. For dinner, usually lean meats and steamed veggies. She loves soy chips to snack on during the day and low-fat yogurt. Her exercise program was developed with the help of her personal trainer. She works out for two hours a day! She regularly does cardio with daily strength- training. Her cardio is usually dance based which helps tone muscles such as abs. She sometimes even practices her own choreography.
Britney Spears
Jonah Hill
Jonah Hill lost an incredible amount of weight. After consulting with close friend, Channing Tatum, Hill realized it would be a great idea to get into shape. He stated there is no huge secret to his success; he simply ate less and exercised more. He accredits giving up beer as a big reason he was able to loose so many pounds.
Jonah Hill
Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman is known for his incredible physique. He eats 6-7 meals a day. He tries his best to eat a ton of protein from unprocessed sources, and drinks a lot of water. He recently began following The 8- Hour Diet which is an intermittent fating plan. You have an eating window of 8 hours, followed by 16-hours of fasting which burns fat. Jackman said he feels so good on it he might do it forever.
Hugh Jackman
Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez began to diet and exercise after gaining some weight do to Lupus. She has a few rules she lives by: don’t starve yourself, hydrate, eat whole foods, mix it up, and don’t weigh yourself. She incorporates more whole foods and organic foods into her diet by eating things such as spinach, broccoli, bok choy, brown rice, oatmeal, and chicken breast. She tries to change up what she does to workout. She loves Pilates, hiking, dance cardio, spinning and circuit training.
Selena Gomez
Padma Lakshmi
The beautiful Top Chef host, Padma Lakshmi has stated she gained and lost about 15 pounds 10 times over the last 10 years. This is just part of her job. So what is her secret to take off the weight? She follows a clean diet. She doesn’t consume meat, sweets, alcohol, cheese, fried foods or wheat products. She works out fix times a week. She loves boxing, using the treadmill and elliptical machine and of course lifting weights. She also does stair climbing at home when she doesn’t have time to go to the gym.
Padma Lakshmi
Kylie Jenner
Kylie Jenner is looking great after giving birth. She lost a reported 69 pounds! How did she do it? First, she swears by Fit Tea. She says it helped her detox and shed the baby weight. It works by cleaning out the liver and colon. Besides the tea, she also eats grapes and rice. Grapes are high in sugar but the skin slows down the digestion of it. Kylie likes yellow rice which is high in fiber. Otherwise she tries to eat less than 1,500 calories a day. She often has salmon for breakfast, turkey and a salad for lunch, and soup for dinner. She trains at the gym almost everyday.
Kylie Jenner