Whatever we may think, celebrities aren’t at all like your average men and women. We can promise ourselves to start working out on Monday, putting it off further and further, while Hollywood stars spend most of their lives trying to meet our expectations.
Here list of the most unusual methods actors and actresses used to lose weight fast, be it for the sake of art or just to get in shape.
The Natalie Portman Black Swan workout lasted 5 hours a day, 6 days a week. Much of this time was spent perfecting dances for the movie. But, a large portion of time was also spent swimming, and doing the Ballet Beautiful program. In fact, Natalie spent an hour swimming (mostly front crawl and breast stroke), an hour doing Ballet Beautiful, and up to 3 more hours doing ballet work & dancing.
When Natalie Portman dropped 20 pounds to play a ballerina in her new movie, “Black Swan,” even her director worried the petite actress had gone too far. “At a certain point, I looked at [Natalie’s] back, and she was so skinny and so cut,” director Darren Aronofsky told “Access Hollywood.” “I was like, ‘Natalie, start eating.’ I made sure she had a bunch of food in her trailer.”
We all watched Ricki Lake transform on Dancing With the Stars where she reportedly lost 20 pounds but, what has she done to continue losing weight and to keep it off? She uses the food delivery service Freshology, which provides 1,400 calories a day. Healthy food helps but Lake credits her maintained weight loss to regular exercise—not calorie restriction.Chat show host Ricki Lake never shied away from talking about her battle with the bulge.
But after going from 19st at her heaviest to 8st now, the 5ft 4in star is finally happy with her body. Ricki, 44, says she hid a dark secret – one she kept for most of her life – behind her cheerful screen exterior.
Nick Carter went from 224 pounds to 175 pounds & dropped his waist size from 38 to 34 by eating only 1400 calories a day & avoiding alcohol but Nick did have one cheat day a week where he ate ice cream.
Nick hit the gym 6 days a week lifting weights and using the elliptical and Nick now only workouts 4-to-5 times a week to maintain his weight.
Broadway’s Marissa Jaret Winokur, also known for her stint on Season 6 of “Dancing With The Stars,” has dropped 60 lbs — going from a size 14 to a size 2. She tells The Insider that she shed the pounds not for vanity’s sake, but for her health.
Marissa Jaret Winokur lost 45 pounds with a 1200-to-1800 calorie daily diet and she did 1 hour of Cardio Barre class (a combination of cardio & ballet), ran 45 minutes, swam daily and Marissa lost 7 more pounds being on dancing with stars.
Missy Elliot lost 71 pounds after being motivated to lose weight by her doctor who told her she would have a stroke if she didn't do anything about her weight so…
Missy Elliot began eating tiny Mini Meals all day & instead of Fast Foods, she ate more Weight Loss Foods like brown rice and…
Missy started going to the gym working out on the Stairmaster, doing spin classes, dancing, and light weights.
Janet Jackson lost 60 pounds with a 3 meal, 2 snacks, 1300-to-1600 calorie a day diet plan and Janet's diet also contains protein with every meal and snack to help kerb hunger and for her workout…
Janet did Interval Training and here's an example of one of Janet's workouts according to her trainer…
She'll walk on the beach for a minute, then side-shuffle for 30 seconds, then run for a minute - Next…
She'll go to a reverse lunge with 3-pound weights for 30 reps, and back to a run again and in another workout…
Janet Jackson hits tennis balls with her trainer and If she misses… Janet has to do pushups and If she misses again… She'll do walking lunges around the court.
Beyoncé refused to eat hard food for the sake of losing an extra 15 pounds for her role in Dreamgirls. For two weeks, she only drank water with lemon juice, cayenne pepper, and maple syrup, sometimes adding fresh vegetables on top. The result was astonishing, but the singer confessed she wouldn’t dare try this experiment again.
Eggnog for breakfast? Miss Marilyn Monroe herself would start her day with two raw eggs whipped in warm milk. Opting to skip lunch, the pop culture icon would then consume broiled liver, steak, or lamb and five carrots for dinner finished with a decadent hot fudge sundae dessert.
Sarah Michelle Gellar followed an extreme seven-day plan restricting most foods except cabbage soup. For this bland, low-calorie quick fix, Gellar ate the original cabbage soup recipe and alternatively added vegetables, fruit, milk and yogurt, incorporating lean meat and brown rice by the end of the week.
Reese turned to a popular diet based on baby food to get in shape after childbirth. The secret is simple: pureed food is easily digested, while the portion size won’t let you overeat.
Monica Seles lost 33 pounds going from a size 14 to a slim size 6 with a diet of 60 percent protein, 20 percent carbs & 20 percent healthy fats and she also did 20 minutes on the elliptical and 30 minutes of body sculpting twice a week plus she did 10 minute walks every day.
Kelly Osbourne lost over 50 pounds just by making better food choices so…
Instead of having ten sodas a day - she only had one soda and
Instead of having potato chips - she ate rice cakes and here's another weight loss tip from Kelly…
"Get rid of your microwave! It's the easiest thing to chuck some three-minute meal in. If you don't have one, you'll pick up something fresh."
Kelly Osbourne
To go from 140-to-125 pounds…
Britney Spears worked out for an hour a day, 5 days a week with a personal trainer by spending 45-to-60 minutes on a treadmill and since she wasn't overweight, to begin with…
Britney had to use vigorous workouts along with her very active lifestyle that includes plenty of dance rehearsals drop her last 15 pounds (see how hard you need to workout to lose weight) but…
The main thing Britney Spears did to lose weight changed her eating habits by NOT eating the bad foods that made her gain weight in the first place so…
She stopped eating junk foods, avoided Starbucks Frappuccinos (which contained 400 calories each) and Red Bull and…
Britney Spears ate 1200 calories a day by eating various weight loss foods like chicken, salmon, rice, and avocados including having egg whites for breakfast and sometimes turkey burgers for lunch and…
To kerb her sugar cravings Britney would eat low-fat yoghurt or have a sugar free popsicle but…
Britney did have 1 cheat day a week where she limited herself to only 3 cheat meals on her cheat day.
The role of a factory worker dying of TB in Les Miserables required the corresponding look. Anne had to go on a diet with no more than 500 kcal energy input. She let herself eat no more than 2 helpings of dry oatmeal, some radishes, and some hummus every day. The actress also laughs when she remembers that for the Catwoman suit to sit right on her, she had to eat only "kale and dust."
Kate Middleton took a cue from the French and slimmed down for the Royal Wedding with The Dukan Diet. After an initial kick start of straight protein and vegetables, the regimen is broken into three phases that get less strict week by week, with variations depending on how many pounds you’re trying to shed.
In order to flush out water weight and cleanse her system, Megan Fox throws back shots of apple cider vinegar. Yum, right? Moreover, the actress has also been known to practice a program based on the book The 5-Factor Diet by Harley Pasternak, which consists of making five-ingredient meals in less than five minutes.
Kim Kardashian says she ‘almost died’ when she tipped the scales at 190 pounds at the peak of her second pregnancy.
However, Kim K says she has already lost 17 pounds of baby weight after giving birth to her son Saint on December 5.
The reality star explained, she did the same after the birth of daughter North, and was thrilled with the results.
‘So, I’m really not this holistic person or someone who would have ever considered eating my placenta,’ admitted Kim on her website KimKardashianWest.com.
