Celebrity Diets

[Ginger]

Wow, she looks like a different person- and weirdly, a little like Brittany Murphy. I think the weight loss has aged her a lot.

She looks like a middle-aged suburban lady now. Rebel Wilson said something recently about how she'd like to lose some weight for herself, but professionally, she's carved out a niche and if she ever got totally skinny she'd be shooting herself in the foot.

MJW probably thought losing weight would increase her work opportunities, but I think she just took away her uniqueness.

[thneed]

But Rebel Wilson his extremely popular and is getting tons of work right now. If you look at Marissa Jaret Winokur's imdb, She's had almost no work for the past 5 years, just a few voice roles. She was on Dancing With the Stars, which is where you go when you're a has-been, and the most high-profile hing she's done was host a cable Biggest Loser knockoff called Dance Your Ass Off, where she lost her job after the first season because they thought she was too fat. She had no professional incentive to keep her look.

Good for her. So few heavier celebrities maintain a significant weight loss long-term - Valerie Bertinelli is the only one I can think of.

[JeanBean]

Sarah Rue seemed to be doing pretty well and then she lost a bunch of weight and...what has she done since?

[GoldenFleece]

Sara Rue is pregnant right now. She's on Reba McEntire's new sitcom Malibu Country and was on Rules of Engagement for a bit for the past couple of years.

[Babycakes]

I know this is par for the course in Hollywood, but I still found this deeply disturbing. The sense of pride and accomplishment of whittling you body back to the standard of Hollywood beauty as fast as you can is the new norm. I imagine that the six weeks post delivery is hard enough--lack of sleep, raging hormones, your body healing after a major event. But nope, it's all starvation, squeezing and sucking into corsets, and intense and prolonged workouts. When do you have time to bond with the baby? This mentality is sick. I know this is nothing new, but this celebratory article feels like the last straw for me.

[Deleted]

I didn't see anything too alarming in her approach. She waited six weeks before going on the low calorie diet, which isn't that low calorie. Eating 1100-1300 of healthy calories a day with occasional cheating was how I lost weight, and I still fall back on that after a vacation or whenever the weight starts to creep back up on me, so personally I'd hate to  consider that extreme dieting since it's the only method that works for me. The workout regimen she described doesn't sound too extreme either. The corset is a bit much, but she might be referring to the less restrictive ones that have become somewhat commonplace for women to use post pregnancy.

She seems to have a generally healthy attitude about the whole thing based on the quotes. I think it's the Daily Mail that puts a negative spin on it.  I call total bullshit on the numbers in the article. She looks to be a healthy weight in those pics. There's no way she's close to 110 pounds and a size 2. If she were, she'd look very petite. I wonder if she divulged those numbers, or if the Daily Mail just made them up because that's their idea of what a woman should be. I'm thinking it's the latter. 

[Ginger]

I didn't see anything too alarming in her approach. She waited six weeks before going on the low calorie diet, which isn't that low calorie. Eating 1100-1300 of healthy calories a day with occasional cheating was how I lost weight,

I can do 1,300 calories without much problem. And if I took away all treats (milk chocolate after dinner, sugar in my tea) it would be 1,100.

But I *need* to do that just to stay under 200 pounds. Most people's bodies don't work that way. Doing all that shit just to get back into a bikini by 6 weeks (instead of 10 weeks? 12 weeks? 6 months?) is a pointless waste of time and energy. And I'm pretty sick of seeing vapid wastes of space like Holly Madison making this a "thing" in the media, you know?

[Hamatron]

Anything under 1,200 cals a day is considered a starvation diet medically. ;(

[Ginger]

May 11, 2013 13:33:48 GMT -4 Hamatron said:

Anything under 1,200 cals a day is considered a starvation diet medically. ;(

Eh, those guidelines are all screwy. You can get three filling meals and a couple of snacks out of 1,100-1,200 calories and cover all your bases food-group wise (proteins, veggies, grains, healthy oils). It's going to taste damn boring, but it's not like your body will be lacking what it needs to function normally...unlike the diets of some of these actresses/models/gymnasts.

I'll never forget reading an article about Kate Hudson's post-pregnancy diet after her the birth of her first baby. For breakfast she'd have a fruit smoothie which consisted of a shot glass full of berries. The recipe actually said "1 raspberry, 3 blueberries..."

[ladyboy]

That's hilarious! I thought Holly Madison looked horrible in those pictures - in the face, not body. Her eyes are scary.