Healthy Weight Loss

Healthy weight loss is a major topic of discussion and with good reason. During the past 20 years, the number of people classified as overweight or obese has more than tripled. These frightening statistics show how important it is that people are educated on healthy weight loss. The media is full of advertisements for crash diets and meal substitutes. However, experts say that the key to healthy weight loss is eating the right foods and taking regular exercise. Moreover, many suggest that crash diets can actually lead to weight gain in the long run. Healthy weight loss is about lifestyle changes. This means making a permanent change to the way you eat and exercise. Many people find rigid diet plans difficult to stick to leading to a yo-yo effect on their weight – constantly losing it and then putting it back on. Healthy weight loss needn’t be like this.

The main principles of healthy weight loss are:

• Eat a balanced diet: Ensure your diet includes all the major food groups and concentrate on eating fewer foods high in fat, sugar and salt. You should also increase your uptake of fruit, vegetables and healthy grains. By filling your plate up with lots of vegetables, you’ll find you still feel full but lose weight!

• Exercise, exercise, exercise! This doesn’t have to mean running or joining a gym. Walking for thirty minutes 3 times a week will help make you fitter and can lead to healthy weight loss. Find something you enjoy and you’ll be more likely to stick to it. Swimming, cycling, horse-riding, walking and keep-fit classes are some examples of great weight loss exercises.

• Drink more water! Many people mistake thirst for hunger, and increasing your uptake of water can help prevent this. Water is great as it helps flush out the toxins in your body and keeps your skin hydrated. Drinking 8 glasses of water a day can help towards achieving healthy weight loss.

• Changing the way you think about food. Many people eat for the wrong reasons, and this is why they gain weight. When you eat, think about your reasons, are you really hungry? Many people find they reach for ‘comfort foods’ when they are stressed, tired or bored. By becoming more aware of these patterns you can help break the cycle, and instead of reaching for chocolate try going for a walk or something else to distract yourself.

• Speak to a professional! If you feel you need to lose a large amount of weight or are unsure about the right plan for you, contact your doctor. Your weight is affected by more than just food, many health conditions can lead to a change in weight. Therefore, it is worth getting checked out and taking their advice on the best eating and exercise plan for you.

• Be patient! Healthy weight loss is not achieved overnight and should be a gradual process. Stick with your new changes and you should notice a gradual but permanent change in the way you look and feel.

Ricky Lake Weight Loss Success Story!!

Ricky Lake, known for her work in the movie Hairspray and her talk show Ricky Lake Show. She has lost 20 sizes and over 120 pounds!!.

In an interview with Us Magazine she says how she lost so much weight:
"I looked at the calendar after the movie The Business of Being Born got into the Tribeca Film Festival. I was so excited about people seeing the film, but I also wanted to feel great in my skin when I walked down the red carpet on April 29 2007. And I did. I started February 7. I was so committed. I just wanted people to notice me".

Also she add: "I wanted to get to 135 pounds, and then I kept losing. When I started, I didn’t even want to get on the scale because I didn’t want to know how much I weighted. Now I get on it every day. I weighted myself this morning and 123! My size 10s were tight when I started. I had a pair of pants that I couldn’t get up and now there’ are swimming on me. My body changed quickly. I went shopping for the premiere thinking I was a 6. I was told I’m a 4. I’m like, When am I going to wake up?"

But everybody is questioning, How she lost too much weight?
Well, She starts with a food delivery program, Fresh Dining. She get her meals delivered in the morning. Calorie restriction is more healthier than doing exercise. She eat 1,200 calories per day. She control her portions foods. She ate more salads. Occasionally she drink a glass of wine, and eat only 1 peace of bread.

She never used a fitness trainer, She hate the gym so she do yoga and spinning.

She are happy because now she can cross her legs. And try in a pair of jeans size 27 and they were too big, so she got a 26.

Now she is following the most successful weight loss strategies to keep her weight and don't gain pounds again.

Valerie Bertinelli Success Weight Loss Story

Valerie Bertinelli in april 2007 she says to POEPLE Magazine "I'm Fat". Bertinelli in april 2007 turns to 47 from 52. Also she said by September 2007 she vows to lose 30 pounds, from size 14 to size 8.

Going public with her goal "is the motivation I need," Valerie Bertinelli says. "I need to do this in front of millions of people so I can't mess up."

"It is freeing because I can say it first: I know what you're thinking, I'm fat." she adds.


"Wolf is my priority," she says (Wolf is her son) . "I was a Hollywood hermit.", she admits, "I didn't like going up for interviews because I didn't want to hear how fat I am."

"I don't know how my size, 14, has become obese while size 0 is normal," she add. "It's insane. I'm not even going for a size 6. I'll be happy with a size 8."

In September 2008, the actress proudly said that in November 2007 it will be a year since she lost 40 pounds. She was in 132 pounds.

In March 2009 she appears in People Magazine out in public wearing a bikini, for the first time in nearly 30 years!!. Bertinelli down to 132 pounds in about 9 months.


"I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there’s something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!," Bertinelli says to PEOPLE.

After like a year of workouts and exercising on her losing weight, first walking 10,000 steps per day, Bertinelli search help for a personal trainer in December 2008. She was running five times per week.

She cut her limits calories from 1,700 to 1,200 calories, and drink her regular glass of champagne. "It was crunch time," Bertinelli says, "like getting ready for your class reunion!"

Bertinell add: "I never, ever, ever had deltoids!”, "Oh my God, when I'm doing exercises and I see them pop out, I'm like, Yes!" She now is in her best shape of her life.

"I can't believe I did it," says Bertinelli. She was surprised she appears in bikini on People Magazine.

She do Cardio workouts, ran for 30 to 45 minutes, and Strength training using resistance bands along with weights to do a series of alternating combinations of more than 2o push ups, 25 triceps dips, step ups, 30 squats and like 100 sit ups.

Nick Carter Weight Loss Story

Everybody know who is Nick Carter. The singer who was in the famous group Backstreet Boys, but unfortunately they separated. Then he continued his career a single singer.

Do you remember how he was?
Nick was tipping the scale at 224 pounds in 2006, while on his reality series, House of Carters. But he realized it was time to get in shape. He was depressed. “I’d become depressed,” he says. “Something deep down inside of me said, I’m tired of being this person, and I’m a good-looking guy!”

According to Us Magazine he lost more than 44 Pounds. Now his waist size is 34 and before it was 38. Amazing right?

“I wanted to feel good, dance again and wear clothes I couldn’t before,” says Carter, because his goal weight was 175 pounds. Carter says, “This is the least I’ve weighed since I was 16!”

First Nick Carter went to the gym to lift weights and use the elliptical machine 6 days a week. Then, he start working with the professional trainer Mike Hazard. He work with him 5 days a week for an hour doing boxing, cardio workouts and weights.
“My weight loss has really been because of watching calories,” says Carter, who began to read the nutrition information on all the foods he ate. Carter eats every 3 hours. He have limits calories per day (1,400 calories), but including in the limits calories the salads and power bars. He cut back the alcohol, but not the ice cream. Carter says “I like people looking at me now and not recognizing me!”

Nicole Richie Dramatic Changes

All the people know who is Nicole Richie and knows her deals with her anorexia. Well I'm going to return to the past to remember how she was and now how she is.

In 2003 she was acting in the reality show, The Simple Life with Paris Hilton. After she was arrested for problems with drugs, Nicole Richie found herself in rehab.

Then she was accused to be too thin and became a style icon. In 2006 she star their show The Simple Life fifth season and before that she was reconciled with Paris Hilton.

In an interview with Vanity Fair magazine,Paris Hilton best friend, Nicole Richie, finally talks about her recent weight loss issues and admits to being too skinny. After months of media attention that her dramatic weight loss was the result of very serious problem, Richie said on The Tyra Banks Show: ''I am not anorexic. I am not bulimic. I do not have an eating disorder.", But she admits to being very thin, and says she is seeing a nutritionist and therapist to deal with what she described as stress related weight loss.

See what she said "I know I'm too thin right now, so I wouldn't want any young girl looking at me and saying, 'That's what I want to look like,' " Richie tells Vanity Fair in its June 2005 issue. "I do know that they will, which is another reason I really do need to do something about it. I'm not happy with the way I look right now."

She said she is doing an effort to put gain a few pounds, Nicole Richie says she forced herself to eat food with high calories like burritos, but she need professional help. "I started seeing a nutritionist and a doctor. I was scared that it could be something more serious."

According to Nicole when she spoke to Vanity Fair magazine, her break up with DJ AM affects in her massive weight loss. Whilst I'm all for making men culpable for almost everything wrong with the world, I'm not quite buying that story.

She then went on the Tyra Banks show and said that everything was because she was too stressed. She also sayd “A lot of people gain weight under stress and I lose it... I know the photographers are following me every day... they're looking for something wrong and that doesn't feel good at all". Do you believe it?

But, Nowadays Nicole is doing better, at least in the sense that she is no longer loosing weight. I'm not sure she had any more weight to loose really.

Please Eat more, Well excepting if you are overweight, in that case, eat less, and healthy.

Colin Farrell Dramatically Weight Loss Story

Colin Farrel Dramatically Weight Loss Story

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OMGG!! Colin Farrell lose 40 Pounds!. I don't like the way he looks, he looks anorexic. Well, here is his weight loss story.
Collin Farrell look so thin, but Why?, well in a conference at Spain, the reporters was in shock with his appearance, and obviously Colin Farrell said:"I lost weight because my role demanded it". "It was all very healthy."

Colin Farrel was inspired with the Scott Anderson novel to do his dramatic weight loss: "He went to the bathroom to shave. Once his beard was gone he saw that his face had become drawn. He pressed at the hollows beneath his eyes, the pronounced nubs of his cheekbones."

"Amen," director Danis Tanovic followed, breaking the tension, and Everybody including Farrell, laughed.

Farrell was 5 weeks in Alicante, Spain, filming Triage, in which he plays a war reporter in Bosnia in the early 1990s.

Farrell never say How he lose weight.

Courtney Love Lost 44 Pounds!

I saw Courtney Love in a beach photos who appeared dramatically slimmed. She said she lost 44 Pounds with 6 more or maybe 11 more to go. Love is following a macrobiotic diet, eating lots of vegetables and fish, and doing yoga and exercise to meet her weight loss goals. Love writes an openly about having a nose job, saying that she has her "old nose" back. "I hated that nose jobby nose, it was like a little beak," she writes. Now, she says, she had had her nose "fixed." "It looks like the one god gave me so im happy not to have crazy lips and a crazy teensy unnatural little nose." She also said, "All I care about is that my self esteem is limitless and intact, and that nothing and no situation effects my self esteem." It was only in October 2006 that Love was touting her sobriety of more than a year. At the time she said Mel Gibson helped her into rehab and that now her focus would be on raising her 14 year old daughter, Frances Bean , and staging a comeback. "I always thought I'd be that girl that lives with no regrets," Love said to Billboard magazine. "I have regrets. I've written so many amends letters, I can't even count them. It's still not enough. Drugs make you an a–hole."

But Courtney lost 44 lbs in 4 months, I was shocked. Courtney credited a strict diet of fish, steamed vegetables, and diet shakes for the weight loss.

But, do you believe her? I’m not sure. I think She lose weight in the unhealthy way. After all, once a partyer, always a partyier. I heard rumors about she took Aderol daily to doesn't fell hungry. I don’t think this body makeover was due to good old fashioned diet and exercize. Because clearly she wasn’t just trying to make her body more healthy she aimed to revamp her entire image: evidence by the nose job, face lift, and hair extensions.