Diet & Training Programs of 'A-List' Celebs!
Rihanna is looking pretty slim, her legs are tiny! I did a little digging and found out that Rihanna has a person chef who cooks her meals when she’s at home and on the road. Living the dream!
Her chef is Kamal Kalokoh. He says that Rihanna loves pasta, caribbean food, curried chicken and has lots of rice based meals (brown rice I assume!)
Rihanna looked very trim and toned at the 2011 V Festival. She has opened up about her body insecurities in the past and mentioned she doesn’t like her legs. It appears that all the time in the gym is paying off because her legs are looking very toned!
Has openly claimed her bum as her best asset, Rihanna credits a perfect daily diet for her famous legs and backside. The “Umbrella” singer admits that she’s very careful with what she eats, thanks to that she as a result could stay trim and sexy.
Revealing on her daily diet, the Barbadian songbird said “I have egg whites and pineapple for breakfast with hot water and lemon.” As of lunch, “I have fish and potatoes. I hate vegetables, but I make myself eat them. For dinner I have fish again.”
Furthermore claimed that the diet helps her keeping her favorite asset – her backside – in perfect shape, Rihanna
went on saying, “I keep working at it as I want it to be perfect. It makes my clothes look good – and guys like it.”
Boasting her love for her butt, Rihanna however hates her legs. “I really don’t like my legs, I’m very insecure about them. Everyone wants to have slim, perfectly-toned legs and I’m no different. I do weights as part of my fitness regime but I don’t want my legs to bulk up so I do a lot of cardio to balance everything out,” so she was quoted as saying.
Here are some piccies of Rihanna at the beach in Barbados on Monday afternoon. She’s looking pretty healthy and fit isn’t she?
It’s been a while since I posted lots of celebrity diet tips all in the one place. If you want to lose weight and look like a celebrity, follow these tips and you’ll be on your way!
Carrie Underwood: “When I gain weight, it’s in the spare-tire area. I’ve told trainers abs are a physical impossibility for me. And every single time, they’re like, ‘Well, we’ll get you abs!’ So do I have them? No! But they’re as flat as they’re probably going to get. Push-ups work out everything. If you do them right, you’ll feel it in your abs. I do four sets of 10 to 20.”
Jessica Alba: Alba does this all-over toning move: Begin standing and holding 5lb dumbbells – your left arm should be chin height and your right arm should be extended to the ceiling. Take a giant step to your right, landing in a lunge, with your right knee bent and angled slightly forward. Keep your left leg straight while simultaneously lowering right arm to shoulder height. Pause momentarily, then push off your right leg, returning to the starting position with your feet together and right arm extended to ceiling. Perform 12 reps then repeat on left side. Perform 2 sets.
Cheryl Cole: While in girl band Girls Aloud Cheryl lost a lot of weight, and this was mostly down to the hectic schedule and continuous rehearsals and gigs, which simply meant she was burning a lot of calories doing dance workouts. Cheryl would often perform this fitness routine, as devised by the bands personal trainer: 30 minutes running on the treadmill. 60 minutes weight training exercises.
Zoe Saldana: Instead of only sweating to look good for one big event, Saldana strives to make healthy habits second nature. “After the premiere of Avatar, Steve felt like my training dropped off and he was like, ‘You need to come back.’ He was right, you really have to nurture your body,” she explains. “I have a lot of respect for people who do it, because it’s a lifestyle.”
Rihanna: Rihanna admits her body is the result of “a lot of hard work and a lot of running on the treadmill.” Carbs are the enemy but if I go three days without them, I start getting weak. If my trainer had her way, I’d eat small meals every three hours, but I sometimes only eat once or twice a day. I work out every day but I need a trainer to motivate me – I don’t find it much fun working out on my own.” “Everyone wants to have slim, perfectly-toned legs and I’m the same. I do weights but I don’t want my legs to bulk up so I do a lot of cardio. I’ve lost a lot of weight since I started working out and if I exercise every day for a week, I can drop several pounds. If I diet, I see even faster results.”
Adriana Lima: Exercises 2 hours 6 days a week. Working out should be a part of everybody’s routine,” she says. “I know sometimes you don’t have time — that’s why I love jumping rope, because you can take it with you anywhere and you don’t need to do it, like, one hour. You can do it ten minutes and it’s like 45 minutes of running.”
Amanda Seyfried: “Running a half hour four to five days a week keeps me alright–five days, because I feel guilty when I don’t. I also go to Harley Pasternak’s three times a week, and I love it. He’s fun and we do different things every time. It’s 45 minutes, and he kicks my ass! My legs are really strong, and I feel really great. And I go to my pilates teacher, Nikiko, on the weekends–she’s all about stretching and toning and being long and lean.”
Anna Paquin: “I like to mix things up so I’m not doing the same thing every single day,” she said. She also works out on the elliptical and stationary bike she keeps in her garage. “Let’s face it, gyms aren’t open at four in the morning. So if I can’t do anything else, I can get a perfectly good workout in my garage!”
Miranda Kerr: Miranda spends about four sessions of 75 minutes each at the gym. Her workout is usually a combination of exercises targeting all muscle groups, but which places emphasis on her legs. Thus, Gelband says, Kerr does 30 minutes on her legs, 30 on her core, arms and balance, and 15 minutes on stretching afterwards. To keep her legs lean and toned (and, of course, cellulite-free), Miranda also does a 5-kilometer run and weight work, plus some boxing on the side.
Katy Perry: While Perry admits she hates working out, she stays fit by jumping rope. “I love jumping rope,” she said. “It’s like dancing. I can double jump, I can cross, I can do all of it. I look like Rocky!” “On holidays I eat whatever I feel like,” she told Women’s Health. “But on tour the catering is a lot of grilled chicken—nothing fried. Everything is organic, and I have soy milk. No chips in sight—if they’re in front of you, you eat them.”
Beyonce: An upper body workout can get boring with all those repetitions, so Knowles added her own twist. “I’ll put on a song that I really like and do [biceps curls with] 5-pound weights the whole song,” she told us. Or, using 3-pound weights, she’ll box for the length of one track.
Megan Fox: “I’m very lazy. I hire a personal trainer who is supposed to come three times a week. He comes to me – I don’t even have to leave the house. He’ll come to my house and I’ll be lying in the exact same spot he left me in. I’ll be like: ‘Not today! Not today!’” Even though Fox doesn’t like to exercise, she does it in order to keep those flat abs. She starts with 30 minutes of cardio, and then another half an hour of Pilates or cycling to burn some more calories and keep her slim figure.
I’ve posted about Rihanna’s diet & exercise regime in the past but thought it was time for a refresher (for the newbie readers). This article is pretty old but has still got some pretty good advice!
Here are some recent photos of Rihanna on stage during an American Idol performance. She looks great! Did any of you Australian readers get to see her in concert recently?
Rihanna’s Diet
As the gossip rags have pointed out, Rihanna has gotten into amazing shape for Good Girl Gone Bad. When asked about how she did it, Rihanna said:
“I like carbs, but at the end of the day, carbs are the enemy. It wasn’t so much losing weight as being fit and toned and healthy. I just didn’t feel great.
Now I’m working out and trying to eat healthy. That’s making me lose weight without even thinking about it.”
She has been working out with a trainer, counting calories, and “obsessing” over her legs she says.
About Her Low Carb Diet
Low-carbohydrate diets that cut out foods like bread and pasta work faster than low-fat diets, two new studies show. After six months, people on a low-carb diet lost more weight than those on a low-fat diet.
This low carb diet is designed to help you reduce cravings and lose weight at the fastest possible speed, it is packed with quick and easy low-carb meals, using ordinary foods.
This is an ideal weight loss plan for anyone who enjoys healthy low-carb eating and who wants to lose body fat as fast as possible.
Before starting this diet you should know:
- Eat regularly spaced meals and snacks, approximately every 4 to 5 hours, to avoid feeling famished and to keep energy levels high.
- Eliminate as much sugar as possible from your diet: soda, sweetened beverages, fruit juice, cookies, cakes, candies.
- Choose as many unprocessed foods as possible. Don’t worry if you use highly processed convenience foods some of the time — just minimize the damage as much as you can.
- Drink water between meals. If you must have flavored water, make your own. (Even sugar-free flavored water is high in artificial sweeteners, which will perpetuate your sweet tooth.) Add lemon, lime or orange slices to plain seltzer water for a refreshing taste without sugar.
- Take a daily multivitamin/mineral supplement for nutrition insurance.
Well not quite a million. But here are a heap of diet tips I found on people.com!
I have posted some of the individual tips before, it’s good to have a lot in one place though 
1. Hayden Panettiere
Less (clothing) is more. “There are parts of my body that I don’t mind and parts that I can’t stand,” the actress admits. How she gets around it: bathing suits (“There’s nothing constricting the bad areas”) and “long, flowy summer dresses. You never feel fat.”
2. Is a tomboy. “I’ve always played a lot of sports—volleyball, softball, baseball. I was a gymnast for nine years.”
3. Walks with her dogs. When she’s not working, Panettiere takes daily strolls with her pets up the hill near her West Hollywood condo.
4. Jennifer Aniston
Is consistent. While filming Marley & Me in Miami, the actress has been working out for an hour a day on the hotel’s elliptical machine.
5. Makes workouts fun. Aniston does her cardio to her iPod.
6. Watches the cocktails. She’s fond of red wine and lychee martinis— but usually sticks to just one.
7. Eats fish. In Miami, a typical meal for Aniston has been three rolls of sushi or a fish entrée at Michael’s Genuine.
8. Hugh Jackman
His workouts consist of “interval strength training”—doing, say, a squat and a shoulder press at the same time.
9. ZAC EFRON
“I definitely love to stay active. If it gets me outside and gets me moving, then I love doing it.”
10. Rihanna
“I go through a phase where I just eat whatever. Then when I’m finally fed up, I stop and I’m back on my regimen. And it keeps going like that.”
11. “I do the elliptical for 30-40 minutes. I speed it up in between, then I come down, then I come up some more.”
12. “I hate vegetables but vegetables help. Carbs are my biggest enemy.”
13. “If I know I’m going on vacation, I’ll do Pilates for two weeks straight.”
14. Flaunts her assets. Her favorite body part? “My butt. It makes my clothes look good. It’s not a dress—it’s a dress! My butt perks up everything.”
15. Anne Hathaway
“When I’m working, I’m incredibly disciplined, because when you’re portraying someone else, your body isn’t your own. But when I’m not working, I think less about what I eat. For example, last night I had a club sandwich and two nights ago I had pizza. You’ve got to live!”
ELIZABETH MITCHELL
16. “I normally eat everything under the sun. But once a year for a month, I eat fruits, vegetables, nuts and lean fish, and I feel great.”
LEIGHTON MEESTER
17. “Just have a little bit of something that you want. Don’t overdo it.”
Claire Danes
18. The star’s trainer Joe Dowdell says three days of cardio a week “is healthy. You shouldn’t go to extremes.”
Penélope Cruz
19. Doesn’t obsess about working out. “She gets in, gets the work done, gets out,” says her trainer Gunnar Peterson.
20. Gets plenty of sleep. “I think she gets more than eight hours a night,” Peterson says. “She never comes into a workout sluggish or tired.”
21. Doesn’t believe in bad eating days. “If she eats fries, then she eats them and moves on to the next thing. It’s not a big deal,” Peterson says.
22. Keeps her body proportioned. “She has a butt—and the key for anyone with a butt is to do adequate shoulder work, to balance things out.”
23. Gwyneth Paltrow
Works out six days a week, doing dance aerobics for cardio.
24. Sets goals. For the upcoming Iron Man, “she wanted a Victoria’s Secret butt, like Gisele!” says her trainer Tracy Anderson.
25. Recently completed a five-day “live food” (raw and organic) fast from N.Y.C.’s Organic Avenue.
26. Katherine Heigl
Follows Harley Pasternak’s 5-Factor Diet, eating five small meals a day.
27. For exercise, works out with kettle balls twice a week.
28. Beyoncé Knowles
“She loves southern cooking,” says her rep, but when it’s time to trim down, “she packs up on the salads, grilled fish and chicken.”
29. David Beckham
“He is much more health conscious since moving to Los Angeles last year,” says a family friend. “He is training twice a day now.”
30. Kate Hudson
Favors salads for dinner and yogurt with honey for breakfast.
31. MARIO LOPEZ
“Break a sweat every day. I don’t feel like I’ve woken up if I don’t break a sweat first.”
32. Eats every three hours.
33. Has a cheat day once a week. “I eat a steady flow of tacos, ice cream and cookies.”
34. Curbs cravings with peanut butter. “It has some fat, and it’s tasty.”
35.”I like to keep my muscles guessing. I like to run, bike, dance when I can. A little yoga. And I swim when it’s nice out.”
Mariah Carey
36. Water aerobics “is actually three times more effective” than other workouts, she has said.
37. “I have my trainer move in with me—so I can’t sneak food!” she says.
38. Sticks to what she has called a “bleak” diet of lots of soup and fish.
39. America Ferrera
Restricts pasta to lunchtime, says her nutritionist Philip Goglia.
40. Doesn’t have any starches (like potatoes or bread) at dinner.
41. Has a mid-morning snack (usually fruit) to keep up her energy.
42. SUSIE CASTILLO
Picks fitness classes over “boring” cardio machines.
43. Doesn’t mix meats and starches because “it’s too hard for the body to digest.”
44. Fills up every a.m. with a glass of juice made from romaine lettuce.
45. Eats 70% dark chocolate only.
KRISTEN BELL
46. “Have a colorful plate. I make a spinach salad with things like blueberries, apples and carrots.”
LORI LAUGHLIN
47. “As I’ve gotten older, I definitely have to watch more of what I’m eating and work out a bit more, run a bit faster.”
Cameron Diaz
48. “To get great legs, you have to do lunges, squats and steps,” says trainer Teddy Bass, who does all that with Diaz.
SHAR JACKSON
49. “I eat a lot of green and raw vegetables, and I juice a lot. And I do the trampoline with my kids!”
EVA LARUE
50. “I’m into horse show jumping. It’s an awesome butt, thighs, inner legs workout. You can’t walk for days if you haven’t ridden in a while!”
ALI LANDRY
51. “Chocolate is not cheating! After a salty meal, you need a little bit of sweet. This is living, not cheating.”
CIARA
52. “When I’m in focus mode, I do training six times a week. Carbs only in the morning. And I try not to eat at least two hours before bed.”
EMILY VANCAMP
53. “You have to find a workout you love. I hate the gym, but I just took up pilates and it has changed my life.”
LINDSAY PRICE
54. “Running is the only thing that gets me out of my head. It’s meditative and it makes you pretty in shape.”
GRETCHEN WILSON
55. “Having a child means having lots of sweets in the house. I try to keep that stuff in the cupboard and out of sight.”
ALANA DE LA GARZA
56. “Every couple of months I check myself in the mirror. If I go, ‘Your jeans look a little tight,’ it’s time to cut out the nachos.”
GINNIFER GOODWIN
57. “I don’t diet. There’s going to be barbecue and macaroni and cheese—but I’ll have broccoli and salad the next day.”
MELORA HARDIN
58. “I love restaurant pasta—the sauces. So now I ask for the sauce to take home and put it on whole wheat or rice pasta.”
MIRA SORVINO
59. “I can’t do diets. I find when I’m on them, I immediately feel like breaking them and eating a lot.”
Mandy Moore
60. “On occasion a bowl of Life cereal for dinner is the greatest thing. And I’m obsessed with Pink Lady apples.”
MIRANDA LAMBERT
61. “I go with my trainer on a 35- to 40-minute walk. I’m speaking out for all those people who hate to run. I hate it too!”
Kate Beckinsale
62. “Sleep is like the holy grail. My trainer says if you’re tired, your workout will suffer. Sleep is the magic stuff.”
ASHANTI
63. “I can do a good workout in less than an hour: 30 minutes on the treadmill, 10 minutes on the bike, then 10 minutes of crunches.”
JANE KRAKOWSKI
64. “I’ve been really into boxing. You don’t remember how hard jumping rope is! It really works my arms and I like the aggression of it.”
CHRISTINA MILIAN
65. “I don’t feel guilty. I love hot dogs, which are so unhealthy; but I have them on occasion so I don’t feel deprived.”
ANGIE HARMON
66. “I don’t cut anything out. If I want potato chips, I have three or four. After that, the craving is pretty much gone.”
STACY KEIBLER
67. “If there’s a dessert table and I like it all, I take a little piece of everything, take a bite and throw the rest away.”
ANA ORTIZ
68. “I just became a vegetarian [recently] and I’ve gotten a lot thinner. And if I take out the wine, I tend to slim down quickly.”
MOLLY SIMS
69. “I drink a lot of water. I love the little Crystal Light packets that make you feel like you’re drinking more water.”
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD
70. “I hate that feeling of being so full that you feel like you’re gonna burst, so I try not to do that.”
KIM KARDASHIAN
71. “I like my shape, but to get rid of cellulite I focus on toning, doing martial arts on a treadmill. And Spanx are my best friend!”
ROSELYN SANCHEZ
72. “I do Fresh Dining, which is delivered to your home. And the DVD P90X—it’s a 90-day program that transforms you.”
MINKA KELLY
73. “I work my butt off. Really. I run at least 45 minutes every day. And then three days a week I do weights.”
GABRIELLE UNION
74. “The quickest calories that add up are the cocktail calories. Might as well have a cheeseburger if you have a great margarita!”
BROOKE BURNS
75. “To help my muscles rebuild after I work out, I have a small serving of cottage cheese.”
76 Kate Walsh
Rotates Pilates with weights and circuit training.
77. “I avoid sugar, serious sugar, because you go up then come down and crash.”
78. Practices portion control so she doesn’t have to be “terrified of carbs. I want to be able to have a glass of wine.”
79 Fergie
Has meals delivered from Diet Designs.
80. “I do organic vinegar shots. Two tablespoons after lunch and dinner. It helps take toxins out of your body.”
81. Makes “fattening food low-fat,” like lasagna with turkey meat and cottage cheese.
82. Jessica Biel
“She’s game for anything, like 10 reps of standing on one foot doing a single leg squat,” says trainer Valerie Waters.
83. When not with her trainer, does yoga and running on her own.
84. MARY J. BLIGE
“I’m not a morning person, but I get up and knock out exercise, because if I don’t, in the afternoon I’ll be tired and there’s tons going on.”
85. When it comes to alcohol, “once I get my buzz, I shut it off. Two drinks is my limit.”
86. Blige’s trainer Gregg Miele (left) reinforces this mantra: What you eat in private shows in public.
87. Vanessa Williams
“I drink a beet-carrot juice in the morning or an apple-strawberry-pear juice.”
88. “On vacation I enjoy the desserts—and work extra hard when I come home.”
89. Ashton Kutcher
When it comes to feeling sexy, Demi’s husband once told PEOPLE that he relies on “quiet confidence.”
90. Catherine Zeta-Jones
“I do a lot of swimming because I live in Bermuda, both in the ocean and in the pool. I’ve got to drag myself to the gym, but when I finish it, I enjoy it.”
91. Her most common meal? Lightly grilled chicken with a little oil and lemon and a feta cheese salad.
92. Cuts down on bread when she needs to slim down.
93. Ryan Phillippe
Goes for daily runs at the UCLA tracks.
94. Sticks to an all-protein diet, ordering steaks from L.A.’s Dan Tana’s weekly.
Ali Larter
95. “Just put your shoulders back and smile.”
MYA
96. “Don’t wear white, wear black. Very. Fitted. Black!”
AMANDA BYNES
97. “You know what’s totally amazing? Spanx!”
LISA RINNA
98. “Black, high-waisted, really tight skirts. That’s it!”
Carmen Electra
99. “If you wear a dress with a belt placed high, you accentuate your waist.”
SHANNA MOAKLER
100. “I love baby-doll dresses, so people look at my legs—not my stomach!”
Contributors:Reported by Amy Elisa Keith/Los Angeles, Monica Rizzo/Los Angeles, Tiffany McGee/New York City, Alyssa Shelasky/New York City, Michelle Tan/New York City, Charlotte Triggs/New York City.
Rihanna was spotted relaxing in Barbados yesterday (Dec 27th). She’s looking very fit and toned isn’t she! After the copious amounts of junk food I’ve eaten over the past few days I don’t think I’d be hitting up the beach…. especially if a swarm of paparazzi would be taking my photo!
Rihanna’s Diet
When asked about how Rihanna stays in shape, Rihanna has said:
“I like carbs, but at the end of the day, carbs are the enemy. It wasn’t so much losing weight as being fit and toned and healthy. I just didn’t feel great.
Now I’m working out and trying to eat healthy. That’s making me lose weight without even thinking about it.”
She has been working out with a trainer, counting calories, and “obsessing” over her legs she says.
About Her Low Carb Diet
Low-carbohydrate diets that cut out foods like bread and pasta work faster than low-fat diets, two new studies show. After six months, people on a low-carb diet lost more weight than those on a low-fat diet.
This low carb diet is designed to help you reduce cravings and lose weight at the fastest possible speed, it is packed with quick and easy low-carb meals, using ordinary foods.
This is an ideal weight loss plan for anyone who enjoys healthy low-carb eating and who wants to lose body fat as fast as possible.
Before starting this diet you should know:
- Eat regularly spaced meals and snacks, approximately every 4 to 5 hours, to avoid feeling famished and to keep energy levels high.
- Eliminate as much sugar as possible from your diet: soda, sweetened beverages, fruit juice, cookies, cakes, candies.
- Choose as many unprocessed foods as possible. Don’t worry if you use highly processed convenience foods some of the time — just minimize the damage as much as you can.
- Drink water between meals. If you must have flavored water, make your own. (Even sugar-free flavored water is high in artificial sweeteners, which will perpetuate your sweet tooth.) Add lemon, lime or orange slices to plain seltzer water for a refreshing taste without sugar.
- Take a daily multivitamin/mineral supplement for nutrition insurance.
