Giuliana Rancic’s Diet & Exercise Regime

Yeah.. she seems a little to paranoid about it all.

I agree with you guys, she seems a little obsessive. I’m not a coffee drinker, but I can’t imagine it’s as bad as she makes it out to be. Also, I wonder how many calories she takes in? Anyone have any estimates? I hope it’s at least 1400 since she works out, but I don’t think it is.

This girl’s a freak! I mean she seems to be sipping tea, juices, and tonics all day just to keep herself from shoving a baquette into her mouth. I’m sure she’s not the only one in Hollywood finding ways to battle the hunger pangs.

I agree with Aimee, yeah she’s a little obsessive, but my goodness, at least she’s honest! There have to be lots of celebrities that are this specific about their diet, but they would never tell us.

This is pretty scary. I wonder how her husband feels about her behaviour. I would be incredibly concerned if someone i cared for behaved like this

She is amazing! And she is far from an eating disorder. anyone who says she has one obviously is unaware of what a “good” and “healthy” diet is. Shes not obessive at all! We are only given one body and we should want to care about what we put into it!

Did anyone think her mass amount of product name reference was odd? I wonder how much Kashi paid her to gush about their bars?

Laura: Thank You! I absolutely agree. It’s frightening how people can’t see good nutrition when it’s spelled out; if a diet doesn’t include a burger then it’s obsessive.
Lovergirl: When I love a product (and with her stringent guidelines, it’s hard to find) all I want to do is gush about it. Gt Kombucha is a unique product that deserves attention.

G has totally inspired me to stop being so slack and accommodating everyone around me by eating poorly. A rigorous regime like this one is not lacking in energy (there are over 1500 cal+ all nutrients) and when i was last on one like this I was thin AND energetic: not something you’d receive from processed foods.

This isn’t disordered obsessive eating. When people eat foods that kill them, not nourish them THAT is disordered.

I dont find much wrong with this diet. It’s very health conscious, like Reina said and it’s good to see a celeb opening up about her strict diet… Not many celebs would do this. Most celebrities starve themselves – and spend like 10 hours on the treadmill a day.

Good diet ALTHOUGH she could be a little less strict on herself by allowing herself to ENJOY her treats and not feel bad about eating a whole bowl of pasta – she is skinny and she deserves the treats.

On the other hand i have to say – why on earth is she on a diet???

I think her diet is healthful. She’s cutting out sugar which is important. She is eating carbs (brown rice, fruits, and veggies). Protein: Chicken, fish. We critique her diet and I bet we are same people that are not being honest about ourselves in our eating habits.

So what she gets up early to workout–that is her schedule not yours. By the way the Kashi bars are pretty good. I’m sure she’s exhausted when she gets home to get a good night sleep for the next day.

oh hectic. good observation!

60 years ago in America people were NOT drinking water with cayenne pepper in it. That is bizarre. Kombucha is disgusting and full of MOLD. That’s right, good old fashioned MOLD. Medical professionals warn people not to drink it because many people have gotten sick and had adverse reactions.

What people did 60 years ago is eat when they’re hungry, stop when they’re full and eat stuff that wasn’t pumped full of hormones, chemicals, and garbage. I totally agree that Americans have become disgusting in their dietary habits and the obesity rates are staggering.

Instead of turning to cayenne pepper in water and mold tea why don’t we just eat a diet full of fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, whole grains, with treats from time to time. It’s common sense, after all.

I only read a few paragraphs because this woman is mental. Even if a lot of the stuff she does would be a great addition to someone’s diet her attitude towards food is pretty messed up. I’ve read stuff she has written before and a lot of the focus is on natural products and boosting energy etc which is great but i think she goes too far and it seems an awful long time before she puts any food in her body each day. Her diet would probably be a great kick start for a healthier regimen but a more sensible approach should be used long term.

She eats really healthy!!!! instead of saying bad comments dont you think its good that someone takes care of their health ? just because you guys dont take so much care doesnt mean she cant

I think that this diet is pretty healthy! I mean, really, she’s eating lean protien, carbs, and veggies. It’s really low in fat, which isn’t ideal but I definitely don’t think she is ‘mental’. Also, kombucha is really good for you, I make my own at home and while the taste takes a while to get used to, you can really feel the benefits of drinking it right away! I reccomend it to everyone

Ok, I read this a few years ago and I really wanted to have my say. Giuliana is doing severe damage to her body through such a restrictive diet. Tea doesn’t give you energy. How many people enjoy having dinner with someone who is too obsessed with what they’re eating (or not) to hold a conversation? Look at the results of the Ancel Keys Minnesota Starvation Study done in the 1960s. A group of healthy young men went on a semi starvation diet where their calories were restricted and when their body weight dropped too low they started to show signs that were seen in eating disorder patients. Moral of the story, eating disorder symptoms (preoccupation with food, low sex drive, neurosis, obsession with body image) are naturally occurring biological reactions that occur following a) weight loss and b) dietary restriction. One man went crazy and cut a finger off, others binged. If she feels like she’s fighting a battle with herself every day to maintain this routine, it’s a) not sustainable and b) she’s going to have health problems when she’s older. She sounds completely batty here.

People here say she’s eating ‘healthily’ (in theory), but what about the nutrients and calories she’s depriving herself of? The baseline minimum recommended calories for a person actually covers organ functioning, cell repair, hair growth and other basic functions, and restrictive diets compromise this significantly.

It doesn’t matter how ‘healthily’ you eat, and ‘health’ has become synonymous with ‘weight loss’. Which is not true, when you are underweight. When you’re underweight, you get sicker (i.e. unhealthier) the more weight you lose, even though being underweight is culturally admirable. She doesn’t care about her health. She just wants to stay thin. Bottom line. I’ve had an eating disorder for many years and have friends with ED’s and I’ve seen it all before. She blends in with celebrity culture though because they’re all like that.

She always looks sick and in her old age she’s going to have a tonne of health problems and possibly even organ failure. When you restrict your diet for long enough, your organs will shut down. I have kidney and organ damage as a result of my eating disorder, and on some days my cognition is severely compromised to the point where I start hallucinating and my brain won’t process information or make sense of it. This is all due to dietary restriction much like Giuliana’s diet. Being miserable and irritable all the time is another side effect.

A person who is not depriving themselves doesn’t have to drink copious amounts of liquid to ‘ward off’ ‘hunger pangs’. This is very disordered but it’s disturbing how much of what she says here is very common and ‘socially acceptable’. The boundaries between wanting to be healthy and being eating disordered and weight obsessed are blurred in our culture. Health doesn’t have as much to do with weight than we think it does. I’m not talking about the seriously emaciated or morbidly obese, because neither of these extremes are healthy, but somewhere in the middle of that there is a place where our bodies want us to be and they will fight us biologically to maintain that weight. We live in a society of extremes. Just because there is a problem with obesity in society doesn’t mean that people who don’t need to lose weight need to jump up and down and obsess about their weight as if becoming obese is as easy as catching a cold. I mean, jesus christ. People think they’re suddenly nutritionists these days because they read a few weight loss articles.

This is not healthy eating behaviour. This is classic anorexic eating: a list of safe foods and a list of foods she never touches.

60 years ago healthy slim people ate butter, bread, sugar, cream, oil, nuts, jam… along with a wide range of fruits, vegetables and meat. A major difference was that people bought ingredients and prepared meals. We had almost no prepared foods in the house in the 1950s and, for the most part, people ate what they wanted and were slim.

People did not consume hidden ingredients in their prepared foods unless they ate things like sliced meat and other new types of food which began to make inroads in an otherwise healthy diet: tv dinners, cold cereal, cheese whiz… the beginning of the end of real food.

Most people did not have gym memberships nor did you see anyone jogging through the streets after work. People played games (tennis, golf, hoops, etc.) mostly on the weekends, took walks in the evening, went dancing, washed dishes, hung out laundry, got up to change tv channels, played with their kids in the back yard and spent more calories in every day life.

It was rare for someone to get into trouble with food but it did happen. There was a very low rate of eating disorders on either end of the spectrum but they did exist. For the most part, as the previous poster wrote, people ate when they were hungry, sitting down to do so and consuming real food, and stopped when they were sated. And, for the most part, people were within a healthy weight range without much effort.

Now, we are out of control in every conceivable way: we don’t cook, we can’t eat intuitively and the things we do choose to eat barely resemble food. It is little wonder that we are obsessed, anxious and unhealthy.

There is nothing about Giuliana Rancic’s diet and exercise regime than could be considered healthy. It is a recipe for disaster.

Everything has pretty much been said, good and bad, about Guiliana Ranci’s diet but here’s my 2 cents. In my opinion, as a former competitive athlete and personal trainer, the foods she eats and her habit of skipping the oil are very familiar, as many in the fitness industry do this. The foods she is consumes are healthy, but the amount/quanities may not be. It is difficult to say for certain without directly working with Guilana, but she may need to up her daily caloric intake based on the type, intensity, and duration of her workouts. If that is the case, there is not necessarily a need to consume more fatty foods, just more of what she is already eating. I’d suggest more protein, especially as she ages to maintain healthy muscle tissue. In my personal opinion, from an aesthetic standpoint I think she would look more attractive and healthy with a bit more “meat” on her bones.

I believe she stays away from the “bad” foods and eats the healthy foods she talks about but I also thinks she eats tiny portions of those healthy foods… and even skips meals from time to time.

I think she usually only eats a grapefruit for breakfast, then 1 snack bar for lunch, and a small salad with a bit of lean chicken strips for dinner. She probably drinks alot of tea thruout the day to feel full.

@Alice:
Thank you Alice for writing the sane truth about Giulianas ED-diet! It was refreshing to read among all those crazy comments about how healthy her diet is. I’m not surprised at all that she has such trouble getting pregnant because her body seems to be in a constant starvation mode and probably fights really hard to ward off a resource- and energy-consuming pregnancy. I’m just surprised her fertilitydoctors don’t tell her the truth about the effect her ED has on her chances of getting pregnant but they probably don’t have the courage to do so. What a shame!

No matter what your diet is, no one likes to be at dinner with a food obsessed person who is more concerned about how much oil is In her veggies than the conversation at the table. She is going to look back on this time when she is 70 and aged and old just like all of us will be one day or when she is just too old to be on tv anymore and realize she wasted so many nights out with family and friends worrying about things that don’t matter.

Now I understand why she could not get pregnant. Man, what a way to live. I heard E gives her no budget for her clothes so she depends on samples from designers for her wardrobe. She is trying to be a size that she is not supposed to be at all for her frame. I am surprised that her Doctors did not ask her about her Fat in take and ask her to do a food journal and then see if she needed the hormone treatments. Most likely she needed to gain about 20 pounds and work out only three times a week that would have done the trick I am sure. Just goes to show you how our Health system works they just want to feed you drugs instead of finding the root cause of the problem.

Hmm, wonder if I’m the only person who looks skinnier on cam than in person? Anyway, for the post, I can assume she has about 1000-1200 cals/day. How in the world is this even close to healthy? She has tonnes of caffeine (tea by weight has more caffeine than coffee; she also admits to having them to curb her hunger.
I think it was reported a few months back that she has breast cancer? Maybe on the bright side, she can start eating a balanced ratio of fat, proteins and carbs. Stopping fat = not good, you wont be able to ingest the good nutrients (sat fat in coconut is good for you.. seriously, look it up).

Bottom line: She needs to add on a few pounds.

Ok, I’ve worked in the health field for a while and she IS eating healthy. Those are clean foods not anorexic foods. She has whole grains, lean protein and fruits and veggies which has tons of nutrients and vitamins. And it’s good that she takes what she puts in her body seriously, at least she knows what she is putting in her body and i’m guessing some of you don’t. And im sorry but how could she be anorexic and do all that she does. Being anorexic means you are lacking nutrients form not eating and have dull hair etc, but she’s always beaming with energy and has gorgeous shiny hair. As for the not eating much pasta or white flour, i know for a fact that when you stop eating those types of food you feel sick after eating them. She’s not crazy she is healthy. Also, kombucha is NOT bad for you, it’s great for you.

I think some of you are really jealous, and it makes you look really dumb. She’s really pretty anf eats healthy what wrong with that. Are some of you over weight is that why you are so nasty toward her. Get over it.