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Star magazine has Britney Spears on the cover with the headline “My New Bikini Body!”

It shows a healthy-looking Brit at the beach showing off a really athletic body. She looks so thick and muscular in these pics! It says she’s gotten rid of all of her cellulite, too, mostly by working out a lot and changing her diet from junk food 24/7 to a new diet that they didn’t elaborate on in the article.  She has started eating breakfast (now there’s a good idea!) which she never ate before because she slept until noon. Now, she’s into oatmeal with sugar or Special K or Total cereal which she eats with nonfat milk. A dietitian is helping her make good food choices. Britney Spears has lost 20 pounds in 30 days according to Star.

I think it’s so good that she’s making these changes. I really want to see her pull it together.

The scan is from Taylor’s Entertainment News.

Mariah Carey’s looking great! Mariah Carey has a healthy attitude about her weight, saying, “I don’t feel like you have to be a size zero. We should all just embrace who we are physically. I’m not supposed to be a stick figure girl. It’s just not me.” 

Still, she works hard to maintain her body by sticking to what she calls a “bleak diet” - Mariah’s bleak diet consists of a lot of fish and soups. After realizing that her clothes didn’t fit right because she’d gained weight, Mariah lost 30 pounds with the bleak diet and she also works out - alot. Mariah Carey has a personal trainer who is based in St. Bart’s, and Mariah flies the trainer to New York to work with her. Diva! She does 90 minute to two-hour sessions three or four times a week.

Mariah Carey is 5′ 9″ and weighs about 135 pounds. She doesn’t have a scale.

Here’s a sample of Mariah’s diet (Patricia is the St. Bart’s trainer):

Mariah Carey’s Diet Plan
Patricia described Mariah’s daily menu:
BREAKFAST: “A two-egg omelet with fruit and maybe a piece of bread if her weight is good. Now she know how to balance her food intake with her activity level. She knows if she is having a very physically active day, she can have a bit more.”
LUNCH: Protein, such as fish, chicken or steak. “She really loves steak. Protein is good for the muscles, and you don’t feel hunger afterward,” explains Patricia.
DINNER: Protein and vegetables, such as swordfish and spinach. “Nothing fried, but a little oil or butter is alright.”
SNACKS: “Snacking is Mariah’s big challenge. The last time I was with her about two weeks ago, I tried to have her snack on apple sauce or raw vegetables - something light.”

source: mcarchives.com

I hope you don’t mind that Jake Gyllenhaal is in the photo

Since I posted about Reese Witherspoon and her beloved Crock Pot the other day I’ve been trying to find some Reese Witherspoon diet info for you. I mean, she always looks great - she seems fit and healthy, but you don’t hear about her being on any crazy diet or working out constantly.

So I got a few tidbits on Reese.

Reese’s diet:

• Reese eats 5 small meals per day.
• She eats a high-fiber muffin at breakfast, chicken salad for lunch and salmon and vegetables for dinner.

source:ifitandhealthy.com

 Reese’s workout:

She runs three miles every day and she does yoga.

Here’s a recipe from Reese Witherspoon via the Ellen show website and thegailspot.com.

Reese Witherspoon’s Crockpot Coq au Vin

Servings:

??

Preparation Time:

3.5 hours

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb sliced bacon, diced
• 1 four to six lb chicken
• 1/2 cup dry white wine (or 1/4 c dry vermouth + 1/4 cup water)
• 1/2 lb small white mushrooms
• 6 garlic cloves
• 3 sprigs fresh rosemary (or 1 tbsp dried rosemary leaves)
• 1 tsp kosher salt
• 1/4 cup water
• 2 tbsp cornstarch

Cooking Instructions

*Cook the bacon in a large skillet over medium-low heat until crisp. With a slotted spoon, transfer it to a 4 to 6 quart slow cooker. Pour off all but a light coating of fat from the skillet.*Add the chicken and brown over medium-high heat; transfer to the cooker.

*Pour the wine into the skillet and scrape up any browned bits; add the skillet contents to the cooker, along with the mushrooms, onions, garlic, rosemary and salt.

*Cover and cook on low heat for 6 hours or on high for 3 hours.

*Transfer the chicken, bacon and vegetables to a platter; keep warm. Pour the sauce into a small saucepan. Combine the water and cornstarch; stir it into the sauce.

*Heat to boiling stirring constantly, until the sauce thickens about 5 minutes. Pour over the chicken.

In case you saw Kimberley Locke on American Idol tonight (didn’t she look amazing) and want to know how she lost the 40 pounds, here is an excerpt from her blog:

I lost 40 pounds*!! Wow, what a journey?! I am so proud of myself! I want to thank all of you for your support. This is the moment I have been waiting for. I can’t believe it! I went from a size 14 to a size 6* with Jenny Craig. I weigh 138 lbs*… a few pounds from my high school weight…that is crazy to me! LOL (I am actually laughing out loud!)!

Kimberley Locke was on Celebrity Fit Club and credits her weight loss to Jenny Craig. Those asterisks in her quote are for the “results not typical” disclaimer you always see in small print. Just wanted to get the skinny on this celebrity diet for you!