Celebrity Diet Secrets Exposed From A to Z

Many top celebs, actors, top models, TV anchors, and singers look just fantastic today. Great bodies, perfect legs, slender waists, best hairstyles, toned and tanned figures. They look effortlessly wonderful, but what's their super secret behind the appearance? Many have to work very hard at it maintaining this illusion believe me. Every day workouts that last few hours, weight training, cardio and dieting are the most critical things in the life of a high-powered star. Because if they don't look just right, then they don't get those huge juicy contracts and they are soon out of a job and a lifestyle they become accustomed to.

Just like any place where ambition and money collide, there are a lot of people trying to push this or that idea as the best thing since homemade pie. Celebrities many of whom do fall for this stuff, mainly because celebrities are just like you and me and have a hard time finding a diet that works. Since we are all a bit different from each other, there's no single diet that works the same for everyone, which means that one has to try this or that eating plan or exercise program, or weight loss pill in order to find which one is best for them. The search can get a bit rough and tedious at times, so it's simply trial and error I'm afraid for everyone.

Claire Sweeney who is a TV presenter had already gone through a detoxification plan, which she could not stick to at all, and the all popular Atkins diet wound up giving her a kidney infection. Then chose the Weight Watchers diet because it let her eat foods that she wanted to eat and that other diets forbade. In the end, Weight Watchers worked out for her much better than anything else, and so she's still on the Weight Watchers program and doing fine.

It seems that the Twiggy or thin figure is gradually slipping out of style after the excesses of the 1990's. More stars find themselves maintaining a healthy balance between their food cravings and their Hollywood image is better than denying themselves every conceivable pleasure in order to reach an unreasonable beauty standard. This turns out that this is not such a bad approach to follow after all. Common sense plays a big part here. 3 meals every day rich in fruits and vegetables is also the cornerstone of Geri Halliwell's dieting regimen. After living through lots of sweating and exercising and many crazy diets, Geri decided that she was truly fed up and turned to what she now calls sensible eating. So a bit of fat here and there is no longer a problem, which means that she can be less stressed about the whole dieting routine. She is now part of the growing trend of celebs that would rather have a nice curvy figure to show off than a thin figure.

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has been on a macrobiotic diet plan for quite a few years now. That means she would stay away from all dairy products, meat, eggs, and caffeine and stuck with it until her recent pregnancy. After giving birth to her daughter, Apple, Gwyneth returned to her dieting plan, but she says she is not as strict as she once was. While still avoiding foods that drain her energy, the actress has found that a relaxed attitude is better than looking like a bean pole. Now that's a smart woman.

Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, Rene Zellweger, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Cindy Crawford and Matt LeBlanc all turned to the Zone when they wanted to trim up. Heidi Klum stays youthful with the Perricone Prescription. Carol Alt stays healthy with the Raw Food Diet. The Zone, Atkins (Geri Halliwell), Sugar Busters (Tori Spelling) and The South Beach Diet (Bill and Hillary Clinton) are just a few of the many low-carb eating plans that have helped stars like Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cindy Crawford and Bill Clinton to shed pounds and keep them off. Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow credit their yoga prowess to their macrobiotic diets, animal activists Pam Anderson and Alicia Silverstone are on a vegan or macrobiotic diet.

Celebrity endorsers:

• Sarah Ferguson - Weight Watchers
• Whoopie Goldberg - Slim Fast
• Joy Behar - Jenny Craig