June 2006

What Does Gwyneth Paltrow Eat?

Gwyneth Paltrow likes to eat lots of vegetables, brown rice and fish. All organic if possible. She has given an easy fish recipe to Oprah which I'd like to try cooking soon. It involves only three ingredients; white fish (like flounder), miso paste and mirin sauce. Cooking it only takes 20 minutes....

Angelina Jolie's Post-Baby Weight Loss

Apparently Angelina Jolie, 31, only gained twenty five pounds during her first pregnancy. She doesn't have much weight to lose to get back in shape. What is her height and how much did she weigh prior to pregnancy? According to info I found online she is 5'7" tall or (170 cm). And her weight has been...

Melissa's Before and After Pictures

Melissa has got some great photos here of her weight loss progress. She doesn't say what her heaviest weight was but in February 2005 she was wearing size 24 clothing. She lost the weight after laproscopic bypass weight loss surge...

This woman has lost 87 pounds in only seven months. She started out at 217 last November and now weighs 130 in June.Carol Patton, 53, didn't join any kind of weight loss program. She did this on her own by changing her diet and exercising after getting a health scare from her doctor about her high blood...

How old would you say this woman is? She says she keeps young by doing 20 to 40 minutes of cardio and ab work four times a week. She takes garlic tablets, flaxseed oil and salmon oil and has oatmeal and apples for breakfast. She also meditates about 10 minutes a day. Her name is Gwynne Walker and she...

Jenny Craig has just been acquired by Nestle for about $600 million. This is about five times as much as venture capitalists paid for the initial buyout of Jenny Craig four years ago.Pictured here is Jennifer, their current featured weight loss success story. Jennifer says she looks better than she...

About Celebrities

Is Ronaldo Fat?

Ronaldo, the international soccer star from Brazil, and one of the best all-time soccer players ever, is being called flabby and overweight in the media these days. His performance in the current World Cup has not been impressive so far.Ronaldo will turn 30 in September. His height is 6'0" and according...

Oprah is planning a special show for this Monday. It will be all about weight loss and will feature two success stories. One is a man who lost 500 pounds without surgery. The other is a woman who lost 85 pounds and will show off her new slim body in a bikini. I'm guessing that the surprise female guest...

Who is the sexiest World Cup player? Someone was telling me their version of the answer the other day. I don't follow the game but it seems everyone is talking about soccer these days. Especially my husband.I found this free poll at Meg Wilson's site. Do Ballard and Ronaldo qualify as two of the sexier...

Here are the before and after photos of Naketa Ferguson, 27, who was successful in losing 70 pounds over the past eleven months. She's one of the leading contestants in New Zealand's Weight Watchers Slimmer of the Year contest. She now weighs 140 pounds.Her asthma has disappeared along with the excess...

I've been focusing on writing celebrity weight loss stories for the past few weeks.See some recent posts here about celebrity weight loss, including Jessica Simpson, Janet Jackson, Jessica Alba, Star Jones, Britney Spears and Kirstey Alley.There seems to be a very big interest in this topic. I can...

Treadmill Stories

Treadmill Motivation: One Man's True Story

Ralph Klein, 63, decided to do something to lose some weight and get back in shape. This was twenty years ago. At the age of 43, the 5'8" politician weighed somewhere between 230 and 240 pounds. He says he was 'grossly overweight' at the time. That's when he started running on a treadmill. At first...

Those magazine covers in the check-out counter of your local grocery store are terribly misleading. It's amazing how much retouching goes on to make beautiful people look even more unrealistically beautiful.Because young girls are the most susceptible to comparing themselves to unreal standards of slimness...

About Celebrities, Anna Nicole Smith

Anna Nicole Smith is Pregnant

Anna Nicole Smith, 38, has announced that she's pregnant. Smith created a lot of interest in TrimSpa a couple of years ago when she lost a great deal of weight. She will continue to be a TrimSpa spokeswoman while pregnant.She's keeping the father's identity a secret for now.Update February 9th: Anna...