So it is no surprise that these stars have their own secrets when it comes to staying fit and gorgeous. Their health agenda can range from extreme workouts to well-planned meals. Who doesn’t want to know their secrets in staying absolutely sexy? Here are some of the diet secrets of several women celebrities.

Jennifer Aniston

The star of the phenomenal television show Friends not only mesmerized audiences with her adorable comic sense and her famous hairstyle, she was also known for having one of the sexiest bodies in Hollywood, as she appeared in countless magazine covers. To stay trim, Jennifer follows the 40:30:30 diet method. The diet consists of:

40% Low glycemic carbohydrates
-Foods such as beans, fruits and vegetables, legumes

30% lean proteins
-Tofu, fish, chicken, turkey, beef and low fat dairy products

30% essential fats
-nuts and seeds, fish and olive oils

It is essential that every meal should contain macronutrients to attain the balance of hormones and maximum weight loss.

Kate Hudson

The gorgeous daughter of actress Goldie Hawn gained 60 pounds during her pregnancy, which she needed to shed quickly before commencing on her next film. From her previous eating plan, she switched to a higher protein diet. She consumed high protein meals in smaller portions, and she combined this diet with an exercise program that includes weight training and cardiovascular workouts. After getting a lot of flak because of her post-pregnancy figure, Kate removed all that baby weight in only four months and has gained abdominal muscles that gained the envy of many in Hollywood.

Gwyneth Paltrow

A lot of people may find it hard to believe that the perpetually slim Academy award-winning actress actually needs to diet. Gwyneth actually follows a healthy eating plan that avoids sugar and white flour. She usually follows a macrobiotic diet, eating foods like vegetables, brown rice, and lean meat. She also eliminated dairy from her diet, and does yoga everyday.

Madonna

The pop star known as the Material Girl has always flaunted a body that is to die for, and has become a true fitness paragon over the years. She keeps herself in tip-top shape by having Ashtanga Yoga, and follows a strict diet that mostly shuns junk foods. She adopted a macrobiotic eating plan that includes organic foods rich in lean protein.

Claudia Schiffer

The bodacious German supermodel eats salad and steamed vegetables for dinner and eats only fruits before the afternoon. While on locations, she prefers to eat black grapes and drinks tomato juice and herbal tea.

Christie Brinkley

Long-time supermodel maintains her all-American good looks by being a vegetarian. She does not keep junk foods of any kind inside her home to make sure that she does not eat them when cravings occur. She snacks on sweet potatoes in place of candy bars, and she adopts a liquid juice diet when she needs to slim down fast.

Celebrities are just like ordinary people. They need to maintain their figures just like anyone else, and there is more pressure on their part since they are constantly in the public eye. Ordinary folks can have celebrity-like bodies, too, and by following these diet and fitness plans, they can also look like red-carpet worthy. 

Also what celebrity doesn’t detox?  Our 21 day specialized detox program has proven results of 7-9 pounds weight loss the very first week.  Call the studio today to set up your appointment and start losing tomorrow!

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Owner, Method Evolution

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PS… Don’t forget to register for Pearland’s Best Body Challenge.  It’s absolutely FREE for this 6 week challenge. 

Heard this advice before? It’s one of the biggest misconceptions in the exercise and weight-loss world. If long, slow, steady-state aerobics was the key to fat loss every person who crosses the finish line of a marathon or Ironman would have very low body fat. This just isn’t the case. Numerous people who train for an endurance event gain weight.

Endurance exercise solely for fat loss does not make sense. Your goal as an endurance athlete is to become efficient and better at running, biking or swimming. A different plan of attack needs to be used to burn fat–a more effective plan.

Reasons Steady-state Aerobic Training is Supposed to Burn Fat

1) It burns calories. Hard-working muscles demand extra oxygen to help them continue working. However, lots of activities also burn calories by requiring work from the muscles-weight training, sprinting, sleeping-so no extra points for aerobic training.

2) The fat-burning zone. Yes, it exists, but it has been misinterpreted. The fat-burning zone is a concept that the body burns a greater amount of fat at lower-intensity aerobic exercise than it does at higher intensities. Actually, the body burns a greater percentage of fat at lower intensities than at higher intensities. At lower intensities the body may burn 50 percent of the calories from fat, while at higher intensities it may only burn 35 percent. But at higher intensities you burn way more total calories-and more fat calories overall-than you do at lower intensities.

3) Aerobic training makes your body an efficient fat-burning machine. True, but this isn’t a desirable response. Yes, aerobic training does demand work from the muscles, but not as much as other activities, and it doesn’t require the muscle tissue to last, either. Because the only tissue that burns fat in the body is muscle, aerobics are ineffective at building and maintaining your body’s fat-burning tools.

4) Aerobic training raises your metabolism. This isn’t true. Metabolism is largely a function of how much muscle you carry. Because aerobics do nothing to even maintain muscle, never mind build it, they do not contribute to raising your metabolism while at rest.

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Well there is…here is an example of a healthy and balanced packed lunch. Try this one out, and then use it as a springboard for your own creative lunch ideas. Don’t fall into the trap of eating the same thing day after day.

Here’s what you need…
For the wrap:

• 1 green tortilla
• 1 chicken breast (or your choice of protein: veggie patty, lean turkey, hardboiled egg, smoked salmon, grilled white fish, or baked tofu)
• Sliced tomato
• Romaine lettuce
• 1 Tablespoon hummus

For the veggies:

• 1/2 cup cut veggies (try broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and bell peppers)
• 1/4 cup hummus

For the yogurt:

• 1/2 cup plain nonfat Greek yogurt
• Handful of berries (strawberries and blueberries)For the trail mix:
• 1oz raw mixed nuts
• 5 golden raisins

1. Spread the tortilla with hummus, line with lettuce, tomato slices and chicken breast. Wrap and slice in half.
2. Wash and pack the cut veggies in plastic container. Pack the hummus in a small container.
3. Pack the yogurt in a small container and top with the berries.
4. Mix the raw nuts with the raisins and pack in a small container or bag.
5. Don’t forget to pack a container of water and a napkin!

Nutritional Analysis: One serving equals: 547 calories, 19g fat, 39g carbohydrate, 12g fiber, and 55g protein

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But from a health and weight loss perspective, our most important food decision isn’t just what to order from a menu. It’s whether to hop into the car, drive to a restaurant, wait for a table, and pick up that menu in the first place. By the time you’ve made the trip and scored a table, you could be sitting down at home to a meal that tastes better, costs less, and is much healthier than the caloric bombs you’d tip a waitress to bring you. The restaurant world is hazardous for anyone hoping to control their weight. If you’re looking for a burger, a plate of pasta — or even just a salad — it’s difficult to find a entree that comes in under 1,000 calories. What’s worse, you could end up ingesting a few days’ worth of sodium, bad fats, and refined carbs.

There’s a better way. In this excerpt from David Zinczenko & Matt Goulding’s new book, Cook This, Not That!, we’ll show you how to whip up the kind of food typically go out for. But you can make it better! Best of all, these meals are easy (dare I say fun?), to make! Here are just a couple examples of the calories you can save by cooking at home.   It’s an excellent reference not only for delicious time saving, money pinching, calorie whittling recipes, but how to stock your kitchen and pantry to be motivated to feed yourself and your family healthy meals every day!

Warm Goat Cheese Salad
If you want to drop 15 lbs this year replace every restaurant salad you eat with a homemade version. This warm goat cheese salad with pear will make a believer out of everyone!

What you’ll need:
4 oz fresh goat cheese
1 cup bread crumbs
1 tsp dried thyme or Italian dressing
salt and black pepper to taste
1 egg slightly beaten
1/4 cup walnuts
1 6 oz bag cups mixed greens
1 pear peeled, cored and sliced
Low fat balsamic vinaigrette dressing.

How to make it:
Slice the goat cheese into 4 1/2 inch disks (using dental floss makes this easy). If cheese crumbles just pat back together into shape.
Pour the bread crumbs onto a plate and add seasonings.
Dip the goat cheese into the egg, then through the crumb mixture to coat evenly.
Place them on a plate and put into the freezer for 15 minutes>

Preheat overn to 450 degrees. Place the goat cheese on a baking sheet coated with non stick spray and bake for 10 minutes until the cheese is soft and the crumbs are toasted. While the oven is still hot, toast the walnuts.

Toss the lettuce with vinaigrette and pear and divide among 4 cold plates. Top with walnuts and cheese.

Makes 4 servings – 370 kcals – about $2.89 to make

Now you could have driven down to the Plaza to the California Pizza kitchen and picked up that healthy sounding Field Greens salad from them. But it has a whopping 1372 calories and costs $10.29! You just saved 1002 calories and $7.40 and it’s only lunch!

Grilled Mahimahi
Menu descriptions can be so misleading. On the Border’s “red chili seasoned fresh fillet of mahimahi grilled to perfection” sounds like the healthiest dish ever devised by a chain restaurant but eat it and you’ll be chewing through nearly half a day’s calories! Try this Cook this, not that version at home tonight and save 660 calories!

What you’ll need:
1 jar of roasted red peppers, drained
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
1 clove garlic
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
1/2 tsp cumin
salt and black pepper to taste
4 mahimahi, sea bass or halibut fillets- 6 oz each

How to make it:
To make the sauces combing the red peppers, cayenne, garlic, olive oil, vinegar and cumin in a blender and puree until smooth. Season with salt and pepper.
Lightly oil a grill or stovetop grill pan and heat until medium hot.
Lightly season the flesh side of the fillets with salt and pepper and place them, skin side down, on the hot grill.
Cook for 4-5 minutes until the skins are lightly charred and crispy. Turn them over and cook another 2-3 minutes.
When they’re done the fish should flake with gentle pressure from your fingertip.
Serve with mango or other fresh fruit relish and top with red pepper sauce.

Makes 4 servings – 310 calories – about $5.64 to create

You just saveed 660 calories and $9.35 by making this meal at home. Better yet, you saved a whopping 2362 calories and $22.36 by making these simple meals at home! Do the math! That can really add up over the course of a week, much less a year!

Look for more healthy eating tips and recipes from Method Evolution because we want you as lean and healthy as possible!  For more information on our programs, call 281-412-0992 today!

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Well I say, no worries…

Below you will find another version of my very popular Commerical Workouts which originated at our Pearland Boot Camps…todays version uses only your body weight and two exercises.

Most commericals are 30 seconds each…so that means perform each exercise to its max reps for each commercial. 

1st exercise = Chase the Rabbits

2nd exercise = Lazy Dog Pushups (easier variation just perform the Lazy Dog rotation)

And just superset those exercises until your commercial break is over and your show starts back up.

Pretty much any given 30 minute show has about 22 minutes of actual “show-time”; which leaves 8 minutes of commercial breaks. 

So don’t you “break”…but rather, perform this superset and you will definitely enjoy the rewards it brings!

JC Guidry

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It seems, over the past 50 years or so, we Americans have developed a severe drinking problem. That’s right. We stopped making our own iced teas and lemonades (recipe: water, lemon, sugar) and started buying them in bottles or mixes, with ingredients like “high-fructose corn syrup” and “ascorbic acid” on the labels.

We stopped thinking of a soda as a treat – akin to an ice cream or a candy bar – and started seeing it as the equivalent of a glass of water, drinking two, three, four, or more a day. Then we stopped drinking water out of the tap and started demanding that it be artificially flavored and put into bottled with the words “vitamin” or “energy” stamped on their labels.

And the result of all this beverage EVOLUTION is that, today, walking into a convenience store or a beverage distributorship has become dangerous to our health.

America’s supermarket aisles and drive-thru menus are now awash in empty liquid calories. And so today, you and I and the rest of America will drink about 21 percent of the total number of calories we’re supposed to eat in one day! Liquid calories now account for a whopping 400 calories per day! (This is more than twice as much as we drank 30 years ago.)

A recent study at John Hopkins University found that people who cut liquid calories from their diets lose more weight and keep it off longer than people who cut only food calories. Simply cutting your drink calories in half, (cutting back to what we used to drink 30 years ago), could mean shaving off more than 23 pounds in just one year!

Here are 5 of the top WORST drinks from DRINK THIS, NOT THAT top 20 Worst drinks…. And we’re not even talking about alcohol here folks! We’re talking about water!!!

Worst Water : Snapple Agave Melon Antioxidant Water (1 bottle, 20 fl oz)

150 calories 0 g fat 33 g sugars

Sugar Equivalent: 2 Good Humor Chocolate Éclair Bars

While “Worst Water” may sound like an oxymoron, the devious minds in the bottled beverage industry have even found a way to besmirch the sterling reputation of the world’s most essential compound.

Sure, you may get a few extra vitamins, but ultimately, you’re paying a premium price for gussied-up sugar water.

Next time you buy a bottle of water, check the recipe: You want two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen, and very little else.

Worst Bottled Tea : SoBe Green Tea (1 bottle, 20 fl oz)

240 calories 0 g fat 61 g sugars

Sugar Equivalent: 4 slices Sara Lee Cherry Pie

Leave it to SoBe to take an otherwise healthy bottle of tea and inject it with enough sugar to turn it into dessert.

The Pepsi-owned company’s flagship line, composed of 11 flavors with names like “Nirvana” and “Cranberry Grapefruit Elixir,” is marketed to give consumers the impression that it can cleanse the body, mind, and spirit. Don’t be fooled.

Just like this bottle of green tea, all of these beverages are made with two primary ingredients: water and sugar.

Worst Energy Drink : Rockstar Energy Drink (1 can, 16 fl oz)

280 calories 0 g fat 62 g sugars

Sugar Equivalent: 6 Krispy Kreme Original Glazed Doughnuts

None of the energy provided by these full-sugar drinks could ever justify the caloric load, but Rockstar’s take is especially frightening. One can provides nearly as much sugar as half a box of Nilla Wafers.

In fact, it has 60 more calories than the same amount of Red Bull and 80 more than a can of Monster.

If you’re going to guzzle, better choose one of the low-cal options.

Worst Soda : Sunkist (1 bottle, 20 fl oz)

320 calories 0 g fat 84 g sugars

Sugar Equivalent: 6 Breyers Oreo Ice Cream Sandwiches

Wait . . . but aren’t all sodas equally terrible? It’s true they all earn 100 percent of their calories from sugar, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still varying levels of atrocity.

Despite the perception of healthfulness, fruity sodas tend to carry more sugar than their cola counterparts, and none make that more apparent than the tooth-achingly sweet Sunkist.

But what seals the orange soda’s fate on our list of worsts is its reliance on the artificial colors yellow 6 and red 40—two chemicals that may be linked to behavioral and concentration problems in children.

At METHOD EVOLUTION, we want you to have all the information and support YOU need to lose fat, gain muscle and feel at your peak energy!

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4 MINUTE TABATA WORKOUTS

Remember though, you must truly bring a higher intensity component to these 4 minute workouts.  Really “raise the bar” during the 20 second phase!  (It’s only 4 minutes…so you can do it!)

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Balsamic Glazed Chicken Tenders

• 1 small orange
• 2/3 c. cinnamon applesauce
• 1/4 c. balsamic vinegar
• 1/2 tsp. ground cardamon or 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
• 1 lb. chicken tenders
• 2 tsp. vegetable oil
• Fresh thyme sprigs (optional)

1. Finely shred peel from orange; set aside. Juice Orange. In medium saucepan combine applesauce, vinegar, cardamon, juice from the orange, and 1/2 tsp. each salt and black pepper. Bring to boiling over high heat. Reduce heat to low. Cook, uncovered, stirring occasionally 10 minutes. Remove from heat and cover to keep warm.

2. Season chicken lightly with salt and black pepper. Heat oil in 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium high heat. Add chicken; cook until golden brown on bottom, about 4 minutes. Turn chicken and add 1/2 cup of applesauce mixture to skillet. Cook 2-3 minutes more or until chicken is cooked through.

3. To serve, top each serving of chicken with some of the applesauce mixture, orange peel, and fresh thyme.

SERVES 4

EACH SERVING: 208 cal, 4 g fat, 15 g carbohydrates, 27 g protein

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Below are her breakdowns:

Keep up the fabulous work ethic Rhonda!  Many more rewards to come…

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And if you don’t have a waffle maker, this tasty high protein batter works just as well as pancakes!

Enjoy

High Protein Banana Yogurt Waffles

Ingredients

1/2 cup flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 scoop of Prograde Protein (the Vanilla flavored, Stevia sweetened protein powder)
1/2 cup plain low fat yogurt
1/2 cup skim milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp lemon zest
1 medium banana

Directions

Preheat a waffle maker.

In a medium bowl, mix the flour, baking powder and protein powder together. Add the yogurt, milk and vanilla extract. Shave in the lemon zest. Mix well for about 10 seconds. If the mixture appears too thick, add a little water (1 tsp at a time) to lighten.

In a separate bowl, mash the banana with the backside of a fork and then add it to the other wet ingredients. Mix all for another 10-20 seconds. If batter needs thinner consistency, add a little more water (again, 1 tsp at a time).

Pour the batter into your waffle maker and follow the cooking instructions that accompany your particular model.

Makes 2 Servings

JC Guidry

Owner, Method Evolution

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