The Latest in Celebrity Fashion, Beauty and Fitness

Is Jennifer Love Hewitt becoming the next skinny celebrity? Not quite, but she shares her diet and exercise routine with her trainer in Us Weekly magazine which has lead her to lose 18 pounds in 10 weeks.

Jen’s diet consists of 1,500 – 1,800 calorie a day diet. She is allowed to eat who grains, but not after 2pm. She is mostly allowed to snack on protein, veggies and fruit. A typical meal plan includes mixed fruit, Greek yogurt, or cottage cheese for breakfast.

For lunch Jen munches on turkey, tomatoes, sprouts, mayo and mustard on Ezekial sprouted bread. Dinner includes an 8oz roasted chicken with steamed veggies. She can snack throughout the day on a teaspoon of peanut butter, laughing cow cheese, and carrots and broccoli.

Along with a healthy diet, Jennifer is working out 3-4 times a week. She works with a trainer, Sant’Angelo, who gets her started with ten minutes of cardio (jump rope or treadmill). Then she does 45 minutes of toning – Jen uses a kettlebell weight, doing bicep curls, squats, kickbacks, and full body planks with a 15lb or 18lb weight.

When she’s on her own Jen does 40 minutes of straight up cardio such as roller skating (her favorite!), incline training on the treadmill, or swimming. She finished off her workout with pushups, body planks, lunges, and bike crunches.

Good job Jen!

Sexy Mom Brooke Burke dished to Star magazine about how she lost the postbaby pregnancy weight after her last baby, Shaya – born just 5 months ago.

During her pregnancy Brooke said she relied on belly wraps, a fabric wrapped tight around the tummy. Brooke even designed her own belly wrap that reduced water tension and strengthened the ab muscles. She even wore it and slept in it for 40 days!

After giving birth Brooke said she began jumping on a trampoline with her daughters, “It’s an amazing workout.”

As for a diet to help lose weight faster, Brooke says she eats 5 meals a day. Breakfast includes oatmeal and fruit, then a snack before Lunch. Lunch is a big salad, and dinner might be fish and veggies with a glass of wine.

She also shares walks and hikes with her husband, David Charvet, and her other children, Neriah, 8, Sierra Sky, 6, and Rain, 19 months.

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Kim Kardashian has posted some of her exercise tips on her blog, and says her goal is to lose ten pounds – and gain five pounds in muscle. Kim says her and her sister Kourtney are working out together, and that she currently weighs 120 pounds (at 5′ 2 1/2″). Their other sister Khloe recently lost weight by watching what she eats and working out.

Here is one of Kim’s exercise tips:

An exercise that I’ve been doing every day that’s really been helping and no gym equipment is needed is… Get a chair or even go near your couch and make sure nothing is in front of it so you can stand right in front of it and act as if you are going to sit down but don’t actually sit! Just lightly touch your booty on it and come back up. Do that seven times! Then do the same thing but this time only half way, come back up and do that seven times. Then do it one more time but when you go to sit down and come back up, only come up about an inch up off the chair! So each time you go lower and lower! Once you finished your lucky 21, take a break and try it again. I try to do that cycle four times.

The Hill’s Lauren “Lo” Bosworth recently showed off a slimmer bod at her UCLA Graduation Party in Las Vegas. The reality star says she lost about 8 pounds so far this year from ditching high calorie foods like pizza and beer. Lo’s new diet includes scrambled egg whites with whole grain toast for breakfast. Lunch and dinner are usually salad with chicken or fish with veggies.

Lo’s also added workouts to help shed the pounds, she does hourlong sessions 2x’s a week of running, boxing, and strength training with a personal trainer. She also goes for 40 minutes hikes in Runyon Canyon. Go Lauren!

Jodi Sweetin is the latest Celeb to blog about their weight loss journey (Oprah Winfrey has blogged about her 21 Day Detox Diet). Jodi had a baby recently and is trying to shed the extra weight gained during her pregnancy. She blogs about her journey with Ok! Magazine.

The new Mom and former Full House child star says she plans to lose 25 or so of the extra pounds she gained in time for Summer. She’s using NutriSystem and a fitness trainer to help shed the weight quickly.

I’m using NutriSystem as my food program, I’ve been doing it for about two weeks now. I really love it! Good food, I feel full and I can stick to it without feeling like I’m on a “diet.”

Check out Jodi’s Blog on Ok! Magazine’s site… she updates it every few days.

Fergie has been looking amazing lately- she’s been working hard in the gym and it shows! Fergie brings along her Kipling Swell Duffel bag (below) in white to the gym and inside she packs a Nike no-slip yoga mat, Kashi TLC all-natural honey toasted seven-grain bar, 160 GB classic iPod, and some G2 Gatorade low-calorie electrolyte drink.

The View’s Elizabeth Hasselbeck showed off her post-baby bod on the cover of Fitness Magazine in a blue bikini. Elizabeth worked out for six weeks in preparation for the shoot. And to get that flat belly back, she did ab work two times a week. She completed daily dashes, running and weight training to prepare for the super-hot cover. “Body image has nothing to do with scale numbers, it’s how you feel inside,” says Elizabeth.

The 5′ 4″ host says she focused mostly on her butt, “Before, I always tied a shirt around my waist hen I ran. It was ridiculous. Here I am trying to wean my daughter [Gracie, 3] from her blankie, and I’m covering my rear like my own security blanket.”

Elizabeth’s goal wasn’t to lose weight, she says, she just wanted to eat healthier and have more energy. So the magazine had a nutritionist design a wheat-free (Hasselbeck has celiac disease), energy-packed plan featuring lean protein and vegetables, along with nutrition bars and nuts for snacks.

Ashlee Simpson is on the cover is the June 2008 issue of Shape Magazine and she explains how hard she works to get this body. Ashlee has a personal trainer and a home gym complete with a treadmill, elliptical, and dumbbells to help stay fit. Her trainer also has her job up and down 30 to 40 steps at her home to help tone.

I love it when my arms are toned, so we use weights to target them – and we do lunges to give my small butt more shape.

Although her stomach is totally flat, the cover was shot in February so it doesn’t put the pregnancy rumors to rest.

46 year old Heather Locklear doesn’t look a day over 24 in a recent photo of her in a red bikini on the set of her new TV movie Flirting with 40. Although Heather claims her shape is mostly due to good genes – she stays in shape by doing yoga, cardio, strength training, and boxing. The stress of her recent divorce, her therapists suicide call to 911, and her ex husband’s (Richie Sambora) recent arrest for DUI probably also accounts for her slender figure.

Heather’s 5 day routine includes meeting up with her trainer at 7 a.m. for hour long cario and strength training sessions. For her diet she sticks to healthy fruits, veggies, and sushi – although she loves junk food indulgences like french fries and ice cream. Heather says she loves her body and that she’s never felt more confident that right now, “I can honestly say I look better today”.