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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!

Jennifer Love Hewitt is showing off her recent weight loss on the cover of Us Weekly magazine. Jennifer shed 18 pounds in 10 weeks. “I am in a pretty good workout regimen that I like, so it inspired me to keep it up,” Hewitt tells Us. “The energy level and the way I feel now is great.” Jennifer is engaged to Ross McCall, and is working on slimming down for her wedding day.

“With her, it’s not, ‘I want to look good in that dress,’” trainer Stevie Sant’Angelo tells Us. “She wanted to start moving around because she thought it would make her feel better.

“She told me, ‘They said some rude, mean things, but that’s not why I wanted to change,’” Sant’Angelo says.

About 1 year ago some unflattering pictures of Jennifer while in a bathing suit on vacation were floating around the internet and bloggers were calling Jen fat. Fed up with all the negative comment Jennifer set the story straight on the cover of People magazine.

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.

Brady Bunch and Celebrity Fit Club star Mary McCormick is determined to maintain her weightloss after gaining 10 pounds since winning Celeb Fit Club – so she’s using a new weight loss product called Slim Shot. “I’m using this product called Slim Shot and it reduces your appetite by like 30 percent,” she says. “And why I love it so much is that it tastes like rice milk, which is one of my favorite things. I always like to have rice milk on my cereal with my husband.”

Maureen says about her weight, “I’m 5′3, I’m always up and down. I love to eat but I just feel best when I’m at a thin weight. I get to a place in my life sometimes where I don’t excercise. I’m an all or nothing girl. I give in to something all the way or I back off and so I backed off–but now I’m back on!”

Carnie Wilson has had publisized ups and downs with weight, and she’s sharing her struggle with Ok! Magazine. Wilson told OK! that she’s shed another 17 lbs. since her last interview, which appeared in OK!’s June 23 issue. The star–who famously had gastric bypass surgery in 1999 which caused her to shrink from 300 lbs. to 146 lbs.–bravely admitted to OK! months ago that following the birth of her daughter Lola,3, she gained much of the weight back, finally reaching 208 lbs.

Today Carnie weighs 176 pounds, which she managed to lose while filming her new CMT series, Outsiders’ Inn, a sequel to Gone Country in which Carnie shares a rustic living experience with other stars including Whitney Houston’s ex Bobby Brown, and The Brady Bunch’s Maureen McCormick.

Carnie explains her diet includes foods like Tofu, vegetables, squash soup, and roasted yams.

She is also working on creating a line of plus size clothing for women. “I have a lot of really great ideas that women are going to be really relieved and happy about, inspired by my experience of being morbidly obese and all sizes,” she says. “It’s going to be beautiful.”

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.

Oprah Winfrey has begun a 21 Day Detox Diet and she’s blogging all about it on her website. Oprah decided to do the detox after she read the book Quantum Wellness by Kathy Freston. The detox diet consits of giving up sugar, alcohol, gluten, caffeine and animal products. This apparently allows your body to heal, regenerate and operate at maximum capacity.

Oprah is about a couple weeks into the detox, and she share’s on her blog some example of the food she is allowed to eat. Here are some examples:

Breakfast
Steel-cut oiatmeal, Splash of soy milk, Cut-up berries, Cup of herbal decaf tea

Snack
Almonds and an apple

Lunch
Big green salad with spinach, pine nuts, chick peas, tomatoes and onion. Club soda with lemon

Snack
Rice cake with peanut or almond butter

Dinner
Grilled tofu and veggies like asparagus, squash, zucchini and egg-plant served over brown rice

You can get the same book that Oprah is using for her detox diet at Amazon.com:

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.

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”.