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It’s extremely critical for celebrities to stay in killer shape and to always look their best. There is fierce competition for movie roles, magazine covers, and product promotions. Being out of shape could easily cause these celebrities to lose a multi-million dollar contract and greatly effect their career and public image. They are permanently under the spotlight, followed by the media, and watched by the public. So it is absolutely crutial for them to be obsessed with their body image and to say in killer shape.

Celebrities always seem to have the ability to rapidly lose weight. Whether it’s losing weight from having a baby, preparing for a red carpet event or getting ready for their latest movie role, they can lose weight faster than anyone. They have to, it’s their job.

We can get some great ideas from these celebrities and follow the same type of programs. Most people feel that these type of goals are unattainable for the average person due to the fact that celebrities have access to resources that most people cannot afford. Personal trainers, nutritionists, free products endorsements, sponsorships, cosmetic surgeons, and of course an unlimited supply of money.

However, there are three main components that determine the success of these celebrities diet and exercise programs: knowledge, discipline, and experimentation. These three components have very little to do with money.

Knowledge - understanding which diet and exercise programs work and what you will need to do to reach your goals.
Discipline - being able to follow through with your program and not deviate from it.
Experimentation - if one exercise program or diet does not work, trying another until you find one that does work.

Most celebrities are successful with their diet and exercise programs because they have hired people to provide them with the knowledge, but this knowlege can also be obtained by reading books. They have a high level of discipline which anyone can force themselves to have with a little work. They are willing to adjust their program if they find that one does not work well for them.  But anyone can do that as well.

Three actresses named Jessica have all recently been able to rapidly lose weight and keep it off.

These three Jessicas have each found that completely different diets and different excercise programs worked well for each of them. This should be expected. Everyone is different so a diet and exercise program that works well for one person might work completely differently for someone else.

Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba has been able to stay in killer shape through high discipline with proper diet and exercise programs, not genetics. Jessica Alba has been struggling with her weight her entire life, in fact most of her family is overweight. Her family ate nothing but junk food growing up so she started cooking healthy food for herself in her early teens. Most people assume that Jessica Alba is one of the most genetically gifted women in the world. She isn’t. However she was able to defy her genetics with healthy food and great workouts.

So what is her secret?

She eats a balanced diet low fat diet and shies away from eating carbs or sugar. She alternates between four sets of high intensity cardio for 10-15 minutes with four 10 minute sets of high intensity lifting or crunches.

Healthy Foods: Lean proteins, low glycemic carbs, veggies, and little or no sugar.
Great Workouts: Squats, lunges, full body movements, short and intense cardio.

Regarding her diet Jessica Alba says the following,

“Everyone in my family is heavily overweight. I wanted to be healthier, so I started cooking for myself when I was 12 years old. When I eat breakfast, I’ll have an egg-white omelette and fruit, or cottage cheese and a peach. For lunch, I’ll have a salad. Dinner is usually vegetables and chicken or fish. During the day I’ll have some dried fruit, or I’ll have a chocolate or strawberry frozen yogurt. I don’t really eat desserts or bread.”

Regarding her workout routine, Jessica Alba says,

“I try to work out every day for 45 minutes to an hour. I start out on the treadmills or elliptical machine for 10 to 15 minutes to get my heart rate up to 180 beats per minute. Then I do 50 lunges and crunches. Next I get back on the machine for another 10 minutes. Then I work on shoulders, biceps and triceps. I do that nonstop for four sets. When I work out, I have energy and feel good about myself.”

Jessica Simpson

Jessica Simpson never really had a problem with her weight growing up, but as a result she developed an affinity for junk food. She likes to eats garbage. Fried chicken, Taco Bell, Ice Cream, and Chocolate Cake are foods that high on her list of favorites. Jessica Simpson does not have the same level of discipline with her diet that Jessica Alba has always had. Simpson she does have better genetics.

As Simpson got older she put on around 10-15 lbs of extra weight. This did not seem to bother her much or interfere with her music career. However, when her music career transitioned over to acting this became a completely different story.

When Simpson was offered the role of Daisy Duke for the Dukes of Hazard movie she needed to rapidly lose 20 lbs to look good for this role. She initially tried the Atkins diet and failed. She lacked the discipline to stick to any diet for very long and frequently cheater her diet. Her father hired personal trainer, Mike Alexander, who not only guided her workouts, but sat with her through every meal.

So what is her secret?

Simpson did a diet similar to the Zone Diet which involved plenty of grilled chicken and fish and steak, with salad, vegetables, and small servings of complex carbs such as brown rice and sweet potatos. Mike Alexander called this diet the 5 Factor Diet which calls for five meals a day, with five elements per meal (protein, good fat, healthy carbs, fiber, and a sugar-free beverage).

Every day Simpson did one hour of strength training and 45-60 minutes of cardio. The main exercises were lunges (3×20) and squats (the “butt builders”). What is astonishing is how light the weights were (7 1/2 pound dumbbells). Squats have to be one of the biggest metabolism-boosting exercises around.

Healthy Foods: grilled chicken, seared fish, sweet potato, brown rice, broccoli and asparagus, sugar free drinks.
Great Workouts: full range of weight lifting, primarily squats and lunges. Between 45-60 minutes of cardio a day.

Regarding her diet Jessica Simpson says the following,

“Immediately when I found out that I had the part, I thought it would be best to be able to have something to work towards or else I’ll stick to my fried food and taco bell. To have something, a goal, is awesome; so I ate my last piece of chocolate cake when I found out and ever since then I’ve tried to cut sugar out of my diet except fruit. For the most part, I eat healthy and work out for two hours everyday. ”

“Atkins really messed me up mentally. I was so starved for carbs, I binged on them. I now eat my favorite foods which are bread, cookie dough ice cream and Italian meals but I eat them in moderation, along with lots of salad.
I really try to stay away from sugars as much as I can, which is hard.”

Jessica Biel

Jessica Biel has take a completely different approach with her diet and exercise plan from both Alba and Simpson. She has tried many different fad diets in the past. From “no sugar, flour, no dairy” to “Atkins” to “South Beach” to “no salt — some rice cakes and brown rice”, but has now found the trick that works for her: eating sensibly for six days a week and having a cheat day on the seventh.

Biel also found that when she increased the frequency of her eating and decreasing the portions that she was able to easily lose 10 pounds and 10 percent body fat within a few weeks. So she started eating half a wrap for a meal, half a protein bar two hours later, and the eating the rest of her wrap two hours after that and the rest of the protein bar two hours later.

To follow Jessica Biel’s diet you need to eat three small healthy meals and three healthy snacks daily for six days and then you can cheat and eat anything you want on the seventh. These six small meals a day will keep your metabolism up and cause you to burn more calories. The cheat day will keep your metabolism used to burning higher fat foods, for some people this causes them to burn more fat and calories the on the six non-cheat days.

So what is her secret?

The diet mentioned above and circuit training workouts. This circuit training on nautilis equipment mainly focused on big movements such as pushing, pulling, squatting, and deadlifting. She also likes to do some sort of explosive finisher such as sprinting, stair jumps, or kettlebell swings after her initial workout.

Healthy Foods: Egg whites, oatmeal, grapefruit juice, lean chicken, fish, whole wheat pasta, vegetables, almonds.

Great Workouts: 45 minutes workouts of nautilis circuit training with short breaks between sets followed by sprinting, stair jumps, or kettlebell swings.

Regarding her workouts Jessica Biel says the following,

“It all boils down to one thing: Intensity. The more intense workout will always burn the most fat.

We’ve entered a new era. In the past people did relatively low intensity workouts, and made up for it with long hours in the gym and unbelievably perfect diets. Now we’re in a new world of powerful, smart, time efficient workouts.

Your workouts should be short, hard, and full body. If you’re spending two hours in the gym, ask yourself why. If it’s for fun then cool. If it’s because your workout is low intensity and it takes two hours to feel like you did something, you need to kick it up a notch. What if you needed to be in and out in 45 minutes?”

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