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Rebel Wilson is kickstarting this New Year with the aim of losing weight and saying goodbye to junk food.

The actress recently took to Instagram to share with her fans how her efforts to lose weight have been progressing. Posting a side profile picture of her face, Wilson showed off her sharp chin and hinted that her workouts have been paying off.She captioned the image with a red heart.

Fans were quick to note that the actress had lost a lot of weight. One user wrote, "How did you lose weight? You look amazing." Another echoed similar thoughts and wrote, "You look awesome, youve done amazingly in such a short space of time."

Others also applauded her efforts and wrote, "So beautiful! You are honestly just so inspiring and stunning all around."

Previously, Wilson had hinted that this year she was changing things by taking a more healthy outlook towards life. "Okay, so for me 2020 is going to be called 'The Year of Health'," she wrote.

"I put on the athleisure and went out for a walk, deliberately hydrating on the couch right now and trying to avoid the sugar and junk food which is going to be hard after the holidays Ive just had but Im going to do it!" She concluded the post by asking, "Whos with me in making some positive changes this year?"

Fans were quick to support the actress for the change she intended to make this year. "Im so proud of you!! you look fantastic already with your weight loss. No sugar and junk for wooh that would a hard one for me lol but I have faith in u. That beach is also beautiful. I wish I was there," one user wrote.

While another added, "Yes!! Just make sure you have balance! Health is fantastic but restriction can often lead to the opposite of what youre working towards. Self-compassion is the cure to negative body image, not losing weight.

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Former Love Island star Alexandra Cane recently wowed fans with her dramatic two stone weight loss.

Revealing a trim, toned body that has left her feeling motivated and full of energy, Alexandra, 28, leapt into the new year with the launch of her new fitness app in the hope of encouraging others to feel good about their bodies.

Now a tiny size six, Alexandra achieved her stunning new physique in just a matter of months, and she is confident that others can do the same.

The reality-star-turned-health-guru is constantly smiling and showing off her beach-ready body, yet also shining with an inner confidence that is more than just skin deep.

Alexandra has since revealed there are a number of features that contribute to her overall transformation.

The Mirror has taken a look at the different steps that Alexandra has been taking to achieve her ultimate "happy body".

Even though Alexandra was on her weight loss programme during the Christmas period, the brunette bombshell was able to enjoy food during the festive season and still achieve her fabulously toned abs.

The answer, according to the Love Islander, is through calorie counting.

Writing in a blog post for OK! Magazine , Alexandra admitted that Christmas wasnt all a strict regime.

I spent Christmas with my family and I did indulge in a few festive treats. I actually planned to do that because its all about the balance and on my eating plan you can be really flexible with it because its based on calorie counting.

The diet plan was created by nutritionist Amanda Ursell and features in the new Happy Body app.

Having the freedom to choose what you eat as part of the life-changing diet regime, appears to have certainly contributed to her happiness.

"If people are wanting to lose weight there's no restrictions they can still have their cheats and treats like sweets and alcohol, it's all about understanding the calories so everything is in moderation and portion control Alexandra told The Mirror in a recent interview.

"It's all about understanding what you're consuming and not focusing too much on the scales. It's about calories in and calories out, it's really simple and you can still enjoy all the foods you like and there are some beautiful recipes on there,"

In her new fitness app, The Happy Body, users have access to ten minute daily fitness videos which will help users get their bodies into shape, and fast.

Although the workouts are a mere ten minutes long, budding users shouldnt be deceived by their length.

The High Intensity Interval Training will work all parts of your body and will leave you aching.

Alexandra recently explained in her blog on OK! Magazine, that this type of HIIT training has the same benefits as an hour of cardio.

Enough of the self indulgent bikini shots.... she admitted alongside a stressful-looking selfie.

This is really what I look like after doing my Happy Body plan HIIT workouts. SCHWEATINGGGGG! You get what you work for - not what you wish for! Have a fabulous Saturday gang!!

When Alexandra began her fitness journey, she explained that her motivation came from wanting to feel better.

I set out on this journey to feel better; I suffered with anxiety, I was unfit, I craved that discipline that Id had all throughout my childhood from dancing, I was reactive to things and people unnecessarily, she shared on social media.

So I decided to make changes (which is all in my plan) and start healing from within, which in turn has got me the results both physically and mentally.'

Although a changing mindset comes alongside a tough workout routine, she explained to followers that the mental growth was completely life changing even though her body was changing too.

One tip she shares with fans is using numbers instead of words of encouragement, is to use numbers. For Alexandra, it was a simple 3, 2, 1 countdown whenever she was getting frustrated or tired.

When I had to pause, I would literally stop and count myself down and reset and then go!

Speaking to The Mirror, Alexandra explained how she hopes to spread her mindset among other people.

"I've got so much more energy now that I can motivate myself and I feel confident to inspire others now and want to share this amazing feeling with someone else.

The whole point of the app is being able to feel comfortable in your own home where you don't feel overwhelmed and Aaron is there to get you in the right mindset, it's supposed to be really fun and encouraging and to get people to the best versions of themselves.

No surgery. No Lipo. No quick fads. No detox teas. Just effort, consistency, knowledge and application, Alexandra recently wrote.

There is no quick fix to achieving Alexandras stunning transformation but she is proof that the benefits outweigh the hard work, especially when it comes to achieving happiness and body confidence all in one.

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A MUM who went through the heartbreak of losing her son 10 years ago has turned tragedy into triumph after setting up her own business to help others.

Sheila Henshall, from Dentons Green, lost three stones in three months after starting The 1:1 Diet by Cambridge Weight Plan after she had gained weight following the tragedy.

Sheila went on to win an all-expenses paid trip to Iceland after seeing off much competition to win the National Family Champion Slimmers Award.

Since then Sheila, 55, has trained as a consultant for The 1:1 Diet by Cambridge Weight Plan and since April last year has helped dozens of people lose weight and keep it off.

Sheila Henshall

She now has a well-established business and a small team of consultants to help residents in St Helens, and further afield, in losing weight quickly, efficiently and to provide lots of one to one support.

Sheila suffered the heartbreak of losing son Dean, aged 12, in October 2009. Dean had a rare form of epilepsy and died after a severe seizure.

A year before his death he had been diagnosed with GEFS+ Syndrome which causes sufferers to have seizures when their temperatures are high.

Meanwhile, Sheila's daughter Lucy, now 24, suffers from an even more rare and severe type of epilepsy called Dravets Syndrome.

Dean Henshall

Following the tragedy, Sheila turned to comfort eating and after gaining weight was diagnosed with pre-diabetes and was also experiencing problems with her back and feet which impacted on her ability to care for Lucy.

Now, after turning her life around, Sheila wants to use her experience to help others and this led her to train as a 1:1 Diet consultant.

"After successfully losing weight on The 1:1 Diet by Cambridge Weight Plan and then going on to win the award I started to feel so much more positive about life," said Sheila.

"After struggling with my weight for so long I found myself feeling healthier, fitter and having a much more positive frame of mind.

"This motivated me to train as a consultant so I could support and encourage others to lose weight, become healthier and improve their mental well-being," added Sheila.

"I understand, from my own experience that people have got to be ready to lose weight for themselves and my job is to support them through the process and to help them to achieve their goals.

Sheila also mentioned that the need to look after her daughter Lucy was also a driving factor behind her weight loss.

The 1:1 Diet by Cambridge Weight Plan has been around for 35 years and has a variety of products and plans to suit everyone and comes with a full package of 1:1 support from a trained Consultant.

Sheila added: Since the recent medical research of the DROPLET trial whereby Doctors referred overweight people to low energy treatment there has been much research and interest in how a very low-calorie diet can help people with type two diabetes, cardio vascular disease, sleep apnoea, osteoarthritis and psoriasis to name a few conditions.

"Although the research is new it is exciting to think that losing just 10 per cent of your body weight on a very low-calorie diet can have such a beneficial effect in such a short space of time.

Throughout January Sheila is offering a reduction of 10 per cent on all products.

To book a FREE consultation, contact Sheila on 07305921434.

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Sarah Lindsay recites numbers as she pinches my folds. She does this under her breath, the way a dentist uses that odd numerical language to gossip about your molars right in front of you. Chin 11.8, Mid aux 22, Supra 45. I shudder from the touch of cold callipers on my skin as this last measurement is taken from my suprailiac area. Closer acquaintances would, I suppose, call them my love handles, but Sarah is good enough to keep things mildly formal, perhaps to offset the fact that she is measuring the fat on my body just a few minutes into our first meeting. I am standing in her office at Roar Fitness, and my initial consultation is under way. It is Day 0 of my physical transformation plan and, following a brief chat, my top is off and its straight to the skin folds. This term itself is not ideal. Skin folds. Its standard anatomical parlance, but it conjures images of oversized wildlife hippos hoist into the air so the zoo can wash their meaty shanks. I am, of course, making these connections because I am staring in the mirror as all this is being done and noticing, perhaps for the first time, how much my body has changed in the past couple of years.

Harry Hill says he knew he was going bald when it started taking longer and longer to wash his face. I first noticed I was gaining weight when I started having to reach a little further to wash my sides in the shower. That and realising, around the time my son was six months old, that his adorable little pot belly and my own seemed to bear a family resemblance. If Im being honest, my bodys journey from lad bod to dad bod preceded fatherhood. I spent my youth as that skinny, lanky child who never put on any weight. But with advancing age came lower metabolism, and a move away from retail and minimum wage jobs that kept me on my feet all day, to more settled and sedentary creative pursuits that see me now, aged 34, heartier than I once was.

This isnt a remarkable story, I grant you. Mine is the experience of millions of people my age, and a minor version of the process compared to millions more. The UK is in the middle of an obesity crisis: over 60% of the population is overweight and roughly a third of UK adults are obese. Figures for children are equally shocking.

So, no, the love handles you see on these pages, squishy as they are, dont constitute a grand horror story, nor are they anything to be ashamed of. I was mostly healthy and, overall, happy with myself, but I also felt a little slower to move and lift and spring to attention, and chasing a toddler around had put these changes in stark relief. I also have a family history of diabetes and bowel disorders, and wondered if I could make the changes necessary to offset later risks.

And, Id noticed, the tools to offset those risks seemed to be everywhere. Its a curious quirk of our current age that, as we grow ever more lightbulb-shaped, a head-spinning profusion of diets, fitness regimens, self-health books and body-shaping plans has exploded. Physical transformation has, in theory, never been more accessible to those of us who find themselves the unexpected proprietor of a nascent dad bod, and theress no shortage of social pressures for us to avail of them.

It should be said that some of this focus on health doesnt seem particularly healthy. Short-term body projects are complicated, controversial things. Doctors dont tend to recommend them, for fear of the mental and physical damage sparked when a desired physical form is unrealised. The ideal male physique is now everywhere around us, from the pneumatic tightness of Love Island contestants, to the preened and perfect bods of Instagram fitness gurus selling us diet teas, gamified fitness trackers and wellness apps. It is a taunt, unattainable and unsustainable a 12-week course at Roar costs more than 3,000. In agreeing to write this article, I kept telling people I was looking forward to doing the mildly silly Before and After shots, precisely because I find the black-and-white-sad-man versus full-colour-beefcake contrast so ridiculous. As a congenitally cynical person, I was incredulous as to how real or positive those images were. But, if Im honest, some of that curiosity was borne of having passed those images a thousand times, patting my belly, and wondering if I could achieve similar results.

At Roar, I embarked on a fitness and diet plan aimed at getting me from dad bod to rad bod in just seven weeks. (They would have had me do it longer, but since we were starting at Halloween, a suitably festive Halloween-to-Christmas arc was agreed, in the hopes that my reaction to my workouts would likewise turn from horror and darkness to joy and good tidings.) Now, finished with my folds, Sarah is quick to point out the difficulty of my task. No one does this in seven weeks, she says, so were really going to have to push you. I feel a pit somewhere in my stomach open. Im fairly sure that what she terms pushing I am likely to consider borderline inhuman. Sarah is a three-time Olympian and nine-time British speed-skating champion, who runs Roar Fitness with her partner, Rich Phillipps. They specialise in physical overhauls. The walls of their site near Moorgate are decked with Before and After shots that show dramatic sometimes scarcely believable changes in short spaces of time. None, however, as short as seven weeks. These are 12 weeks, 16 weeks, she says, pointing at the grid of achievements. Some depict programmes spanning half a year.

Seven weeks means a radical dismantling of my diet, excluding all booze, dairy and oils, and a near total ban on carbs, fat and sugar even fruit. All this before I begin my exercise routine, which starts each day with a 40-minute pre-breakfast run, followed, three times a week, by a weights session with a personal trainer. When my full plan arrives in my inbox on Halloween night, I shoo my loved ones off to enjoy their trick or treating and ponder what exactly Ive let myself in for.

Within the diets first few days the answer to that question is clear. My breakfast of salmon and eggs with green veg isnt, in and of itself, particularly onerous. Nor the chicken and veg for lunch or the white fish with veg for dinner. They are all, with certain tweaks, meals I could imagine enjoying in any other context. But that context would almost certainly involve butter, oil, cream and, I soon realise, the numerous extra little treats I clearly wasnt tabulating in my assessment of my moderately healthy, but gloriously unrestricted, diet.

Worse is the lack of variety, since my diet prescribes those exact same three meals every single day with no variation, save a daily allowance of 21 olives not 20 or 22 and a protein shake to be taken after every workout.

The workout is a crash course in upper-body exercises with Alex, my trainer. So, he says on Day 1, will this be your first workout? I dont know if he means my first workout for this project, or my first workout ever. I say yes, because its true of both questions. I have never used exercise equipment in my life, never lifted a weight or troubled the pedals of a stationary bike.

Alex is patient and kind as he introduces the machines, taking great care to describe them to me in the way I talk to my dad about internet memes slowly, while leaving judicious gaps for the many, many questions that will arise.

Woody Allen famously described Arnold Schwarzenegger as having muscles in places where I dont even have places. I thought of this quote often as these sessions began forcing unfamiliar patches of meat into action. Suddenly I was aware of places in my body that didnt exist before, pains I couldnt even readily identify. It was like growing six invisible new foreheads all over my body, and getting a zesty little migraine in each. I began to realise that my frame had been carrying a lot of passengers, muscles that had sat in the background of my body like those slightly less prominent members of So Solid Crew. Now they jolted into life, shrivelled and screaming in the darkness of my arms, shoulders and back, roaring to let them return to 30 years of unbroken sleep. Alex had other ideas, however, and quickly set about reducing me to a sweaty nub of offal each Monday, Wednesday and Friday, until that constant, heady state of alarm dulled to a dim resentment and, even, something like satisfaction from their first honest days work in my lifetime.

I saw some drastic improvements quite early, dropping nearly a stone in the first two weeks. A large part of this, I reckoned, was the absence of booze. I didnt think of myself as a heavy drinker, but now had to realise I was treating a nightly glass or two of wine as not just commonplace, but common sense. It had become my accompaniment to every dinner, and a reward for each tiring, overspent day. Within four weeks, I realised my morning runs were not just more manageable, but and I am disturbed to even write this enjoyable.

When tracking my progress in those first few weeks, friends often asked if I felt different, and I found it hard to answer. I mean I guess I did, but the exact manner of this difference was hard to quantify. I did feel stronger, but I was also usually slightly sore from working out for the first time in my life. I was running faster and for longer, but was also more fatigued between runs as I was having fewer rest days. Not drinking had probably left me more clear-headed in the mornings, but Ive never suffered overly from hangovers so it was hard to really know how much better I felt when they went away entirely.

Moreover, any sense of wellbeing these improvements should have engendered was tainted by my reflexive tendency for self-pity, since I spent the first few weeks extraordinarily resentful of the diet. Had I been on a longer course, say 12 or 16 weeks, it wouldnt have been so severe, but I started to realise just how much of my life was mapped around mealtimes, how much excitement I take from food cooking and eating and hosting, all of which was now denied me.

For the record, Im delighted that I take so much joy in food and, for all I might amend my more extreme acts of gluttony, or portion sizes, this experience means I will never again take that joy for granted. To my amazement, however, I grew to enjoy the various seasonings and spices I could use on my same three meals, and stopped missing my nightly wines within the first week or two. The same could not be said for other, less expected, abstinences. I found myself daydreaming about the rich, warm waft of butter on toast, the first creamy mouthful of a buttered spud and the quotidian ecstasy of an honest-to-goodness cup of tea. Teas were, incidentally, included in my approved list, but milk was off the menu, and Im sorry but black tea is horrible.

By the fourth and fifth week, I found my appetite had changed sufficiently that I no longer looked at my diet in horror, but as a job to be done. As much as I looked forward to all the old joys that eating offers, I was surprised, and pleased, by a newfound ability to maintain discipline, if only for the novelty of it. Stranger still, I was now relishing my workouts, as the weights I was moving doubled in quick time. I looked forward to my time with Alex, and the belief he had in my ability to push further and further each day.

Perhaps most surprisingly of all, I was beginning to admit how much I enjoyed the physical changes to my body. I was thinner, yes, but I was also stronger and felt, undeniably, better about myself in a manner that transcended simply looking better in photos or fitting in old clothes again. You see people change through the process so much, Sarah says when I mention this. Especially when it comes to getting strong. People come, a lot of the time, to lose weight, but when they start to get stronger, its really empowering.

Sarah has an open, easy manner and the unfaked enthusiasm of one of those cool young teachers you end up wanting to impress. I realise, to my shame, that before Id started this thing Id been worried actually, dimly terrified about how all these fit, beautiful people would regard my shlubby frame and wobbly bits. By the end of my seven weeks, Id been disarmed by their patience and empathy and their understanding of how transforming the physical affects the psychological. Honestly, she tells me, its more than half the job. People do this because a lot of the time they dont feel good. Maybe eight out of 10 people cry in their initial consultation, because they end up saying out loud for the first time that theyre not happy.

I realise Id spent my life carrying around certain self-serving fictions about health and fitness that this modicum of effort had challenged. Id internalised the idea that dwelling on the physical was for other people or, worse, symptomatic of societys wider problems with fat-shaming or obsessing over appearance. Seeking fitness was admirable, of course, even tracking it was desirable in a nerdy sort of way. But flaunting it, or enjoying your physical appearance for its own sake, was gauche or vain.

At the end of the regime, I had changed, but so had my preconceptions about the process itself. With seven weeks to play with, I was never going to end up a bodybuilder, but Id attained a leanness I hadnt considered possible, remapped the frontiers of my own endurance, and shed 2st. But I was mostly delighted with smaller improvements Id made along the way lifting more, running harder. I was running 5km in 22 minutes, having started at closer to 30, but was prouder still that I no longer needed to pause for breath when picking up my son. Id expected to shift a bit of flab and generate enough content to make a gently self-deprecating article that charted my unlikely transition from slob to slightly-fitter slob. It is with a mixture of horror and delight I can report that this transformation was more, well, transformative than that.

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WACO, Texas The season of joy and excess is over and many of us promise ourselves we will eat healthier in the new year, but not all diets work for everyone.

Every year a fad diet comes along, but not all of them are healthy.

A new U.S. News and World Report ranked the best diets in 2020. Coming in number one for the third year in a row is the Mediterranean diet, followed by the Flexitarian diet.

Mediterranean Diet

The Mediterranean has a lot of good qualities. Jessica Urban, a nutrition manager at Baylor Scott & White Hillcrest in Waco said it's filled with fish, fruits and vegetables, and whole grains. So, you can always count on getting your Omega 3 and fatty acids, which can reduce inflammation.

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Keto Diet

The popular Keto diet came in at the bottom of the list. This low-carb diet focuses on proteins and fat. Urban said, if you try it, make sure you do it right.

"It is a good idea to instead of just eating bacon or sausage, make sure you're choosing more lean types of meat," Urban said.

Don't forget carbs are important, so Urban said instead of a strict Keto diet you should throw in some whole grains.

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Vegan/Vegetarian Diet

Many people are going meatless and even chain restaurants are including meatless options on their menu, but if you don't do it right it could be unhealthy.

Urban said nutritionists and doctors will always recommend eating fruits and vegetables, but if you only eat that you could be missing out on proteins and other vitamins found in meat. Foods like nuts, beans, chickpeas, quinoa, and tofu are all good substitutes. Also, make sure you add whole grains into your meals.

If you do it right, a plant-based diet can be healthy. "There are so many good things about fruits and veggies, vita chemicals, vitamins, nutrients, cancer preventative properties and cardiovascular preventative properties as well," Urban said.

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Don't forget to take your vitamins with any diet. This ensures you get what nutrients might be missing in your food.

Flexitarian

The Flexitarian diet has become popular in recent years. This diet is for those who don't want to go all-in on becoming vegan/vegetarian. It's a mostly plant-based diet with some meat and other animal products in moderation.

No matter which diet you choose, make sure you talk to a nutritionist or your doctor if you have health issues to see which diet will work for you.

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This month, millions of Americans will kick off 2020 with a diet reset. The healthier and leaner version of ourselves will be achieved only by controlling our eating habits, especially around carbs and sugar. Or so we believe.

But a radical new approach to health has also been gaining traction. Its called intuitive eating. Hang on to your green smoothie, because it contradicts everything weve learned about health and weight loss. And its the antithesis of wellness programs from keto to intermittent fasting to eating clean.

Intuitive eating posits that the very best diet is no diet at all. Instead of strict food rules, we should tune into our natural-born urges to eat what we want, when we want. While it sounds like a crazy fad diet, research is mounting to support its merits.

For one thing, diets definitively do not work: 95 percent of people who lose weight on a diet regain it within five years. An exhaustive study of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey published in November 2019 found that although more Americans are trying to lose weight mainly by controlling food consumption, body mass indexes and obesity rates continue to climb.

But the problems go beyond traditional weight loss programs. Chasing the perfect diet is, itself, a potential health risk. Clean eating, for example, emphasizes local, organic, non-GMO, unprocessed and plant-based food. But fixating on avocados, coconut oil and quinoa while demonizing processed foods takes eating healthy to a dangerous extreme. According to a June 2019 study in the Journal of Eating Disorders, the popularity of clean eating among college students belies its potential for disordered eating, or orthorexia nervosa.

As a food magazine editor in the mid-2000s, Christy Harrison wrote about the gluten-free and low-carb lifestyle, believing she was promoting healthy food choices. But at home, she binged. Id have an ungodly number of rice cakes to try to get the satisfaction I would have gotten if I had just allowed myself to have a sandwich on bread, she told HuffPost.

Now a registered dietitian with the popular Food Psych podcast, Harrison is leading a counter-revolution against diet culture. Her new book, Anti-Diet, is a takedown of the $60 billion weight loss industry along with celebrity-endorsed detoxes and well-intentioned environmental food rules she calls sneaky forms of dieting.

Based on deprivation, diets not only lead to food obsessions and binging but take a bigger toll. You start to see that its not actually giving you what you want, she said, and is taking away a lot of important aspects of your life your time and money, your well-being, your happiness.

According to Harrison and a growing chorus of holistic health practitioners, the antidote is intuitive eating.

The brainchild of registered dietitians Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch in the mid-1990s, the 10 principles of intuitive eating are designed to heal our relationship with food and our bodies. The journey to intuitive eating is like taking a cross-country hiking trip, the authors write in Intuitive Eating. Unlike dieting, the process is nonlinear and personalized with a nonjudgmental focus on wellness, not weight loss.

The concept has resonated with the body positivity movement, including the movement Health at Every Size, and lately has sparked a new brand of Instagrammers like @erinliveswhole and @olive.eeeats showcasing the anti-diet way of life.

But lets back up. If intuitive eating is based on internal eating cues, can we really trust ourselves?

Eating is fundamental to human survival, journalist Virginia Sole-Smith told HuffPost. The author of The Eating Instinct found convincing evidence that we are all born with a set of instincts to eat and self-regulate our food intake. Even toddlers do it. The trouble starts when we grow up in a culture that replaces comfort and pleasure around food with guilt, shame and fear. Were so convinced that eating the wrong things will make us fat, she said.

You can blame the diet industry, but Sole-Smith, along with Harrison, lays equal blame on the natural food movement. For 20 years, the efforts to call out environmental, social and racial injustices in the food system have also demonized industrialized food as bad and dirty. And if we choose to eat them, we are unhealthy by association.

While living on chia yogurt bowls and turmeric chickpea curry sounds good, its not sustainable for most people. I think the pressure to eat as clean and whole and natural as possible is wearing people out, Sole-Smith said.

Sure, its a scary idea to trust our own eating instincts. Were afraid of losing control, but Sole-Smith said, Youre not going to want to eat doughnuts day in, day out because after a while your body will crave something different.

The research backs her up. Ohio State University body image and eating behavior researcher Tracy L. Tylka has conducted large-scale studies to assess three main elements of intuitive eating: eating for physical rather than emotional reasons, unconditional permission to eat, and reliance on hunger and satiety cues. She concludes that intuitive eaters are aware of and trust their bodys internal hunger and satiety cues and use these cues to determine when and how much to eat.

Current research indicates that intuitive eaters are less prone to binge, have lower BMIs and have less disordered eating. They also experience more body appreciation, self-compassion and optimism as well as higher self-esteem.

It appears, after all, that you are not what you eat. For people like me who have lived by clean eating, its hard to let go of long-held ideas of good and bad food. But has all the food shaming benefited anyone?

For everyone ready for dramatic change in the next decade, Sole-Smith offers a simple anti-diet challenge: Dare to enjoy your food.

She added: You really cant have a healthy relationship with food if you cant take pleasure in food.

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NEW YORK As we launch into a new year, 70% of us who made resolutions have vowed to shred the weight for 2020. One diet that's getting lots of buzz? The keto diet.

From Hollywood to the gym, from professional athletes to your Instagram feed, chances are you've seen keto testimonials, full of six-pack abs. But what's the skinny on all that cheese, fat and bacon?

Jaime Herrera, owner of La Lotera in Greenwich Village, transformed his Mexican restaurant into a keto-friendly joint after doing a keto challenge with friends.

"I did it for a month and a half. We used a nutritionist and I lost like, 15 to 20 pounds," Herrera told PIX11. "I felt better than when I was eating carbs!" he gushed while building one of his signature keto tacos in his restaurant's kitchen.

Sausage, cheese, avocado and spicy mayo on his carb-free taco shell made from jcama.

The basic rules of the ketogenic diet, or keto for short, are: Eliminate virtually all carbohydrates, eat mostly fat and some protein, and limiting any carbs you do eat to vegetables and fruits that have the last amount.

But that's an eating approach that Dr. Shivam Joshi says can be a prescription for problems. Dr. Joshi is the clinical assistant professor for the department of medicine at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

As an attending physician at New York City's Health and Hospitals at Bellevue, Joshi said the keto diet can lead to issues. "It is high in fat, so will it raise your cholesterol? Will you get a kindey stone?" he warned.

Joshi said that while the keto diet was originally used for epileptic patients, to calm seizures, today's popular version raises a lot of concerns.

Keto devotees make a variety of claims; Having more energy, brain fog lifting and most notably, shredding their bodies. Joshi wants to see the proof. "There really isn't a lot of evidence supporting this," he said.

Joshi will admit, however, that some of the keto basics, like eliminating empty-calorie carbs, are healthy changes.

The doctor said "a lot of unhealthy carbs, sugars, corn syrup, high calorie foods," are smart to get out of your diet.

However, Joshi warns that keto limits many foods beneficial to our well being. "The diet does cut out a lot of healthy foods. It cuts out fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans. These are some of the healthiest foods on the planet."

The real answer to weight loss according to the doctor? "Alternatives to keto are any diet that cuts calories," he advised.

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Adele got ahead of the "New Year, new you" trend and revealed her nearly 50-pound weight loss in 2019. She first made headlines at Drake's birthday party and a recent Caribbean vacation, perPage Six, but has yet to speak publicly about her weight loss.

Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File The secret to Adele's slimmer physique, according to personal trainer and Pilates instructor Camila Goodis, is not hours spent at the gym, but a complete overhaul in her regular diet. Goodis met the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter during a training session with Adele's friend and former X-Factor judge Adya Field. While the "Someone Like You" singer is not currently one of Goodis' clients, the trainer believes that "90 percent" of Adele's weight loss is a result of a change in her diet, including eliminating processed food, sugar, and soda.

I dont believe she liked exercise much, but she has changed her lifestyle," Goodis told The Sun. Giving up processed food, sugar, soda and get into an exercise routine, like cardio and strength training, will change peoples body.

Adele has been trying out the Sirtfood Diet, per the New York Post. The Sirtfood Diet is an eating plan that focuses on sirtuins, a.k.a. proteins in your body that specialize in cellular health and metabolism. According to the Post, the diet includes kale, extra-virgin olive oil, buckwheat, matcha, blueberries, and arugula, but also allows for red wine and dark chocolate.

However, nutritionist Glen Matten, who helped develop the program, told the publication that even with those few indulgences, the diet is hard. For three days, participants are supposed to only eat 1,000 calories a day of sirtuin-heavy foods and green juices before increasing their caloric intake to 1,500 calories a day.

Beyond changing up her diet, Adele did work with a personal trainer. The singer started her new exercise plan and worked out three times a week, according to US Weekly. She does 60-minute sessions that include cardio, circuit training, and Pilates, a source told the publication in July 2019. Shes found a routine thats working for her and is enjoying it more.

So, hello from the other side.

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Kylie Jenner is one of the most famous women in the world. Her namesake helped her establish a massive fan base, which, in turn, led her to creating a global cosmetics brand thats made her worth more than $1 billion. The Kardashian-Jenner sisters are all very into fitness and healthy eating, but that could be the one way Jenner differs from her other famous siblings and were loving it.

When youre a member of the Kardashian family, appearance iseverything. The women arent shy about their use of facial fillers, cellulitereducing machines, and body foundation. Plus, they all love to workout. KhloKardashian is arguably thefittest member of her family and even has her own reality show aroundlosing weight and becoming healthy. Meanwhile, Kim and Kourtney Kardashian arealways posting photos and videos of their workouts, and Kendall Jenner, who isa model, makes fitness a top priority as well.

Jenner is a bit more relaxed than her sisters when it comes to working out. She hardly posts videos of her workouts and, though she has a toned body, seems to dine more casually than her sisters as well.

Whenever Jenner posts photos of food to Instagram, the dishes are usually pretty modest. She enjoys pizza and fries, and she once posted a photo admitting her love for Fritos Flavor Twists. On Jenners reality show, Life of Kylie, which had a pretty short run, Jenner made it clear she doesnt enjoy going out to fancy dinners. When she was eating with her mother at an upscale restaurant, she hated the sound of everything on the menu. Jenner is much more content with more basic foods, such as grilled cheese (she even once made a Snapchat video showing fans how to make the perfect grilled cheese).

Jenners siblings care a lot about their health, and she likely does, too. But she doesnt appear to stick to the strict diets that the other Kardashian-Jenners do. Jenner enjoys many different foods, and while she does eat healthy foods, such as avocado toast, she also loves to spoil herself with greasier, less-healthy options. On her recent Instagram story, Jenner posted a photo of a pepperoni pizza (it looked amazing) and some French fries (they might have been sweet potato fries, but it was tough to tell).

Jenner followed the images with a post of a glass of white wine, showing that she was clearly enjoying her feast and not worrying about counting calories.

Something surprising about the beauty mogul is that sheactually enjoys cooking. Though most of her meals are basic (such as thegrilled cheese), she does post photos of the meals she cooks for herself.Despite being a billionaire, she knows what foods she likes and how she likesthem. So why not cook for herself? Its possible Jenner hires a chef for eventsor certain occasions, but its nice to know that, in some ways, shes just likethe rest of us.

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TEMPLE, Texas The keto diet is one of the most popular diets of the year and every January, thousands of people try to jump right into this way of eating.

In this week's "Your Best Life," 6 News Evening Anchor Leslie Draffin talked to a health professional about what keto is, what it's not, and how you can incorporate it into your life in a healthy way.

The keto diet has made headlines since it burst into the mainstream a few years ago. But what exactly is it?

According to Natural Grocers Nutritional Health Coach Helena Linzy, "The Keto diet is essentially just a diet that's high in healthy fat, moderate in protein and ultra-low carbohydrates. Generally speaking, carb-intake is kept to a ratio of less than 50 grams per day. And that number drops to 20 grams, if you're inactive."Linzy said even though you're eating a lot of fat in the Keto diet, you also eat healthy proteins and an abundance of low carb non-starchy veggies. This can include things like broccoli, cauliflower and spinach.

The good news, and contrary to popular belief, fruit is allowed!

"Yes, the Keto diet does allow you to eat some fruit, small amounts of fruit, and generally, these fruits will be low in sugar so think berries, Linzy said.

According to Linzy, the Keto diet is meant to retrain your body to burn energy from fat instead of energy from carbs or sugar.

"When you eat a lot of fat, your body produces ketones as an alternative energy source. Ketones are like this magical source of energy that can be used by the brain and in your body much the same way that sugar is used, but it's a much cleaner burning fuel source, and it's kind of just like a lasting energy fuel source," Linzy said.

The problem is, you can't jump right into Keto without risking something called the Keto flu.

"So, symptoms of the Keto flu include headaches, low energy and brain fog, and this is literally your body detoxing from carbohydrate addiction. So, your body is so used to using sugar for energy and it hasn't yet built the metabolic machinery that's needed to burn fat and keytones. So if you cut your carbohydrates too much and too quickly, you run the risk of experiencing those unpleasant symptoms."

Linzy said you can avoid all of those symptoms by first doing a 21-day reset where you follow a Paleo diet first. This will help you slowly decrease your carb intake. Then you can cycle into Keto for four-six weeks and finally go back to Paleo. Paleo is a diet where you eat healthy proteins and fats along with a moderate amount of carbohydrates.

"Our bodies know how to burn fat for energy but because of our standard American diet. Our bodies have kind of forgotten that we've all been running on sugar. So, the four-six weeks there initially is to kind of retrain your body to burn fat after those initial four to six weeks then you go back to more of a paleo-style way of eating, and then maybe you can go do the Keto cyclically like only on the weekends."

Also remember, Keto isn't made to do forever but it can be beneficial for many people for many reasons.

"Anybody that's looking to improve their overall health can benefit from the keto diet. So, whether it be blood sugar balance, healthy weight, someone that's looking to support cognitive function-- your brain really loves to use ketones for energy so that can help with memory and focus."

But Linzy stresses, Keto isn't for everyone including women who are pregnant or nursing, children or teens, and diabetics.

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She also reminds anyone thinking of starting keto to talk to your doctor first.

If you're interested in finding out more about the keto diet, Natural Grocers is hosting free seminars all month long.

You can register and find more details on the natural grocers website.

You can also hear more from Helena Linzy and Dr. Patricia Sulak, Thursday, January 9th at 6 p.m. Theyre hosting a free seminar called Food Fads & Supplements at the Temple ISD Administration Building.

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