Posted on 08/01/2009 5:05:22 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Los Angeles, CA (BANG) - Gwyneth Paltrow feels "pure" after surviving for three weeks on pumpkin seeds and coconut water. The slim actress followed the Clean Detox program "to the letter," after gaining some weight during a "majorly fun and delicious relax-and-enjoy life phase."
Writing on her website, Gwyneth said: "This program allowed me to work and exercise regularly, something I cannot do if I am on a liquid only detox. I followed it to the letter and I feel pure and happy and much lighter."
While on the diet - which has the motto Remove, Restore, Rejuvenate - Gwyneth ate one solid meal a day and meditated for at least five minutes daily.
Alcohol, dairy, sugar, caffeine, red meat, processed foods, flour, gluten and soy were banned.
The 36-year-old star survived on coconut water, herbal tea, fresh fruit smoothies, raw almonds, miso soup, raw pumpkin seeds and extra virgin olive oil.
In the evening, the "Iron Man" star tucked into steamed salmon or chicken with green vegetables.
Gwyneth showed off her slender frame in a clingy Preen mini-dress when she attended the Children of the City Champions of Hope gala in New York on Wednesday.
Nutritionist Carina Norris has spoken out against the detox diet, claiming it could be endangering Gwyneth's health.
She explained: "When people start talking of detox diets, alarm bells ring in my head. It's great to give your body a rest from too much processed foods and sugars but there's no need to do something so drastic. It can be low in calories so it would work but anything over a few days is not good for you."
And that 'staring at her navel' for 5 minutes a day for three whole weeks must've been tough!
Movie Stars. Is there anything they don't know? ;)
How did she lose weight - punch a hole in her head and let the air drain out?
These Hollywood starlets and self-absorbed perfectionist people in general have a goal to only crap little herb scented rabbit pellets.
Well . . . she’s pure something.
Eat a heaping helping of a fresh bunch of some type of greens from the garden that’s been dragged through a little hog fat, and you’ll get a similar “cleansing”
Ah, Gwyneth...
there was a time when you were quite the hottie...
sadly, all things must pass.
But keep sucking the seeds, dear! We will tell you if there’s any improvement.
Los Angeles, CA (BANG) - Gwyneth Paltrow feels "pure" after surviving for three weeks on pumpkin seeds and coconut water.
But two sentences further down:
The 36-year-old star survived on coconut water, herbal tea, fresh fruit smoothies, raw almonds, miso soup, raw pumpkin seeds and extra virgin olive oil. In the evening, the "Iron Man" star tucked into steamed salmon or chicken with green vegetables.
What fine journalism! Shannon McGregor is a fine exemplar of the current state of the art coming out of J-School....
“Detox” is junk science and Paltrow is a big dork. They always play her stupid show on the airplane flights. She was getting rubbed down with volcanic rocks while some woman chanted some New Age crap burning incense.
..?????..hmmm...I must have some of the most "regular" birds in north Jersey than..they can go through a ton of them in a week
a bit different
Then please, by all means, never do it.
LOL
To each their own, I guess.
I also noticed the other foods she ate during the day and she was eating quite well and not starving herself. What a crock of journalism McGregor threw together. Miso soup can be prepared many ways and depending what is in the soup, it can be a light meal - the sodium content is very high though.
A tall warm glass of extra virgin olive oil will clean anyone out.
Self-indulgent jerk!
Since pumpkin seeds are good for the prostate, I guess she has no trouble peeing.
You have to counter the effects of coconut milk with lots and lots of RUM and a banana to keep your potassium level up. Gwyneth is SUCH a 'lightweight' in too many ways to count! :)
With that diet Gwen better stay close to the Water Closet.
Gwyneth, hon, your colon might be pressure washed, but you are hardly ‘pure’.
She needs to do a detox on her brain.
Another exhibit showing that beauty and brains are mutually exclusive in Hollywood.
All of that money, power and attention; Now, if only they could just find a way to live forever.......
Oh, wait there already is a way but they refuse to believe it or consider it. Probably because it would not suit their self image or amoral doctrine.
Oh well sweetie, enjoy your seeds and water. they must give you such spiritual nutrition.
I still think she looks like an ostrich.
I like your diet better!! :-)
A cute ostrich though.
a more shallow and vapid creature there'll never be...
sounds like most of what she was doing was using natural laxatives to flush out everything before it could be absorbed by the body. Drinking all the coconut milk and olive oil will have you spending half your day in the bathroom.
The same usual techniques used by people with eating disorders to keep the weight off. Very popular with models and hollywood. The almonds are high in natural protein and are there so your muscles won’t give out while your starving yourself.
She may be stupid and shallow, but you have to admit that’s a gorgeous photograph. She was beautiful in “Shakespeare in Love.” Clearly acting ability and intelligence are not related.
Shoot, I raise a spring and fall crop of an array of salad greens. About a week of meal-in-a-salad (i.e. w/calories like hardboiled eggs, toasted bread, steamed taters, bacon, dressing etc.) during salad seasons and you will be seriously cleaned out head to toe.
With a diet like this, what is the meaning of life?? No ham? No bourbon? No mojitos, wine, beer, steaks, bread, vodka? No doughnuts? No bacon? GAAAAH. (And I say this as someone who is every bit as slender as Gwyneth, and probably much more fit.)
My Mother-In-Law’s Cool Whip and Jello Mold, on the tee: gives me a complete cleanse out./Just Asking - seoul62.......
Unless we’re talking about something having to do with drug or alcohol rehab, when you hear the word “detox” you need to think “scam”.
Just like a child who is being potty trained, Gwyneth takes a dump and can't wait to tell us all about it.
Bless her little brain and heart.
Anyone ever taken castor oil?
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If Jessica knew what "vapid" meant she would be waving her hand now . . . |
I’d rather have a burger with Jessica than a pumpkin juice with Gwyneth.
i stand corrected sir...
Gotta stand up for her here. Not for her 3 week low calorie diet, just for her great newsletter. The girl has friends with excellent recipes and tastes in various things, and she shares them with everyone. She enjoys high caloric delicious foods too. I find that really refreshing.
For someone in her business, I consider her low-calorie diet a whole lot healthier than what the other ladies do to stay reed-thin. She might have done too few calories, for a couple of weeks only, but what she did eat was pure and healthy, and she wasn’t adding three quarts of vodka or 10 lines of coke to it.
I am grateful to her for some rocking Italian recipes and some great tips.
She probably has the worst taste in clothes and especially shoes than any other actress.
Aww, come on now - who wouldn't want to take up eating bird seed to be able to attend an epic soiree like that?
You cant really balme her. Look at the people she hangs with and you will see her problem. people in Hollywood wouldnt know a common person if they bumped into one.
What Gwyneth needs is a man to show her the real world. The pleasure of a bacon cheeseburger{with American cheese}. A ice cold PBR, a weekend of FREEPIN. Enjoying the world that God made, not the plastic one invented for her by plastic people.
Give me a call, Gwyneth. I will take you to a greesy spoon that make a great breakfast. 6 Strips of bacon, 5 scrambled eggs, home fries and choc milk.Put a little meat on them bones, live a little. Life is too short to be crapping your brains out because you drank a gallon of coconut milk and seeds. Look at the all the trees you would be saving because your TP consumpion would be cut in half.
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