Getting Super Fit with Yoga

Sting, the rock star, stays super fit with yoga. For many years now he's been practicing Ashtanga Yoga and he typically spends an hour and a half a day performing the exercises.

Here are two photos, one taken when he was 49, the other taken when he was 55 years old. That is also the same year he wrote a foreward to a Yoga book called Yoga Beyond Belief.

Ali Lost 100 Pounds in One Year

Ali lost 100 pounds in one year. She did this with the help of a personal trainer. She is very tall at 6'1' and she now weighs 175 pounds. When she first met her trainer and weighed 278 pounds, he told her she wasn't eating enough!

He asked her to eat six small meals a day and to make sure she got lots of protein in each meal. Now she is often eating chicken or fish at 10:00 in the morning. She says she no longer craves sugar.

When she first started losing weight she lost 20 pounds in the first month and that was very encouraging. See her weight loss story and picture here.

Slim After Seven Pregnancies

Diane used to weigh over 300 pounds. That was after she had three kids. Then she lost 150 pounds and has kept it off for several years and despite four more pregnancies! She lost the weight by watching her diet and exercising regularly. See her fabulous story at her website Fit to the Finish.

How Celebrities Lose Weight

The Daily Beast site has a great slideshow and discussion about how 10 stars and celebritites went about losing weight. They include
Halle Berry, Gwyneth Paltrow, Valerie Bertinelli, Julia Louis-dreyfus, Marie Osmond, Mandy Moore, Star Jones, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Rebecca Romijn, Nia Vardalos, and Kirstie Alley.

See their before and after photos and stories here.

Lisa Loses 50 Pounds

Lisa Key-Blair has lost 50 pounds in one year. She is featured in this months Fitness magazine. See her before and after photo at the link.

She gained much of the weight after her second pregnancy in 2006 and was worried about her health. With changes in her diet and exercise routine, she feels so much better now. Read her story here.

Pictured here is the hummus she makes at home with her blender. It's a delicious nutritious dip made from chickpeas, garlic, tahini and lemon.

Rebecca Romijn Loses Her Baby Fat

Actress and model Rebecca Romijn has lost nearly 60 pounds after giving birth to twins on December 28th last year. She says she lost the first 35 pounds within the first three weeks. (We must be counting the baby weight here too.) She says breastfeeding is the very best diet she's been on. See her story here.

Marie Osmond on Weight Loss

Marie Osmond, age 49, lost 45 pounds 2 years ago and has managed to keep it off.
She dropped from a size 12/14 to a size 2/4. She says it only took her four months to do this. She now weighs about 120 pounds (she is 5'5" tall) and is a spokeswoman for NutriSystem. See some great before and after photos of her here.

She discusses her weight loss story in her new book Might As Well Laugh About It Now

The Best Sources of Protein

A high protein diet is increasingly being recommended for fast weight loss. A friend of mine needs a hernia operation and he was told he had to lose almost 25 pounds in less than three months before the operation. A hernia operation is much less risky if there is less stomach fat. He has been placed on a high protein, low carb diet. It's not recommended for the long term, but as a fast way to lose the extra weight.

The Harvard School of Public Health has a great article about the best sources of protein. They say the best sources are fish, beans and chicken.