CELEBRITY HEALTH & FITNESS
What Does Losing 100 Pounds Do for Your Body, Ask Jessica Simpson
“I’ve been criticized and it hurts but I’ve been every weight and I’ve been proud of it,” — Jessica Simpson
When you become fat in Hollywood, people forget you until you come out with your revenge body.
‘I’ve Struggled’ — Jessica Simpson gets ‘emotional’ about he 100 Lb. weight loss Journey
‘Gained & Lost’ 100 Lbs.
Self-love. There are many stories that Jessica Simpson loves sharing — her being sober for four years, her clothing line, and her memoir Open Book which will be adapted into a scripted TV series.
But nothing makes her more emotional than sharing her battle with her weight.
A lot of it comes from societal’s expectations of women, most especially young women in Hollywood. And Jessica Simpson started young, she grew up in our very own eyes alongside Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.
Today Jessica is a mother of three, happily married, and the CEO of her billion-dollar fashion empire.
What losing 100 pounds looks like for Jessica Simpson
She never thought it can happen to her again, to wear a two-piece bikini and share it on Instagram, but it did happen.
I have gained and lost 100lbs 3x so I never thought this moment could or would happen, but I’m finally spring breakin’ wearin’ a BIKINI!!!!!! Hard work Determination Self Love
I enjoyed a good proud cry today 💪🏼☀️💛 — Jessica Simpson
Pasternak’s Body Reset Diet
Well, like most stars Jessica Simpson did get some professional help from celebrity trainer Harley Pasternak who counts among his clients, Kim Kardashian, Megan Fox, Lady Gaga, and Kanye West, who he ditched after West’s anti-semitic rants and calls the guy — unwell.
He is the same celebrity trainer behind the 5 Factor diet.
The Promise The 5-Factor Diet will not leave you hungry. According to its creator and celebrity fitness trainer Harley Pasternak, it is a lifestyle plan, not a diet. Every aspect of the strategy revolves around the number five. You’ll prepare and eat five 5-ingredient meals per day (each takes 5 minutes to prepare) and do five 25-minute workouts (each consisting of five 5-minute segments) per week.
Pasternak promises that eating five balanced meals a day will keep your blood sugar stable and low. This improves your mood and gives you energy throughout the day. — Excerpt, What Is the 5 Factor Diet? A Comprehensive Review
And he further tweaked the 5 Factor diet for anyone who wanted a quick fix, all of 15 days is what it takes for someone to lose weight according to Pasternak if you follow his Pasternak’s Body Reset Diet.
What is Pasternak’s Body Reset Diet?
While Pasternak said the slow and steady wins the race and it is better to lose half a pound a week than lose it all in days.
But for many, that means having to diet for 40 weeks only to lose 20 pounds, and Drew Barrymore knows exactly what it takes to lose that much weight.
And instead of telling people — to lose it fast, gain it back fast. He designed Pasternak’s Body Reset Diet.
If you can’t beat them join them I’m gonna give you a healthy safe alternative to a rapid weight loss program in five days you’re gonna transform your body and learn to keep it off for the next ten. — Harley Pasternak in 2013.
The diet comes in 3 phases of five days each.
Phase 1 is where you get to be ‘good friends” with your blender. You might have guessed it, but the diet calls for a lot of smoothies, but mind you not juicing.
In the next five days, you will not eat anything instead drink a lot of smoothies. Actually 3 smoothies, color-coded to white at breakfast, red at lunch, and green at dinner that and 2 crunchy snacks.
An example of a white smoothie is what he calls the Apple Pie smoothie, which has apples and bananas in it.
In phase 2, in the next five days, you replace one smoothie with a solid meal, which he calls the S meal or solid single dish — which can be any of the ff.
- soups
- salads
- sandwiches
- stir fry
In the final phase or the last five days of Pasternak’s Body Reset Diet, you replace two of the smoothies with solid meals. And from there, it is the way you would eat for the rest of your life, or you transition into the five-factor diet.
One of the sample snacks Pasternak is air-popped popcorn, but don’t go over 150 calories per snack.
What did Jessica Simpson do to lose 100 pounds?
The last decade was years she had been giving life, she delivered three babies and she loved them all. But, let’s be honest here, her body had gone through a transformation and by her design and decision, she wanted to reclaim her body.
And she did.
Her longtime trainer Harley Pasternak designed a 5-step program for Jessica Simpson:
- getting in her steps,
- unplugging from technology for an hour,
- getting sleep,
- eating healthfully and
- exercising.
Step 1 is something we can do, walking. Pasternak revealed that Jessica did 6,000 steps a day for the first few weeks until she was able to do 12,000 a day.
Step 2 Unplugging while looks easy take a lot of discipline.
Step 3 Getting sleep. It isn’t the first time I heard you lose weight by sleeping.
Step 4 Pasternak’s Body Reset Diet.
And Simpson dove right into the diet changes, which were based on Pasternak’s Body Reset Diet.
“It’s three meals and two snacks a day, and each meal has protein, fiber and fat, and snacks are protein and fiber or protein and fat,” he says. “She’ll have foods that are very flavorable that are healthier versions of things like a tortilla soup or Tex-Mex.
And if she has a birthday party one night and a date night another night, she’s going to indulge both of those nights, but that’s it. It’s about balancing in a way that doesn’t make it painful or too much of a departure from your life before that.” — Excerpt, Jessica Simpson’s 100-Lb. Weight Loss Happened ‘Outside of the Gym’
Step 5 Exercising. Jessica would be at the gym for 45 minutes, three times a week. That’s all.
According to Pasternak losing 100 pounds wasn't the goal. It happened. He also believes as he calls it his mantra,
“you get lean in life, and strong in the gym.”
If that is a consolation for most of us, it means we don’t need a celebrity trainer but the will to start doing something.
Small steps as Jessica Simpson called it.
Replacing old habits with new habits, and the five tasks that he designed for Jessica Simpson, she had to be accountable by sending him an email that everything was done.
She kept her end of the bargain; she did her tasks.
And in the end, Jessica Simpson lost 100 lbs.
Final words
I can’t reiterate the fact that each one of us will have a unique weight loss journey, and while we can take inspiration from celebrities, we have to temper our expectations with our results.
“I’ve been criticized…and I’ve been every weight and I’ve been proud of it,” Jessica Simpson
When Jessica Simpson played Daisy Duke on Dukes of Hazzard, her co-star Linda Carter warned her that people would always associate her with the character Daisy Duke as she was with her iconic role as Wonder Woman.
The expectations of female celebrities are sometimes too much for these female actors. But instead of being a victim, Jessica Simpson instead not only lost weight but she turned herself into a billion-dollar brand.
I’ve been criticized and it hurts but I’ve been every weight and I’ve been proud of it I decided okay everybody’s gonna talk about my weight all the time I might as well make money off of it and turn it into a business of selling clothes. — Jessica Simpson
Needless to say, celebrities have access to the best of the best. They can afford a team. Again, that shouldn’t be disheartening to hear, but for us to tweak what we read, ask our doctor and get the support of our family and friends.
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Also, believe in yourself. Do it for yourself and for your health.
It can happen, many ordinary people have lost weight and kept it.
Disclaimer: This story should not be seen as weight-loss advice, it is best to see your doctor before embarking on any weight loss program.
Thank you for reading.
Sources
Jessica Simpson Reveals How Society’s Obsession With Her Weight Has Impacted Her: ‘It Hurts’
Jessica Simpson’s 100-Lb. Weight Loss Happened ‘Outside of the Gym’
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