Ciara Says 'No' to Colon Cleansing

In a recent interview with OK! Magazine, Ciara opens up about trying to do cleanses. “I attempted to do this cayenne pepper thing one time, [but] I could not get past the idea of drinking what that stuff looked like,” she said.
She thinks the trick to losing weight is just diet and exercise. “It’s all about what you eat,” she says. “I change my eating schedule by getting rid of bad carbs and replacing them with complex carbs, like brown rice and wheat toast, wheat pasta noodles. I’ll come down on my sauces. I make sure it’s more protein-driven. Like grilled chicken, steak and fish. I also like to do greens to get fiber — broccoli, string beans, salad and lettuce, to help cleanse your body. My diet basically consists of protein, greens, and complex carbs. I focus on trying to eat more clean. I do five or six meals when I’m eating healthy. And I drink tons of water.” Source
I agree (as much as I hate to exercise). Those kinds of fad diets never work permanently.

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K-Fed is K-Fat

Kevin Federline has been ballooning for the past few years and now that he’s got a new reality show some think the focus may be on his struggle with his weight.

He didn’t say that was a reason but a friend commented saying, “He’s not hurting for money, but he’d like to make this work. He’s not going to kill anything that might be coming together by talking about it in too much detail before he’s really sure it’s going to happen.” Source

Well, I hope that out of this show he gets a few bucks and his six pack back. Because that keg he’s carrying around is NOT a good look.

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If Tyra doesn't EAt, Neither Do YOu

Tyra Banks is on a diet that doesn’t allow for sweets so she forbids any of her staff to eat them around her.
A source, “She has become so strict with her diet that she can’t even stand for junk food or fattening food to be around her. So she’s basically telling anyone she eats with what they can and can’t order. Most people think she’s joking at first, but then they realize she actually expects them to follow her eating rules too. She tells them: ‘If I’m not eating it, you’re not eating it!’” Source
She sounds like me. I’ve forbade ALL of my coworkers from putting any and all random sweets within 10 feet of my work station. If I see or smell donuts, cupcakes, rice crispy treats or the like, while sitting in my cube the skull cracking will commence. And they know I’m serious.

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Britney Post

Brit has taken a break from her tour to start working on her next album.
She’s working with Max Martin who produced Oops I Did It Again.
Writing on social networking site Twitter.com on Sunday (12Jul09), she says, "In Stockholm in the studio with Max Martin." Source
Good for you Britters!

In Other Britney News...
Britney has reportedly gained 14lbs in her one month tour break. She’s now being pressured to lose it before hitting the stage again.
A source said: "She was in tears saying they're calling her fat again. She showed up to a meeting with a latte in her hand and everyone jumped on her. Britney's supposed to be eating a diet of fish, chicken and vegetables. When she swaps the healthy stuff for junk, her dad gets worried."
The source added to Britain's Star magazine: "She does not think about the calories in the food, just that she likes it. She loves greasy food and creamy sweets and hates fruit and vegetables. She still eats a lot of fast food - mainly late at night.
"It started as a kid when she hid her habits from her parents. She loves cookies and keeps candy in her travel bags. She hides it or people will be on her case. Her trainers tell her they know she's cheating, but she tells them, 'Mind your own business.' " Source
Yea! Mind your own GD business. I understand she has an image to maintain but keeping fit and trim is hard for everyone. Shoot, I don’t have ANY children and I’m struggling to work out and eat right.

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Khloe Drops 20 pounds

Khloe Kardashian says she’s dropped 20 pounds.
“I recently just lost 20 pounds!” she told Usmagazine.com.
“I try to do just 30 minutes of cardio, mandatory,” Khloe, 25, tells Us. “Obviously if I have more time, I want to do weights, but really that cardio is what works for me because I’m bigger. Cardio is what leans me out, and it still works your muscle definition too. Any kind of cardio.” Source
I like Khloe whether she’s thick or not. She’s currently my fave Kardashian cus she’s so inappropriate and redic.

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Mel B Keeps Fit with Sexercise

Mel B says that her rock hard body comes not from obsessive exercising, but instead from lots and lots of sex with her hubby.
“I’m honestly not body-obsessed - I can’t be with three kids and a husband. My husband likes my muscles, but then he’s seen me every which way over the past eight years - including when I put on 42lbs after my last pregnancy and he always loves my body. In fact, on top of all my exercise, I have sex with him five times a day - maybe that has something to do with it. I have to admit, I’m a nymphomaniac with him. It’s sexercise! ” Source
So Stephen is on Viagra? Cus although that sounds like fun, It’s humanly impossible for most men. And at some point her coochie annie is gonna swell shut. But hey, I guess it works.

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Mariah Loves Her Curvy Body

Mimi is in love with her curves and seems to have a very attitude about her body.
“Mariah loves food. Right now she’s making an album and eating everything and anything she wants. She has put on about 15 pounds, but she loves the curves,” said our source. “She’ll definitely tone up again when she releases her album, but as of now, she’s stuffing her face.” Source
Well good for you Meemz! I’ll see you at the Wednesday night meeting of the Pleasantly Plump Crew. Oh, and it's your turn to bring the Krispy Kremes.

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Mo'Nique Has Shed Some Poundage

Comedienne/actress Mo’Nique decided to lose some weight. She shed 40lbs from her 262lb frame after her husband told her, "Baby, that's too much, I want you with me for a lifetime."
She was able to lose the weight by joining a gym and cutting red meat from her diet. She wants to go down to 200lbs.
"This was truly making the commitment to watch what I eat and commit to working out. I stopped eating red meat. I want to say to big people, 'Let's be healthy big people.' Everybody can't be a size 0... but let's be healthy," she says.

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Bey Says Working Out All the Time is Silly

Beyonce says being cut up isn’t sexy…she sounds stupid while doing so.
“To me, it’s sexier when it doesn’t look like you go to the gym,” she told Britain’s Daily Mail. “If you look like you’ve been spending a lot of time in the gym, then it just looks like you spend a lot of time in the gym.”
“I feel best when I’m not really thin and not really heavy—when I’m still curvy. I really believe that everyone is supposed to be different, and whatever is a natural weight for you is usually what looks best.”
“The truth is, it’s a lot of sacrifice. It’s more about your mental strength than physical strength. You have to push yourself. It doesn’t matter what trainer you have, and it doesn’t matter what program you’re on.” Source
This is from the same woman who says she works out … everyday. Also, I’m going to need her to wear an earpiece at all times so someone can fed her answers…when she speaks on her own she sounds like an idiot.

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K-Fed Gettin His Six Pack Back

Brit’s ex, Kevin Federline ahs been going to the gym recently in attempts to lose all the weight he’s gained since splitting with Britney.
A pal tells America's Star magazine, "Kevin never was a gym bunny - he stayed in shape by dancing. He's desperate to slim down, so he's back at it three hours a day." Source
Three hours a day?! Holy my Jesus! That’s just silly. It would be a cold day in hell before you see Lo Pollard (Founder, President, and proud member of The Pleasantly Plump Crew) in the gym for longer than an hour…and that’s really pushing it.

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Kim Thinks She's a Size 2

Kim Kardashian uses her blog to speak out against an US Weekly article that suggests she’s a fan of Forever 21’s plus sized line, Faith 21.

Here’s what Kim had to say:

“I am a huge fan of Forever 21 and I’m very happy they have expanded their line to include a plus-size range, but I am not in that size category and this article makes it sound like I am! I am a curvy girl and I love my curves, but curvy and plus-sized are two very different things. I work really hard to maintain my curves while staying slim and healthy, so to be classed as a “fuller-figured woman” of extra large proportions is a little offensive.

For the record, I am a size 2, not 2XL.” Source

For the record:

1. Anything ‘plus size’ in Forever 21 translates to normal size in real life.
2. Your figure is fuller than the people who fit Forever 21 clothes.
3. You’re a GOTDAMN liar if you expect us to believe you’re a size 2.

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Brit Post

Brit's upset about body comments...

Brit is reportedly really upset about critic’s comments abut her body. "Britney has been upset by some of the negative feedback she's been getting," a source said. "She's worked so hard on her figure and her fitness. "She thought she was an unstoppable force, but now it's dawning on her that she's not as revered as she once was, which is causing her upset. "She feels she's put a heck of a lot of effort into the tour. It's devastating for her to hear the criticisms. We just hope she doesn't take it too much to heart."
Um, if you ask me, she looks great. Eff em brit!

Brit had a romp in the stalls with a dancer...

After Brit’s Montreal show she went to an after party with her dancers and a fan saw her doing ‘something’ with a dancer in a bathroom stall.
The fan says, , "I went to brits show the other night and totally amazed at how well put it was. So I went to this afterparty at this club called Tribe. Paid 200 bucks to get in and hang in VIP. Brit was in the house. Her and her crew of about ten were in a corner booth. It was really crowded. Brit got up and danced when the DJ played 'Slave 4 U'. "When she got ready to sit back down there were no seats so she sat on this cute dancers lap. After a while of whispering back and forth they kissed a little. About 20 min after that they went to the bathroom...TOGETHER...2 big guys stood by the door and wouldnt let abybody in. They all of a sudden 7 or 9 minutes later brit and the guy came out. CRAZY!!!" Source
I guess she’s getting her groove back, but damn…a bathroom? Yuck!

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Janet Blowing Up Again

Janet Jackson, who is known for her yoyo dieting, was photographed coming out of one of her fave foodie spots, Burritos El Chavo, in baggy sweats looking a little portly to say the least.
“She comes here all the time,” says an employee. “She ordered two chicken soft tacos with some rice and beans. She gets chicken tacos all the time. She comes once a week, sometimes twice a week.”
Her meal is estimated at about 700 cal, which is half of what her daily intake should be. Source
Look, she likes carbs and meat. I’m DEFINITELY not mad. But, as someone in the public eye she’s scrutinized so much more than the rest of us in the Pleasantly Plump Crew. I swear if one more person asks me when the baby is due I’m gonna go on a killing spree.

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Heidi Fights Back Against Fat Remarks

Recently a German fashion designer named Wolfgang Joop, said that model Heidi Klum was too fat to walk the catwalk anymore.
But her spokesperson told the NY Post, "Wolfgang is obviously trying to revive his sagging career and get press for himself by riding Heidi's coattails."
Her Project Runway co-star, Tim Gunn, fame to her defiance saying, "It's totally ridiculous! (Heidi) is a sensitive soul, and it's very troubling to her. If she's fat, other women should throw themselves off a train. I can wrap my hand around her bicep." Source
“Thanks Tim”, says Lo as she boards an NJ Transit train with a single tear falling from her eye.

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Brit's Looking Slim and Trim

Britney, the mother of two boys, has been able to do a complete overhaul with her body in the past year.
“I have had to work hard at getting my body back to where it used to be. I used to be obsessed with working out but right now I am not giving my best because I am more focused on making music,” dailymail.co.uk quoted Britney Spears as saying.
Source
I need to get a job where I can work crom home, and afford a personal traininer who can whip me into shape by working me out for six hours every day. That’s feasible right?

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Raven Talks Weight

Actress Raven Symone says its hard dealing with body critics and thanks her mom for giving her much needed self-esteem boosts.
“She’ll call me and say, ‘You’re very pretty,’ ” says the former That’s So Raven star. “I’m like, ‘Thanks, Mommy!’ and that’s my confidence for the day.”“People come up to me and have certain words for me, but you know what I do? I say, ‘I’m healthy, I exercise, I believe in myself, and I think I’m beautiful,’ ” she says. “You just have to learn how to transform the pressures into something that doesn’t soak into you on a personal level. You see it, you breathe past it, you don’t let it sink into your self-esteem.” And to enforce her positive mantra, if something’s got her down, Raven has a simple technique. “At the end of the day I’ll call my best friend and yell and scream and get it out,” she says. “And the next morning, it’s out of my system. Source
Get ‘em thickums! I hear ya. One can only be so confident. I had a guy in my building once ask me if I was pregnant. When I angrily snapped ‘NO!’, he proceeded to say but your stomach is so, and then made a gesture as if to say it was round and protruding. SIR! I’m convinced the world is full of rude assholes. Wait, what was my point? Oh nevermind. VIVE LE CHUB!

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N.O.R.E. Drops 65lbs on Vegan Diet

Rapper N.O.R.E. says that he shed some recently gained weight by going vegan. Via a video blog on his website he sais that he switched to a vegan diet and exercising and has shed 65 pounds.
"We are switching it up from the Hang Hang Hood Chicken blogs, to the Hang Hang Hood Vegan blogs. Same N.O.R.E., same hood talk," he said.He adds that he’s given up drinking too. "Still haven't had a drink," he confessed. Source
Well good for you N.O.R.E. I’m trying to get rid of my cheechos (back fat) too but I’ll be damned if I give up meat. HEEEEELLL NO!

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Mel B Talks Too Much at the Gym

Mel B says that she doesn’t work with a personal trainer anymore because of her gift to gab.
She tells British magazine Hello!, "I don't have a personal trainer - if anything, I might take a spin class once a week, or do a boot camp class. But that's about it!"I had personal trainers when I was in my twenties, but I didn't really do much training - I did more talking!"
Source

Yea, I hate when I go to the gym and I’m just trying to get on the elliptical, meanwhile there are skinny people in there shooting the shit and cruising for a date. Shut up and let portly folks like me use the equipment!

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Fergie is Bustin' Dat A$$ to be in Wedding Shape

Black Eyed Peas singer, Fergie, and actor, Josh Duhamel are set to get married on January 10th and Fergie says she’s been hitting the gym extra hard. She recently had to gain weight for a role in the movie Nine.
"It's hard, I've been working out every day," she said before her New Year's Eve concert in Las Vegas at The Venetian.
Her workout routine: "A lot of hiking and doing a bunch of sit-ups, working my butt off and just, you know, try to maintain and stay healthy." Source
I hear you Fergie. I plan to be as thin as a rail whenever I take a walk down that aisle. Until then, however, I’ll be holding office as president and long time member of The Pleasantly Plump Crew.

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Jay-Z's a Gym Rat...PSYCHE!

Jay-Z says that he tries to keep fit and trim.
“Whether we’re sprinting around a park in Poland or darting up 40 flights of stairs in Taiwan, we’re always having fun while we work out,” he writes in celeb trainer Marco Borges’ new book, “Power Moves.”
"I’m a foodie,” Jay says. “I like the best of the best, from sushi at Nobu to cheesecake at Junior’s in Brooklyn.” Source
So basically he’s telling us about how he lifts weights with all his millions and that he’s rich and also rich. Thank you for sharing Jay.

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