Slender body of Gwyneth Paltrow – result of a wearisome diet and exercises

So, the 38-year-old actress Gwyneth Paltrow, mother of two children, and the truth, looks slender as the schoolgirl. It also bribed the journalist of the British edition. Here the story by Rebecca about with what her experiments by the known method ended.

"When Gwyneth admitted the Oprah Winfrey Show that is engaged by a certain method of Tracey, I wanted to be influenced by a technique at once. Also asked a question: And I will be able to make with the body something similar?

Tracey Anderson is the former professional dancer, and now her career went up. Still! At the moment her business partner – Gwyneth Paltrow. They together already released four DVD disks with sets of exercises, each of which only in Great Britain was sold with a copies more than 20,000 copies. Besides, Tracey published the book about the 30-day method, together with Gwyneth too.


Tracey and Gwyneth show exercises. Photo: Planet Photo

The book appeared on counters in December, and not less than 1,000 units a week still are on sale. And among Tracey's clients such famous people as Madonna, Shakira, Penelope Crous, Nicole Ricci appear.

According to Tracey, everything that we have to make to receive Gwyneth's figure, it to do exercises within two hours every day, six days a week, all rest of the life. And still to observe the strict plan of food.

And it seemed to me that I will be able to make it. I have no children yet, I work at home much and I am able to afford to give a couple of hours to exercises during the day.

I really several times tried to put before the body in order, but any of methods did not shift me from "a dead point". My 12th size (in Russia – the 44th) did not become in any way the 10th though at me so many disks with Pilates, yoga collected, I also tried to run, swim, aerobics and dances. Went somehow to the personal trainer with whom we passed the 10-day program of a detox, but even such strict diet did not carry away with itself any kilogram.

Generally, it was very interesting to me whether I will be able to reach Gwyneth's parameters, but at least somehow to change.

I bought the book by Tracey and also a DVD disk, with a 90-day technique, it is possible to pass to this program after a so-called "30-day method of Tracey", but this course is available only on Tracey's website.

The difference between these two methods is that at first during a 30-day method you have to be engaged for three hours a day, and having passed to a 90-day method, time of occupations is reduced by an hour – till two o'clock in day.

What for exercises are presented in this technique? It, generally jumps, jumps, aerobic steps. Tracey against such loadings as run, she says that after such repeating movements you will have very big mass of muscles. And we aspire not to it.

Along with the jumps and other movements close to aerobics, on each occupation a series is made of the 40th Pilates movements which change each 10 days. These are very wearisome and extremely tiresome trainings, I will tell you. But Gwyneth Paltrow's photo supported me to pass all this.

And if exercises still times were tolerant, then the diet was very rigid for my organism. In the first week it was possible to eat only seven various products, generally in the form of soups or cocktails. It was, for example, such mix: cabbage juice + spinach + beet + apple. The most disgusting thing! Me even several times pulled out, excuse for details.

There are in the menu from Tracey and Gwyneth and such dishes:
- a pudding from sweet potatoes and corn (one made sweet potato mixes up with one crude corn to homogeneous mass)
- parsnip puree with carrots
- apple and bilberry puree
- a gazpacho (too mixed to homogeneous mass)
- proteinaceous soup

Tracey considers that the listed dishes can be eaten how many you want also in any quantity and when there is a wish. But I divided after all the food more or less evenly into a breakfast, a lunch and a dinner.


One day of Rebecca by Tracey Anderson's method:
7.15 Rise and weighing
7.30 The first breakfast: a pudding from sweet potatoes and corn
8.00 Exercises within 1 hour 45 minutes
10:00 The second breakfast: Bilberry and apple cocktail and 3 cups of green tea
10:30 Cabbage juice and two glasses of water
13:00 Lunch: Soup of a gazpacho, carrots puree and paternak, cup of green tea
15:00 Early dinner: protein soup (with chicken)
19:00 Having a snack: easy chocolate pudding
21:00 Bathtub and bed. Fell asleep at 22:00
In day left – 2.6 pints of water (about 1.5 liters)

I ate nothing, except proteinaceous soup, during the whole week. Such soup: carrots, a celery, broccoli, chicken breast, almost without salt. And it was painful! I sometimes died of hunger, but tried to keep. After all experiment!

From the beginning of the second week my menu was such:

- Breakfast: two eggs (boiled) or a piece of bacon from a turkey, plus a small amount of fruit.

- Lunch: protein bar.

- Dinner: small amount of protein and vegetables. For example, it could be a half of chicken breast and a handful of spinach.

Hunger was such strong times that frequent it was difficult to fall asleep. And sometimes and darkened in eyes a little.

Fortunately, on the third week it was possible to start other menu. But also it is rather rigid. Everything needed to be steamed, on a grill or to cook. Strict ban on starch. Any bread, potatoes, pasta and rice. All are blown without fat, there are no dairy products, red meat is forbidden and everything prepares without salt.

And I sustained it. What results? Of course, I did not become Gwyneth, but lost in weight much, and my size changed from the 12th (44th) to the 10th (42nd). And I am really happy and, at last, I have a body of which dreamed".


At the left – Rebecca Wilcox after a 30-day method of Tracey, on the right – Gwyneth Paltrow on vacation in February, 2011, at the coast of the Caribbean Sea. Photo: David Poole, Splash News.

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Having read this material from Rebecca, it is only possible to be glad for her and to note something to itself. And results decent all in a month! But it is natural, it is impossible to trust at once and to unconditionally new diets and systems. It is necessary to consider their influence on health, our life does not come to an end with receiving a slender body, at us so many ahead. Whether we to ourselves will affect the health by Tracey's method?

It was necessary to look at a lot of information on Tracey's technique in Intereneta. And now it is necessary to warn about something those who already hurry to devote month to a method.

First, you should not consider that during all 30-day method Rebecca experienced difficulties with the general state. Slackness, weak concentration of attention, fatigue, peevishness. Besides, and about it Rebecca wrote to DailyMail too, skin began to be shelled, nails weakened.

The chief nutritionist of hospital of Saint Georgy in London, Catherine Collins in general very rigidly speaks of Tracey Anderson and Gwyneth Paltrow's method. She analysed a diet which is offered in a method, and says that within a month less than 700 calories a day are consumed, there are absolutely no fats and minerals, and it causes concern. To girls who keep to similar diets, the lack of calcium, iron, carbohydrates, proteins and salts is guaranteed, the nutritionist considers. Also such disease as a giponatriyemiya can develop (low level of sodium in blood). And the lack of iron will lead to anemia. The lack of enough calcium (daily norm about 300-800 mg) increases risk of development of osteoporosis and osteosinging (which, by the way, was recently diagnosed for Gwyneth Paltrow).

Also the lack of protein is dangerous to an organism (if it less than 30 g a day). Moreover, even vitamins which arrive with vegetables and fruit are useless as cannot be absorbed at such diet. There are no fats, vehicles for absorption of vitamins owing to what vitamins just are removed from an organism.

Other expert of food, doctor Susan Dzhebb, the specialist of the British Council in meditsinstky researches, also criticized Tracey Anderson's diet. "Of course, you will lose weight, according to a method, will consume no more than 700 calories a day. But such victims are dangerous. The cardinal diets more reminding fasting days can bring benefit to only very corpulent people", - the doctor says. She also considers that it is necessary to consume in day about 2400 calories to support the weight. To lose about a kilogram a week, the deficiency can be no more than 1000 calories a day. But by Tracey's method people have deficit of 1700 calories a day.

For similar low-calorie diets there are very big restrictions. Your health has to be completely normal, especially heart.

Such diet as Tracey's method will give loss of nearly three kilograms a week, but you will lose not fat, - doctor Catherine Collins says. She considers that those people who consume not enough protein provoke situation when the organism begins to devour internals (kidneys, a liver, heart) to fill requirements of protein. For this reason having anorexia can die of heart attack.

The lack of carbohydrates will lead to violation of the structure of muscles, deterioration in motive functions. And it is very bad, especially, if such level of physical activity what advises Tracey is supposed.

There is the last argument in Tracey and Gwyneth's technique - it is exercises. However Joe Dust, professor of physiology at the university of Brighton, says that there is nothing new or magic in Tracey Anderson's exercises. It is ordinary aerobics, well, maybe, not such boring.

The only thing, perhaps, that precisely develops Tracey's method - it is will power because to stick to 30 or 90 days in such strict framework it is very difficult.