Cari Hartman Loses the Diet

Cari Hartman has lost 123 pounds. She is being featured on the Today Show this morning. She lost the weight, not by going on a diet, and not by counting calories, but by making a complete lifestyle change. She joined a fitness center, quit fast food, quit drinking tons of Diet Cokes each day and started eating real meals and taking her lunch to work.

See her inspirational weight loss story here.

The photo of a portable lunch is by moira.

Biggest Loser is a Woman

For the first time in the history of the TV show Biggest Loser, a woman has won the grand prize of $250,000.

Ali Vincent weighed 234 pounds at the start of the show. She went on to lose 48% of her body weight and now weighs 122 pounds.

See TV Guide's interview with Ali Vincent here.

Weight Loss Success for Jody

Here's what Jody used to look like before she lost 133 pounds.

See what she looks like now and her success story here. At 5'9" and 52 years old she now weighs 146 pounds.

After many years of being overweight and losing weight occasionally on fad diets only to regain it soon afterward, this time she changed her underlying lifestyle.

Inside Mariah Carey's Refrigerator

Mariah Carey is looking very slim again. This afternoon, we can see her interviewed on the Oprah Show. She'll be telling Oprah about her diet and exercise regiment.

And she has let some reporters into her New York apartment to let us see what is in her fridge. You won't find any junk food there, but there are lots of fresh clams, swordfish, veggies, fresh vegetable soup and rice.

See the preview with a brief scene of Carey's kitchen and fridge at People Magazine.

Highest Food Standards

Google has the highest food standards you may find in any employee cafeteria. Check out 13 photos from Google's employee cafes here.

Salma Hayek Loses the Baby Weight

Salma Hayek was on Oprah yesterday. She became pregnant for the first time at age 40, and says she gained a lot of weight. The baby was born just after her 41st birthday six months ago and she has lost all the excess weight. Below is a video clip from the Oprah show. She looks very slim and talks about how she doesn't think it's true that breastfeeding helps you lose the weight faster. It sounds like it was a lot of dedicated exercise and careful eating that did it for her. See also some comments on the Celebrity Baby Blog, where many women disagree with her about breastfeeding not being an aid in quicker weight loss post-pregnancy.

Quitting Soda to Lose Weight

Here's a simple and sweet story about successful weight loss;

i used to drink a 2 liter bottle of soda a day then i realized how much wieght i had gained by doing that. i quit drinking that all together and now drink nothing but water and i have last 35 pounds in 6 months. water does really help you lose weight.

This is the latest comment you will find on the Drinking Water to Lose Weight post.

Also see good reasons not to drink bottled water.