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The next time you see a Victoria’s Secret model and wish you could look like her, remember this. That girl is starving herself. The pre-show diet of one of the models is so extreme, it made Anderson Cooper’s Ridiculist:

Here are the details of Adriana Lima’s diet before the Victoria’s Secret Show, which she revealed in her Telegraph interview:

“It is really intense, it’s not really the amount of time you spend working out, it’s the intensity: I jump rope, I do boxing, I lift weights, but I get bored doing that. If I am not moving I get bored very easily.”

She sees a nutritionist, who has measured her body’s muscle mass, fat ratio and levels of water retention. He prescribes protein shakes, vitamins and supplements to keep Lima’s energy levels up during this training period. Lima drinks a gallon of water a day. For nine days before the show, she will drink only protein shakes – “no solids”. The concoctions include powdered egg. Two days before the show, she will abstain from the daily gallon of water, and “just drink normally”. Then, 12 hours before the show, she will stop drinking entirely.

“No liquids at all so you dry out, sometimes you can lose up to eight pounds just from that,” she says.

What you see on stage (and in commercials and magazines) aren’t healthy women. They are women who have been starving themselves for DAYS before the show (or shoot). They are hungry and dehydrated and should NOT be emulated.

Via: Shoebox » Newsdroppings 11-11-11

Ever given that the 1st Fit Flops showed up on the marketplace, I have been warning you about shoes that promise to tone your butt. Reebok EasyTone and RunTone shoes were just one more in a long line of shoes that made those promises.

They promised that their shoes could give you 28% far more toning on your butt and 11% far more toning in your legs. I known as baloney and just ignored them. Now, it seems that the Federal Trade Commission agrees with me:

• Federal Trade Commission: Reebok Easytone &amp Runtone Refunds

The Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s consumer protection agency, charged Reebok with producing claims about EasyTone and RunTone shoes that the company couldn’t assistance. According to the FTC, Reebok claimed that employing these merchandise would strengthen and tone leg and butt muscles.

To settle the case, Reebok has agreed to pay $ 25 million for refunds to individuals who bought Reebok toning shoes or apparel.

If you purchased a pair of EasyTone or RunTone shoes, then you are eligible for a refund. The smarter consumer, nevertheless, didn’t buy the shoes because these claims have been around for a Lengthy time. In reality, I’ve been warning you about them for 4 years. Here are some of the entries I wrote about shoes that make claims that they can’t assistance with investigation information:

• Starling Fitness: 6/8/2007 » The Fit Flop: How About Just Flop?
• Starling Fitness: 11/28/2008 » Can Walking In Unique Sandals Make You Thin?
• Starling Fitness: 9/18/2010 » Skechers Resistance Runner: Where’s The Analysis Data?

Shoe producers have been making unsubstantiated claims about their shoes for YEARS and it takes the FTC even longer to catch up with them and require a retraction and refund. I’m nonetheless waiting for the FTC to force Skechers to release their analysis information on their Resistance Runner and it seems that they will in no way stop the Fit Flop folks from creating claims.

My grandmother wore these Dr. Scholls sandals for YEARS, thinking that they would make her legs a lot more toned than just wearing regular shoes and she never ever saw any outcomes from them. Do not be taken in by claims from the shoe manufacturers.