As Cameron Diaz strutted her stuff over the weekend in shorts (  she got the media abuzz about her great LEGS  She was wearing the shorts for filming the movie Bad Teacher, and everyone was amazed at how great the 37-year-old’s legs look. Her longtime trainer Teddy Bass said that the two of them do a mix of weight training and Pilates so that Cameron can keep a long and lean look. He said,
“That seems to be the best combination for women over 30,” he explains. “Women need weight — it’s great for building the butt. And elongation and smallness is tapped by doing Pilates.”

Her workout consists of a series of compound exercises to work those legs. She’ll do a step-up with reverse lunge, a squat with a curtsy, and side-reaching lunges with a side step. The combinations really work the upper thigh muscle and Teddy has Cameron hold 10 to 20-pound weights while doing the lunges. For their mat Pilates workout they make use of the reformer machine. Teddy explains why:

“I keep the workout as high-paced as possible because of time restraints. Generally, it has a cardio element.”

Teddy obviously knows what he’s talking about because she look fantastic!

Obese mother Donna Simpson weighs 43st, but she is determined to nearly double her size to become the world’s fattest woman.

The 42-year-old from New Jersey is set on reaching the 1,000lb mark (71st) in just two years.

Remarkably, she insists she is healthy despite now needing a mobility scooter when she goes shopping.

“My favourite food is sushi, but unlike others I can sit and eat 70 big pieces of sushi in one go,” the American told the Daily Mail.

“I have to eat 12,000 calories a day and hope to achieve my goal in two years.”

Donna, who wears XXXXXXXL dresses, eats mounds of junk food and tries to move as little as possible.

Ms Simpson already holds the Guinness World Record as the world’s fattest mother.

Simpson says her boyfriend Philippe, who she reportedly met in a fat fetish chat room, encourages her.

“I think he’d like it if I was bigger. He’s a real belly man.”

Simpson makes money by running a website where men pay to watch her eating food.

“I love eating, and people love watching me eat. It makes people happy, and I’m not harming anyone.”

For a seven day healthy slimming diet give this a try

Swap coffee
…for something else. If you want to get in shape fast, ditch your regular cup of coffee and go for a fat-burning drink instead. Studies show that green tea revs up your metabolism, so aim for several cups a day.

Take some supplement
Fish oil supplements are a great way to shed pounds. A recent study found that volunteers who took them lost, on an average, two kilos over three months without changing their diet or exercise habits. Fish oils are great for helping your body burn fat more efficiently.

Avoid salt
That’s the advice most weight-loss experts give. When people cut down the salt in their diet, they instantly look slimmer and less bloated. Too much salt makes your body retain water, which makes you puffy around your face and stomach. Go for low-salt breakfast options

Also, don’t add tablesalt to your food or cooking, avoid salty snacks such as crisps and go easy on processed sauces which are often packed with salt.

As a guide, avoid foods that contain more than 0.5g of sodium per 100gm on the label (sodium is just another way of describing the salt content). The fresher your food, the less salt it’s likely to contain. And be very careful about take-aways – Chinese food, in particular, is loaded with salt because of the sauces.

Ditch sugar
Like salt, sugar is a diet baddie. Even though sugary foods – such as boiled sweets and mousses – are often labelled ‘low-fat’, they’re incredibly high in calories. And if you don’t work off the calories by exercising, that sugar gets stored as fat – usually around your stomach and waist. Sugar also increases your hunger. So, ditch the sugar in your tea and also the colas that you gulp down every day.

Eat low-sugar snacks instead. Chopped vegetables, for example are rich in fibre, so they’ll keep you fuller for longer and will aid your digestion, which helps to reduce bloating. Alcohol is practically pure sugar, so give that a miss, too. If you drink regularly, you’ll notice the difference after giving it up for a week.

Relax
If it is day seven already, don’t worry. You can still lose weight! Stress really does make you fat. It causes hormones to be released into your body that encourage fat deposits around your waist and stomach.

Scientists have found that those with the biggest waist measurements (though not necessarily the heaviest) had the highest stress levels. The hormones secreted during times of stress are instrumental in causing more fat to be stored, particularly around the abdomen.

THE Atkins and Slim-Fast diets have been rated among the least effective in a study of British weight-obsessed women.
Those polled voted WeightWatchers’ plan the most successful way to shed pounds.

The Cabbage Soup diet was regarded as the biggest flop, while Atkins – a high protein/fat, low carbohydrate diet – was branded “useless”.

The research, carried out by Superdrug, revealed that the average female spends 88 DAYS a year dieting.

In the survey, more than half preferred diets which left them feeling full after a meal, and 43 per cent chose those which were a slight compromise on their existing eating plan.

Forty-one per cent tried to lose weight whenever their favourite clothes did not fit. Four in ten slimmed down just before a holiday and 14 per cent tried to eat more healthy after a big weekend of eating and drinking.

Superdrug’s superintendent pharmacist Martin Crisp said: “Everyone is different, but the fact that the majority of girls we polled agree on a sensible approach to weight loss was very telling.

“Women recognise that those which restrict the intake of certain food groups have a negative effect in the long run.

“Indeed, women favour diets which allow them to have a little bit of everything – still eating foods they enjoy like chocolate and bread, but eating less than usual.”

TOPS: 1 WeightWatchers; 2 Calorie Counting; 3 Slimming World; 4 Rosemary Conley. 5 Kellogg’s Special K.

FLOPS: 1 Cabbage Soup; 2 Atkins; 3 Grapefruit; 4 Slim-Fast; 5 Coconut

Blood group diet

Actually star Martine McCutcheon is believed to have slimmed to a size 10 on this regime. The theory is our blood type affects how the body absorbs nutrients.

The diet’s creator Dr Peter D’Adamo believes if we stick to suggested foods suitable for different blood types the body will digest food more effectively, resulting in weight loss. Blood Group Os should eat meat, group As should be veggie, Bs and ABs can eat a varied diet.