Best Celebrity Diet Tricks: Nutrition Secrets That Give Jennifer Garner, Jessica Alba, More Their Hot Bodies

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Best Celebrity Diet Tricks: Nutrition Secrets That Give Jennifer Garner, Jessica Alba, More Their Hot Bodies

Jennifer Garner, Gal Gadot, Jessica Alba and more celebrities are just like Us — at least when it comes to figuring out what diet tips work for them. Hollywood stars clearly know how to eat right to fuel up and slim down. So we’ve asked the celebs themselves — as well as their nutrition pros — to reveal the diet secrets that they rely on. From going organic to aiming for a specific percentage of protein, carbs and greens in each meal to drinking smoothies for breakfast, we’ve got all the meal methods fit stars use to stay in shape. Scroll through to find out exactly what they eat.

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Behati Prinsloo

She may be a Victoria’s Secret Angel, but that doesn’t mean Prinsloo doesn’t crave carbs. “I love pastas and bread and sugar,” the model told Us in December 2018 at the Rachel Zoe and Irena Medavoy shopping event to benefit Your Mom Cares. So she eats them — except when a shoot or show is coming up. In fact, she says keeping carbs in her diet most of the time actually helps her when she wants to debloat and tone up. Once she’s in prepping mode, “I'll have a lot of protein, a lot of veggies, a lot of salads, and that works for my body really well because I'm such a heavy carb loader that when I don't do it,” she says, “I feel like I get the results that I want.”

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Casper Smart

The dancer, 31, doesn’t mess when it comes to his diet. His biggest nutrition tip for staying fit? “Don’t eat crap,” Smart told Us on Friday, October 10. The actor then elaborated on his toned physique. “It’s 70 percent diet, maybe more. So it’s really jumpstarting your whole body and changing it and really shocking it,” he says. “Getting on that really tight diet and fixing it is the best thing you could do. Cardio five times a week, one hour a day and eating clean.”

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Jennifer Garner

Garner, 46, follows her nutritionist Kelly LeVeque’s "fab four" plan — which means she adds protein, healthy fat, fiber and greens to every meal. The Be Well by Kelly founder will look for each food group on the Peppermint star's plate, “whether it’s in her shake or she makes something from Ina Garten’s cookbook or a veggie scramble with avocado," she tells Us Weekly.

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Jessica Alba

“I try to eat fairly healthy as far as like organic and fresh, but I don’t stay away from any foods,” the Honest Company cofounder, 37, tells Us. “I don’t eat a lot of processed foods — maybe that’s kind of the biggest thing — but it’s not like I never eat processed. Like, I love chips, and I love snacks and stuff, I just don’t eat a lot of it.”

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Gwyneth Paltrow

“I’m basically never cleansing. Only if I’m guinea-pigging something for the website. Or I try to do one good cleanse a year,” the Goop founder, 45, said on The Goop Podcast in March 2018. “On a normal day, I’ll have a smoothie for breakfast, and I have a pretty healthy lunch, with some protein and salad.”

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Gal Gadot

“I’m a foodie and I love to experience food, but at the same time I look at food as fuel and I want to give the best to my body,” the Wonder Woman star, 33, told Harper's Bazaar in 2015. And she also makes healthy eating a family affair with her two daughters, Maya and Alma Versano: “We make smoothies in the morning with parsley, celery, green apples and ginger — basically, we throw in whatever we have.”

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Beyonce

The Lemonade singer, 36, knows to see results, sticking to a healthy nutrition plan is key, which is why her trainer Marco Borges set up a 22-day vegan program for the Grammy winner after she welcomed her first child, Blue Ivy Carter, in 2012.

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Christina El Moussa

For the Flip or Flop star, eating is a numbers game. At each meal, she aims to eat a combination of 50 percent carbs, 30 percent fat and 20 percent protein, which “keeps her blood sugar stable,” nutritionist Cara Clark tells Us. Although the HGTV star is “flexible with what she eats,” says Clark, El Moussa, 35, focuses on healthy eats such as overnight oats, a salad with quinoa for lunch and vegan chili for dinner.

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Chrissy Teigen

The 5-foot-9 model may post pictures on Instagram of not-so-healthy eats, but the Cravings author, 32, does know the role diet plays in a fit physique. “You have to give yourself time,” she tells Us of her post-baby weight loss approach. “It’s not going to peel right off and that’s OK.”

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Karlie Kloss

"I had to learn how to eat a more balanced diet. And I really learned and got excited about baking and cooking with healthy ingredients, fresh ingredients, a more balanced diet of vegetables and protein and learning what it means to actually eat clean," the Karlie's Kookies founder, 25, told Byrdie in January 2017. The model’s go-to snack: Mediterra Savory Bar with Black Olives & Walnuts, deeming them “delicious” and “nutritious.”

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Kristin Cavallari

The Hills alum makes eating a group effort: "We try to eat as organic as possible. We don’t buy a lot of processed foods," she tells Us. When it comes to her diet, the Very Cavallari star, 31, is also all about food as fuel. “I’m cooking gluten-free," she says. And she almost always skips happy hour. "Honestly, I rarely drink alcohol, which helps too. It's just empty calories."