Alyssa Milano credits the Atkins diet for her 46 lb post-baby weight loss
Alyssa Milano was on Entertainment Tonight earlier this week showing off her new pixie cut and her post-baby weight loss. Alyssa is promoting the Atkins diet plan, which she’s been representing since last fall. Atkins is a high protein diet that’s been around since the 1970s. Many people swear by low carb diets like Atkins and the less restrictive paleo diet, and Alyssa said that it both help her shed her baby weight (her second child, daughter Elizabella, was born in September, 2014) and feel satisfied while she was dieting. She also revealed that she now weighs 126 pounds. She’s 5’2″ tall so that’s a very healthy weight for her and she looks great.
The 43-year-old actress went from 172 pounds to 126 pounds after giving birth to her daughter Elizabella 16 months ago, thanks, in part, to the Atkins low-carbohydrate diet.
“I feel so much better than I did before it’s crazy,” Milano told ET. “You know that feeling when you’re dieting where your stomachs growling and you’re angry and moody? There’s none of that, because you’re getting fats and proteins. It’s great!”
With two young children at home (Milo, 4, and Elizabella, 1), dropping the weight makes it easier for her to keep up with her growing family with husband Dave Bugliari. She opened up about what motherhood has been like for her.
“Every aspect is amazing,” she gushed. “I looked at Milo’s feet the other day. He’s got these two toes that cross each other, and I was looking at my husband’s feet. Those are where those toes came from!”
One aspect that has been particularly rewarding for Milano is being able to breastfeed.
“It’s been a joyous time to be able to feed them,” she said.
The actress has come under fire for posting pictures of herself breastfeeding, but she considers the practice to be a beautiful thing.
“It is just an amazing process that my body is giving her nourishment,” she said. “Women — we are the most perfect machine ever made.”
As much as she enjoys using her body to feed her children, Milano cleared up the misconception that breastfeeding helped her lose weight.
“I don’t know who started that myth, but breastfeeding to me makes it harder,” she said.
Alyssa told ET she would be open to a “Who’s The Boss” reunion and that Tony Danza “would have to be grandfather to my kids.” I would tune in for that!
I also had a harder time losing weight when I was breastfeeding because I was so hungry. I’ve tried Atkins and similar diets like Dukan (which is supposedly followed by the Cambridges) and while I lost weight at first I just couldn’t stick to them. As I’ve said many times (I’m trying to get converts), I calorie count with MyFitnessPal because I like my bread, chocolate and booze. I don’t want to give up whole food groups like vodka. I think Atkins works because it fills you up with less calories, and I’ve seen friends lose impressive amounts of weight on it. It’s a decent diet to endorse, as far as these type of paid diets go, in that there are some packaged foods but it can be followed for free.
Alyssa was also on The Wendy Williams show, where Williams gave her shade for posting breastfeeding pics to social media. Williams said “I don’t need to see that.” Then don’t look, bitch.
Oh and Alyssa told The Huffington Post [via Vanity Fair] that she almost go the part in Bettlejuice that went to Winona Ryder. It’s kind of weird when celebrities admit they were up for roles and didn’t make the cut, it’s like they’re still so focused on the past and everything they lost out on.
Here’s a segment from Alyssa’s ET interview.
photo credit: WENN.com
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