{"id":86557,"date":"2013-03-18T15:34:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T20:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=86557"},"modified":"2013-03-18T15:44:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T20:44:35","slug":"octavia-spencer-loses-20-pounds-with-sensa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/octavia-spencer-loses-20-pounds-with-sensa\/","title":{"rendered":"Octavia Spencer Loses 20 Pounds with Sensa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pkebGwqL3_8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Octavia Spencer, the Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in The Help, is the new spokesperson for<strong> <a title=\"sensa review\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/sensa\">Sensa<\/a><\/strong>. Since assuming her newest starring role, she&#8217;s lost 20 pounds in five months; weight loss featured in this newest Sensa television commercial. The actress was noticeably heavier when she played the role of Minny Jackson flawlessly; but in these recent images of Octavia it&#8217;s clear that she&#8217;s either avoiding the chocolate pies altogether or using Sensa to allow her to still indulge.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sensa, known as &#8220;the sprinkle diet,&#8221; claims to help reduce the feelings of hunger by telling your brain you&#8217;re getting full faster. They suggest that by simply sprinkling the powder, or &#8220;tastants,&#8221; on everything from pizza to french fries your portions will be automatically controlled. The star said that if she is told she <em>can&#8217;t <\/em>have something, typical for other diets, then she&#8217;ll obsess over. But with Sensa, she can enjoy whatever her heart, or for that matter stomach, desires.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Just had the best breakfast meatless sausage, banana pancakes, sensa!@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sensaweightloss\">sensaweightloss<\/a>!!!!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23spon\">#spon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 octavia spencer (@octaviaspencer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/octaviaspencer\/status\/308619640471449601\">March 4, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to a &#8220;How does Sensa work?&#8221; video by the brand, the company claims the sugar- and sodium-free crystals will help you lose 30 pounds in six months. Whether or not Sensa is a miracle drug remains to be seen, although it&#8217;s not likely. In November of 2026, <strong><a title=\"sensa false advertising\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/11\/sensas-false-advertising-costs-them-800000\/\">Sensa was forced to pay $800,000 in penalties<\/a><\/strong> for their false weight loss claims.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"octavia spencer weight loss\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/octavia-spencer-loses-20-pounds-with-sensa\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-86558\" title=\"octavia spencer weight loss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/octavia-spencer-weight-loss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/octavia-spencer-weight-loss.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/octavia-spencer-weight-loss-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/octavia-spencer-weight-loss-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The star is catching a bit of flak for partnering up with the fad-like diet supplement, as fans have taken to Twitter to express their distaste.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>deeply upset that Octavia Spencer is doing a Sensa endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steph (@joaniepepperoni) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joaniepepperoni\/status\/312216687158120449\">March 14, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe Octavia, who we must admit looks amazing in the new ad, will &#8220;help&#8221; clean up Sensa&#8217;s image. As for her own image, she says her motivation to lose weight is for health and not to meet the idealized standards of Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"ceelo ediets\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/ceelo-green-and-his-rider-are-going-on-an-ediet\/\">CeeLo Green Partners with eDiets to Lose Weight<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"healthy southern recipes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/healthier-southern-recipes-from-the-help\/\">Healthier Southern Recipes from The Help<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"octavia spencer breast lift\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/octavia-spencer-splurges-on-boob-lift-after-oscar-win\/\">Octavia Spencer Splurges on Breast Lift after Oscar Win<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Octavia Spencer, the Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in The Help, is the new spokesperson for Sensa. Since assuming her newest starring role, she&#8217;s lost 20 pounds in five months; weight loss featured in this newest Sensa television &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/octavia-spencer-loses-20-pounds-with-sensa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[731,58],"tags":[1094,9498,214],"class_list":["post-86557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supplements","category-womens-health","tag-marketing","tag-octavia-spencer","tag-sensa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86557"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86560,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86557\/revisions\/86560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}