{"id":94623,"date":"2014-01-07T08:30:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T13:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=94623"},"modified":"2014-06-02T16:57:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T21:57:01","slug":"alison-sweeney-talks-to-redbook-about-staying-fit-its-not-about-dieting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/alison-sweeney-talks-to-redbook-about-staying-fit-its-not-about-dieting\/","title":{"rendered":"Alison Sweeney Talks to Redbook About Staying Fit: “It’s Not About Dieting”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Alison<\/a>On the Biggest Loser, host Alison Sweeney introduces contestants to their weekly sweat-inducing weight loss challenge. Always looking svelte and fashionable beside the big weigh-in scale, how does she stay so trim and healthy? In the January issue of Redbook magazine, Sweeney talks about her daily routine and even inspires the reporter to follow her lead.<\/p>\n

I’m not a big fan of resolutions. . . because just like diets, I feel like you’re setting yourself up to fail.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

As an actress on the soap opera, Days of Our Lives<\/em>, Alison has been in the Hollywood spotlight for years. After the birth of her children, now 8 and 4, she admits the baby weight<\/a><\/strong> was tough to take off. After a variety of diets left her feeling tired and well – hungry, she decided to drop the word, “diet” from her vocabulary and instead, opted to, “overhaul her lifestyle.”<\/p>\n

In some ways I’m sort of boring, I do the same things all the time<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Consistency has made it relatively easy for Alison to control her daily calories. While some people crave variety, she makes healthy eating a habit, often eating her same favorite meals for days on end. “Every day I have oatmeal with blueberries<\/a><\/strong>, agave nectar, and cinnamon for breakfast – period,<\/em>” she said.<\/p>\n

How Ali Fits Exercise in to Her Hectic Schedule, and You Can, Too<\/strong><\/p>\n