Renee Zellweger's Done With Yo-Yo Dieting

Renee Zellweger's Done With Yo-Yo Dieting

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Body Watch: Renee Zellweger's Done With Yo-Yo Dieting
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Written by Laurensarit on Jun-22-11 3:05am
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Renee Zellweger's infamously packed on 20 pounds for Bridget Jones's Diary, shed the pounds, put them back on plus more for the sequel, and then bounced back to a trim, muscular frame. She's been a size 0 for a good while now, and has agreed that she won't mess with her body for the third installment of Bridget. While she plays the frumpy, self-patronizing protagonist convincingly, in real life Renee's a big-time runner, macrobiotic dieter and is almost always photographed in workout wear – a dead giveaway she's a real health nut.

Renee+Zellweger in Renee Zellweger at RalphsA Macrobiotic Diet: After Renee stuffed herself with donuts, pizza and beer to plump up for the Bridget role, she's since adopted a strict diet of organic, non-processed foods. She traded the 4,000-calorie-a-day diet in for a macrobiotic regime of fish, vegetables and rice. She's said about the simple calculations of staying thin: "Fruit for breakfast, salad for lunch, fish for dinner and running. You run to the gym and you run back from the gym. It's just math. And how much you really care." She's also a major Starbucks enthusiast, seen ducking in and out of the java chain all the time.

Renee's allegedly gone to some extremes like the "ice cube" diet (chomping away at frozen water to curb hunger), eating bamboo and even chucking toothpaste that had dairy in it. It's been rumored that her ex-beau, Bradley Cooper, grew very irritated by her constant fixation on health. A source told Closer: "When they go food shopping, Renee reads everything on anything they buy. Brad understands actresses' need to diet for the job, but he feels like she's taking this way too far."

The actress has been able to laugh off the media's tendency to fabricate stories about her dietary habits. "I'm like, oh, oh, I'm doing that diet now – that's fantastic! Good for me!" she told People. She's also credited her thin frame to her hectic work schedule and often only having 20 minutes allocated for lunch while on set.

Renee+Zellweger in Renee Zellweger Jogs in ParisHard-Core Exercise: When Renee talks about doing 45 minutes of exercise, she's not referring to brisk walks or a group dancing class. Renee has an athlete's workout expectations – she told Self she hits the gym six days a week for two hours, where she clocks in interval sprints and long workouts on the elliptical trainer. She's also a fan of biking, yoga and long runs (she infamously sprinted by the Eiffel Tower without stopping while in Paris with Bradley Cooper.)

She's said about the wear and tear that her intense workouts wreak on her body: "I ride my bike to the ocean, I dive in and then I ride my bike home. I also run between three and five miles, six days a week. In fact, I run until it hurts. I have knee and back injuries which mean I can't do any more than that. Oh, and I do yoga, too."

Renee, who says she prioritizes finding gyms in each city she visits (she calls the gym her life's "common denominator"), also finds mental replenishment from her hours spent working out. “The gym is my therapy. I’ve got to get stuff out…The perk of going and spending time by myself and getting my head straight and thinking through what might be bothering me is that I get fit. That’s not the goal, but it’s a nice by-product," she told Self.

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The Pitfalls of Yo-Yo Dieting: While Renee's been endlessly scrutinized for her weight highs and lows, most of it was spurred by demands for her movie roles, which is a challenge most actresses don't take on. "Tell me another movie star of her status who is willing to look like that on the screen," Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason director Beeban Kidron said. The actress has asked that she wear a fat suit for the third Bridget rather than put her body through another weight fluctuation, and it's an understandable request. She told the Daily Mail about the the unnatural transformations: "Can I just tell you my body is whacked by the time we finish one of those! It doesn't know what has happened because it thinks there's supposed to be a baby and there's no christening.”

Not only does her body feel out of whack after forcing it to gain and lose weight, it also has detrimental long-term side effects. Renee said she had a "panic attack" after specialists told her how unhealthy it is to put on large amounts of weight in short time periods. Suffice it to say, two Bridget Jones transformations is enough for this lady.

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More pictures of Renee sprinting through Paris:

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Strolling around in her workout gear:

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