To think that there's something more to these famous women's dramatic weight losses?

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Over the last year or so, I've seen Adele, Rebel Wilson and Kelly Osbourne dramatically lose weight. They look amazing, and completely different. It's in their faces too. Is there some new kind of weight loss surgery going around, or is it really just diet and exercise? I love all these women no matter what their size, and I struggle with weight loss myself and admire them for being healthy and looking incredibly fit. But is something going on that's not available to the masses? (no pun intended)

@CarterBeatsTheDevil I agree! I feel that whether you achieve weight loss by yourself or with surgery, you're still going to have to work hard for it and change your habits entirely.

I think it's probably bariatric surgery, a decent nutritionist, a personal trainer & plastic surgery to remove excess skin.
Or if not bariatric surgery then just the nutritionist, trainer & skin-removal surgery.

If they have had bariatric surgery then it would be good if they could let us know, as another OP mentioned, it's life saving/life changing (although I would imagine there's no chance on getting it on the NHS at the mo).
There's no shame for having it - it could be that they're embarrassed their money has made their weight loss possible whereas most people don't have easy access to such help.

Often Celeb never disclose anything.
I personally don’t believe it’s just healthy food and exercise.

I don’t really think Adele needs to tell us anything. If she’d specifically said ‘I’ve lost this weight through exercise and dieting’ and that was a lie then yes of course that’s really bad. But as far as I’m aware she hasn’t said anything publicly about her weight loss and if she doesn’t want to then of course she can keep it that way.

@GreenlandTheMovie

I can't comment in surgery and wouldn't comment on something so speculative, but eating 600-800 calories and exercising (running, exercise classes, swimming, cycling, not just walking) does make you lose weight. So irs entirely possible that someone motivated by constantly seeing themselves in the public eye could lose weight.

God knows how anyone could lose weight on the 1600 calories mentioned above (although I know it's mums net, and someone will probably come along to say they've lost 10 stone on 1600 calories a day without exercising and now weigh 8 stones). My friends who haven't succumbed to middle aged spread all have rigid will power and would typically stick to a diet of 800 calories a day or similar, perhaps 9 or 10 days on, a couple of days off, then another 7, 3 days off, another week, rinse and repeat.

It's not some kind of great mysterious secret only known to famous women. And yes, of course weight loss will make most oeooles' faces look different too!

How can somone lose weight on 1600 calories a day?

Well I weigh 18st and need around 2500 calories to maintain my weight. So a 1600 calorie diet is a significant deficit for me so I lose weight in that. 800 calories a day my body would be starving.

But is something going on that's not available to the masses?

Bottom line in all the cases you refer to is, no doubt, loads and loads of ££££££££ or $$$$$$$$.

If you are a multi-millionaire you can afford to do whatever the hell it is that works - whether that's private surgery that no one ever has to know about, a chef, a personal trainer, or someone whose only job is to follow you around all day and make sure you don't snack. Let's face it, most of us could look fantastic if we had a team of people focused on making that so. You don't have to have willpower if you outsource that to someone else. You just need to be able to pay for it all.

It’s doable but hard. You have to really want it. Lost 2 stone over 4 months (bmi 27 to 21) and currently maintaining the weight loss. Found IF works well for me and upped cardio so an hour a day. Used to be able to eat what I wanted but can’t get away with that mid 40s !

Also I very much agree with @zafferana - it’s far easier to lose weight when you’ve got loads of money! A PP said ‘yes but it’s still the willpower that makes you lose weight’. Perhaps in part yes, but I think I’d find it way easier if I had a home gym with an amazing personal trainer and a personal chef cooking me nutritious low calorie meals three times a day.

Sorry but saying you can’t do it without a team of minions is a cop out.

Of course you CAN do it without a team of minions @MsTSwift, but it's a damn sight harder! If you had a chef preparing all your meals and a PT who turned up at your house every morning at 9am to make you work out for an hour don't you think that would help? I bloody do!

I agree it must be easier to lose weight with a lot of money but can you imagine being the fat celebrity whose weight is her/his defining feature? You don't even have to be hugely overweight (think Jesy Nelson) to be on the receiving end of constant insults. Not worth it!

I think you have to have a clear mind in order to lose weight and go exercising and stick to it for months

Agree that Adele has been losing weight for years - it has clearly not been a quick fix for her. She's been at it some time. Maybe five years or more...

Rebel is said to have lost 60lbs in the last year. I know this because I have lost 60lbs since May last year. No surgery or faddy diets etc. I think it perfectly possible that Rebel, with greater access to nutritionists and personal trainers than me, could have achieved the same in a similar timescale.

I thought Kelly said she did have a gastric sleeve. Plus her family have a long history using plastic surgeons, I'd be very surprised if her face just shrank of its own accord (shrank in size, but her face shape is different now). Apparently she had been following a plant-based diet for nearly a decade, and lost a bit by herself, but it's the gastric sleeve that made her very very slim (size 2 American size).

She was bullied all the time for being chubby and not pretty in Hollywood and that's what she did about it!

It’s all in your head though isn’t it? There are very wealthy people who are very fat.

If you are determined to do it you do it. It’s not related to wealth.

I lost four stone in about four months after I turned 30. It just dropped off. I did a low fat low calorie controlled diet. The first two weeks or so were the worst. If you can overcome that then you’ll get used to it. Mind, I was single and childless at the time.

I think its great that they’ve lost all the weight, however theyve done it

I get annoyed when people lie about how...

A friend of mine lost a shed load of weight apparently through eating a bit healthier and doing the Wii fit, she had actually done lighter life

The weight loss made most of us feel very pleased for her and very negative about ourselves

Any weightloss requires willpower

I found the divorce diet by far the most effective. So miserable I couldn’t eat. I’d like to lose weight again but not like that

There are exceptions, wealthy people who are overweight, and slim people who are more disadvantaged, but in general, weight is related to socio-economic status in developed countries.

It might be it's the social norm in wealtheir groups to be thin, might be they eat better and healthier food, have more time and money for exercise/higher quality food, pay trainer, pay someone to make their food for them- and food is a cheap comforting emotional crutch when life is difficult. Eating low carb is expensive, for example!

I've done 800 calories for nearly two weeks now and it's been weirdly easy but I know that's because I'll only be doing it two days a week after this. I'm 'on' now though so I am craving carbs and chocolate. :(

I really don't care how they did it. It's nothing to do with me and they don't owe anyone an explanation.

Is that on a set diet born?

Im trying to lose a bit of weight but im trying to improve on exercise and drinking and eating chocolate etc as well so ive started there

Figure ill look at diet the end of this month and start rejigging food in march

@WobblyWhenIRun

Agree that Adele has been losing weight for years - it has clearly not been a quick fix for her. She's been at it some time. Maybe five years or more...

Rebel is said to have lost 60lbs in the last year. I know this because I have lost 60lbs since May last year. No surgery or faddy diets etc. I think it perfectly possible that Rebel, with greater access to nutritionists and personal trainers than me, could have achieved the same in a similar timescale.

Absolutely. I think Adele's surgery gossip is just that. A gossip. She worked on it for a while. I remember there were articles about her doing 800cal a day and trainers were saying it's not healthy.

Rebel documented hers well too. Good on her.

Congrats on the weighloss!

@RufustheSniggeringReindeer

Is that on a set diet born?

Im trying to lose a bit of weight but im trying to improve on exercise and drinking and eating chocolate etc as well so ive started there

Figure ill look at diet the end of this month and start rejigging food in march

It's to kick-start weight loss apparently, my BMI is healthy but I was getting really lax with calorie counting. I lost weight initially by using myfitnesspal so calorie counting is the only thing that really works for me.

I think you have the right idea tbh, you'll probably find you're more motivated to eat well if you're making the effort to exercise which i should be doing more of.

I think some of the "it must be a surgery or money, what else would it be" is, now sorry about that, gossip by people looking for their own excuse and why they can't lose. Which is what mind very much does at some point. Any excuse to help stay in the obesity denial. Mine did that too.