Tori Spelling 'lied' about weight loss

Tori Spelling says she lied about how she lost her baby weight in her new book. Picture: Splash Source: Supplied

Tori Spelling poses in a bikini for Us Weekly after the birth of her fourth child. Picture: Us Weekly Source: Supplied

IT was hard to believe that she lost all that baby weight simply by swimming and now Tori Spelling has finally come clean about how she really dropped the kilos.

In her new book, Spelling It Like It Is, the actress says her publicist told her not to be truthful about her strict dieting regime after the birth of her fourth child Finn Davey in August 2012.

Spelling told Us Weekly in April that she lost 45 pounds (20kgs) since Finn was born and had shed the kilos "safely" - but the reality was very different.

"For several months, I couldn't really exercise," she said, because of the emergency surgery she underwent when the stitches from her caesarean section burst open.

"There were a couple of reasons. First, there was some risk that my scar would open up again. I was terrified of that.

"Second, I really don't exercise much, period. So I took my weight the old-fashioned way. I like to call it the 'Just Keep Your F***ing Mouth Shut and Eat Air diet'. It's all the rage."

However, when Tori took part in a bikini shoot with Us Weekly magazine, she told them she lost weight through swimming.

"I'll swim until I'm sore or play Marco Polo with the kids instead," she was quoted as saying in the mag. "I also started going on the elliptical and doing modified MMA. Besides my walks, I exercise three times a week for about an hour each time.

"I feel like I took off the weight safely, and I'm totally happy here." Tori Spelling and her four children Liam Aaron McDermott, Finn Davey McDermott, Hattie Margaret McDermott and Stella Doreen McDermott. Picture: Splash Source: Splash News Australia

But the reality was very different, with Spelling revealing in her book: "My publicist had given me clear instructions about what to say about my weight loss.

"Women didn't want to know that I had lost weight through dieting, not exercising... So I said that I swam [even though] I can't do much more than a doggy paddle."

Spelling further explained that she shed the weight through "nibbling rice cakes" and "eating soup and dinners that looked like they belonged in some health magazine.

"With my sedentary lifestyle, it was the only way and it worked," she says. "My clothes were starting to fit again."

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Eat breakfast, lose more weight: true or false?

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When the alarm clock goes off, some claim breakfast should go on, but a group of Vanderbilt University Doctors disagrees. A new study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition says that's just a rumor, and that eating, or not eating, breakfast has no effect on weight gain or loss.

Danielle Townsend, a nutritionist at Mother Frances Hospital, is suspicious.

"I think that studies come out and we change our theories about things a lot," she said.

The 12-week-long study focused on two groups of subjects, those who normally ate breakfast and those who normally did not. All were asked to consume the same amount of calories which did cause them to lose weight. All were advised not to eat breakfast.

Those who normally did not east breakfast lost an average of 17 pounds, while those who normally did lost an average of 20 pounds.

"You know, I've done a lot of interviews, and it all comes down to moderation and what you're choosing and making a healthy habit and eating," Townsend said.

Having a healthy breakfast is different than having one high in fat and sugar, she said. Nonetheless, she will continue to urge her patients to fry up those eggs.

"There's a lot of myths that have been debunked and there are a lot of different thoughts on these things and I'm sticking with breakfast."

The study also claimed much misinformation came from past studies that have since been proven skewed. Ultimately, Townsend says, it's up to the individual's body.

"You know, if it's working for you, it's working for you. If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Another recent study supports this one. It was done at Cornell University and found those who did not eat breakfast did eat more at lunch, in general, but their total caloric intake was still less than those who ate breakfast.

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