Vanessa Hudgens Reveals the Workout That Helped Her Lose 20 Pounds
After gaining weight to play a runaway teen in 2013's Gimme Shelter, Vanessa Hudgens turned to a [...]
After gaining weight to play a runaway teen in 2013's Gimme Shelter, Vanessa Hudgens turned to a celeb-favorite workout to lose the 20 extra pounds: SoulCycle.
"Put me on a bike in a room with loud music, and I'm happy," she told Women's Health. "It's like dancing without the stress of worrying if you look good."
Back then, she'd hit the studio twice a day, but now that she's shed the extra weight, she squeezes it in whenever she can. One of her favorite aspects of SoulCycle is that it's in a group setting.
"I'm really competitive when it comes to fitness," she says. "I like being around people so I can compete."
While she squeezes in group fitness classes like SoulCycle these days, one thing Hudgens always makes time for is yoga; the actress goes three days a week.
"I don't consider it fitness," she says. "It's more like therapy for me."
Practicing yoga helped her get comfortable in her skin after her transformation for her role in Gimme Shelter.
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"I looked in the mirror and was like, 'Who am I?' It was definitely a journey back to myself, and yoga helped," she says.
As for her diet, the 28-year-old star says she sticks to high fats and no carbs.
"I eat a whole avocado a day," she says. "I need high fats. If I'm not getting enough, my body holds on to calories. We've been trained to think that fats are bad, but they're so good — a source of energy and sustenance that keeps you going through the day. That's the only way I can not eat carbs."
"When I ate carbs, I would get that dip in the afternoon where I felt really sluggish. When I'm off them, my energy stays consistent throughout the day. Since I got back to eating like this the last month or so, I've lost 10 lbs. That's a lot for my [5'1"] height."
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