How Tyra Banks Lost Weight and Changed Her Life

At the beginning of last month, former model and television personality Tyra Banks revealed during a glamor photoshoot that she had dropped four dress sizes and was feeling better than she had in years. Determined to make her weight loss more than just an isolated case and to help other slimmers as well, Banks brought her fight against the extra pounds on the small screen. Now, How Celebrities Lose Weight reveals the secret to her new figure.

As Tyra herself put in on several occasions, she is now slimmer and fitter than before after completely overhauling her diet with the help of a nutritionist. As fans must already know, this is one model that has always bragged about her love for food, while also promoting a healthy body image by telling women that they should all love and embrace the way they look. Of course, that doesn’t have to come at the expense of one’s health, which is why Banks is now urging for a healthier approach to food, which also implies cooking our own meals and cutting down on junk food.

“She eats plenty of fresh fruits (her favorites: mangos and papayas) and salads with chicken, shrimp, as part of her protein diet plan. She recently hired a part-time chef to help her out in the evenings. ‘He makes meals and leaves them for when I get home. This way I can even enjoy regular diet desserts because he knows a lot of healthy diet recipes.’ she says. Eat right, lose weight!” HCLW says of the healthier diet Tyra is now on. Not only that, but she also likes to make her own soups, which are also healthy, filling and pack little calories.

Besides eating right, Tyra also focuses on working out and making sure she burns the extra calories she might indulge in on an off-day. She hired Martin Snow, a known name in the industry, as her personal trainer and, since then, has been hitting the gym with clock-like regularity. At the exclusive “Trinity Boxing Club” where the former model was also a member, there was no room for slacking off, Snow was saying in a recent interview.

“Basically what she does are moves that a fighter would do. She tends to get bored just doing conventional stuff. I do old-man Charles Atlas workouts. Typically, I bring her over to the park for workout routines to lose weight; we will do some warm-ups, boxing, some running drills, a parachute run where I put a parachute around her and she runs with it. We will do some medicine work where she will take heavy medicine balls and run and chase after them, and throw them at different angles. And then we do kettle balls. I bring them out to the park for the weight loss training. They are fantastic tools. For women, they are awesome. They target the core and you can do it every day.” Snow said, as cited by HCLW.