So Star Trek: Into Darkness is out on Blue Ray, and when I saw Alice Eve in her underwear – I thought the same thing as everyone else: I need to blog about it.
So here’s the thing about 33 different places reporting “Alice Eve admits to eating nothing but spinach to get in shape for Star Trek: Into Darkness!” But here’s the thing: It isn’t true.
Look, she may have said that, or something like that, to The Telegraph. But in other interviews she talked about eating chicken and spinach for six months to get ready for Star Trek.
And then for other movies she’s talked about how she eats really normally between movies and when she’s back home, but when she needs to lock it down for a movie she eats like a caveman: Lots of protein and vegetables.
So basically when she needs to lean up she eats some version of Paleo.
And if she eats Paleo-ish, that would make a lot of sense. And would show you how fitness information gets chopped up to fit a more sensational headline.
And half of the stupid stuff I read about celebrity diets, that’s the kind of thing I end up wondering: Did the reporter have an angle? Did this just sound more exciting? Or sometimes even: Is it possible that the celebrity’s trainer know what’s going on, and the celebrity really doesn’t?
Did Alice do a Protein Sparing Modified Fast?
One last little tidbit, just because I keep running into it: If it really was just protein and vegetables, it would be a protein sparing modified fast.
It wouldn’t actually even qualify as a diet, it would a smarter version of a fast. As such, it’s actually one of the more genius ways to crash diet, as it tends to preserve muscle, so you don’t get skinny fat crash dieting (fasting). So… it’s a decent idea for a week or so. It couldn’t (and shouldn’t) be maintained for six months.
Which is why I don’t think Alice Eve really ate just protein and vegetables. Usually if someone says they just ate protein and vegetables, what they really mean is that they didn’t eat many carbs, so they had protein, vegetables and fat.
Especially since she “ate like a caveman”. “Caveman” or Paleo type diets are known for being high protein and high fat, which would make more sense. Energy has to come from somewhere, and if it isn’t carbs, it has to be fat.
Khan and Bane: Villian Workout Buddies
A little bit of trivia: Benedict Cumberbatch (Khan) actually had a shower scene that got cut. So, for all the people that thought Alice’s underwear scene was totally gratuitous, you’ve got to feel for Benedict who spent all of that same time preparing for his big scene. He ate 4,000 calories per day and worked out with Tom Hardy’s Bane personal trainer, all to bulk up for his gratuitous half naked scene… that no one got to see.
by Josh Hillis, CPT, PES, CES
author of The 21 Day Kettlebell Swing Challenge
and The Stubborn Seven Pounds: How to go from Good to Rockstar
and System Six: Easy Fat Loss
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