Marissa Jaret Winokur's New Diet Trick? Tweet Before You Eat

Posted on Aug 5th 2009 5:00PM by Kimberly Papa

Filed Under: Diet & Weight Loss, Fitness, Celebs & Entertainment, Motivation, Interviews

Marissa Jaret Winokur is the host of "Dance Your Ass Off," the weight loss show that inspires contestants to shed pounds by getting their groove on. Now, the 39-year-old Tony Award winning actress is working on losing a few pounds herself, and is sharing her weight-loss journey in a weekly blog on People.com. This week, Winokur announced her newest strategy for sticking to her diet plan: Tweeting what she eats.

"It's kinda like my own little support group!" Winokur said. "I had never used Twitter before, but I thought what an easy way to beg for support while standing on line at the deli!" Winokur reported that she followed her "Before I eat, I shall tweet" diet commandment all weekend -- and it stopped her from ordering a vanilla latte at Starbucks (instead she went for the Americano, just 15 calories!).

"My fellow Tweeters (is that really a word?) gave praise and love when I ate some of Judah's chips! It's weird: The stranger support group works better then family. I guess strangers are like, "Come on, we can do this" while my family is more like, 'Oh, Marissa is on a diet again. Whatever, eat this red velvet cupcake... you know you love it!'"

Winokur's other diet triumph? Resisting the minibar in her hotel room. For those of you who go weak in the knees for an in-room candy bar, try Marissa's trick: She called the hotel ahead of time and asked them to lock the minibar. If you can't get to it you can't eat it, right?

Marissa recently sat down with That's Fit to share her other favorite diet and exercise tips. Check out the video below to learn more about Marissa's weight loss strategy and "Dance Your Ass Off."

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reality 8-05-2009 @ 8:12PM

Isn't it just terrible how people try to push diet pills that don't work, like Acai-eez? People will tell any lie for a buck

Elaine 8-06-2009 @ 12:02AM

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TRUTH 8-05-2009 @ 8:25PM

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Emma 8-05-2009 @ 8:42PM

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Emma's buddy 8-05-2009 @ 8:59PM

Oh RESEARCH>>>>I GOTCHA

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Consumers should be skeptical of health and weight-loss claims of the increasingly popular Brazilian fruit, acai, and the free trial offers that ask for their credit card information, a nonprofit health group said Monday.
Companies selling acai fruits are under investigation after numerous consumer complaints.

Companies selling acai fruits are under investigation after numerous consumer complaints.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest said companies offering diet pills made with the acai berries using fake celebrity endorsements and blogs to lure customers.

Acai (pronounced a-sigh-EE) comes in a number of forms including juice, pulp, powder and capsule. The berry has been touted as an antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and an antibacterial. The fruit is said to contain Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids, which are essential to human health.

Claims of weight loss are unfounded, said the CSPI.

"There's no evidence whatsoever to suggest that acai pills will help shed pounds, flatten tummies, cleanse colon, enhance sexual desire, or perform any of the other commonly advertised functions," according to the organization's press release.

Acai's popularity has surged on bogus marketing claims, said Jonny Bowden, a certified nutrition specialist and author of several health books.

"Virtually every berry -- blueberry, strawberry, goji, acai -- are anti-inflammatory and high in antioxidants," Bowden said. "This particular one is exotic. It's found in Brazil. It's been marketed to have more of a magic ingredient. It's been over-hyped and marketed to death. There are claims to curing cancer, curing baldness that is all over the place."

Like most berries, acai has good nutritional qualities, but "there is not a drop of research" that supports marketing claims that it prevents weight gain and facial wrinkles, Bowden said.

Dan 8-05-2009 @ 11:24PM

One would think that with all the "diets" and info-mercials promoting various weight loss philosophies, we would be a lean society. NOT SO. Recent studies and reports disclose that we, as a nation, are experiencing an epidemic relative to fitness. When will we realize that the remedy to our situation is through getting back to basics? "Diets" are NOT the answer. "Gimmicks" are NOT the answer. Wholesome Nutrition and Exercise (cardio, strength training, and flexibility) - THIS IS THE ANSWER. I would love to hear what you think. www.fitnessbasics101.com

Pissed 8-06-2009 @ 1:05AM

Like this show makes any sense?? And this fat broad wants to give me diet tips?? That's like asking the messiah owe bamma to give me financial advice!!! This is a stupid show that preys on fat people to make fools of themselves flopping all over a stage like wanta be dancers!!! The network should be ashamed of itself for putting this kind of garbage on my tv (no I don't watch the show) and even worse that it makes these poor people who need help make fools of themselves!!!!!

doni 9-02-2009 @ 4:58AM

lovely i actually adore this actress, she is so wonderful !
although she might want to consider losing some weight there is no shame in doing and admitting that you need to do so it simply is not healthy to be over weight (forget all the looking hot BS society has us eating), i would recommend to read up at this location. Phentermine Guide it's very informative and helped me a lot !