Celebrity Diet Secrets: Republican National Convention edition

Sarah Palin’s caribou diet

Republican party vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who is also the governor of Alaska, revealed what sounds like a pretty strange diet and fitness routine to those of us from the lower 48, but that’s probably pretty common among people from the great white north.

Palin told the Wall Street Journal that she’s always been a runner and her first child is named Track because he was born in that season. She is now running three miles every other day, down from seven to 10 miles a day before she got pregnant with her fifth child, Trig, and admits she’ll run at midnight in the summer, since it’s still light then.

While pregnant she says she was doing aerobics classes at the gym to stay in shape, and uses dumbbells and snowmobiling to keep her upper body strong.

She says the family eats a pretty healthy diet full of wild Alaskan seafood, caribou and moose, as well as fresh fruit. (By the way, we’ve got all the nutritional information you could want on classic Alaskan foods.) Her health pitfall is skipping breakfast, or having nothing but a white chocolate mocha.

Water is her workout fuel and what she consumes after a run as well, and she says her biggest obstacle to consistency is being pregnant every few years.

Huckabee offers tips for staying slim

Another Republican runner offering health tips this week is former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, who tells the New York Times that he used to hate exercise, but now that he’s dropped more than 100 pounds he’s hoping to encourage some of his fellow convention-goers to be a little healthier.

He says at a big event full of temptation like a convention, it’s important to eat six or seven small meals a day and load up on protein but go easy on the carbs early in the day.

If you want to eat carbs, make sure they’re whole grain and only eat them later in the day. Drink plenty of water and never drink calories. And spend plenty of time running away from reporters for exercise, he says.

 

(By Sarah E. White for CalorieLab Calorie Counter News)

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