Set to appear on the season premiere of Oprah, a two-day event starting September 14, as the “music interview of the decade,” Whitney will answer some of Oprah’s toughest questions on her life, including her drug abuse, divorce and the inspiration behind her long-awaited sixth album.

Healing from more than a decade-long history of drug abuse, Houston in years past has often been photographed looking frightfully thin, sallow and exhausted – just a few of the hallmark signs of her drug and alcohol addiction, which she did admitted to in 2002 in an interview with Diane Sawyer. She has denied having the eating disorder anorexia nervosa, and instead blamed her gaunt appearance on stress and the emotional turmoil of her substance abuse problems.

But with the help of her music producer Clive Davis, whom she has personally calls “her mentor,” Houston is back and ready to reclaim her title as one of the best leading female vocalists of all time.

DietsInReview.com will be tuning in to Oprah to learn how this Superstar managed to pick herself up emotionally and physically and come out looking better and healthier than ever.

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Whitney Houston’s Journey to Health

Sherri Shepherd's new thinner figure, via The View

It seems like the all-female talk-show The View is always in the limelight. But this time, it’s for a great and celebratory reason. Co-host, comedian/actress and diabetic Sherri Shepherd, who replaced Star Jones in 2007, flaunted her new fabulous figure last week on the show after losing 10 inches off of her total body and a whopping five inches from her waist alone!

She’s not revealing how many pounds she has dropped, but by looking at her newly svelte figure in a black bathing suit, she has obviously lost a significant amount of weight in just three months.

So what is her weight loss secret? Good, old-fashioned diet and exercise. Working out with fitness trainer Don Scott four times a week, whom she nicknamed “The Evil One,” and eating prepared meals from The Fresh Diet, a food-delivery service, Shepherd now wears a size 6 pant and a size 10 dress. She has even tried to get her pal Oprah to experience the steep-inclined treadmill runs and the bicep-burning plank moves she has to endure.

Prohibited foods on her diet were Shepherd’s favorite eats like cheeseburgers, onion rings and milkshakes. Even the famous fro-yo Pinkberry wasn’t allowed as Shepherd ate healthy for three months and was able to wean herself off of her diabetic medication.

But as a present to herself for donning a bathing suit and looking pretty amazing in it, she ate a celebratory meal of ribs, cornbread, collard greens and M&Ms.

How’s that for a sweet reward?

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The View’s Sherri Shepherd’s Weight Loss with Fresh Diet

Here’s the skinny: Quick Weight Loss Centers have been in business for over 25 years, helping people lose weight through their professionally-supervised programs. While each diet is customized to meet the weight loss goals of each individual, most diets hover around the 1,500 calorie mark and are comprised of real food that you purchase at the grocery store.

In addition, Quick Weight Loss Centers has a line of foods and snacks like soups, bars and supplements. Individual counseling, behavioral education and consistent monitoring of your progress is also part of the Quick Weight Loss Center program.

Rush’s diet was typical of any Quick Weight Loss Center follower: A confessed novice to counting calories, fat and carb grams, Limbaugh likened his diet to a jigsaw puzzle that changes every day and with a special set of rules he had to follow. For instance, he was and still is not allowed to consume two protein sources in one meal.

And he’s not stopping at just 79 pounds. Limbaugh is still faithfully following his diet plan and losing weight more quickly than he ever has before. Luckily for him, Quick Weight Loss Center also has a maintenance program, which will help him keep all of those pounds off once he has met his weight loss goal. Many studies show that individuals who lose weight quickly, have higher rates of weight-regain than those who follow a modest-paced weight loss program.

Quick Weight Loss Centers are located around the country, while the company also offers a home-based program that you can follow remotely.

Here is DietsInReview.com’s complete review of Quick Weight Loss Centers.

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Rush Limbaugh Loses Weight with Quick Weight Loss Centers

With the 2009 season at a close for Shaq’s Phoenix Suns, this 325-pound athlete is determined to maintain his weight or maybe even better, lose a few pounds during the off season with the help of registered dietitian Joy Bauer. Criticized for having his bulk slow him down on the court, Shaq is ready to start preparing for the pre-season in his off-season.

Bauer created a low-carb, high protein and low-fat diet that Shaq dubbed The ShaqLyte diet in his effort (and his own words) to get into “Super Model shape.” We’re not exactly sure what he means by looking like a super model but I also can’t envision that we’ll be seeing  Shaq strut down the cat-walk in a pair of skinny Balenciaga jodpher trousers.

The ShaqLyte Diet is much like other diets that shuns starchy carbs, sugars and fatty foods and instead replaces them with leafy greens, lean protein, low glycemic fruits and well-timed whole grains like fiber-rich cereals in the morning. Exercise, vitamins and fish oil supplements are also part of the daily regimen.

Here is a complete review of the ShaqLyte Diet.

As someone who is under five-feet tall, I have always felt that those who are taller, even if just by a mere four inches let alone two-feet taller, have it made when it comes to eating what they want, then anyone can. But perhaps I need to rethink my judgement and realize that for majority of  the human race, from the vertically-challenged to the non-vertically-challenged, maintaining a healthy weight is a day-to-day, lifelong process. I never thought that I, at 4′ 10.5″ tall I would ever have anything in common with Shaquille O’Neal. Until now.

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Shaq Stays Fit with the ShaqLyte Diet

Britney Spears' New Body

The pop princess showed off her tight tummy on Friday in new photos on her Web site as she rehearsed for her upcoming tour.

“I’m the healthiest I’ve been all my life,” she said at the time. “My diet has a lot to do with my getting into shape. I have no sugar. I don’t eat fruit or even fruit juice because of the sugar. I eat chicken and salmon and rice. I eat avocados. I’ll have egg whites for breakfast and sometimes turkey burgers for lunch.”

Read More At MSNBC.

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Britney Spears Gets Her Body Back

Our fascination with how they do it (and why we struggle so much) has inspired us to take a close look into their personal lives to motivate us as we strive to reach and maintain our weight loss goals. So here is a snapshot of a few of Hollywood’s most successful dieters and what helped them shape up and slim down.

Katie Holmes: Mrs. Cruise has always been in amazing shape, but after giving birth to daughter, Suri, Katie was ready to get back to her pre-pregnancy bod and look great for her wedding. She took up running in order to shed those post-baby pounds and not only did it pay off but her passion for running inspired her to run and complete the New York City marathon in 2007.

Tori Spelling: This former 90210 diva, who is now the mother of two children, knows a thing or two about the pressure to be thin in Hollywood. In order to lose weight after pregnancy, Tori signed up for NutriSystem, the meal-delivery program that prepares portion and calorie-controlled meals for you so that all you have to do is unwrap, heat and eat! It helped her shed the baby pounds while also giving her the energy to run after her two young ones.

Carrie Underwood: Her career isn’t the only thing that has undergone a massive transformation in the past three years, her body has also. After winning American Idol, this vegetarian veteran, dropped a few dress sizes with intense cardio sessions and keeping a daily food diary. She still practices these same two tools today, which she now credits to helping her maintain her gorgeous and fit shape.

Here are more diet profiles on some of Hollywoods most svelte and healthy bodies.

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Diet Secrets of Katie, Tori and Carrie

Britney’s spending three days in the gym with her trainer doing aerobics and weights.

Jennifer Love Hewitt was the talk of the town last year with accusations that she was too fat, and then her subsequent weight loss.

Seth Rogen shucked his overweight, slacker-dude look for a fit and trim look that’s quite attractive.

See the other celebrity weight loss success stories, and find out what they’re doing to stay in shape.

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Hollywood’s 2008 Weight Loss Winners

Manipulating weight on a dramatic level famously began with Robert DeNiro in his role as Jake LaMotta in the 1980 film Raging Bull. During the fight scenes, DeNiro was in tip-top shape; cut out of granite. But for his scenes as the washed up pugilist, DeNiro packed on a whopping 60 pounds. According to the Internet Movie Database, the weight gain was a record for the time. It was later topped by Vincent D’Onofrio who gained 70 pounds for his role as private Pyle in Stanley Kubrick’s haunting Vietnam war picture, Full Metal Jacket.

According to director Martin Scorsese, the film’s production was closed down for about four months, allowing DeNiro to binge on carb-loaded Italian food. It made for an amazing transformation for the film’s final scenes.

Once the acting legend Robert DeNiro set the bar so high for fully committing to a movie role, Oscar hopefuls lined up to show what they were made of.

Renee Zellweger is probably the most famous actress to make a point of dramatically transforming her body. She did it twice for two installments of the Bridget Jones films. Zellweger is normally a slim size six, but for the films she transformed into a size 14.

Other women have made impressive transformations, but often they are so thin to begin with, that when they add 20+ pounds, they simply go from thin to curvy. Charlize Theron’s amazing performance as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster was more about “dirtying her up” than the 30 pounds she gained for the part.

Eva Longoria Parker made waves with her minuscule 10-pound weight gain to transform her Desperate Housewives role form sex kitten to exhausted homemaker. But little changed other than removing makeup and dressing her down. “I never went up a size,” the 33-year-old actress told Allure magazine. “I just got rounder.”

Next is everyone’s favorite everyman, Tom Hanks in Castaway. Like in Raging Bull, the production of Castaway went on hiatus, and Hanks lost 55 pounds and didn’t shave or cut his hair. “The idea of looking at four months of constant vigilance as far as what I ate, as well as two hours a day in the gym doing nothing but a monotonous kind of workout – that was formidable,” said Hanks. “You have to power yourself through it almost by some sort of meditation trickery. It’s not glamorous.”

Two of the most dramatic transformations in cinema history have to be Christian Bale and Jared Leto.

Pretty boy Jared Leto packed on 60 pounds for his role in Chapter 27 (below), in which he plays John Lennon’s assassin Mark David Chapman.

Raising suspicion of his sanity, Leto gained weight by eating pints of Haagen Dazs chocolate ice cream that he would microwave along with olive oil and soy sauce. Yum. After filming he took equally drastic measures to drop the weight. “Eight days after I was done with the film, I fasted for 10 days, and I got right back on the road with 30 Seconds To Mars,” says Leto, talking about his band. He reportedly did so using the controversial Master Cleanse method.

Bale, one of today’s hottest stars, lost 63 pounds from an already thin frame to play his disturbing role as an emaciated insomniac in The Machinist. At six feet tall, he dropped from 185 pounds to around 122! His daily diet consisted of the monotonous and meager one helping of an apple and a can of tuna. “I had been to a nutritionist and when I had got down to what she had told me was a healthy weight, I just went: ‘You know what? I can go more than this. I can keep going.’ So I lost another 20 pounds below what she said I should stop at,” Bale told the BBC.

What makes Bale’s story so amazing is that he promptly turned around and got buffed up for his role as Batman in Batman Begins. In five months, he went from 122 pounds to 220 before slimming back down to 180 by the time shooting began.

Is it the artist being fully dedicated to his craft, or just someone who is a bit off his rocker? Maybe it’s a little of both. But at what cost to his health?

“Doing this once although not advisable, shouldn’t hurt him long term,” says Raphael Calzadilla, B.A., CPT, ACE, Chief Fitness Pro for eDiets.com. “He could have risked his health by going as low as 122 pounds, and if he did it time and again (gained and lost to that extreme) he most definitely would have impacted his overall health, internal organs, immune system and metabolism.”

Matt Damon lost nearly 50 pounds to play a heroin addict in Courage Under Fire. He was candid about regretting the move. “I went too far. I got sick and I wouldn’t do that again because it was just too much. At the same time it helped the performance. I didn’t have to act at all – I was a wreck. I was getting dizzy spells and hot flashes. I didn’t say anything to anyone for a while because I was afraid I might be really ill.”

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The Most Extreme Celebrity Weight Losses and Gains

Following on the heels of such actresses as Renee Zellwegger and Hilary Swank who also packed on the pounds for their craft, Knowles didn’t say much about which foods she indulged in, but she did say that it was more fun to gain than having to lose weight.

“It was way easier — and tastier — than having to lose so much weight for Dreamgirls,” said the actress.

For her critically-acclaimed role as Dina in Dreamgirls, Beyonce lost 20 pounds doing the Master Cleanse, a liquid fast in which you consume a concoction of water, lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper all day long. It took the weight off, but it took its toll on the young entertainer, emotionally. She was reportedly cranky all the time on the diet, especially as she watched fellow actors and set-members scarf down Krispy Kreme donuts by the dozen.

Since her latest film has wrapped up and she has begun shooting her next film, Beyonce is frustrated with trying to get this extra weight off. In order to slim down she has placed some serious restrictions on her diet by abstaining from chips, candy, dessert, fried foods or junk food.

From her days in Destiny’s Child to her thriving career as a solo artist, Beyonce has long been known for her voice, beauty and talent. And she has been very vocal about not fitting into the stick-thin stereotype that so many others Hollywood stars forcefully adopt.

Instead, her curvaceous, “bootylicious” figure and her undeniable fashion sense has provided girls and women of all ages and race an alternative role model to the 100-pound image that so many other starlets possess.

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Beyonce Gains 15 Pounds for New Role

Hollywood starlets seem to have it all – money, fame (if that floats your boat) and the glory of a high profile career. But even with all this, the most beautiful woman on the planet (that’s my wife speaking, not me) isn’t immune to the occasional imperfection.

When impossibly beautiful celebrities gain so much as a smidgen of weight, the Earth trembles and shakes with the horror of it all. Eva Longoria is one of the current cases of celebs showing their humanness, by tipping the scale in the upward direction for once.

Rumors circulated that she may be pregnant. But she clears the air in the pages of Allure magazine:

“I stopped working out and gained about seven pounds over the summer, which is a lot for a small person. Every magazine is tearing me apart … I never went up a size. I just got rounder. I’m still a size 0. “

There’s more on the portly size 0 Eva Longoria in an excerpt from her interview with Allure at Yahoo’s OMG!.

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Eva Longoria Gains Weight, Sparks Rumors