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HOW SHE DOES IT
"She has the ideal body," Ashley Greene tells OK! Of Brit, 27, who burns up to 550 calories an hour on the Circus stage. In L.A., Brit does two-hour cardio and strength sessions three times a week and relies on Sunfare’s 1,200-calorie-a-day deliveries (three meals, two snacks). Sunfare devotees can shed two to four pounds a week, so even you can rock a bikini like Brit did in May!

EVA LONGORIA PARKER
#7 BEST BODY OF 2009

HOW SHE DOES IT
"It’s hard to appear thin on film when you’re short; she does!" Lee Ann Womack tells OK!. Eva, 34, trains with Aimet Victoria, doing strength and cardio workouts several times a week. Like Kate, Eva noshes Sunfare meals, such as fresh grilled salmon in ginger-citrus sauce.

KATE BECKINSALE
#10 BEST BODY OF 2009

HOW SHE DOES IT
"Private Pilates sessions – which can burn 350 calories an hour – at The Sports Club L.A. in Beverly Hills keep the Underworld star, 35, in otherworldly form. "God, she’s perfect," Melissa Rivers tells OK!. Kate had an eating disorder as a teen but now follows a healthier route with Sunfare Signature Diet, the diet-delivery service to the stars.

SPECIAL DELIVERY

Too busy? Can’t stand cooking? Try these new local food-delivery services and make mealtime more manageable.

It’s not quite like the Star Trek Enterprise, where you push a few buttons and dinner pops out, but home-delivered food services are making it easier to get nutritious meals and avoid the drive-thru.  And more and more options seem to be popping up in the Valley lately.

Think of it as personal catering.  You order one meal at a time, and food is delivered ready-to-cook or re-heat.

Unlike meal services of the past, the new model is to customize.  You don’t have to cross an entire entrée off your list because you don’t like something or don’t want it for dietary reasons.  Meals are made fresh, and they’re personalized.

“You go through a list of ingredients we use and say, ‘I don’t like broccoli, I don’t want raw onions, I don’t like salmon,’” says John Stewart, co-owner of Sunfare, a Los Angeles-based home delivery company that recently opened a second location in Phoenix.

They also offer vegetarian meal plans.  The cost averages $25.95 for a breakfast / lunch or breakfast / dinner combination. 

Many Sunfare clients buy their food for nutritional and medical reasons – to lose weight, or to address diabetes or high cholesterol.

…“We’ve been referred to as the ‘food fairies’” Stewart says of Sunfare.

…Customers of these services include everyone from professionals to stay-at-home moms to older people who live alone and can’t get out or don’t like cooking for one.

…M.J. Conn of Scottsdale eats Sunfare mainly for health reasons.

HOW EVA GOT THIN FAST!

The Desperate Housewives star showed off a svelte new figure at the Golden Globes. Here are her secret tricks to shedding the pounds!

ON HER DIET
What’s Eva’s secret? “She works out with her personal trainer, Aimet Victoria, three times a week,” says her rep. And she “is on a strict diet right now,” the rep ads. “She uses Sunfare delivery service. She likes it because it’s very easy to eat healthy, since it’s pre-prepared, but she also loves vegetables and fish.” Every meal on the Sunfare Signature program consists of 30 percent lean protein, 40 percent whole wheat carbs and 30 percent monounsaturated fats. Giving up junk food hasn’t been a big problem for Eva. “She isn’t really a sweets person,” says her rep. “But she loves soda and has cut down on that.” “It really has affected my body,” said Eva. We agree!

EVA’S HEALTHY DIET
Here is a sample of what you can eat on the Sunfare program

BREAKFAST
An omelet cooked with diced turkey, chopped tomatoes, bell peppers and onions, served with fresh fruit.

LUNCH
Strips of chicken, peppers and currants sautéed in a mango chutney sauce. Served with steamed veggies and a salad.

AFTERNOON SNACK
Vanilla yogurt

DINNER
Fresh salmon marinated overnight in a ginger citrus sauce and grilled. Served with sautéed asparagus and a fresh green salad.

EVENING SNACK
Apple slices with cheese or peanut butter

BEST DIETS - Britney Spears

The mom of two regained her awe-inspiring abs!

“It’s important to take care of your body,” she recently said.

Her new album, Circus, debuted at the top of the charts December 2, but even more impressive? The 5-fooot-4 pop star, 27, has shed 20 pounds in recent months, whittling her waistline to its trimmest in years, thanks to two-hour cardio-and-strength-training workouts three times a week (on top of dance rehearsals). “It’s a nonstop workout,” Bally Total Fitness trainer Seven Boggs, who has worked with Spears, tells Us of the routine, which includes moves like shoulder presses and jump squats. “Instead of resting after a set, we would do ‘active resting’ of abdominal crunches.”

ADIOS, FATTY FOODS Spears has also revamped her diet, opting for a 1,000 – 1,200-calorie-a-day meal-delivery plan from Sunfare consisting of three meals (breakfast burritos, barbecue chicken salad and turkey burgers) and two snacks (think cheese and nuts). Though it hasn’t been easy, the mom to Sean, 3, and Jayden, 2, is proud of her svelte shape. “I have had to work hard at getting it back to where it used to be,” she recently confessed, adding of her workouts, “It makes me feel good and feel like I’ve done something.”

Britney’s diet at her doorstep

Britney Spears takes the guesswork out of slimming down by staying out of the kitchen and having her meals delivered

Britney Spears says she doesn’t like the word “comeback,” but in 2008 the chart-topping singer certainly made one. And the most dramatic part of her return to the spotlight was the 20- to 25-pound weight loss that made the star’s body look as toned as it did a decade ago.

Yet Brit, 27, didn’t really mind dancing for two to four hours every day to get her 5-foot-4 body burning fat. “To me, dancing doesn’t feel like exercise,” Britney has told Life & Style. “I love it, and I’m always happy after I’m done.”

And while the mom of two has to work harder at the gym between rehearsals, she doesn’t have to lift a finger to prepare her slim-down menu. In fact, Brit relies on the Sunfare delivery service (Sunfare.com) to drop off three meals and two snacks to her door, five days a week, an insider tells Life & Style. On the Sunfare Signature Diet, “Britney’s eating approximately 1,100 to 1,200 calories a day,” says the insider. For about $55 a day, the plan cooks up dishes that are 30 percent lean protein, 40 percent whole wheat or low-glycemic carbs (which won’t make blood sugar spike) and 30 percent monounsaturated fats (which can help blast belly bulge).

Her diet details
Britney, says another insider, still eats hearty meals (like her favorite Sunfare turkey burgers and eggplant lasagna), just in smaller, well-balanced portions, which has helped her stick to the program since she started it in April. “Once you’re on the program, you learn what portion size is,” says Sunfare co-founder and nutritionist Carl Ferro, who says each dieter’s plan is customized in terms of caloric intake, ingredients and nutritional support.

Being emotionally stable also helps Brit stay with her plan. Notes a family insider, “She’s grown into this body in the healthiest state of mind she’s had in years.”

Make a menu like Britney’s at home
Breakfast: Vanilla yogurt with strawberries and mixed nuts is a popular Sunfare starter – and easy to whip up in the kitchen. Sunfare co-founder Carl Ferro says to use low-fat yogurt, and he advises dieters to add protein powder to the mix.

Lunch: Sunfare has a barbecued-chicken salad on its menu, but a Cobb salad or chef’s salad is usually a good option on any menu, notes Ferro, who says to make the protein portion palm-size and to limit dressing to 2 tbsp.

Snack One: For a mid-afternoon fill-me-up, Sunfare can deliver grilled stuffed zucchini rolls. Make them at home by wrapping about ½ oz. of goat cheese in zucchini (grill three slices in olive oil) and seasoning with basil, salt and pepper.

Dinner: A turkey burger on half a whole wheat low-carb bun is said to be one of Brit’s faves, and it’s easy to make! Ferro suggests using half a whole wheat dinner roll as the bun and making sure fries are from sweet potatoes.

Snack Two: A slice of cheese with nuts and an apple creates a balanced fat, protein and good-carb combo. Limit nuts to 1 tsp., says Ferro. For more healthy-eating info, log on to Sunfare.com for a free at-home meal plan.

What’s the tastiest diet delivery meal?
SUNFARE BERRY CREPES: This was satisfying for reasons beyond the tasty crepes and berries – it was also a filling amount of food (Sunfare.com for info.)

Poppy Montgomery
How She Lost 70 Lbs. of Baby Weight!

After nine months of eating ‘without guilt,’ the actress gets back in bikini shape.

The best part about being pregnant? “I ate with no guilt!” says Without a Trace star Poppy Montgomery, who gained 70 lbs. in nine months by “overindulging” in Haagen-Dazs (her favorite flavor: Dulce de Leche) and giving in to her avocado cravings. “I loved every second of gaining that weight – and I would do it again!” But the fun couldn’t last forever: Three weeks after giving birth to son Jackson last December (the father is her boyfriend of four years, actor Adam Kaufman, 34), Montgomery, 36, signed up for the meal delivery service Sunfare, which restricted her to only 1,200 calories a day. She also exercised at home six days a week using the total-body workout DVD program P90X and by September was back in her pre-baby, size 27 jeans. “It was hard, but worth it,” she says. “All that food made me so happy! And Jackson is the happiest baby ever.”

How to look better naked in 5 days

Britney Spears’ latest video shows off the star’s hot new bod without clothes. Here’s how she and other stars shape up:

The proof was in the pictures when Britney Spears stripped down for her new music video – and showed off the results of a full-body overhaul! "Before, she would always cheat behind her trainer’s back, eating junk, and then she’d feel fat and lose motivation," says a Spears family friend. "But now she looks awesome and is really strict about what she eats."

In fact, the "Womanizer" singer has been relying on 1,100- to 1,200-calorie-a-day low-carb menus from Sunfare delivery service – and, says an insider, has already lost about 25 pounds. "She’s really toned," her sylist, Laury Smith, tells Life & Style.But that doesn’t mean Brit’s cut back on her workouts. She’s been dancing two to four hours a day to get even stronger. "She’s working again with her old choreographer, Wade Robson," says a Brit insider. "They’re incorporating all types of dances into the tour," the Brit insider says about the pop star’s comeback, which begins with the Dec. 2 release of her album, Circus.

Brit’s revamped bod has reportedly landed her the January cover of Glamour! "She looks hot," says the family friend, "and she knows it!"

HOT STUFF

Britney Spears’ Hot-Body Diet
The singer looks better than ever by following a meal-delivery plan

"Her Body was slammin’," DJ JJ Kincaid, who interviewed Spears Sept. 29 at NYC radio station Z100, tells Us.

Her new single, "womanizer" may be getting tons of airplay, but it’s Britney Spears’ bod that has everyone buzzing. A source close to the 5-foot-4 Spears, 26, tells Us she has shed 15 to 20 pounds thanks to three months on meal-delivery plan Sunfare (available in L.A. and Phoenix starting at $52 per day, Sunfare.com). "She receives between 1,100 and 1,200 calories per day," says the insider of the three meals and two snacks (each comprised of 30 percent protein, 40 percent carbs and 30 percent fat). "She loves the turkey burger, chipotle chicken wrap and lasagna. She also gets a sugar-free dessert two to three times per week." And staying active is key. Another source says she works out with a trainer for up to two hours, three times a week (30 minutes of cardio, then strength training), in addition to dance rehearsals, which are "her way of having fun and working off steam."

Two Days in Her Diet
Day 1
Breakfast: Breakfast burrito with chicken sausage, fresh salsa and pineapple
Lunch: BBQ chicken salad
Afternoon Snack: Turkey wrapped asparagus
Dinner: Lasagna with vegetables and a green salad
Evening Snack: A slice of cheese, nuts and grapes

Day 2
Breakfast: Vanilla yogurt with strawberries and mixed nuts
Lunch: Sweet-and-sour chicken with a side of fruit
Afternoon Snack: Cheese quesadilla with salsa
Dinner: Turkey burger
Evening snack: Sugar-free cheesecake

SAMANTHA HARRIS - How I Got Emmy Ready

Harris doesn’t count calories, but gets Sunfare meals delivered three times a week "for healthy food without having to think."

HOW POPPY GOT THIN

What’s Poppy Montgomery’s secret to losing 70 pounds of baby weight after giving birth to son Jackson on December 23? "A lot of hard work," she tells Us. The Without a Trace actress, 36, now uses Arizona-based Sunfare food delivery service (which promotes low carbs and protein). While pregnant, she says, "Haagen-Dazs ice cream was my breakfast, lunch and dinner!"

Sunfare - Your Personal Nutritionist

As one of the most demanding sports in the world, few others require as much from the human body as mixed martial arts. The constant wear and tear on the body from conditioning, sparring, weight training and other forms of hell these athletes put themselves through requires two vital components: rest and proper nutrition.

While rest is simple enough - just go to sleep - nutrition can be drastically more complicated. Questions like, how much should I eat? What should I eat? How often? What if I'm cutting weight? Trying to gain weight? What if I do not like the food I'm supposed to eat? And who is going to cook all this? Fortunately for athletes, and your average Joe alike, Sunfare found the answer.

Founded in 1997 by nutritionist John Stewart and personal trainer Carl Ferro, Sunfare was the result of their frustration in getting customers to accomplish seemingly realistic health goals. "People would come in and we could educate them, but as soon as they walked out the door, their blood sugar would drop and they would eat whatever they cold find," explains Stewart.

Eventually they came to the conclusion that if their clients were not going to find the food they needed, the would bring it to them. Starting off with just on client, Stewart and Ferro found a caterer with the capabilities to pick, prepare and deliver the right kinds of food for those looking for nutritional help. The experiment was such a success that word of mouth quickly spread. Today, Sunfare services thousands of clients in the Los Angeles and Phoenix/Scottsdale areas with 90% of their customers finding Sunfare though word of mouth.

The Sunfare plan starts with customizing specific nutritional goals with the help of a Sunfare professional . Once the nutritional goals are defined, the new client fills out a questionnaire stating what he does not like to eat. " We offer all different kinds of choices for someone to stick to their nutritional goals," explains Stewart. Making sure they deliver only foods their client enjoys helps ensure the customer sticks to their plan. The portion and number of meals vary depending on which plan you choose. The food is then cooked fresh everyday and delivered to your doorstep every morning.

For an MMA fighter, Sunfare solves the problem of not knowing what to eat, when to eat it, how much to eat and the time needed to prepare it. "Nutrition is everything," Stewart states. "You can exercise the body all you want, but if you do not give it the right fuel, it cannot perform." For the up and coming MMA fighter who cannot afford to pay a nutritionist, Sunfare has found a way to fill that gap,.

But how good can delivered food be? "It's not this frozen or freeze dried stuff," Stewart explains. "This is real. You are getting real fruits and vegetables,." Sunfare has many gourmet options including meals and snacks like American omelets, chicken scallopini and citrus salmon. An extensive vegetarian menu is also available.

While Stewart and Ferro originally designed Sunfare to help the average person with modest nutritional goals, athletes and celebrities alike took notice of Sunfare, looking for that extra edge in nutrition. Hollywood stars like Charlie Sheen, Denise Richards and Kate Beckinsale have used Sunfare, as well as Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner, Los Angeles Laker Lamar Odom and Los Angeles Dodger Brad Penny.

In today's modern day, fast-paced world of burgers and French fries, John Stewart and Carl Ferro strive to bring their clients all the possible tools needed to reach their goals whether it be dropping a few pounds, feeling more energetic training for a marathon or winning that coveted UFC title.

Something for Everyone - Poppy Montgomery

First step to a postbaby body: Two weeks after Jackson was born, I decided that if I didn’t make the decision to eat better, I wouldn’t take off the weight as fast. I signed both me and [Jackson’s father] Adam [Kaufman] up for Sunfare food delivery service (Sunfare.com). By the time six weeks had passed, I was feeling good because my food was good. It’s high protein with lots of fruits and veggies.