Kym Johnson
Recently booted “Dancing with the Stars” contestant Kym Johnson created a lot of buzz after telling Us magazine that her diet secret is avoiding carbohydrates after 5 p.m. This is how she keeps her 5-ft.-9-in. frame a size 2, so the rumor went.
This morning on Good Morning America she corrected the facts when she and dance partner David Alan Grier talked to Diane Sawyer. She’s really 5’7” and a size 4, she wanted people to know. She also said she doesn’t avoid all carbs, as she likes a glass of wine in the evening. (Wine, though, only contains 1 percent carbohydrates).
There is nothing wrong with avoiding carbohydrates after 5 p.m., especially if it is simple carbs, such as sugar, or high-calorie carbs, such as potato chips. But this isn’t what is responsible for her beautiful body. It’s her dancing.
Dancing like Kym Johnson dances burns calories like an elite athlete. As a professional dancer, she is accustomed to eating carbs because they are the body’s energy machine. Her dancing star David Alan Grier lost 28 pounds during the competition. He commented that his challenge will be keeping it off, now that he won’t be going through the rigorous daily practice. He obviously doesn’t intend to keep on dancing the way Kym does. For her, dancing is a calorie-burning, body sculpting way of life. And a fun way to lose weight, or in her case, keep it off.
Kym can pretty much eat what she wants. As she told Us, “I love fries and bread, but I see a real difference in my body when I don't eat them after 5 p.m.” Us also reported that, “She'll still enjoy dessert when out to dinner with her boyfriend, but just a small portion.”
Following in Kym’s footsteps takes more than restricting calories after 5. It’s also burning lots and lots of calories through a vigorous exercise like ballroom dancing.
Kym really has her act together.
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