Gwyneth Paltrow almost won “Quarantine 15”.
During it In Goop Health – The At-Home Summit virtual event on Saturday, March 6, the Oscar-winning actress and founder of the lifestyle and wellness brand Goop participated in a question and answer session and revealed that she gained weight over “nine months of quarantine” in amid the coronavirus pandemic, which started a year ago.
“I was not at all prevented,” said Paltrow. “I gained 14 pounds and my stomach was a mess. But I just didn’t want to do anything about it, really. I felt that my wine and my pasta and cookies and crackers and cheese were helping me.”
Paltrow, 48, turned to Dr. Will Cole, a Pennsylvania-based functional medicine practitioner, for help after feeling “very bad” and after a blood test showed she had increased inflammation in her body. In February, she appeared on her The Art of Being Well podcast and revealed that she gained weight during the quarantine.
THE Shallow Hal the actress said she ended up losing 11 pounds with the help of a bone broth diet and a plan developed by Cole. Paltrow had provided a preface to his book Intuitive Fasting, a program she described on Instagram as a “clear, yet flexible, four-week plan that combines intuitive eating with intermittent fasting and ketone foods.”
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“I remember when I started this intuitive fasting program on January 3. I thought, all I could think was, ‘When can I have a cocktail again?'” Paltrow said at the meeting on Saturday. “You know me, I don’t cheat, I don’t break, I’m very disciplined and I thought, I can’t do that. I started to feel really good after about 60 days in.”
The star continued, “And now I’m starting to feel so good that I think, like, I would drink if I could, maybe, but not seven days a week anymore. I don’t want to go back to that.”
Paltrow occasionally shares on Instagram images of healthy dishes that she has prepared for her and her husband, Brad Falchuck, such as a salad of grilled chicken and roasted vegetables and a colorful chopped salad, the latter won accolades from Charlize Theron and rapper 2 Chainz.
“Mannn, I want one of those good salads,” he commented, to which Paltrow joked: “I’ll send one over to FedEx for you.”
And despite her weight gain, Paltrow felt confident enough to post a nude picture of her on her birthday, writing, “In nothing but my birthday suit today … thank you all so much for the birthday wishes and thanks to @ goop’s insanely amazing new body butter for making me think I can still get my kit out. [blue heart emoji] #goopgenes. “
Paltrow also struggled with more than just unwanted weight gain during the quarantine – she and her husband contracted the coronavirus. In February, the actress revealed on her Goop website that she “had COVID-19 at the start” during the pandemic. She said People in an interview posted on Friday, March 5, that he “actually only regained his taste and smell in January, nine months after he lost it”.
“There has been a little bit of fatigue and brain confusion and things like that,” she said. “There are so many people going through this. We are improving all the time.”