Emma Roberts, the acclaimed actress known for her roles in "American Horror Story" and "Scream Queens," has a refreshing and relatable approach to diet and fitness. Unlike some celebrities who adhere to strict regimens, Emma prioritizes balance, intuitive eating, and self-care. She focuses on what feels good for her body and mind, allowing for indulgences while maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Emma's Diet: Intuitive Eating and Healthy Indulgences
Emma Roberts follows an intuitive eating approach, prioritizing her body's needs and cravings. She avoids restrictive dieting and instead focuses on balance, allowing herself to enjoy treats while maintaining a foundation of healthy foods.
A Typical Day of Eating
Emma typically starts her day with a juice, favoring Moon Juice's Spirit Dust, and an iced coffee. She drinks iced coffee every day. If she has a day off, she enjoys classic breakfast foods like eggs, bacon, and toast. For lunch, she prefers a chopped salad with avocado, chicken, and tomatoes. Dinner often consists of a turkey burger or salmon with teriyaki or ponzu sauce, accompanied by brown rice and broccoli.
Snacking and Indulgences
Emma admits to being a snacker and enjoys seaweed, chips, and guacamole. She also loves cupcakes, ice cream, and doughnuts, and doesn't deprive herself of these treats. She has even been known to bring desserts to share with her colleagues on set. When the cover model is craving a Sprinkles cupcake, she'll eat a cupcake. "With my diet, I do what feels good for me at the time," she told the mag. "I try not to say that I won't eat something. Instead, I stay in tune with my body and my mind, and I think, What do I feel like eating?"Sometimes, that includes juice; sometimes, it's doughnuts-there's a healthy balance, with routine physical activity, mental breaks and a lot of sleep included.
The New Orleans Influence
Emma adopted her flexible diet philosophy while filming "American Horror Story: Coven" in New Orleans. She embraced the city's cuisine and decided to stop worrying about strict eating rules. She found a balance by increasing her workout intensity to counter the rich food she was enjoying.
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Emma's Workout Routine: Consistency and Enjoyment
Emma Roberts doesn't work out every day, but she stays consistent with her fitness routine by choosing activities she enjoys. She works with celebrity trainer Andrea Orbeck three times a week for one-hour sessions, focusing on her arms, abs, and butt. She also enjoys Pilates and yoga.
Strength Training with Andrea Orbeck
Emma's workouts with Andrea Orbeck combine cardio for fat loss with resistance exercises for toning. They often center around three circuits of strength exercises, with high-incline treadmill walking in between. Emma uses light weights, such as dumbbells, resistance bands, and ankle weights.
A sample workout includes:
- Circuit 1:
- Assisted pull-ups (6 repetitions)
- Bicep curls (15 repetitions)
- Jump rope (1 minute)
- Repeat three times, then walk on the treadmill at an incline for 5 minutes.
- Circuit 2 (with 3-5 pound ankle weights):
- Dumbbell deadlifts (10 repetitions)
- Donkey kicks (20 repetitions per leg)
- Rainbows (20 repetitions per leg)
- Repeat three times, then walk on the treadmill at an incline for 5 minutes.
- Circuit 3:
- Squats (15 repetitions)
- Burpees (8 repetitions)
- Triceps push-ups (8 repetitions)
- Repeat three times, then walk on the treadmill for 5 minutes, and cool down.
Pilates and Yoga
Emma enjoys Pilates classes at Body by Nonna in Hollywood. She finds that Pilates helps her tone her body without bulking up. She also incorporates yoga into her routine for stretching, relaxation, and mental clarity.
Prioritizing Sleep and Mental Health
Emma emphasizes the importance of sleep for overall well-being, stating that it's more important than working out. She also prioritizes mental health by reading daily and taking time for herself without her phone. She also recently discovered sound baths and fell in love because she found she could go to a place of meditation and rest that she wasn't getting with silent or guided meditations.
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Emma's Beauty and Wellness Tips
In addition to diet and exercise, Emma Roberts prioritizes skincare and self-care. She shared some of her beauty and wellness tips:
Skincare
Emma emphasizes the importance of skincare, especially since she wears a lot of makeup for work. She loves the brand Osea, particularly their Atmosphere Protection Cream and their eye and lip balms. She also uses the Joanna Vargas Vitamin C Face Wash. She swears that removing makeup every night is the number one law to good skin care maintenance.
Sunscreen
Emma is diligent about sunscreen and recommends Coola's new sunscreen, which has a high SPF and leaves the skin looking dewy.
Brows
Emma is obsessed with brows. She loves the Finishing Touch Flawless Brows. It's an easy way to shape and maintain her brows. She loves being able to throw it in her purse. She always notices she needs her eyebrows done and sometimes she doesn't want to wait a week to get them done. She loves having something that she can just like use herself.
Sound Baths
Emma recently discovered sound baths and fell in love because she found she could go to a place of meditation and rest that she wasn't getting with silent or guided meditations.
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Other tips
She loves the Taha Harper body scrub. She always like a nice scrub during summer because she's wearing shorts or a bathing suit. The Frank body scrub is also amazing.