Talk show host Kelly Ripais known best for her sharp humor, but also for being a nutrition and fitness buff. TheLive With Kelly and Ryan starmakes a point of staying healthy when it comes to diet and exercise, and recently revealed she stopped partaking in one particular indulgence.
Ripas busy day requires her to keep healthysnacks on hand to keep her energy up. I do enjoy keeping nuts around me at alltimes, and I dont just mean the people in my life, she joked, according to The Cut. I mean almonds and cashews, and I do like dried fruit. Iknow people will say, Oh, thats the jellybean of the healthy snack world,but for me, dried apricots and cherries are better than candy. I know it has asmuch sugar, but I just enjoy it.
Theformer All My Children star chooses to focus on clean eating rather thanfad diets. Despite many celebs recently flocking to go keto, Ripa chooses notto cut out her carbs.
My husband [Mark Consuelos] has gonefull keto, which I dont mind telling you is something I could never do, she said, according toBon Appetit Healthyish. I just dont have that level of discipline. Mark says that Im carb-o, because I always eat his bun if he gets a burger. And the fries.
Ripa feels that her fierce exercise regimen earns her somewiggle room. I work out, so I feel like Im allowed, Ripa said. Imentitled, and Im eating whatever I want to eat.
Recentlyon Live with Kelly and Ryan, the co-hosts discussed the recent dip in2019s wine sales. Theyre saying that Americans bought less wine lastyear. Its the first drop in a quarter of a century, Ripa said, according to People. She then added a possible reason forthe sluggish sales.
Now, I believethis is because I quit drinking, that I caused this dip. I have influenced themarket, she said. Im not saying Ive driven people [out of drinkingalcohol], Im saying I stopped buying wine and theres a dip.
Ripa didnt give an exact date on when she stopped imbibing,but alluded to her abstinence from alcohol being around the time Seacrest wasnamed co-host. I started the show and she quit drinking. What does that tellyou? Seacrest joked, to which Ripa responded, Exactly Its amazing.
Ripa believes in keeping clean in nutrition as well as heroverall mindset. Im not really a sage burner. I try not to let toxicity in mylife, so the need to cleanse it is very minimal, she told BonAppetit Healthyish. That goes for any level, whether its peopleor a work situation, or friendships that are bad for you. I just dont allowthat in my space, and therefore I just have bunches of unburned sageeverywhere.
Though she focuses on staying healthy, Ripa does allow herself some indulgences that used to be off limits. Mark and I used to have peanut butter and jelly as a bedtime snack. Im not sure why, she revealed last year. Even as a kid, I didnt really like it, but now here I am. I get ciabatta bread, and now I eat half a sandwich before bed.
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