Beyonce's new documentary homecoming
debuted on Netflix last week and it
reveals that after giving birth to two
ins the singer stuck to an extremely
restrictive diet as she trained for last
year's could shallow performance the
star removed bread carbs sugar dairy
meat fish and alcohol from her diet and
admitted she was hungry while it worked
for Beyonce some experts caution this
extreme diet is not a long-term solution
for weight loss or physical fitness
joining us this morning is Kelsey
Beckman she's a registered dietician and
owner of Meteor nutrition thank you so
much for coming in yeah thanks so much
for having me this morning so anything
Beyonce touches or does everybody knows
about it except me apparently but this
is really causing a conversation it's
creating a conversation this diet that
she did shortly after pregnancy she
basically eliminated everything except
vegetables well that was my one question
is um they didn't put a name to this
specific diet it sounds a lot like a
vegan keto diet to me my question is the
only thing they didn't mention about is
nuts which actually is a really nutrient
dense thing that doesn't mean that it's
full of protein right and in healthy
fats that doesn't mean that that's
adequate for our body to function
properly
but they said that she was basically
only eating vegetables but they didn't
mention anything about nuts now there
are a few keywords in here we're talking
long term yes a diet like this short
term could it be beneficial perhaps or
no are we saying that at all
well I will say that anyway should we
caution people at home about this diet
so I really encourage my clients that
anything that you start you want to ask
yourself can I do this for the rest of
my life because the moment you don't do
that diet anymore or you don't do the
restriction anymore guess what's gonna
happen it's every all of the changes
you've made are just going to unravel
and not to mention all the mental damage
that you might have done in doing that
restrictive diet and so after you answer
the question whether or not it is
sustainable where do you go from there
I think that you really just have to ask
yourself you know what are your
schedules like Beyonce is very very busy
she has two little ones under a year
older in addition to that
yeah she's extremely busy her life is
physically demanding of course behind
the scenes she probably has people
helping her with with these things but
um if you can't arrange your life to
kind of put in all of the things you
need to make a diet successful there's
always gonna be holidays you're always
gonna get tied up at work a little bit
late or your kid's gonna get sick all of
these life style factors then you
probably want to choose something a
little bit more sustainable and make it
more realistic for your schedule for
your lifestyle yes so this diet that
Beyonce did and she even cautions people
right that this is not for everyone yes
at the end of the documentary homecoming
she said I will never push myself that
hard ever again and I think that that
right there just kind of solidifies
everything that she doesn't want to ever
do that again and not only that who
knows what her relationship with food
will be like going forward absolutely
you know I'm not a health fitness guru
we were talking before we came on camera
about just the benefits of things like
carbs yeah that's the only food the
brain can process absolutely and so with
having her demanding schedule and too
little one or three little ones and then
needing that energy to do all of her
choreography and dancing and everything
I would I would say she probably felt
really drained when she was starting to
prepare for Coachella and like anything
else in life moderation in taking those
baby steps
absolutely balance moderation um if it
is a concern to lose that baby weight
doing it in a natural way so that you
can you know be the best mom you can be
and you know just just retain healthy
habits we might think we're Beyonce but
at the end of the day we're not Beyonce
I like it told me thank you so much for
coming in this morning