These days, Ellen Degeneres always needs to be in tip-top shape, with her own talk show and role as American Idol’s newest judge, she can’t afford to lack energy. To make sure she never runs out of steam, Ellen Degeneres’ work out and diet keep herself fully charged through a combination of having vegan food and regularly doing sun salutations.
Ellen Degeneres has always been very proud of being a vegan and adhering to a vegan diet. She recently further explained some details on how her diet, and what she calls ’sugar fasting’, gives her the energy she needs for her career.
Ellen Degeneres’ diet has no dairy, meat, poultry, fish, or any sort of processed food. Her all natural diet consists mainly of vegetables, beans, rice, legumes, and soups, which all combine to provide her with all the nutrition she needs. Her sugar fasting comes in the form of not taking anything sweet. She doesn’t eat any candies, cakes, cookies, or anything else with a high sugar content.
And every morning, Ellen does sun salutations, also known as Surya Namaskara. While most people will consider taking Power Yoga instead to get their energy levels up, Surya Namaskara’s calming nature seems to give Ellen more energy, as it helps her get focused so she can exert all her energies at the right outlets.
Surya Namaskara is a series of twelve asanas, or body positions, that are performed in sequence, alternately stretching the spine forward and backward. Inhalation and exhalation is a key component in the practice, done alternately as the practitioner moves in and out of an asana.
These 12 steps give a holistic treatment of the body, benefiting the joints, ligaments, and bones of the body, which improve flexibility, balance, and posture. Surya Namaskara also stimulates almost every system in the body. It touches on the cardiovascular system, oxygenating the blood and strengthening the heart, and the endocrine system, making glands like the thyroid, pituitary, and adrenal glands, along with the testes and the ovaries, to function better. Aside from these, Surya Namaskara has mental benefits as well, relaxing and calming the mind while tension and stress is released.
It is this secret, one-two natural combo that gives Ellen Degeneres the energy she needs to get through each day.
