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Actress Jessica Biel has revealed that she works out five hours a day to maintain her svelte figure.
She said:

“I’ve worked out five hours, sometimes more, in a single day, if I’m in training for a film role or something. And it’s hard – it’s very hard!”

The ‘London’ star added that she maintains a balanced diet apart from the gruelling exercise sessions, the China Daily reports.

She explained: “You have to find a balance, especially with what you eat. I don’t live by the idea that you can’t allow yourself a treat.

“I say, ‘Eat things you like, but eat them in smaller portions.’ I always cut things in half and send half back. I’m not perfect, I don’t always do those things, but that’s the goal. However, it does not stop her from having what she wants. She said:

“Do I eat dessert? You know, if there’s something I want to try then I try it. But I have a bite, not the whole thing. That’s what you have to do.”Biel is currently dating singer Justin Timberlake.

Jessica Biel is not a fan of restaurants’ giant proportions, claiming she usually eats only half a meal and then sends the rest back. The 27-year-old actress said she tries to keep her diet balanced.

"I say: 'Eat things you like, but eat them in smaller portions.' I always cut things in half and send half back. I'm not perfect, I don't always do those things, but that's the goal!

"If there's something I want to try, then I try it. But I have a bite, not the whole thing. That's what you have to do," Biel says, according to USA Today.

For us common folk who aren’t okay with wasting food that we paid for, a more viable option is to ask for a to-go container at the beginning of the meal. 

Halve your portions before you begin eating and pack away half for later.  Besides the immediate benefit of avoiding an overstuffed belly, you can stretch your dollars by paying a one-meal price for two meals.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release the Jessica Biel headlining film directed by Stephan Elliot, Easy Virtue, on Blu-ray Disc and DVD September 15.

Biel stars alongside Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas in the story about a young Englishman who gets married to an American divorcee on the spur of the moment in the South of France and then must return home to face his family. 

Actress Jessica Biel may have surprised film and television fans when she signed on to sing the part of laced-up missionary Sarah Brown in “Guys and Dolls in Concert” at the Hollywood Bowl this weekend, but the actress has always been a sucker for a good musical.

When she was 16, she made certain she’d be able to buy tickets for a touring production of “Rent” in San Diego. “I loved that show so much that I slept on the street outside the theater,” she says. “We brought our sleeping bags so we’d be first in line.”

Years later, Biel was offered the part of Maureen in the Broadway production as well as a role in “Beauty and the Beast,” but she turned both down.

“They’d been on for a while, and I would have been stepping into someone else’s position,” Biel says. “And I just felt like I wasn’t 100% confident in myself.

I just wasn’t ready for it. I thought something else will happen for me at the right time, and if it doesn’t, then it doesn’t.”

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Justin Timberlake might make a movie with girlfriend Jessica Biel. Easy Virtue star Biel says she’d “love” to share the screen with her superstar boyfriend. “Justin is just fantastic and can do anything he puts his mind to,” said Biel. “Sometimes I think that, if it was the right script, I’d love to do a movie with him.

“Once you do a project together, you’re kind of opening up your private life, but it seems to me it’s pretty open already!” Biel, 28, recently revealed how she stays in shape — by eating half her meals. “You have to find a balance, especially with what you eat. I don’t live by the idea that you can’t allow yourself a treat,” she said. “I say, ‘Eat things you like, but eat them in smaller portions’. I always cut things in half and send them back. I’m not perfect, I don’t always do those things, but that’s the goal.”

For the young Jessica Biel, taking voice lessons was like trying on her mother's high heels. One day Jessica's mother needed to go to a voice lesson, but couldn't get a baby-sitter. So she took 8-year-old Jessica along. Jessica wanted a crack at it too, so her mother gave her the appointment. And so Biel's love of singing was born. ¶ Now, 19 years, 18 films and a decade as a regular on the hit TV show "7th Heaven" later, the member in good standing of young Hollywood is finally making her professional singing debut on stage Friday in the Frank Loesser musical classic, "Guys and Dolls in Concert at the Hollywood Bowl." Biel, 27, said it took her all that time to summon the courage to take her singing beyond the shower stall. ¶ "I've struggled a lot in the last five years or so with my own insecurities, having done some film," she said recently. "Will I be accepted? Is my voice good enough? I think I finally feel confident enough to do it." ¶ If Biel's newfound confidence tipped the scales for her, she's certainly going to need it. She's making her debut as the pious Save-a-Soul Mission Sgt. Sarah Brown opposite one of Broadway's biggest stars, Brian Stokes Mitchell, who stars as her love interest, Sky Masterson. And she's doing it in front of the Bowl's substantial audience of about 17,000 people.

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The Hollywood actress - who is dating 'SexyBack' singer Justin Timberlake - works hard to maintain her svelte figure because she feels under pressure to look good for movie roles.

She said: "I've worked out five hours, sometimes more, in a single day, if I'm in training for a film role or something. And it's hard - it's very hard!"

Despite her gruelling exercise schedule, the 27-year-old beauty has to make sacrifices with food too and often only eats controlled meal portions.

She explained: "You have to find a balance, especially with what you eat. I don't live by the idea that you can't allow yourself a treat.

"I say, 'Eat things you like, but eat them in smaller portions.' I always cut things in half and send half back. I'm not perfect, I don't always do those things, but that's the goal."

"Do I eat dessert? You know, if there's something I want to try then I try it. But I have a bite, not the whole thing. That's what you have to do."

Jessica Biel spends five hours a day exercising. The Hollywood actress - who is dating 'SexyBack' singer Justin Timberlake - works hard to maintain her svelte figure because she feels under pressure to look good for movie roles.

She said: "I've worked out five hours, sometimes more, in a single day, if I'm in training for a film role or something. And it's hard - it's very hard!" Despite her gruelling exercise schedule, the 27-year-old beauty has to make sacrifices with food too and often only eats controlled meal portions.

She explained: "You have to find a balance, especially with what you eat. I don't live by the idea that you can't allow yourself a treat. "I say, 'Eat things you like, but eat them in smaller portions.' I always cut things in half and send half back. I'm not perfect, I don't always do those things, but that's the goal." "Do I eat dessert? You know, if there's something I want to try then I try it. But I have a bite, not the whole thing. That's what you have to do."

"Guys and Dolls," one of Broadway's most enduring hits, is getting another go round next week at the Hollywood Bowl with a cast that is starry and a little quirky.  Among the biggest surprises is Jessica Biel, alumna of "Seventh Heaven" and Maxim magazine, singing show tunes as Salvation Army missionary Sarah Brown.

She is playing opposite Brian Stokes Mitchell, who adds Sky Masterson to his collection of leading roles. He has already starred in "Ragtime," which played in Los Angeles in 1997, "Kiss Me Kate," "Man of La Mancha," "South Pacific" and "Les Miserables" -- the last two at the Hollywood Bowl.

In a phone interview earlier this month, Mitchell said his take on Sky wouldn't take shape until he began working with Biel. Rehearsals started this week. "I'll be bouncing a lot off of her energy and seeing where she is. ... My process during rehearsal is going to be getting a real good chemistry going with her."

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Hollywood starlet and Justin Timberlake's object of affection has revealed how she keeps her killer bod.  She eats half her meal then sends the rest back.  ooohhhhh!

She says, "You have to find balance, especially with what you eat.  I don't live by the idea that you can't allow yourself a treat.   I say:  'Eat things you like but eat them in smaller portions'.  I always cut things in half and send half back." 

Thanks for sharing your diet secrets with us.  Now, when the chocolate cake arrives, only a few bites will be eaten, not the whole thing.