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- Yulia, how did the participants of the third season of the show surprise you? What distinguishes people who decide to lose weight in front of the whole country?

The guys were surprised by the incredible friendliness towards each other! To be honest, the participants of the last two seasons did not differ in this. People are not always ready to compromise, for someone it is more important to achieve a goal, and not to maintain a relationship. In this case, all the guys supported each other. By the way, an important difference: this season, the participants lose weight in duets. These are ten couples, including relatives, friends and just people who met at the casting. The total weight of all project participants is 2910 kg, just imagine! Among the heroes there is a driving instructor, wedding photographer, taxi driver, driller and more. All of them, in my opinion, are distinguished by courage.

Imagine what it's like to show yourself to the whole country, to demonstrate an imperfect form! And not just to show, but also to start working on yourself, to be able to find mutual language with other participants, adapt and find allies. Rotten people in this situation will not survive.

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- Have you ever put on weight? You know this problem: how to get rid of extra pounds?

- The only moment when I weighed five kg more than now was in my student years. I was in my first year of college at the time. She didn't look plump, more like a teenager with appetizing forms. And those five kilograms were the result of not quite proper nutrition. How do most students eat? Snacks, fast food, irregular meals ... But even at that time I was friends with sports and choreography. Physical activity is a part of my life, so my weight is always normal.

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- How do you experience holidays that involve feasts - the same New Year, Maslenitsa?

- I have no fear of overeating. I am very friendly with my body. Even if there is a hearty lunch or dinner, I will not avoid it - after all, a living person, not a robot! On vacation I can relax again. But this means that later I will load myself with additional exercises that will help to burn everything superfluous. Yes, and at the table you can not only eat, but also actively communicate, include some active games in the script. So you can afford everything, but in moderation and not forgetting about regular physical activity.

Physical tests, debilitating diets, alluring temptations and forced weekly weigh-ins... Started in February new season project "Weighted people" at STS. The host of the show, our compatriot Yulia Kovalchuk, frankly said that she also once went on a diet ...

You have been hosting the STS show “Weighted People” for several seasons on how to lose weight correctly. Why were you chosen to host this show? After all, you have always had an ideal figure and, probably, it is difficult for you to understand the problems of heroes.

It seems to me to see in front of you a person who is much slimmer than you, and at the same time asks or even makes you perform physical exercise, pushes you to radically change your usual way of life - this is an excellent incentive to work on yourself. So inviting me to host the show "Weighted People" is an informed decision. By the way, I watched the American version before filming, and to be honest, there are not many television shows, which cling to me, but it made a very strong impression on me. I wondered if it would be possible to recreate the same exciting project in our country and with our participants, while revealing the national mentality. I took the offer to lead the project as a challenge, backed up by sincere interest.

You hosted various TV programs, participated in reality shows. How are "Weighted People" different from past experiences?

This project is important for me, first of all, because I can, at least a little, but change a person's life. It's great to see how unhappy people turn into happy ones! “Weighted people” require daily immersion and evoke completely different emotions in me than entertainment programs. As an experienced reality TV participant, I thought that being directly involved in the show is much more interesting than hosting it. It turned out that managing such a competition is no less exciting: somewhere to tease a falling asleep player, somewhere to encourage with a kind word.

You can already be considered a true expert in the field of weight loss. In your opinion, which methods are the most effective, and which ones are a waste of time?

There was a period in my life when I really resorted to the help of diets. But this was not due to the desire to lose weight. Then I took tests, according to the results of which an individual program was formed for me, which allowed me to normalize the functioning of the body. And it really helped me. But now there are so many diets that only make things worse. That's why main advice: First of all, try to stick to a balanced diet. Each person needs a certain amount of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, but in individual proportions. There is no diet that can suit everyone: after all, someone weighs fifty kilograms, and someone a hundred, someone has a sick stomach, and someone has diabetes. Concerning common moments, try not to overeat at night looking and eat fractionally: every three to four hours. If you stick to these simple rules plus you will start walking or cycling a lot, even such simple tricks will be enough not to gain extra pounds.

According to your observations, how does a person change when he loses excess weight, using the example of the participants in the show “Weighted People”?

I follow the guys and I can say that I feel great pride, for example, for the same finalist of the second season - Yan Samokhvalov, who is now in such a wonderful physical form. Just smart! Yakov Povarenkin also turned into a slender woman, now he is a coach himself. Of course, I rejoice in the success of Timur Bikbulatov, the winner of the second season. He looks amazing, got a job in the gym, and recently became a father for the third time. Of course, not only their appearance, but also in general setting for life: work, relationships with relatives, friends, the opposite sex and, in general, with the outside world. In the third season, by the way, it will be more difficult for our participants, because now they will lose weight and compete in pairs - husbands with wives, children with parents and best friends. Believe us, we have prepared many surprises!

It's no secret that one of the main female fears is to get fat. Admit it, personally you are sometimes tormented by such fear? How do you deal with it?

To be honest with early childhood I go in for sports: rhythmic gymnastics, folk dances and jazz modern. Having moved to Moscow, I entered the choreographic faculty. My dancing experience is twenty-five years. If you constantly exercise, it becomes difficult to sit without physical activity even for a couple of days. In addition, I train a lot before performances, and the concerts themselves help burn calories and kilograms. I regularly go to the gym, but I don’t really like fitness, I’m more willing to do exercises for certain muscle groups. I love to swim, which, by the way, is also very useful for people with problematic weight: a person spends two to three times more energy in water than in air, which means that they lose weight faster.

Yulia Kovalchuk we are accustomed to seeing on stage or in musical projects. And now she hosts the show "Weighted people" on STS, whose characters are trying to lose weight. Julia Kovalchuk told website about proper nutrition, sports and diets.

website: Julia, what sports are you into? Do you like outdoor training, marathons that are fashionable now?

Julia Kovalchuk: I don't run in the morning. I go to the pool and to the gym. I am engaged in stretching the muscles so that they do not turn into a dry muscle. Concerning outdoor-training, in the summer I ride a bike with great pleasure.

website: What do you prefer to snack on? What is your favorite meal?

Julia Kovalchuk: I adhere to proper nutrition: I do not eat fatty, fried, ketchup, mayonnaise, spicy sauces. The most important thing is not to overeat! The project has a rule « your mouth » . Project Nutritionist STS "Weighted People" Yulia Bastrigina and mine life experience suggest: it is better to carry a few small snacks with you - yogurt, dried fruits, nuts. It is better to give your stomach at least some food once every 3 hours than to limit yourself to a weak breakfast and a plentiful dinner at night. There are foods that I don’t eat because I don’t feel very comfortable - these are pork, radishes, bell pepper, onion, garlic, grapes. They take a long time to digest and cause fermentation in the stomach. I prefer anything made on the grill or in the air fryer. I love everything boiled and stewed. Boiled potatoes, for example, I just love!

website: We are used to seeing you on stage, and now you are the host of the reality show "Weighted People" on STS, which is also quite unusual for our TV - about sports and healthy way life. Have you thought about taking part in it as a host for a long time?

Julia Kovalchuk: Before agreeing to lead "Weighted people", I watched the original version, which has been running with great success in America and other countries for more than 15 years. There aren't many TV shows that get me hooked, but this made a very strong impression on me. I wondered if it would be possible to recreate the same exciting project in our country and with our participants, while revealing the national mentality. I took the offer to lead the project as a challenge, backed up by sincere interest.

I myself took part in many reality shows, you can say that I am a participant in reality with experience. When the offer to lead the project was received "Weighted people" on STS, I became very interested in how it was to be not in the place of a participant, but to lead the process. It turned out that this is no less exciting: somewhere you need to cheer up the player with a kind word, somewhere on the contrary, to anger the player a little so that the player wakes up.

website: If you need to get in shape quickly (for example, after the holidays), what do you do in such cases?

Julia Kovalchuk: I cannot say that I have ever been on a diet. I have been involved in sports since early childhood. At first it was rhythmic gymnastics, then dancing, professional choreography. When a person has constant physical activity, he does not give himself the right to get fat. But I am a normal living person, and on vacation I can relax, eat, gain a little weight. To lose weight, I arrange more active individual choreographic training, which I developed for myself. I really love the gym. And, of course, nutrition is important. I know different diets: separate nutrition, protein, by blood type, and made a mix for myself. I have fasting low-calorie days, this is by no means fasting, not a complete refusal to eat. A little more exercise, a little less food, and everything returns to normal.

website: You have a very busy schedule How do you find time to exercise and eat right?

Julia Kovalchuk: One hour concert eats up two days of calories, I come out wet after the performance. I go to the pool twice a week, if possible. This is a crazy load: in the water a person loses twice as much energy as in the gym. I don’t go to simulators, I have a certain set of exercises for the press, back, buttocks, I do stretching. In the summer, as I said, I enjoy cycling and walking. In terms of proper nutrition, I just don’t overeat, I carry a small snack box with me, with nuts, fruits, sometimes a muesli bar. Eating something healthy every 2-3 hours is much better than having breakfast and then just having dinner.

website: Is your figure a work on yourself or genetics?

Julia Kovalchuk: At the age of five, when I was rhythmic gymnastics, teachers told my mother that I had excess weight. I came home, worried and tried to eat small portions so as not to get fat. My maximum weight was recorded in the first year of the university of culture, where I was engaged in choreography. I didn’t eat right: I worked at night, I didn’t have enough money, I had to eat buns from the canteen in order to somehow survive in the capital, all this resulted in plus five kg to my current weight. Looking at photographs of that time, I see them in the cheeks and thighs. But for many years I have been at a comfortable weight for myself - 50 kg.

website: Now the trend for plus size models has reappeared in fashion. Do you consider this progress in modern society?

Julia Kovalchuk: Why not, a large number of men adore women with curves. The main thing is that this cute fullness does not harm health and does not contribute to the development of complexes. When a woman likes herself, she always receives a lot of compliments in her address. I myself look at such female representatives with pleasure and every time I note how successful they are with men!

website: What products can you not refuse, despite the fact that they are harmful to the figure?

Julia Kovalchuk: I love desserts, I love cake "Napoleon”, sometimes I can afford it. I don’t have strict prohibitions: if I really want something, I will eat it, but then I can simply exclude the next meal, or make a fasting day, or go to the pool.

website:What would you wish to those people who lack the motivation to go in for sports?

Julia Kovalchuk: You need to find a personal incentive. Someone is engaged exclusively for themselves, and someone wants to improve for the sake of a loved one. I realized that not everyone is ready to work on themselves solely for their own sake.

Long blonde hair has long been considered calling card Yulia Kovalchuk. But recently, the singer decided to change her image - although not drastically, but quite noticeably. The wife of Alexei Chumakov cut her long curls and now boasts a trendy elongated bob.

Yulia Kovalchuk's new hairstyle

My new haircut!!! And, it seems, this is not the most insane act, but I think the girls will understand me that sometimes you go to a new one for a very long time ... and then you do it and you don’t regret it !!! Thanks to my Masha for taking care of my hair for 8 years, and only you could I entrust this little sacrament,

Posted by Julia on Instagram. The singer's fans appreciated this beauty transformation with thousands of likes, but expressed the hope that Kovalchuk would not change her hair color after the haircut - it really suits her to be a blonde, despite all the stereotypes.

I've been debunking the blonde stereotype all my life. As a child, I was a little darker, but now my natural color is ash blonde. When you are small, go to school, this stereotype does not stick to you. There is no division that the fair ones are stupid, and the dark ones are smart. There are just stupid and smart ones, regardless of hair color. At school, I didn’t come across this stereotype at all, and when I moved to Moscow, studied at the university, got into the “Brilliant” group, I didn’t even give a reason to think that I was stupid. This image is absolutely not mine, - Kovalchuk told HELLO.RU.

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With the advent of spring, women, and some men, also begin to rack their brains on how to bring themselves into great shape as soon as possible. In the near future, those who want to build will have a reason to find out helpful tips and follow how the participants of the “Weighted People” project on the STS channel are losing weight. This is the first Russian analogue of the American reality show The Biggest Loser. leading new program became former soloist group "Brilliant" singer and actress Yulia Kovalchuk.

According to the rules of the show "Weighted People", participants, under the supervision of nutritionists, psychologists and trainers, will have to undergo physical tests, diets, and weekly weigh-ins. And the one who achieves best results, will receive a prize of three million rubles. Yulia Kovalchuk encouraged the participants, and from time to time scolded them for succumbing to the temptations. The singer personally tested all the obstacle courses on herself to find out how difficult it would be to cope with them. Julia was invited to lead a weight loss program as the owner slim figure. However, the singer admitted in an interview with Voronezh journalists that she was not always proud of her forms.

- Julia, now you look perfect. Have you ever had problems with being overweight?

At the age of five, I started doing gymnastics, and even then my mother was constantly told that I needed to lose weight. Meanwhile, I was completely an ordinary child, not skinny. But this information somehow stuck in the subconscious. I remember that my mother made pasta for dinner, and I ate and thought how not to get better. And my maximum weight was at my institute, then I weighed five kilograms more than now. Most likely, this was due to malnutrition. I had no money to eat well, and my friends and I ate buns in the canteen. Gradually, I lost weight up to 50 kilograms and developed my own nutrition system.

- And what is this power system?

I do not eat fried and fatty foods, ketchup, mayonnaise, very spicy sauces. Never smoked in my life. I also do not abuse alcohol, maximum - a glass of wine after the concert to relax. I don’t eat pork, bell peppers, onions, garlic, radishes, grapes at all. All that is digested for a very long time and causes food to ferment. Someone, on the contrary, needs these products, but my body rejects them. I am a normal person, I can eat Napoleon cake if it is cooked at home. But again, I won’t eat it at night, but the next day I’ll go in for sports a little more seriously.

- Are you fasting?

No. I think that fasting is a spiritual event, not related to weight loss. It is also believed that wandering people do not need to fast. Since I am a person who moves from place to place without a normal sleep schedule, this would be very bad for my stomach. I have already tried to fast, but nothing good came of it. After two weeks, I had to return to my normal diet. I respect those people who fast and do it according to their inner desire.

The show "Weighted People" was filmed for about four months. What ground rules did you work out with the dietitians to keep the participants from gaining weight?

All problems are from overeating, so we called the first rule very harshly “shut your mouth”. Better times at three o'clock to give the stomach at least some food than to endure and wait, and then pounce on insane amounts of food, after which you don’t want to live. To prevent this from happening, the nutritionists of our project advise to carry a small box with nuts, dried fruits, take yogurt, muesli in bars. The second rule is also not very difficult - if you eat a lot, then you should move even more - walk, run, swim.

- How do you burn calories?

I do a lot when I rehearse concert program. It seems to me that one concert eats up a two-day calorie intake for me. I try to swim in the pool 2-3 times a week, but it doesn't always work out. In the gym I work out according to an individual program, I do sets of exercises for different groups muscles, and at the end of the lesson I always do stretching, that is, I stretch the muscles so that they remain in good shape. On vacation, I enjoy walking and cycling.

- Recently, your husband, singer Alesei Chumakov, has lost a lot of weight. Did you force him?

He purposefully lost weight for filming in the romantic comedy "I'll Get Married Urgently." We play the main characters there. He lost weight under the strict supervision of a nutritionist. He tried very hard, and I just helped him a little not to visit the refrigerator once again.

- Was it difficult to act together with your loved one?

According to the script, Lyosha and I hate each other for a long time, but in the end everything ends well. Of course, there are moments that are easier to pass with a loved one on the set. But there were days when we argued for a long time and could not come to any decision. In the end, we asked the director to resolve our conflicts. And he very tactfully found a way out of the dispute. It seems to me that we have a good film without vulgar jokes, which will make you believe in love and fight for it.

- Tell us, how is your musical career going?

In a couple of weeks my long-awaited album comes out. It includes my songs and compositions of young Russian authors. And at the beginning of the summer we plan to arrange big concert with the presentation of the album. I hope that I will come on tour to Voronezh. I have many friends in your city.