As I said during our Met Gala coverage yesterday, this is the smallest I’ve ever seen Beyonce look. Her legs look so tiny! She’s lost significant weight off her face, mid-section, hips and booty. I asked, “Has she been on a crazy diet for six months to wear this dress?” Well, we have our answer. On Monday, People Magazine published this story about Beyonce’s vegan dietician Marco Borges. He’s promoting his diet book, 22-Day Revolution and Beyonce has written the foreword to it. Apparently, she claims that she shed 65 POUNDS on this vegan diet.

The nutritionist behind the revolutionary diet that turned Beyonce from a self-confessed fried-meat addict to a kale-worshiping vegan has released his first book. Marco Borges’s 22-Day Revolution is based around a whole-food plant-based diet, and bans meat, eggs, dairy, alcohol and processed foods for 22 days – the length of time it is thought to take to build new food habits.

Beyonce, 33, who admits to having yo-yo dieted for most of her life, is such a Marco Borge evangelist, she claims it whipped her into the ‘best shape’ of her life, and wrote in the book’s foreword: ‘The truth is that if a Houston-born foodie like me can do it, you can too. You just need to try it for 22 days.’ She embarked on Mr Borge’s regime in November 2013, along with husband Jay Z, 45.

‘Our hometown favourites were fried chicken, fajita tacos, BBQ burgers, BBQ rips, fried shrimp, and Po’ boy sandwiches,’ she says of her youth, adding that her food choices were ‘silently sabotaging’ her health. The Flawless singer, who claims she lost 65lbs on Mr Borge’s regime, is famous for having dallied with extreme diets including the Master Cleanse, which involves consuming nothing but a mixture of water, lemon, maple syrup and cayenne pepper.

‘After having my daughter, I made a conscious effort to regain control of my health and my body,’ she continues. ‘But I didn’t want to do a crash diet. I was a mom now. I needed to change my ways and set an example for my child.’

After adopting the 22-Day Revolution plan, also favoured by Jennifer Lopez, Beyonce was hooked on the lifestyle.

‘We celebrated my husband’s birthday with an all-vegan party,’ Beyonce wrote. ‘I can still see the reaction on our friends’ faces. Some were extremely excited while others had some reservations, but in the end, we all enjoyed it immensely.’

[From The Daily Mail]

If you were just scanning the story, you might think that Beyonce lost 65 pounds in 22 days. She did not. The timeline is as follows: Beyonce still had some baby/pillow weight in 2013 when she started the 22-Revolution in November 2013. She used to the 22 days to develop new eating habits and now she’s vegan (or mostly vegan?) and still doing the program now, 16 months later. And in those 16 months, she claims she’s lost 65 pounds. Has she though? I think she’s lost a lot of weight in the past year, of course. But 65 pounds?

PS… This is my new favorite tweet of all time.

Photos courtesy of WENN.