Shailene Woodley Workout and DIET 

Actress
Born: 1991

California native Shailene Woodley has been acting since she was a child. She took acting classes with Anthony Meindl. Woodley’s first role was in the 1999 tv movie Replacing Dad. A leading role in the 2004 tv film A Place Called Home earned her a nomination for a Young Artist Award. Woodley starred in The Secret Life of the American Teenager from 2008-2013. Her film debut came in 2011 with The Descendants and earned her a Golden Globe nomination. Other acting credits include The Fault in Our Stars, The Mauritanian, The Fallout and HBO’s Big Little Lies. Woodley is an environmental activist, an Oceans Ambassador for Greenpeace, and a board member of the political action committee, Our Revolution. She was briefly engaged to NFLer Aaron Rodgers. She has millions of followers on social media. Woodley is 5 feet, 8 inches tall and weighs about 125 lbs.

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Shailene Woodley‘s Diet

Summary

Woodley’s environmental activism impacts her approach to diet. She eats all natural, organic foods, and even forages for about a third of it, going up in to the Hollywood hills to find edible herbs. She also must sometimes change her diet based on acting roles, including a starvation diet for Adrift, which she found very challenging. To combat illness, she adds in extras like raw garlic. She always drinks plenty of clean, pure water to stay hydrated.

Estimated Macros

  • Medium Fat 30% 30%
  • Medium Carb 40% 40%
  • Medium Protein 30% 30%

Diet Details

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Indigenous Dieting

Woodley is intrigued by the health and vitality of indigenous peoples and makes a point to go out and forage for a portion of the food she eats.

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Food Is Medicine

Woodley believes in managing health by eating foods that promote wellness. When she feels a cold coming on, to nip it in the bud, she’ll eat raw garlic, ginger and horseradish.

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Happy Gut, Heathy Body

Woodley says one thing she always has in her fridge is some kind of fermented food like kimchi or sauerkraut.

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Going to Extremes

For Adrift, Woodley mimicked being stranded at sea and ate only 350 calories a day for the final 2 weeks of filming, which she said was absolutely miserable.

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Yummy Health Smoothie

Woodley makes a smoothie from coconut water, cashews, cacao powder, maple syrup, some spices, and colostrum for gut health.

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Cacao Love

Woodley keeps cacao beans on hand in their pure form, neither heated nor melted, for its many health benefits, and its delicious flavor.

What to Eat

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Natural foods

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Organic foods

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Foraged foods

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Fermented foods

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Veggies

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Meat

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Fish

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Eggs

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Fruit

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Nuts

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Coconut water

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Organic whole grains

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Seaweed

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Herbs

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Ginger

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Garlic

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Horseradish

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Clay

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Cacao powder

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Chocolate

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Maple syrup

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Water

What to Avoid

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Overeating

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Processed food

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Fast food

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Junk food

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Chemicals

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Chemical Ingredients

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Artificial ingredients

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Woodley on her diet

I kind of base my diet off of indigenous cultures and what they eat.

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Woodley on indigenous diets

It’s very fascinating that an 80-year-old indigenous man can run for miles and miles with no joint pains and no problems versus us Americans who at 35 can’t do that.

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Woodley on foraging for food

I try to do, like, 35% of my diet wild foods.

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Woodley on her Adrift diet

‘For the last 2 weeks, I had a can of salmon, some steamed broccoli and 2 egg yolks every day: 350 calories. It was…miserable.

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Woodley on the affect of diet on sleep

I can’t sleep when I’m hungry, so I would have a glass of wine to basically pass…out.

Shailene Woodley‘s Workout Routine

Weekly Routine

Pain & Gain

While training for Divergent, Woodley says the first week was all about being achy and smelling like muscle cream, but after that, she really started to see a change.

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Woodley worked with 5th-degree black belt JJ Perry who also acted as fight coordinator for Divergent. Perry also trained Hugh Jackman to play in Wolverine.

Tough Love

Physical training for a role is a Hollywood standard, and Woodley is no exception. Her trainer says that although she didn’t look quite ready to join the UFC, she got very fit for Divergent.

Daily Dose

For Divergent, Woodley and co-star Theo James began training 3 weeks before filming began.

Old-Style Workout

Woodley may play a futuristic character, but her exercises are distinctly old-school, including burpees, sit-ups, and push-ups

Core Focus

Woodley did plenty of abs work for Divergent, including planks, cross-crunches, and classic sit-ups.

Exercise Style

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A Shailene Woodley Divergent Routine

Warm up:
Jog: 25 min on treadmill at relaxed pace.
Cardio
Jump rope: 90 sec on/30 sec rest x 4 cycles. Work your way up to 4 minutes of jumping/1 min rest.
Box jumps: 10 jumps x 4 sets.
Single leg balances: Standing on right foot with left knee bent at 90 degrees. Have partner stand across from you hands extended at waist level. Quickly jump so right knee touches their hand, keeping left leg hovering, before landing on right foot again. Do 30/side.
Knee drives: Crouch then rise up, lifting knee up to chest level. Tap toes to ground & repeat. Do 30/side.
Burpees: 15 x 3 sets
Push-ups: 10 each of standard, diamond, and wide arm.
Lunge kicks: In lunge position, quickly stand and kick out back leg. Do 20 lunges x 2 sets/side.
Abs:
Planks: 1 min, working up to 90 sec. Repeat using 1 arm. Switch sides. Supporting arm can be forward for balance.
Cross crunches: 30
Old-school sit-ups: 10 regular/10 halfway/10 static for 10 sec.

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Woodley on her physique

I’m always like, “I’m too skinny. I can’t gain weight, even when I try.” I ‘d like to try to not let that get to me.

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Woodley’s trainer on prepping for Divergent

The first week, everyone was in pain and reeking like Bengay, but by week 2 and 3 we could already see a major improvement.

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Woodley’s trainer on tough love

When they called me “Sergeant Slaughter,” I’d just say, “Welcome to Dauntless.

Shailene Woodley‘s Supplements

Ginger

Ginger

Woodley believes that food is medicine. She eats the superfood ginger for its many healthful benefits including boosting immunity, weight loss, reducing arthritis, lowering cholesterol, taming nausea, and it may also help prevent chancer.

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garlic

Garlic

When Woodley feels a cold coming on, she chows down on raw garlic. Garlic is another superfood that reduces blood pressure, lowers the risk of heart disease, detoxifies heavy metals and helps prevent Alzheimer’s disease.

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horseradish

Horseradish

Woodley also uses horseradish to beat back a cold. Horseradish is excellent at clearing out the sinuses.

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Clay

Clay

Woodley brushes her teeth with a teaspoon of clay each day mixed with peppermint oil then swallows it to rid the body of heavy metals. Clay also promotes weight loss.
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Bone Broth

Bone Broth

Also on Woodley’s list of health supplements is bone broth. Bone broth helps to repair the gut, protects joints, boosts immunity and brain function, and keeps your skin firm and smooth.
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Coconut Water

Coconut Water

Woodley uses coconut water in her smoothies. Coconut water contains essential vitamins and minerals like potassium as well as antioxidants. It helps lower blood sugar and may prevent kidney stones.

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colostrum

Colostrum

Woodley makes a smoothie with colostrum, a fluid made by mammals before breast milk is released. Colostrum from cows is similar to that made by humans, and high in vitamins and minerals, fights infection, improves immunity and strengthens gut health.

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Shailene Woodley‘s Lifestyle

Self-Care

Woodley admits to struggling with insomnia for years. It took self-compassion including a break from acting and weekly therapy sessions to shed her anxiety which allowed her to get more of that all-important sleep.

Normal Teen

Woodley says that although she was working as an actress as a teen, she went to public school, auditioning after school, and would just hang out with the other kids after soccer practice and not mention her acting gigs.

Going Straight

At age 15, Woodley was diagnosed with scoliosis and wore a body brace to prevent the curve from worsening.

All Natural Beauty

Woodley heads outside to refresh her spirits. She’s into getting vitamin D everywhere, particularly on the places where the sun doesn’t normally shine. She also uses beets to stain her lips (and eats them after).

Laughter Is the Best Medicine

Woodley swears by laughing for health, and says don’t believe the hype about laugh lines.

Unlikely Pairing

Woodley admitted to knowing ‘nothing’ about football, which made her relationship with Aaron Rodgers all the more unlikely. After a yearlong engagement, the two announced that their plans were off.

Avid Activist

In 2016, Woodley was arrested for criminal trespassing in North Dakota while protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. She pled guilty and received a year of probation.

Not a Party Girl

Woodley managed to avoid the child star trap and did not fall into the downward spiral of drugs and addiction. She isn’t even into red carpet events.

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Woodley on insomnia

I realized that, most of my adult life, I didn’t sleep because my mind was continuously overwhelmed.

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Woodley on prioritizing sleep

I go to bed at the time I need to go to bed.

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Woodley on overcoming anxiety

Another way I cope with anxiety when I’m working…is that I’m really, really good at saying “no.

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Woodley on foraging

I live in Los Angeles, and I’ll go an hour away into the mountains and I’ll find stinging nettle and mugwort and a bunch of other herbs that you can use medicinally.

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Woodley on family

Every family is dysfunctional whether you want to admit it or not.

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Woodley on fame

I’d like to be like a hummingbird: You see them every now and then. You don’t see them everywhere.

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Woodley on acting when she was a teen

Acting was just fun. I was a kid. I wasn’t jaded.

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Woodley on her preferred roles

I love playing scary characters, not horror-film scary, but vulnerable scary.

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Woodley on shoes

I don’t like shoes, ever.

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Woodley on going shoeless during red carpet interviews

I think it made a lot of people feel very awkward.

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Woodley on red carpet events

It’s such a weird concept to me, getting dressed up and going to events. It’s so bizarre, right?

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