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(Am I the only one who doesn’t understand the coffee/exercise thing? When I work out, it’s water, water, water all the way!)

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Scarlett recently revealed that she worked very hard in order to get in shape for her role as the Black Widow in Iron Man 2, which comes out in May 2010. She stuck to a low-fat, low-carb diet (lots of egg whites and lean meats) and went into hardcore stunt training.

“I kicked some major butt,” the actress, 24, told PEOPLE at Comic-Con of her training regimen to make her a shapely superhero ready for acrobatic battle scenes. “It was many, many, hours, days, and months of stunt training and strength training, but it’s fun because I had a goal. The goal was the Lycra catsuit.”

Was she happy with the results? “Finally I was, yes,” she said with a laugh. “You put that much work into something and you put it on and you better be happy with it.”

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Here’s a photo of Scarlett at the Comic Con event 2 weeks ago:

What do you all think – has she slimmed down at all? To be honest, I don’t really see it!

The July/August issue of Muscle & Fitness Magazine is running a cover story about Kim Kardashian and her new fitness & training plan.

According to the article, Kim has been doing workouts with trainer-to-the-stars Gunnar Peterson, who has also worked with Jennifer Lopez, Angelina Jolie and Matthew McConaughey. Kim claims that she wants to “represent a girl who’s working hard to get in shape.”

“I want to represent a girl who’s working hard to get in shape,” she says. “It’s a process. People want the easy way out and the easy fix, but there isn’t one.”

Diet: Kim says that she feels guilty when she cheats on her diet now that she’s trying hard to get fit.

“It’s amazing,” she says. “The more I work out, the guiltier I feel when I cheat, so I cheat less and less. Now I try to eat fish and vegetables for most of my meals.”

(Sounds like she is on a low-fat, low-carb diet!)

But something doesn’t ring true… we heard a couple weeks ago that Kim was spotted buying cookies for the ‘Hollywood Cookie Diet’. And the Muscle & Fitness magazine cover is clearly very heavily retouched! In fact, we just saw some un-retouched photos of Kim from last month (see the Life & Style below):

So what exactly is going on? Did they really Photoshop her to within an inch of her life or has she miraculously put on several pounds of muscle and leaned down? What do you all think?

Source: Jul/Aug 2009 Issue of Muscle & Fitness