If you want to be a dancer, you have to pay attention to your diet. A dancer’s body requires a weightless grace as well as serious strength to perform. It’s not exactly a breezy balance to strike. To let you in on the secret to her form, or to at least put you on the healthy path, Misty Copeland wrote the book Ballerina Body: Dancing and Eating Your Way to a Leaner, Stronger, and More Graceful You.
The 34-year-old first made headlines in 2015 when she became the first African-American principal ballerina at the American Ballet Theater. Now she’s gaining well-deserved press by helping dancers and non-dancers alike to eat fat, absorb it, and burn it for the energy you need, especially if the stage lies in your future.
If you want to eat like Copeland so you can look and/or dance like Copeland, this is your new diet.
Breakfast: A muffin or a bagel with scallion cream cheese, along with an iced coffee.
Lunch: A spinach salad with avocado, dried cranberries, goat cheese, pecans, and a light vinaigrette.
Dinner: Grilled salmon with butternut squash, roasted onions, and carrots, along with a peanut butter cookie and a glass of Prosecco.
Snacks: Cashews, cheese, dried pineapple, grapes, Macadamia nuts, and sushi.
Just remember, she burns this all off by dancing eight hours daily five days a week.
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