Everything Kelly Ripa eats in a day

It's not just fitness that keeps Kelly Ripa in great shape… it's also food! The "Live With Kelly and Ryan" co-host recently sat down with Harper's Bazaar and its YouTube Series, "Food Diaries: Bite Size" to discuss everything she puts in her body. Yes, she works out every single day, but her enviable physique isn't possible without her intense diet. Click through to see everything Kelly uses to fuel her body…

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Rise and shine! Kelly Ripa starts the day with liquid, but coffee isn't on the menu (yet). She tells Harper's Bazaar, "I wake up in the morning and the first thing I do is, I take a glass of water and I have something called Get Off Your Acid Daily Greens, which is—spirulina, spinach, kale—all ground into a powder that you mix into water. It is for [alkalizing] your digestive system."

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Here comes the caffeine! After Kelly Ripa's early morning green drink she opts for coffee with ghee, otherwise known as clarified butter, which she blends together. "And while I'm having my ghee, I have my Persona morning supplements, which is my foundational vitamin, my multivitamin, ginger and my probiotic. That's phase one."

Breakfast for Kelly Ripa doesn't come until after she films "Live With Kelly and Ryan." "I don't have any sort of chewing food before I talk on the air," she told Harper's Bazaar. "When we're finished, what I'll have is a green apple cut up. Then I take two tbsp of almond butter and a tsp of cinnamon… I blend it all together and I put the apples in there. And I eat that like a porridge, if you will. That is my first chewable food of the day."

Kelly Ripa's lunch is early, particularly because she wakes up in wee hours of the day in order to film her morning talk show. "I eat lunch at such a weird hour, it's really a breakfast-lunch. I have a big salad of microgreens with avocado and toasted nuts on top. Sometimes I have pine nuts, sometimes pumpkin seeds, sometimes I have walnuts, sometimes I have cashews," she said. "The avocado toast kick of 2015 into 2017, was two years where avocado toast was pretty much the foundation of my diet. And I had it with just about every meal. Sometimes I would fry an egg and add that on top. Sometimes a piece of cheese would accompany the avocado toast. But the avocado toast was a real staple of my diet."

Kelly Ripa's dinner looks a lot like her "breakfast-lunch." She tells Harper's Bazaar, "I have usually a smaller version of the same salad that I had for lunch. And then I have either mixed grilled greens or whatever's in season. I try to eat whatever is in season, in terms of vegetables. Then I have usually some plant protein mixed in there, like a grilled tofu, sometimes I'll have fried tofu, sometimes I have some sort of tahini."

Despite her stringent diet, Kelly Ripa isn't immune to snack time."I have handfuls of nuts, lots of raw cashews, lots of raw almonds, lots of raw pistachios," she said. "I never eat more than a handful, but I have several handfuls a day."

Kelly Ripa is faithful to her diet! "I try not to have that many cheat meals because cheat meals leads to sort of a cheat lifestyle," she said, noting that her diet is more structured than it used be. "This is at my age. So if you're younger, enjoy that aspect of your life. But at my age now, I find that it takes too much effort to get ready, so I just stay ready." There are some exceptions. "On my birthday, will I have cake? Of course…. I'm not a monster," she said. "At Christmas, do I eat cookies? Yes, I'm a human being."

When it's time for Kelly Ripa to let her hair down in regards to her diet, she goes for the sweet but still tries to maintain a semblance of normalcy. "What I will indulge in is a delicious chocolate-covered almond or chocolate-covered cashews… so I still feel like there's something 'healthy' in there," she said. "I also have been making a chia pudding. Delicious chocolate chip pudding."

Primarily because of her early morning day job, Kelly Ripa needs a bulletproof bedtime routine. She said, "Right before bed, I have a giant ginger turmeric tea. And then I take my evening Persona supplements, which I've recently incorporated a CBD supplement into that and I truly fall asleep within 20 minutes so I have to make sure that I'm ready for bed."