Posted by Adam

Monday October 19, 2009

Gerard Butler is detoxing — and he hates it!

In a bid to shape up for a movie role, the Scottish actor, 39, is surviving on a diet of just lemon water and cayenne pepper, which is designed to cleanse his body of toxins.

But Butler admits he’s finding it tough — because he has to do it all on his own, without motivation from his trainer or nutritionist.

“I’m on a cleanse right now,” he said. “I have the lemon water!

“It’s a nightmare because normally there’s time constraints and I have my trainer and nutritionist to enforce the law.

“I’ll literally have people there hiding cupcakes from me. Once my trainer caught me, he said, ‘You’re in that trailer over there, right? I heard you’re eating chocolate cake’, and I’m like, ‘Me? No!’

“My heart is literally pumping so fast trying to sneak this cake when my trainer’s not looking!”

Butler has previously spoken of his penchant for cupcakes.

“There is definitely a lot of pressure for me to look a certain way and I’m not the kind of guy who always stays in shape,” explains Gerard. “For Law Abiding Citizen I was inspired by Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver because you see him doing those press ups and straight away you know so much about this guy.

“That’s the only thing that got me back into training and back to looking cut again. But it was hard because I love my cupcakes so my trainer constantly had to chase me around.”

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