Ugh, I think I speak for most people when I say I have an overpowering dislike for Gwyneth Paltrow’s self-righteous yammering. She’s a fine actress — or she was at one point — but whenever I see some story about her opening her trap about how you, too, can emulate her perfect life if only you’d just try harder, I get grouchier than Rosie O’Donnell with PMS.

So she just sent out an email to readers of GOOP.com, a website of her tips for a healthier and happier life (which, by the by, she hasn’t updated since it launched more than a month ago).

HuffPo has the full missive — I’m not going to repost it here because you probably have other things to do today — but two of the tips are daily 12-hour fasts and avoiding “white foods,” such as anything made with flour, sugar, or milk.

Extreme, right? So extreme that even Gwyneth herself doesn’t adhere to it:

Gwyneth Paltrow makes being svelte look easy, but the actress tells Oprah Winfrey that she finds it nearly impossible to stick to a diet.

“I just cannot diet,” Paltrow, 35, says on The Oprah Winfrey show airing Wednesday. “I think maybe it’s the idea that you can’t have something … I just can’t do it.”

But we should, right? Way to set the bar impossibly high, Gwyn.