Sure, Carrie Underwood goes hard AF in the gym to score her seriously sculpted legs, but she can also appreciate the need for a lazy day on the couch or a solid microwave burrito.
Yet the messages about her weight still cut deep. So she said goodbye to the quesadillas she'd been eating on the regular, hello to reading nutrition labels and sessions on the elliptical. And when that worked out well, she turned her calorie counting ways up to 11, at times consuming just 800 calories a day. By the time she turned up to the CMA Awards that November, she was thinner, sure, but desperate for some comfort food.
"I would 'fall off the wagon,'" she told the mag of her binge sessions,"then feel terrible and repeat the cycle." All the while she was struggling to maintain the energy necessary for the show's grueling tour schedule."Your body is screaming out, I need more calories! I need more carbs!" she recalled.
"I love rules," she offers by way of explaining her strategy of consuming 45 percent carbs, 30 percent fat and 25 percent protein plus at least a gallon of water each day."This is how I feel good about myself, and this is how I operate." That might mean having a tofu or egg-white scramble with berries, Ezekiel toast and coffee ahead of her morning workout, a sandwich with Tofurky, tomato, avocado, red onion, spinach and mustard for lunch and a tofu stir-fry or vegan chicken with roasted vegetables for dinner. And it definitely means keeping her phone handy, so she can track it all on her MyFitnessPal app.
Though not equipped with much of a sweet tooth, if she does indulge it's either a square or two of dark chocolate, herThe Bachelor
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