14 DAY TRIAL // This Christmas, country singer and overall stunner Carrie Underwood got engaged to Ottawa Senator hockey player Mike Fisher. Though a wedding date has not yet been set, the star has one thing constantly on her mind: how to keep slim and toned for the big ceremony, as she reveals in a recent interview cited by Us Magazine.
According to Carrie, she’s not among those lucky few who can say that genetics are on their side, which also means that they can eat whatever they want, whenever they want, without having the pounds piling on. On the contrary, with her petite frame, she is always packing on a few extra pounds, especially around her tummy, which is why she must constantly keep an eye on her figure. She does that by eating healthy – meals she cooks herself – and, of course, working out.
“I do not eat catering. I have a refrigerator on the bus and when we’re in a decent town that has a decent grocery store, I just go and stock up. My off days on the road are spent doing laundry and buying groceries,” Underwood says. “Genetics are not exactly on my side. […] I carry all my stress weight, all my potato chip weight. Around my mid section. You’ve got to fight genetics sometimes,” the singer adds.
Another measure Carrie has adopted to avoid the extra weight is to bring her own groceries when she goes home to Checotah, Okla. “I have to... or I’ll starve. Fitness is not a lifestyle [there],” she explains. Moreover, she’s now working with a personal trainer who, as she puts it, is working her out to the point of exhaustion. Not that she minds it, though. “I need it. Especially with a tour coming up and a wedding to look good for,” she says with a smile.
Speaking of the wedding, in the same interview, the singer also goes into more details about the upcoming ceremony. Neither she nor Mike have the time now to make wedding plans, she says, so, because of this, they will take things slowly until they come to a solution that satisfies them both. In the meanwhile, Carrie is keeping an eye on her figure.