Carrie Underwood Weight Loss Secrets Revealed!

YAY! Magazine Day:) Today we received the February 2008 issue of Shape. My fave Carrie Underwood was featured on the front! I love her because she's cute and wholesome and I love her music and she seems like a real person. When I say real person, that's because when she was on idol, she was average looking (in my own opinion), now she is like drop dead gorgeous (thanks to a team of makeup, hair, training and fashion experts).

Magazine alwayssssssssss ask her how she lost weight post-college/post-idol success. As a fellow college weight gainer, I enjoy hearing what she does, but I often question does she realllly do this or is she just saying what she feels like so that the magazine do not all say the same thing? Later I'm going to find out what she said this time, BUT first, may I please bring your attention to her wicked awkward string bean left arm on the cover!? Seriously, I expect my Shape Magazine to come with a glowing photoshopped celebrity don't get me wrong, but her left arm looked like an intern photoshopped it. It had no definition, no freckles, no weird tan line from the inside of her elbow to the outside, she doesn't even look like she has an ELBOW! You can tell if you look closely at the arms if a photo has been touched up. Shape also seems to enjoy making their models look like the have a layer of star dust on them, glowing with beauty and perfection. But by now, I've just come to expect it from one of my favs.

She claims she gained 20-pounds during the taping of American Idol. I previously thought she gained it in college. My bad, or her bad? Apparently everyone gains weight on Idol, which I never would've noticed. Between stress, sitting and waiting to meet with vocal coaches, and bad cafeteria like food puts a toll on the budding stars' figures. Shape claims that Carrie has told them her EXCLUSIVE secret to weight loss. Whatever it is, I'm sure I've heard of it, and I'm sure she's told a few other reporters as well, but I keep reading.

Her secret is.... drum roll please.... Keeping a food diary! Blah blah blah, we at diet.com know all about this, don't care. I thought this was some ground breaking secret tip. Booooooo. She's also a vegetarian if you didn't know it. However, Carrie does say one thing that makes me think. She loves to eat at night (so do I), so when she writes down everything she eats during the day, she looks and sees how much she can eat at night. That's not a bad idea in my head. Did Underwood really surprise me with her actual diet tip?

Her workout strategy was built with the help of a trainer. She works out in the AM, usually first with 30 minutes on the eliptical then reps of weights.

Lastly, Shape comes out and says, "the singer's weight became a popular topic in the tabloids and on gossip blogs." Carrie says, "There's nothing worse than going online and reading that someone has called you chubby... I feel healthy and I know I'm a good size for me. And that's what's most important." Right on Carrie! If you guys haven't seen my latest video post, MANY people were calling me chubby. I don't care, this is my job, I know they are going to say things like this on YouTube, mostly because they can and don't care, often they don't even really mean it. Here is the link for your enjoyment of me calling out all the rude people who commented. This is not meant to be fishing for compliments. Honestly, you don't have to write anything, I just did it to be funny and now the original video that spawned these remarks is now the #1 Featured Video on YouTube for How-To Style :)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EejpOK4JUy0
Thanks boyyyssssss.