Carrie Underwood Wants to Keep Off "Potato Chip Weight" for Wedding
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For those envious of Carrie Underwood's svelte shape, the country singer -- who got engaged to hockey player Mike Fisher Dec. 20 -- says that it's anything but effortless to maintain.
"Genetics are not exactly on my side," Underwood, 26, said in a Jan. 2 radio interview for Ottawa, Ontario show Grecosize on the station Team 1200. "Once I got out of high school I packed on about 10 pounds, and once I was on American Idol I packed on another 10 pounds. I'm a little person, I'm 5-3, and I was about 130," she estimates.
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The star's problem area: her tummy. "I carry all my stress weight, all my potato chip weight," she told radio host Steve Warne, "Around my mid section. You've got to fight genetics sometimes."
To fight that good fight while on tour, the Idol says, "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."
She even brings her own groceries when she goes home to Checotah, Okla. ("I have to...or I'll starve," she says. "Fitness is not a lifestyle [there]."
Her new personal trainer, Tony Greco, is "kicking my butt," she says. "I need it. Especially with a tour coming up and a wedding to look good for."
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And about that wedding...Underwood says that she and Fisher have "no date" so far. "Our schedules don't provide us too much time to get married and have time to really enjoy being married," she explains. "We're trying to really work it out and move some stuff around.
The Sunday night of their engagement was "a busy evening," of phone calls to beat the news reports, she admits. She told Fisher, "'Keep calling baby, keep calling!' Because I didn't want anyone to get offended or anything that we didn't tell them first."
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Her hockey hubby-to-be, she says, has been a hands-on wedding planner, "He jumps in, and he always says he doesn't. he's like, 'Oh, I don't care. Just whatever you want!'...But then I go and ask him, 'What do you think about this? and he'll go 'Oh, no,' and he'll weigh in. I think he's going to be more involved than he initially thought he wanted to be, which is good. I need help."
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The logistics for couple (he's stationed in Ottawa, she's in Nashville and prepping for a new tour) "are going to be difficult," Underwood admits. "But it seems like this past year when I have time off they have away games...We're hoping the summer will be some nice time for us to spend consecutive days together."
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SERIOUSLY! has anyone ever met or heard this Tony Greco guy speak about fitness? WHAT A JOKE! This guy is an IDIOT! he doesn't know ANYTHING, ABSOLUTELY the biggest idiot I've ever!
I have always questioned the legitimacy of the so called fitness "guru" Tony Greco... I've heard many of his speeches and motivational seminars/videos and he seems to speak with confidence but the content of his speeches almost always lack any truth, consistency or knowledge. He jumps from tangent to tangent, and beyond that, he mixes up his facts on a regular basis. How is it that he can prey upon the lack of knowledge an ignorance of so many people? and how can he even begin to claim to being an "expert" when he even lacks the basic fundamental understanding of kinetics or how the body works?
Having difficulty finding time to get married and hopefully will be able to spend consecutive days together? Remind me again why these two are even bothering getting married??
I am one of carrieundewoods bigest fan if you could could you come here and sing in my home town in Latta SC
y are you marring a loser hockeyplar. will one good thing he not a blackman.
Congratulations on your engagement & success! wish they'd had American Idol back in my day! though my voice isn't as strong as yours... Please put the words in your CDs like others do!
Ladies, let's keep the conversation about fun stuff, like these entertainment articles. We don't need to be mean or rude to each other, this is supposed to be fun! Celebrity news is just entertainment! If you want to argue with someone on a personal level, please take e-mail each other.
Lmao. You don't have to dignify anything and really you don't. Dignifying would be saying something intelligent. You just come off with immature snarky things that middle school kids would say. I have a life too, but hey we all need amusement, and you just happen to be good at it ha ha.
Dear Carrie, Oklahoma is not in the South. You are not a Southerner.
I'm sure we'll be adding Scarlett and Ryan and Carrie and Mike to that "waste of money" celeb wedding list in a couple of years.I'm surprised Scar and Ryan have even lasted a year to be honest...
I heard she wants 2 weddings... and I also read an article about celeb weddings that were a "waste of money" because the couples mentioned split after 3 years- RIGHT AFTER the honeymoon/newlywed phase wears off. Lokk at Nick and Jessica and Avril and Deryck.... those are just 2 examples...
So it doesn't matter how many weddings she has- more than likely it is not going to last anyway.
I heard she wants 2 weddings. And I also read of an article about celeb weddings that were a "waste of money"Jessica and Nick and Avril and Deryck are just two of the couples mentioned whose marriages broke up after 3 years- RIGHT AFTER the homeymoon/newlywed phase is over.I'm sure we will be adding carrie and Mike and Scarlett and Ryan to that list in a couple of years...
Listen up because this is the last time I'm going to dignify what any of you losers say about my posts with a response. You need to F@ck off!!! Mind your own business and get a fu@ken life! You are pathetic!!!! As I said...I will not read any of your posts, so I'm not going to play this stupid little game with you idiots...I have a life unlike you. Kiss my @ss - oops,,,too disrespectful for you? Tough sh!t....
And yes I live in a fantasy world apparently.. it's called respect, which 95% of people don't have today, so I'm not surprised that you don't understand it. I know how hard it must be for you to come up with mean things to say to people. Oh, and I'm pretty sure I'm speaking my mind so there goes your genius theories. Betcha it took you all night to think of that.
Lol being defensive again. You better think of some new things to call people! Idiot & freaks is a little 12 year old-ish. Of course I wouldn't be surprised if you were.
Jess - perhaps you should mind your own business. As I told psycho b!tch. I will post what I want, you idiots post what you want....freedom of speech....If you notice I post honest posts - they are NOT always negative..as a matter of fact 80 percent are positive....you both obviously live in fantasy worlds...either that or you just can't speak your minds...I feel sorry for you both. Freaks.
She doesn't mean anything rude with the comment about towns she has been in, she is speaking about amenities. She was talking about her diet and I am sure, as with most celebrities, her diet is quite specific as to what she can eat, so she probably would like to see a Whole Foods in the town or something. There is nothing more people like to do than tear people down for the littlest of comments, their looks, their weight, too big, too small, it's sad! Enjoy life, don't take things so seriously. Life is so much better when you are kind, you back from this life what you put into it. Put good stuff out there people!
Carrie's husband to be has a career that is a bit more scheduled, not much ability to say when and where he will work, and hers has a bit more flexibility. To make a marriage work I think that she will have to cut back a bit on touring and do more recording work out of Ottawa for awhile, at least until his hockey career is over. After his career is over he can be the one to compromise and work in the US as a sportscaster perhaps. Hopefully the moving things around she is talking about in the article are the same type of things that I am mentioning, otherwise the marriage wont work. One person has to give, maybe even give a bit more than the other at times. That's one of the reasons so many Hollywood marriages don't work, everyone wants everything, no compromises from the husband or the wife. I like Carrie though, and think she has a good head on her shoulders. If she is as smart about her marriage as she has been about her career and life thus far, it will be a success.