Trisha Yearwood has been a country music icon for decades, so it’s only natural that she’ll host ABC’s CMA Country Christmas special again.
On December 3, the 60-year-old will emcee the special alongside fellow singer Amy Grant. But it’s hard to miss the fact that she looks fit and glowy in a preview for the show.
Trisha has been open about her health and fitness routine in the past. Here’s what she’s shared.
Her diet is ‘hardcore and boring.’
Trisha lost weight in the past by following a “hardcore and boring” diet, she told Good Housekeeping in 2013. For her, that meant eating plenty of fruits, vegetables, and lean proteins.
She’s also big on meal prep, which means focusing on foods she loves, including cabbage, carrots, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, apples, grapefruit, and grilled chicken. “I made [my diet] simple, because I knew I wouldn’t stay on it unless I saw results fast,” Trisha said. She also cut out “white food” like sugar, pasta, and white bread. (FWIW, dietitians say you don’t need to eliminate any food to lose weight.)
She’s a big fan of Zumba classes.
Zumba is Trisha’s go-to exercise class, which she takes three times a week. She particularly enjoys class in the evenings, so she doesn’t have as much “free time before bedtime,” per Good Housekeeping.
“I fell in love with it,” she told People in 2013. “I have a strength I never had before. I feel like I can do anything.”
She was inspired to lose weight after a particularly moving volunteer trip.
Trisha has been active with Habitat for Humanity for years, but a 2012 trip to Haiti really kickstarted her weight loss journey.
“I really felt my weight on that trip,” she told Good Housekeeping. “I’d put a few extra pounds on top of the 20 extra that I always carried. I didn’t feel great.”
That tour put things into perspective for her. “I had just come back from a place where people don’t know where their next meal is coming from, and I was bitching because I was a size 14—poor, pitiful me,” she said.
So Trisha vowed to stop obsessing over her weight. “I realized I was tired of losing the same few pounds, tired of complaining about it,” she said. “I felt, ‘Just do it, or shut up about it.'”
Her husband Garth Brooks is super supportive.
Trisha’s husband Garth Brooks has always been her No. 1 fan. “He never made me feel bad about my weight,” she told Good Housekeeping. “He always told me I was beautiful. He says, ‘I wish you could see yourself the way I see you. I love you at this weight, and the only other weight I love you at is whatever weight you are.'”
Garth has even encouraged Trisha to have positive self-talk around exercise and eating.
“Even though Garth will gain, he doesn’t obsess about it. He’ll just be like, ‘I’ve got to be on TV; I need to lose some weight,’” she added. “Then he’ll lose it. He doesn’t wake up in the morning with his day being good or bad depending on what the scale says.”
Korin Miller is a freelance writer specializing in general wellness, sexual health and relationships, and lifestyle trends, with work appearing in Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Self, Glamour, and more. She has a master’s degree from American University, lives by the beach, and hopes to own a teacup pig and taco truck one day.
