Jordin Sparks has dropped 40 pounds – and counting!
The 2007 American Idol winner, 21, admits she owes it all to nixing snacks, and gets motivated when she tries to get new muscles to pop out!
“When I did the photo shoot, I had lost 30 lbs, and I think maybe I’ve lost about 10 more,” she tells me. “My whole thing now is toning. I just want to see muscle.”
Although she doesn’t want to lose any more weight, she feels justified by loose clothing.
“it’s more about how the clothes fit,” she says. “I actually have a dress that I fit in that was a size four. I’m not a size four, but I fit into the size four dress. That was cool to be able to see. It always varies by being able to see how things fit, and to look in the mirror and go, ‘I wonder what other muscle I can get to pop out? Let’s work on that today.’”
One thing that’s helped her is curbing her snack attacks.
“My most helpful diet tip is definitely drinking more water,” she explains. “Sipping water throughout the day will keep you from being super hungry and gorging. One of the big things is I’m not snacking as much anymore, which has been nice. I just have my meals during the day, and I’m good.”
What motivated her to drop pounds?
“I got really sick in December, and that’s what pushed me to do it,” she says. “I was like ‘what am I doing? I have to take control of this, and get healthy, and start doing it.’ It was baby steps. I had walking pneumonia and didn’t know I had had it, so I had it for a while, and my lungs were super-infected, so I couldn’t walk without feeling fatigued. So all of December was trying to get my stamina back, and walking around the trail around my house, and then maybe jogging, and then hiking the mountain. It was baby steps, and doing more than I could.”
She continues, “Now I mix it up. I started doing Zumba as well in December. Love it! Absolutely love it. I have the DVDs with me, so I do it on the road. And then just being on tour. I switch it up – I see a trainer in Arizona whenever I’m there. He’s awesome, so just doing different things for sure.”
Here’s my pic with Jordin at the Energizer VH1 Save The Music Foundation event in NYC:
Pick up the OK! on newsstands now for Jordin’s Diet Confessions. The cover line is “Blake Steals Sandra’s Man!”
