Find Your Path: Honor Your Body, Fuel Your Soul, and Get Strong with the Fit52 Life

by Carrie Underwood

I want to cherish every day of this life, and when I don’t feel good, when I don’t have energy, when I’m not nourished, I can’t make the most of the minutes God’s given me to be here on this earth.

This philosophy is a year-round commonsense approach to health and fitness that involves doing your best most of the time—and by that I don’t mean being naughty for three days and good for four. I mean doing your absolute best in most instances, every week, fifty-two weeks of the year. Be good on all the days you can, so that on the days when you slip up or want to indulge, you don’t sabotage your whole plan. Your goal isn’t to be perfect every second of every day. It’s to be mostly in line with what you want for your life over the

course of each week. You messed up today? That’s okay. Your week is what matters. What you do on the other six days matters. One bad food choice or one lazy day on the couch isn’t going to wreck everything, because when you look at a healthy week as your goal instead of a single healthy day, you always have a reason to get back on the horse.

I’ve always believed that to get where you want to go, you need to push yourself just a little outside your comfort zone, and you’ve got to keep forging ahead, even when it’s hard.

God is the engine that powers our lives. Love is the oil that keeps the engine running smoothly. And healthy living is the fuel that powers the engine and keeps us moving forward.