Us Weekly - November 2011 - Lauren Alaina

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Lauren Alaina's 25-Pound Loss

When Lauren Alaina first met Carrie Underwood on the American Idol set in May, she wanted advice.  And not just about her country music career.  "I said, 'What's your secret?'"  Alaina tells Us of quizzing the ex-champ about her size-2 physique.  Five months - and 25 pounds! - later, the season 10 runner-up has figured it out.  "Changing my diet was the big thing," says the 5-foot-7 Georgia native, whose first disc, Wildflower, debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart.  After initially using meal delivery service Sunfare, the single high school junior, 16, transitioned from fatty Southern fare to a high-protein, low-carb diet.  "I eat an egg-white omelet for breakfast, shrimp and veggies for lunch and chicken with asparagus for dinner," says Alaina.  Daily workouts of crunches, pushups and "lots of squats," she says, have also helped.  "I'm 10 pounds from my goal - almost there!"