Vanessa White talks weight loss, superfoods and competing in Tough Mudder as part of Team Sony 

EXCLUSIVE: Vanessa White talks weight loss, superfoods ...

EXCLUSIVE: Vanessa White talks weight loss, superfoods and competing in Tough Mudder as part of Team Sony

The Saturdays singer embraces her new healthy lifestyle and reveals the secrets to fitness success

VANESSA White is embracing her new healthy lifestyle – and even competed in Tough Mudder as part of Team Sony this month.

Speaking exclusively to OK! magazine, The Saturdays singer revealed all the secrets behind her fitness success and how she is maintaining her incredible size 8 figure.

Vanessa White is embracing her new fit and healthy lifestyle [Vanessa White/Instagram]

Amazing! It was such a good experience for me, I’ve never done anything like that in my life it was a massive challenge. I had to train really hard before I did it just to get my body used to it.

Well I train anyway but it was more going on runs because it was 12 miles. I love going to the gym but I just really really struggled with running so I had to push myself to do that and just lots of weight training as well to get myself strong.

I was using Sony Smart Wear. I trained for Tough Mudder using the Sony SmartBand Talk, Sony Xperia Z3 and the LifeLog App which is a device that like counts all your calories and also counts all the steps that you’re doing. It was amazing actually as by the end it said I had taken 25,000 steps. There was a slide going into ice-cold water and I would think, \'Oh my god my watch\', but it\'s still working.

Have you kept up a similar training regime since or have you gone back to how you trained before?

I actually just went to a boot camp in Ibiza (I’m losing it) just to keep everything up because I actually just love fitness now, I just found a new love for it.

Well at the moment I’m doing 5 days a week. I know It sounds like a lot, but it actually doesn’t feel like a lot after you just spent a week in Ibiza training for like 6 hours a day.

Yeah, to be honest I do have a trainer, I’m useless on my own I need that kick up the butt, you know?

I do a lot of weights, I do circuits, a lot of squats with weights, dead lifts, most things to get myself strong.

Would you do it in the morning or evening when do you thinks best?

It depends, I’m not really a morning person so I like to do mine like early evening or in the afternoon. 

Vanessa remembers one of the funnier moments from Tough Mudder [Vanessa White/Instagram]

My favourite, which I find really difficult to say no to is maccoroni cheese, it\'s like that food that you have when your hungover. 

Today I had some yoghurt with some flak seeds, sunflower seeds with blueberries and raspberries, just loads of stuff actually, some bee pollen, goji berries, literally everything.

I have fish for dinner or chickpeas and lentils. Or other things that you can get your protein from.

You said you get to eat a lot more know because of your training, what sort of things do you snack on?

For snacks, I make energy balls with dates, kale, flak seeds. I basically just mix them all together in a NutriBullet and roll them up into balls.

Are they quite good for satisfying your hunger?

A million percent, if I fancy chocolate, I mean who doesn’t love chocolate, I\'ll have one of those and its just as good.

Have you ever dramatically gained a lot of weight or lost a lot of weight through any sort of change in lifestyle?

In the past year I’ve slowly dropped weight, just by making healthier choices and training. About four years ago I never really used to do that much. When I look at pictures from then and now I can see a difference, but it didn’t just fall off me it was like a slow process. I prefer that it happened you know slowly rather than you know, just straight away because I just feel like if it happens quickly it can easily, you can just as quick put it all back on.

If you\'re stronger it feels better too, right?

Oh Yeah, you always feel better after coming out of the gym, it\'s horrible at the time but then when you leave its always worth it.

I remember years ago years I did try and do something like that but I\'m so bad at sticking to it. I just think as long as you eat healthy and workout. Don’t starve yourself it doesn’t work.

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 Do you have a favourite part of your body?

Umm I think in general for me I love, like my bum, I’ve worked on that, I’ve been doing so many squats.

If you were going away normally would you adapt your fitness and diet regime in the lead up to your holiday?

I used to do that before I really used to train and just hope for the best. But I think now, because I train so regularly, I\'d just carry on.

In the next 5 to 10 years is there any sort of challenge that you’d like to set yourself?

I’m kind of one of these people where I just take each day as it come, I just think about today.

Vanessa White took part in Tough Mudder Yorkshire as part of Team Sony, the official smartphone and smartwear sponsor of Tough Mudder 2015.