Queen of Soul talks about her new health regimen.
*Aretha Franklin heads into 2008 with a new album due on her own label, a Grammy nomination and a MusiCares Person of the Year honor from the Recording Academy. She also begins the new year with a concerted effort to get physically fit.
"I've got a new trainer, and she's giving me a lot of good things, really educating me about nutrition and weight loss and how to do it, and cooking stuff for you," the singer told the AP in an interview at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. "I'm not on a diet. It's a lifestyle change. I'm going to be doing it for the long run. And eventually I'll reach my goal."
Franklin said her hectic schedule was motivation enough to adopt a healthier lifestyle, which also includes cutting out certain foods, fat content and salt.
"I feel lighter. I'm not as heavy, what you get with the red meat,"
she said. "You dragging yourself along when you have all that red meat. Much lighter. I feel a lot lighter, and a lot better."
Franklin's new diet consists of low-fat, low-sodium meals of turkey, chicken, fish, lobster and crab. But, she reserves one meal a week to eat whatever she wants, she divulges. Before leaving for Los Angeles from her hometown of Detroit, "I had turkey wings and dressing, and that was wonderful. My nutritionist would not like that; my trainer, not at all,"
Franklin said, grinning.
The Queen of Soul is in Los Angeles to receive her MusiCares honor in a ceremony scheduled for Friday. The singer's upcoming album, called "A Woman Falling Out of Love," is due sometime this year on her label, Aretha Records. Franklin said she decided to start her own label after she couldn't "come to a meeting of the minds" with Arista Records' Clive Davis.
"I wanted to stay and he wanted me to stay, but we just didn't meet halfway in the middle there," she said. "So I decided not to re-sign and just go ahead and start my own label and be distributed by some fabulous company."
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