My advice is everything
in moderation.
COVER STORY
SHEA DURFEY
Praise is a big
reason they live
a healthy lifestyle
as well.
“I try not to
give her sugar
although
she
has had sugar
before but we
try and limit it.
We try and allow
her to eat healthy as well, set up good nutrition at a young
age,” Shea said. “But like I said, she's a child, they're
going to have little things here and there, I just think even
for kids it's everything in moderation.”
Although, Shea has a long history of being healthy, she’s
only human and cheat days happen.
“I've always been one of those people, if I ever try to diet
or limit myself mentally like, okay I can't eat any carbs,
I have to solely eat a high protein diet. I struggled and
I would want to cheat,” Shea said. “So, my advice to
women is, everything in moderation. I try to eat nothing
that's out of the can, if possible. I try and just eat natural
foods. However, if you want to go and have a chip or
a small piece of chocolate here and there, you're only
human and it's not going to make you gain ten pounds. I
think if you limit yourself to never being allowed anything
like that, and not enjoying a meal, I think then you will fail
at the diet. I think it's better to just try and eat naturally.”
Tyson has taken to the new meal plans quite well, and while he
still indulges in a big steak occasionally, now it usually comes
with a side of steamed broccoli and sweet potato mash.
“My wife usually cooks me chicken and fish, things that I
would never eat if I weren’t married,” he said. “Essentially
most of the rodeo season, I'm pretty much on track.
Usually in the spring, I’m way better. About July, it gets
tough because you're traveling. Literally, in July, you'll
go to 22 rodeos in just one month. But if I'm home, I'm
usually eating clean. Not a lot of deep-fried food but I will
do bread. I eat very little sugar and have one soda once a
week. I eat lots of greens.”
Tyson and Shea also have to keep up with their
businesses. They own a successful belt buckle company
called Shea Michelle Buckles and recently ventured into
the baby boot business with Shea Baby Boots.
“I actually had the idea before we even had Praise. I had
gone and tried to buy a friend a pair of baby boots for the
little one and I just couldn't find anything, I mean there's
baby boots on the market but I couldn't find anything that
was real leather and looked like it was going to hold up.
So I decided to start just drawing up some designs.”
The boots use real U.S. leather that has been tested for
lead and iron.
“For me it was important to have a zip on the side for that,
'because I know some kids have really chunky legs and
parents can't find any boots for their kids, so I was like we
need to make something that all parents can squeeze their
kid into,” she said. “When I released the boots, they're like
"Oh my goodness, we've been waiting for these.”
The boots come in three different sizes but she has
designed them so they fit babies a lot longer. A new line
of boots come out this summer for older kids, two to five,
which incorporate the same designs with hard soles.
If the duo wasn’t busy enough, they incorporate
motivational speaking into their time as well as Shea’s
singing career. She has a new record coming out this fall.
“My husband and I have started motivational speaking
as well and Tyson and I just got back from Nashville. We
did a big conference there and we spoke to about fifteen
hundred people from the National Conservation District
of America and told our story, and I performed as well,”
she said. “That's one thing that we've really started to get
involved in and we love doing it, because it kind of goes
hand in hand with rodeo and music.”
They’ve recently moved to a 50-acre ranch with an arena
for Tyson to practice roping off Nikko and for Shea to run
barrels on Betty. Their place has river access as well.
“We were crazy and we moved the week before Christmas
and the week after the NFR, so that was a little hectic. But
we managed to get it done,” she said.
Keep up with Shea and Tyson’s fitness, on
the road, music, rodeo, fashion and their
motivational speaking on Facebook at @
sheafisher and @tysondurfey and on Instagram
/sheafishermusic and /tysondurfey.
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