--- title: How Kate Hudson Stays in Shape description: It's important to set goals and be realistic. canonical: https://time.com/4220209/kate-hudson-stay-in-shape/ author: Kate Hudson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-17T12:00:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:01:51.408Z og:title: What Kate Hudson Wants People to Know About How She Stays in Such Great Shape og:description: It requires a lot of patience and consistency og:url: https://time.com/4220209/kate-hudson-stay-in-shape/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5ac921d832208519/69887d83bc6cfcad5f3dbb83/kate-hudson-fitness-stay-in-shape-advice.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: People's Choice Awards 2016 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: What Kate Hudson Wants People to Know About How She Stays in Such Great Shape twitter:description: It requires a lot of patience and consistency twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5ac921d832208519/69887d83bc6cfcad5f3dbb83/kate-hudson-fitness-stay-in-shape-advice.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # What Kate Hudson Wants People to Know About How She Stays in Such Great Shape by [Kate Hudson](https://time.com/author/kate-hudson/) ## Kate Hudson Feb 17, 2016 12:00 PM UTC  LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 06: Actress Kate Hudson arrives at People's Choice Awards 2016 at Microsoft Theater on January 6, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 06: Actress Kate Hudson arrives at People's Choice Awards 2016 at Microsoft Theater on January 6, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin—FilmMagic/Getty Images by [Kate Hudson](https://time.com/author/kate-hudson/) ## Kate Hudson Feb 17, 2016 12:00 PM UTC Everyone asks me how I stay in shape, and my answer to that question has been misquoted so many times. People say I work out two and a half hours a day, that I work out 20 minutes a day. That I eat vegan, that I follow a raw diet. Some of it’s true, some of it’s not. But ultimately, it doesn’t _matter_ exactly what I do. You can’t find your way to a healthy, happy, full life just by copying what I do—and changing your lifestyle isn’t something you can just condense into a sound bite. The biggest thing I can tell you about getting and staying in shape is that consistency matters. Health and wellness isn’t something that just happens; it takes time. It happens when you don’t put too much pressure on yourself and you feel yourself getting stronger and stronger and then you start to actually enjoy it. And I mean that with everything: With food, with health, with working out and with mindfulness. That’s why setting attainable goals for yourself is so important. If you set a goal of losing two pounds a week, that can be very discouraging because you’re going to have to eat 1,200 calories a day and work out all the time, and who wants to do that? I don’t want to do that. If you start with little things and stay consistent, you’ll eventually get to a point where you enjoy the process. It just takes some time for your brain and your body to get on-board together. Of course, to do all of this, you have to throw the idea of perfection out the window. You have to realize that we have a choice to give in to this idea that women are supposed to be “perfect”—or to reject it. I love that more women are finally starting to realize there’s no such thing as perfection and that it’s subjective. I was raised with a mother and father who always reminded me of that, and I grew up with three brothers who were always on me—so I developed a tough constitution early on. But I’d love to see more women feel empowered by their health and happiness. I think we all have a responsibility to say to ourselves, “Do I feel good? Am I honoring myself? Do I feel healthy? Do I feel strong?” Kind of tuning into the things that you feel yourself and hopefully feeling more connected to your individuality and your individual strengths. With that comes a clarity emotionally that’s really important. So if I can send some supportive energy out to women to help them do that, that would just make me feel really happy. _Kate Hudson is an actress and author of the new book_ [Pretty Happy: Healthy Ways to Love Your Body](http://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Happy-Healthy-Ways-Love/dp/0062434233)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4220209/kate-hudson-stay-in-shape/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4220209/kate-hudson-stay-in-shape/"},"headline":"What Kate Hudson Wants People to Know About How She Stays in Such Great Shape","datePublished":"2016-02-17T12:00:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:01:51.408Z","description":"Kate Hudson is an actress and author of the new book Pretty Happy: Healthy Ways to Love Your Body.","url":"https://time.com/4220209/kate-hudson-stay-in-shape/","keywords":["motto","fitness","health","Exercise & Fitness"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5ac921d832208519/69887d83bc6cfcad5f3dbb83/kate-hudson-fitness-stay-in-shape-advice.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kate Hudson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/kate-hudson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5ac921d832208519/69887d83bc6cfcad5f3dbb83/kate-hudson-fitness-stay-in-shape-advice.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"People's Choice Awards 2016","caption":"People's Choice Awards 2016","creditText":"Axelle/Bauer-Griffin—FilmMagic/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4220209/kate-hudson-stay-in-shape/","name":"What Kate Hudson Wants People to Know About How She Stays in Such Great Shape"}}]}] ```