To be curious as to what Kate Cambridge eats and how she exercises?

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Totally superficial I know but I think she looks absolutely fantastic.

The problem with cheap biscuits, crisps and cakes is they're incredibly addictive and very cheap.

You can buy a packet of custard creams cheaper than an apple or banana sometimes - of course people with less money are going to feed their kids the biscuits (and then they become addicted).

I broke my chocolate habit years ago as I grew out of enjoying cheap chocolate due to the addition of bloody palm oil. Now once a month when I'm hormonal I buy a tenners worth of nice chocolates - I get about 7 or 8 chocolates for that and then I'm done for the month.

Obviously being overweight is a much less favourable position to be. Just for clarity.
However, only teenagers’ faces look youthful when someone is as thin as those being discussed.

Figure or face applies.

She is much smaller in real life as people have mentioned. If you're a 6/8/10 on here you're probably at the lower end of BMI and noticeably healthy, lithe and fit.

She's more like a 2 in real life, she'd be unlikely to get high street clothes to fit. would guess her waist is 23, hips 30/bust 28.

A 6 in Uk sizes is 31.5/24/33.

Are you serious? She's far too thin now, I think.

There is too much vanity sizing around in modern times - at least in the UK. A Size 10 in the Fifties is not equivalent to any current Size 10.

I'm normally a fan of the very thin look and think long distance runners look great, but I was struck by how thin and weak Kate looked standing next to the junior tennis players.

I suspect she has to eat almost nothing to keep her weight like that and watch it constantly, and I suspect she does it because she is photographed all the time and 'on show' and she feels she will look worse if she puts on a few pounds.

I don't think she's 'too thin' - she isn't a show pony who has to be judged on her weight category, but she certainly doesn't look sporty or particularly toned.

I'd hate to be one of the royal wives. Most of the women from that set are naturally thin and have that sort of long straight hair and look good, Kate looks slightly different and probably feels she has to maintain her weight very low to fit in.

She looks healthy.
I think we are so used to being or seeing overweight people we think healthy weight people as odd.
"Naturally slim' used to be how most people were. They don't live to eat, they eat to live and don't eat crap.
I've been really overweight and that changed when I changed my lifestyle and what I ate.....not to lose weight, but to be healthier.

I think the key thing with Kate is she's a couple of dress sizes smaller than when she was at uni, when she was younger and pre kids.

Most people are the other way round.

So that does suggest that her natural shape is slim but not as thin as she is now. She looks great but I don't think it comes naturally and requires a large amount of discipline.

So, it seems from this thread that if you think Kate is thin and probably very disciplined, you're a fat, jealous cow.

formerbabe, I think the truth is somewhere in between and much less controversial. It is very likely Kate does pay attention to her diet and exercises regularly. She is slim, probably on the low side of a healthy BMI as she appears fairly slight and not heavily muscled. Equally people criticising her may have struggled with their weight, may be slightly bigger or more out of shape than they'd like because, speaking from personal experience, when I'm slimmer I don't feel other slim people look that thin whereas bigger people, I know, do.

Kate is at least a size smaller than she was at uni. I'm ten kilos less than I was at uni as well but I was a bit chubby to begin with. She had a lovely figure. She reminds me of myself when I was eating less than 1000 calories a day. She must be super strict in what she eats because her body doesn't look like someone who exercises a lot. I now know I looked too thin. I'm a similar weight now but I focus on strength not calories.

She looks pretty amazing to me.

I don't understand 'naturally thin' because we're all naturally thin -until we eat

As it happens I'm naturally fat

it seems from this thread that if you think Kate is thin and probably very disciplined, you're a fat, jealous cow.

no one called you a fat jealous cow.

Posters did pick on your insistence that skinny women do not exist in "real"life and everybody who claims to be skinny is a big fat liar...

I don't understand 'naturally thin'
some people have different body shapes, some naturally more curvy than others that's what it means.

it seems from this thread that if you think Kate is thin and probably very disciplined

Or, as some like to put it, "too thin and starving herself"

Yes she's slim but I think she looks toned and very healthy too.I also know quite a few women who are slimmer now than their uni days.Less drinking,partying and healthier food choices.Plus even with help she seems a very hands on mum ,doing lots of running around with 3 small children.Plus sporty.
I'm naturally slim build and yet eat loads.There are photos of me when my children were a similar age and I was carrying no extra weight.I can put on a few pounds but as soon as I hit a busy spell,even emotionally it will drop off.Seems you can't win.Too fat,too thin.

I think she looks fantastic at the moment but looked even more fantastic when she was slightly heavier (her face / neck mostly)

I think she's under a huge amount of pressure and media scrutiny and always having to fit into designer outfits and look good in them.

Her mum and sister are also slim, the type of women who have neat little pregnancy bumps and after giving birth (to healthy weight babies) return to their tiny trim size within a matter of weeks. Very lucky.

If I had the time, money and staff she did I would also eat very healthy, organic meals and exercise privately to stay as slim as I felt comfortable with.

Plus even with help she seems a very hands on mum ,doing lots of running around with 3 small children.Plus sporty

No one really has a clue how much time she spends with her kids or how much sports she plays. She might sit on her arse starving and smoking fags all day for all we know.

Assuming that she weighs around 58kg, which would put her on the low side of healthy BMI, a 37 year old, 175cm tall, moderately active woman will eat 2050 calories a day just to maintain her weight. Now please, do tell me how this isn't enough?

@Thump I totally agree with the one leg thing. Post partum, post SPD, with a double prolapse and core work off the menu for over a year, I could not stand on one leg. Just couldn't do it. My toddler can do it better than I can! It's insane! Pilates is the way forward 👍🏻

(Totally off the point of the thread, but OP definitely try some Pilates! I'm still getting there slowly, but it has literally rebuilt me. If you can find a reformer class, it's amazing.)

Why would you assume she's 58kg?

When I was 18 in 1984, I had a 24 inch waist and could encircle it with my hands with thumbs and middle fingers touching.

Safe to say, it's not like that now. But that's due to lack of self discipline and a genuine enjoyment of good food, carelessness over portion size, a lack of obsession with my appearance plus a lazy and self destructive streak that surfaces in times of stress. Of which there has been much lately.

It's true that sizes have increased. I am clearing out my mother's stuff - she hoarded clothes and lots of stuff labelled at 16 from years ago is more like a12today.

Also reminded of looking at displays of antique clothes eg Charlotte Bronte's wedding dress at Howarth. Now that IS tiny.

To be fair, Charlotte Bronte was only 4ft 9in