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

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SemperIdem · 14/07/2019 11:50

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

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zafferana · 14/07/2019 13:25

Totally agree Thump that we're all getting used to looking at people who are overweight and that's affecting how we view people of a normal, healthy weight. I've lived in both southern Europe and the USA - totally different body shapes. In S. Europe most people are slim. In the USA most people are fat. So in S. Europe I was considered curvy (I'm within the 'healthy' BMI category), and in the USA I got called 'thin' or 'slim'. It's all about perception and what you're used to looking at.

Rachelover40 · 14/07/2019 13:26

Kate doesn't look anywhere near anorexic to me. She is just slim. I was like that at her age.

Thump · 14/07/2019 13:26

If she was underweight, one of the first things that goes is your periods - you stop menstruating. Since she has managed to have 3 bouncing babies - I would say she is probably healthier than 99% of us commenting.

RubberTreePlant · 14/07/2019 13:26

Too thin to be healthy? The woman probably gets the best medical attention in the country, I'm sure there's nothing wrong with her.

So did Diana (get the best medical care). It's no proof of health, as Diana's example proves.

restingpigeon · 14/07/2019 13:27

She’s utterly beautiful - I question how good the two Middleton sisters or Megan are as role models because they are super rich and have nannies, gyms and pools on tap etc, and they never ever can say anything remotely controversial.

On the whole I reckon it’s right not to comment on weight unless it is a medical issue and you are the doctor responsible!

Thump · 14/07/2019 13:27

Diana had mental health issues - not medical issues.

OhTheRoses · 14/07/2019 13:28

TBF having had a look at yesterday's pics, she does look a little too thin. May be the dress? May be that Meghan is looking a little fuller.

Teateaandmoretea · 14/07/2019 13:28

If you look at Eastern European women here - they are in the main - very slim - usually a 6/8.

I don't think that's true tbh, I think there are often fewer extremes in some other European countries. Many British people (let's not concentrate on WOMEN) are much the same as those in other countries.

And I've been to Eastern Europe and met lots of Eastern European's....

RubberTreePlant · 14/07/2019 13:30

Diana had mental health issues - not medical issues.

You don't consider Bulimia to be a medical issue? Confused

WorraLiberty · 14/07/2019 13:30

Kate looks amazing but she does look thin and I don't believe it's easy to achieve.

So you don't believe for example that some people have much smaller appetites than others?

If you're not a particularly big eater and never have been, there's very little to 'achieve'.

You're just living your life and getting on with it, possibly hardly thinking much about food really.

Jeffter · 14/07/2019 13:32

It's a simple fact of life that some women find it a lot easier to stay slim than others, and there are plenty of women out there who are a similar size to Kate. One I know has a miniscule appetite and simply can't eat once she's full, rarely clears her plate. If she's not in company at meal times she sometimes forgets to eat at all, not a deliberate decision but it just doesn't occur to her that she should. She is slim but would like to tone up but cba. If she ate a low carb diet and exercised she'd be a very similar body shape to Kate. Not really that unusual at all.

Another friend is borderline orthorixic by her own admission, she's a damn sight healthier than me though, I'm too fond of a glass of wine and a sofa.

Thump · 14/07/2019 13:32

I go to the gym a lot. Which has the beautiful addition of floor to ceiling mirrors all along the wall you're facing. Not the best when you're just getting back to the gym after a sabbatical 9 months of slobbing A LOT of the girls at the gym are as slim as Kate. Particularly in the gym in the city for some reason. My local one is more of a mixed bunch!!

SoupDragon · 14/07/2019 13:33

There's no thin shaming from me.

Hmm
To be curious as to what Kate Cambridge eats and how she exercises?
bridgetreilly · 14/07/2019 13:33

YABVVVVVU to wonder this. It is literally none of your business.

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 14/07/2019 13:34

She looks very thin

Can’t say she looks healthy she is always heavily made up

She is thinnner then she was regardless of having the best medical team money can buy so did Diana and we all know her self image issues

Thump · 14/07/2019 13:34

You don't consider Bulimia to be a medical issue? confused

Eating disorders fall under mental health illness. Yes, they cause physical symptoms, but they are rooted in mental illness.

formerbabe · 14/07/2019 13:35

@SoupDragon

I wasn't talking about Kate there...just celebrities in general. The glam does often detract from the actual body shape and weight.

WhenOneFacePalmDoesntCutIt · 14/07/2019 13:35

Is certainly is easier to STAY slim than to BECOME slim. That's how some people have a very small appetite, they've never over-eaten. It's not luck, it's consistency mainly.

What I find mostly astonishing is the obsession we have with food, snacking, eating, dieting, portions. So many people seem to spend half their days obsessing about food.

RubberTreePlant · 14/07/2019 13:37

Eating disorders fall under mental health illness. Yes, they cause physical symptoms, but they are rooted in mental illness.

So they're both.

And having top medical care is no guarantee of health.

Which is what I was saying.

WorraLiberty · 14/07/2019 13:39

I wasn't talking about Kate there...just celebrities in general. The glam does often detract from the actual body shape and weight.

Famine victim though? Really?

PCohle · 14/07/2019 13:39

I always think it's odd when people point to her size at university as being her "natural figure".

I was the heaviest I've ever been when I was uni (bar pregnancy) and I've had three kids. Lots of booze and cafeteria food.

Thump · 14/07/2019 13:42

I see the greatest error women making is making damn sure they are served the same sized portion as THE MAN. In the name of feminism........ Ye - you're a foot shorter, you sit at your desk all day, he plays football 3 times a week and works a manual job, but yes - I'm damned if I'm going to eat less than him!!

Then you have the obsession with breakfast. Some people eat more for breakfast than I'd eat in a full day. That's not to mention the cereal bars, nuts, crackers, snacks, yoghurts etc. that they snack on. Then, not happy with just a sandwich for lunch, they'll have a sandwich, a banana, a packet of crisps and a can of coke.

3pm slump? A bar of chocolate

Dinner - fish and chips - about 600 calories in a small portion of chips. Then you've the fish in batter. Probably another 500 calories

Add onto that the odd glass bottle of wine a night, never exercising and it is very very easy to see how so many people are overweight.

As I said earlier in the thread, alcohol is my vice - so I'm no one to talk - but I try to exercise and eat remotely healthy chocolate aside when I can.

It's not easy to keep on top of it. But I personally feel better in my own skin when I'm slim and toned and strong.

formerbabe · 14/07/2019 13:45

I know women at my gym who consistently do 2/3 exercise classes a day, every single day. They are slim and toned but not celebrity thin.

Dodahdodah · 14/07/2019 13:46

She looks far too thin.

boughtnotbrought · 14/07/2019 13:46

My friend has a very similar figure to Kate. She also has 3 DC (the youngest is 8 months old). She eats loads, including a copious amount of junk food! Her sisters are exactly the same, it's obviously a genetic thing. The only difference in Kate's figure is, like others have mentioned above, that hers is quite toned looking while DF doesn't really exercise (she doesn't have any time with 3 under 5!)