David Beckham reveals wife Victoria has eaten the same meal every day for 25 years

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Apparently Victoria Beckham will only ever eat grilled fish and steamed veg. Every day for 25 years. She says she won’t eat food cooked in oil, butter or sauces, red meat, or dairy.

AIBU to think life is too short to live without butter!

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10463673/David-Beckham-reveals-wife-Victoria-eaten-meal-day-25-years.html

@Exhausteddog

I would bet money that those people criticising her, have a weight problem!

I would say the opposite and say I bet all the people saying its quite normal probably have ED or issues with food themselves. As I said previously I think there is a high % of MN with ED themselves. I'm recovered from an ED I don't have a weight problem. I've been the same (healthy) weight , excluding pregnancy, for about 20 years.

VB is very thin, admittedly lots of celebs are and a lot of them probably also have ED. It's literally their job to look incredibly thin what society thinks is the ideal for a woman. A lot of professional athletes will also restrict calories and eat incredibly strict and possibly limited diets....but there is also a high incidence of bordrline ED in sports too, particularly ones where weight or bodyshape is paramount (jockeys, gymnasts etc)

I used to be anorexic - although I did eat a variety of food, just very tiny quantities of it.
I think this is why it's frustrating because while she admits she used to have an ED, the suggestion is that she hasn't any more. If this is an aspiration for anyone with an ED thinking that the same meal for 2 decades and working out for 2 hours a day is what healthy recovery looks like (imo) it's a potentially a misleading one. Obviously eating healthily and working out are not bad things - but I'd say the rigidity of it is still very much ED mindset. "If I "only" work out for 5 days a week, I'll get fat" or "if I swapped fish and steamed vegetables for a pasta dish once a fortnight, I'll be really out of control"

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Food is one of life's joys isn't it? Sharing food is such a pleasure and I can understand how he feels he misses out on that. I think it's a shame that she limits herself so much but if it's how she handles her eating disorder it might not be 'normal' but it's got to be better than not eating

We all know David Beckham is best when he doesn't speak though.

I am as slim as KM and VB. I don’t have an eating disorder, I have always been naturally slim and have tended to lose a bit of weight after each baby. I dont have a restricted diet like VB, I eat crisps, cake, biscuits etc, I probably just eat smaller portions of these foods and more vegetables, salads and soups than the average person. I try to make sure that half of my plate is vegetables.

That ‘don’t dish it out’ comments were to other people, criticising me for commenting on you, in a similar way to that which you commented on VB.

Perhaps could have used a better phrase, but the point remains; it’s not ok to do this to anyone, and if you do, prepare to have yourself thrown under the microscope.

Your comments are nasty and malicious and snidely and have elicited some other awful comments, which you shouldn’t be surprised about tbh.

You know nothing (except tabloid fodder) about VBs diet - nothing. And if the DM and other gossip mags is considered a reputable source upon which to justify these comments, god help you.

You realise most people look at W:H now as an indicator of health, BMI takes a back seat!

It’s a crude, non-specific measure which is pretty useless, but still used as one factor!

If you were being more specific, a female range would be used and you look at W:H and wc generally.

So it's a "pretty useless" tool that is inaccurately represented by both the Lancet and the NHS, but is nonetheless useful enough to show VB is not underweight in spite of being under the healthy weights for both the NHS and this article in the Lancet, and also useful enough to tell the OP she is overweight in spite of being within the healthy weight ranges for both the NHS and the Lancet, and in spite of the fact that the Lancet article is actually about the association of BMI with mortality with the life expectancy - but is still unreliable except when you want to use it.

Gotcha.

@BadLad

At last, a rare glimpse into the fiercely guarded private lives of the Beckhams.

Hahahaha

@Gladioli23

You realise most people look at W:H now as an indicator of health, BMI takes a back seat!

It’s a crude, non-specific measure which is pretty useless, but still used as one factor!

If you were being more specific, a female range would be used and you look at W:H and wc generally.

So it's a "pretty useless" tool that is inaccurately represented by both the Lancet and the NHS, but is nonetheless useful enough to show VB is not underweight in spite of being under the healthy weights for both the NHS and this article in the Lancet, and also useful enough to tell the OP she is overweight in spite of being within the healthy weight ranges for both the NHS and the Lancet, and in spite of the fact that the Lancet article is actually about the association of BMI with mortality with the life expectancy - but is still unreliable except when you want to use it.

Gotcha.

I have not once on this thread said that I don’t think VB is underweight!

I have commented on people scrutinising her looks and her food.

So ‘Gotcha’ right back (who actually uses this phrase in every day discourse?)

The comment using BMI (based on OPs own measurements) was about (inappropriately) discussing someone in public forum.

And yes, it is an OW BMI, but not knowing anything about the OP, is a rather pointless and not particularly insightful comment:

Rather the point I was trying to make really.

You can bang on about the Lancet all you like - BMI is mildly useful at a population level with other info, and not very useful at a personal level (without other info).

Scientist, after scientist says it, time and time again.

And the NHS is shit for all things to do with obesity and weight loss!

Most NHS staff in this area, that I know would freely admit that.

Anyway, I have to work so I’ll let you all continue to make snide comments about VB, and then attempt to defend the OP was just trying to start a conversation.

Just put yourself in VBs shoes (or Keira Knightley or Zendaya any other slim celeb who often gets it) and tell me how you would like people picking your looks, motives, career, diet etc apart.

@Quincythequince

Anyway, I have to work so I’ll let you all continue to make snide comments about VB, and then attempt to defend the OP was just trying to start a conversation.

Just put yourself in VBs shoes (or Keira Knightley or Zendaya any other slim celeb who often gets it) and tell me how you would like people picking your looks, motives, career, diet etc apart.

I did start this thread to have a conversation, and a conversation has been had, very much by you. You’ve kept this thread extremely active, so thank you

And if anyone thinks this is ok and is feeling brave, go over to the ‘invisible fat women over 40’ thread and tell them like you think it is over there.

It’s an active thread - I’m sure they’d love to hear your speculative thoughts about why some of them are so fat, what they eat, if they have an ED etc.

Have a good day flexible

If DB had said VB has actually been vegan the past 25 years, people would be fawning over here instead and not one would say anything about her diet being restrictive, dull or her having a ED

@Quincythequince

Have a good day flexible

You too I actually have a KIT day at work today to prepare for returning from maternity leave, as you see from my user name my flexible working request was denied so I’ll be returning full time But time to get prepped and face reality and get into a routine. Take care

@UglyModernWindows

If DB had said VB has actually been vegan the past 25 years, people would be fawning over here instead and not one would say anything about her diet being restrictive, dull or her having a ED

Why would they? No correlation. Plus being vegan is only a big deal to vegans

@AutomaticMoon

Fat doesn’t make you fat.

Fat doesn’t make you fat.

Fat doesn’t make you fat.

Not saturated animal fat like butter, it’s essential for our brain which is mostly cholesterol. And vit k2 you can only get from (grass fed) butter. Vegetable oils are not good at all. Nina Teicholz (The Big Fat Surprise) explains about the corruption that has taken place in setting the nutritional guidance. People are losing weight easily by eating lots of meat and fat and cutting down/out carbs. It’s really sad, I would say this is an eating disorder like Orthorexia, I presume she thinks this is healthy. Life is too short. Or maybe she has Autism and a restricted diet for that reason?! But I feel like she has always had Anorexia vibes...

I'm with you on this one. I eat plenty of fats (sunflower oil doesn't come to this house), variety of protein sources and vegetables, weight just fell off and has kept off. It's brilliant!

I recommend looking out Nina Teicholz too

Enjoy your baby OP, as you know they grow so fast! 👶👧.

I remember my KIT days (16.5 years ago now 😳).

So sorry to hear your flexible working was denied, that’s horrid, I hope you get a schedule that suits you.

Take care

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He's an awful twat.

Should keep his mouth shut.

She's put up with a lot from that sleazy fool.

Sounds like she eats simply and well.

@StellaGibs. Of course there is a correlation. Whenever there is any diet talk here, people come wanging on about how you should never cut out any food group out and how dull it must not to have XYZ (insert any highly processed "treat"). But enter vegans and you never see the same, only fawning.

Because VB eats a mixed diet and is very slim, she's a fair game.

Of course there is a correlation. Whenever there is any diet talk here, people come wanging on about how you should never cut out any food group out and how dull it must not to have XYZ (insert any highly processed "treat"). But enter vegans and you never see the same, only fawning.

Are you joking? I’m a vegan, although rarely get involved in threads about it. The reason I don’t is because people always say negative things about being vegan, that it’s bad to cut foods out, how are body ‘needs’ meat, how old vegans look, everyone needs a bacon sandwich, who could live without butter, preachy vegans, the lack of meat destroys their brain cells, they live on processed food, they need to get a life etc. I could go on. Zero fawning, quite the opposite.

@StellaGibs. Of course there is a correlation. Whenever there is any diet talk here, people come wanging on about how you should never cut out any food group out and how dull it must not to have XYZ (insert any highly processed "treat"). But enter vegans and you never see the same, only fawning.

I have, since my days in an ED clinic, long suspected that a number of vegans (certainly not all - especially now it is more mainstream) use it as a "legitimate" way of controlling and restricting food to cover up an ED. (See also the number of people who had alleged issues with wheat/carbs in the late 1990s/2000s )

Of course there are lots of people who are vegan for ethical reasons and people genuinely allergic or intolerant to certain foods but sometimes I think they are an "acceptable" cover for restricted or disordered eating.

If this is the way she is happy to eat, and it keeps her acknowledged ED in check to some degree, then who am I to comment. She works in fashion, everyone she sees will be similar size and shape and probably on a similar diet. The real issue is that females are geared up by media in every format to think we should look similarly… it’s her job and if she were bigger she wouldn’t fit in her role. I don’t have to look like that, don’t have a personal chef, don’t like the gym. So I don’t. She gets it in the press whatever she does or doesn’t eat and if any female celebrities put on half a pound they are immediately on the press as pregnant/fallen off wagon. Maybe we should stop engaging with the press, leave these celebrities alone and we would end up in a slightly better place

Is she about to launch a fashion range or new album? Seems like a huge thing to announce publicly given her alleged history of ED unless they are doing it for attention

Maybe she just isn't interested in food? I know I'm not. I eat because I feel rotten if I don't, but I've never been "oooh I really fancy this for tea tonight". I could quite happily live the rest of my life eating nothing but grilled fish and steamed veg.

I saw her son assembling a bacon sandwich (ie putting some cooked bacon between 2 pieces of sliced bread) on utube, part of his new career as a cook? Or did I imagine that?