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

I'm eating it right now.

Although one of my vegetables is lentils to add a bit of bulk.

To be fair that leaves scope for breakfast /.lunch which as meals I prefer. Id happily spend zero thought into knowing what to cook every evening.

I worked with someone who said her mother always told her 'you eat to survive, not for enjoyment'. She ate the same low fat snack every break time and the same sad little low fat soup, same flavour, every single day at lunch.

Each to their own but she was a big fan of saying things like 'I was bad at the weekend I ate a biscuit' which I don't think is a great mindset or something to be saying when you don't know the relationship others around you have with food.

She has an eating disorder. This isn’t a choice or a matter of willpower. She’s not in control. She can only feel in control by eating a very narrow diet of safe foods.

It's hardly surprising that she favours an extremely low calorie diet. But I would find it so dull being with someone who was so very rigid in their eating habits. Only ever eating grilled fish and steamed vegetables for dinner.

Having said there are prob worse things about David that Victoria has to turn a blind eye to...

My Mum does this, its a way of staying slim without falling back into anorexia (she was anorexic in her 30s and 40s). She swaps her meals every few years but they are always very low carb and with tons of veg.
Major progress in the last few years is that she will have small amounts of fattening treats on special occasions without having a nervous breakdown.
She says her sense of taste adapted to finding simple plain things like veg tasty.

I've eaten pretty much the same lunch every day since lockdown started in March 2020. Only realised it a few weeks ago. I have the odd week where I have soup instead but otherwise its a chicken, cheese, tomato, basil toasted sandwich with raw spinach on the side. And a raw carrot. And ready salted crisps.

It makes me feel comforted and any time I have lunch out, it feels like a treat of unimaginable options.

Seems fine to me, she wants to be trim, that’s how you do it.

Hm, on the one hand that sounds super boring so YANBU. But on the other hand I don’t eat butter and am perfectly happy so YABU there, and I really struggle to know what to have for lunch so I can see the appeal of picking something once and never having to make the decision again!

I have a dd with an ED, if this is true she sounds very unwell.

It's not healthy or balanced to only eat one low fat low calorie meal every day for years and years.

It’s completely up to her what she eats. I love food and feel hungry and miserable just reading about it, but its not something I think less of her for.

It's an eating disorder being held up as admirable or aspirational. If you aren't interested in food you'll go with whatever. You won't insist on eating the same two foods every day.

Omg that sounds boring!
Doesn't she ever have a big fat calorific jam and cream donut?

Shes has a well known ED history. She once said there was a time I could have told you the calorie content in a peanut. Hes out of order.

I always suspected she had a degree of self control only previously seen in Jennifer Aniston and the Duchess of Cambridge. This has confirmed it.

Let's be honest, there can be a lot of variety in that meal.

I imagine she has a chef and there's a variation on a nutritious, delicious theme daily, albeit mainly a fishy one. Good for her.

I think it's unkind of him to tell everyone.

@Tiramysu

Just another stick to beat a successful woman with. I agree

But is her thinness part of her success? Would she have been as successful if she wasn’t as thin? And if not why not? Or does she personally feel she wouldn’t have been as successful without being so thin?

Grilled fish and steamed veg us a fab healthy diet. There are a lot of different fish and a lot of different veg. Nothing wrong whatsoever with her diet. Healthy normal weight people stay healthy normal weight people by eating food such as this.

My grandparents didn't grow up in a country with a lot of food around
They ate this way but added in some rice or, on the other side, no flesh eaten, so rice and veg

I did grow up with a lot of food around and wish I had been raised to eat like this. I know some people who were raised this way and they can eat one scoop of ice cream occasionally but apart from that, no, it's just too much sugar for them

Must be awesome to be able to do that.

@TibetanTerrah

Shes has a well known ED history. She once said there was a time I could have told you the calorie content in a peanut. Hes out of order.

Maybe he's sick to death of women with eating disorders being celebrated (this thread is a great example). It's bloody miserable living with someone with an ED

I read that someone saw them in a famous higher end steak house in Los Angeles. David had a nice juicy steak. She had a plate of steamed spinach.

Some might call it 'disciplined', but I'd say it's a little bit sad.

@Tiramysu

Just another stick to beat a successful woman with. I agree

Me too

If I had every move, outfit, frown and photo scrutinized by the press, celeb pundits and the general public, I'd probably watch what I eat too. She's always been open about what she eats and how much she works out and good on her for that. Better than the ones who are like "oh I just run round after the kids all day" and the weight just falls off.

@Joystir59

Grilled fish and steamed veg us a fab healthy diet. There are a lot of different fish and a lot of different veg. Nothing wrong whatsoever with her diet. Healthy normal weight people stay healthy normal weight people by eating food such as this.

Would you say she is a healthy normal weight?