The Royal diet

[FreakOfNature]

How do they do it? It's not just the Princess of Wales, Beatrice is slim these days, as are other European royals, what's the secret? They all look very healthy, well proportionated for their shape with incredibly tiny waists.

It goes without saying they have access to good food/chefs etc but I doubt they are used 24/7 to meet every need (quite frankly, if I had access to such means I would be the size of a house!). They work, but not a routine 9-5 and they have young children whose lives they are very involved in.

Exercise certainly comes into it, but none look like this is done to excess.

Vegan? Gluten Free?

Looking for ideas more than debate!

How absurd that you need money, your own chef, a PT and tailored clothes to be thin! You really don't, you just need to eat healthily and not in excess. You don't even need to exercise, just need to be modereatively active.

These are all excuses not to eat well! You can not scoff the digestives before dinner or grab a chocolate bar from the petrol station, you don't need to be a royal for that.

Having said this, being in the public eye must be a huge motivator. Same as actresses, singers, etc

@LaCerbiatta I don't think anyone is saying that you need money to be thin, just that it helps.

@LaCerbiatta I don’t disagree with what you say but it is important to note that all those individual choices you talk about people making take place within a wider societal obesogenic environment.

From google - The term “obesogenic environment” refers to “an environment that promotes gaining weight and one that is not conducive to weight loss” within the home or workplace (Swinburn, et al., 1999). In other words, the obesogenic environment refers to an environment that helps, or contributes to, obesity.

While we all live in this environment to some extent, it doesn’t take a genius to work out that it’s going to harder for poorer busier people to stay slim and healthy compared to richer people.

Well yes, in theory.

But poverty and obesity are linked.

Denying this is not a solution.

Being poor is shit. Food is an easily accessible, cheap and socially acceptable way of getting a dopamine fix. If you have a lovely life, a nice home, fun hobbies, an active social life, exotic holidays, you are less likely to feel the need to reach for a cheap chocolate bar to make you feel good.

You're right and I agree with that, but the theme of this thread seems to be "I'm poor and busy and don't have time to exercise so I have to be overweight, being thin is not available to me". And it's such a shame that we do live in this obseogenic environment that fosters and perpetuates this...

And that's why we shouldn't go along with it and it should be disputed and it needs to be repeated over and over again that processed food is not ok and you should not feed your children crap and 'everything in moderation' is a trap and a cop out that excuses everything.

They are on show like models and actors. Some of them see it as their job to be fit and healthy and a healthy weight.

I'm fed up with all these 'excuses' about being poor= being fat.

The truth is that there are many meals that are dirt cheap and healthy.
Pulses, beans, veg, can make a very tasty curry at a low cost.
Cheap cuts of meat can be made into stews.

People forget that in the 1930s and 40s there was no welfare support and yet most people were not overweight. The difference was they knew how to cook cheaply with whatever they could afford. My gran bought tripe, a sheep's head and pigs trotters, widowed in her 40s and brining up 2 kids in a council house.
Ok, these aren't in Aldi at the moment, but there are other cheap options.

It's not just poverty it's a lack of education and how to cook.

This really made me giggle! I think the likelihood of young(ish) royals like these ever having a sly tab is vanishingly small! They'll be well aware of the havoc smoking causes to the skin.

There's a major correlation between wealth and slimness. Time and money make you thinner. Even in my own (quite modest) life, I can see that having more time when my youngest went to nursery let me exercise a bit more and prepare healthy meals. Having more disposable income over the last few years has given me more to spend on easy, good food. And I'm less stressed so I don't reach for crisps so much.

I'd probably still have a tab or two though, if I thought the royals did! So funny.

They feel much more pressure being photographed on every event etc. Kate gains 4 pounds and everyone thinks she's pregnant. People were commenting in horrible way Eugenie being heavily pregnant, days before she gave birth. This gets to your head I think.

Don't ordinary eaters enjoy salad?

This exactly. There is no secret, apart from eat very little. On the whole we all eat far more than we need to and its spiralled. There is a big culture (esp in London) the slimmer you are, the richer, more successful you are (even if it just means successful socially!)

My gran bought tripe, a sheep's head and pigs trotters, widowed in her 40s and brining up 2 kids in a council house

Times are just so different though. Your gran probably didn't have access to a large supermarket full of sugar laden cheap food. She'd have had access to a butcher and green grocer. She probably spent a lot of time cooking. Now we have cheap, convenience food readily available

Oh yes I remember driving through Chelsea once and being struck at how the pavements were absolutely chokka full of people running. I used to work with a very posh incredibly thin woman. Every day she had lettuce with balsamic vinegar for lunch.

I read somewhere that King Charles likes preserved fruit with a little syrup for breakfast and avoids lunch.

Kate likes her feta & watermelon salads

I suppose it depends on the season, as they eat food in season.

But also rich women have more incentive to be thin. It helps them bag a rich, successful husband...if they already have one, they will want to keep him from straying. They will probably travel more and go on more holidays so will want to look good when on a beach. They will be able to spend more on fashion so will want to be able to fit into nice clothes.

I think it's more likely they know they are under intense scrutiny and eat accordingly. Having a chef is a red herring. Kate lives in a 4 bed house so staff won't be huge. Having a chef cook healthy meals wouldn't stop me grazing of biscuits and chocolate

Engine has spinal issues, so her minor disability means she is fatter than her sister Beatrice. You can eat like a bird as per Victoria Beckham, if you are disabled and can't exercise like her you will be fatter than her. Poor people can end up that way due to disability themselves or being carers.

Kate has always been active and if you look at her childhood pictures seems to have always had a poor appetite.

It's the luck of life and a strong will over priorities of appetite and exercise in your life. If you have not got that determination in you by 25 you will never have it. Too many diets blame you rather than their diet.

What is it that makes you think people have to starve themselves to be a normal weight?

This. I'm 5'8" size 10, single mum, 60yo, never been on a diet No chef or personal trainer either.

But I cook from scratch, lots of fresh fish, fruit & veg every day. I don't like sweets or processed puddings, biscuits, cake. I seldom drink alcohol. Am constantly busy.

That and lucky genes.

I think Beatrice works incredibly hard to look that way. Small portions and lots of exercise she was never really lean before

I wouldn’t underestimate how much childhood habits and socioeconomic background impacts adult looks - not just weight but teeth, facial features etc.

It’s not just that the Royals have time and lots of money and people to look after them now it’s that they always have. They’ve had exercise as part of their life from childhood (through school activities, horse riding that sort of thing….), have had the best healthcare, had dentistry and orthodontics, good diets etc etc.

They’re showing the results of a whole lifetime of being looked after and having good choices made for them or made available to them.

My mother had those stats, she starves herself and exercises lots to maintain her figure, she is very dull in her diet and discourse and that was also the case for my two anorexic friends, they all had to work hard at it. I did not enjoy being half starved by her in childhood, I was not allowed to eat all day for example if we were attending a family wedding starting at 3 so no food all day until 5, only water incase I bloated. It's a miserable way to live in my opinion, I would rather be fat than live like that again.

So true - the competition is fierce. I worked for a lady who tried everything. She was constantly dieting - saxenda and then a bariatric surgery ( she went privately ) which I do not even know how she got approved as she was slightly overweight
Kate definitely had premature wrinkles and diet face at one point- the fillers look fantastic very subtle

Beatrice has had access to the things money buys mentioned on this thread (a good diet, support staff, personal trainers, exercise equipment) her whole life.

I don’t doubt for a second that it’s no coincidence that her massive weight loss coincides with Ozempic, Wegovy, etc. becoming available as effective weight loss treatments.

My mother had those stats, she starves herself and exercises lots to maintain her figure, she is very dull in her diet and discourse and that was also the case for my two anorexic friends, they all had to work hard at it. I did not enjoy being half starved by her in childhood,

That sounds miserable. I'm sorry that happened to you. I definitely don't do that - too dull and too much like hard work. 😀

But to a large extent, it's still a choice to buy the "easy" option from the supermarket - butchers and green grocers still exist, most supermarkets even have their own!

They live in a four bed house on the Windsor estate, there's loads of staff quarters nearby, it would astonish me if they don't have a chef who comes in daily.