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!

99% of women in the very wealthy neighbourhoods of London or any other major city are the same. It is either incredible discipline or competitive under-eating or plain old eating disorders, depending on your viewpoint

Yep but apparently they are all naturally thin.

Again, you don't need to starve yourself or eat dull food to be thin. I love food, eat too much of it! But I'm a size 10/12 and 5'7"

If we are being pedantic that's not thin. You are a healthy weight. Kate is not a size 12 is she? Beatrix won't be either.

I doubt they'd take the risk when they can afford to do it naturally. I heard those drugs cause muscle loss and you have to stay on them forever or regain the weight.

Agree. Most of my friends are slim (Iots are runners or triathletes) very few are as thin as Kate, Meghan or Beatrice. 2 of the slimmest ones have definitely had ED in the past and I know still are incredibly disciplined about eating and sport

Yes, threads like this always go the same way. Posters queuing up to tell us that they are thin and eat whatever they want therefore thin celebrities and royals do not have to do anything to be thin except not be gluttonous.

If you can afford high quality food then the majority of people can eat what they want and be slim as there isn't nutrient deficiencies driving them to eat too much, or addictive additives in their food.

I don't think this is true. If you eat too many calories then you put on weight. You can still get fat from artisan, organic ingredients. I cook from scratch...if I made a lasagna from organic beef mince, organic tomatoes picked straight from the vine, home made pasta and organic buffalo mozzarella and the finest olive oil...it would probably have more calories in it than a cheap ready made one from the supermarket.

Did B & E have the money though?

I think B just might be in a whole different league financially now with Edo (?)…& weight loss & big increase in clothes budget & hair/personal grooming allowance, diff league? She’s incentivised & living her best life.

Beatrice hasn't had a great change in her weight. She's always been slim, not quite as slim as she is now, I expect she's now working harder to be slim post baby. She's also found her style a bit more.

She often looked bigger because she wore clothes designed for a different shape. She's also MUCH shorter than Kate. But go back and look at pictures of her in say 2010, she was slim then too.

I don't think that there is anything to suggest she's suddenly discovered weightloss drugs.

@comedycook - I am really sorry if that was how my contribution came across. What I was trying to get across was that it's not that being thin takes no effort at all, I guess, but equally it doesn't have to suggest Olympic levels of self-discipline and a sense of constant deprival, even in slightly later life. I sometimes get comments to the effect that I must be 'lucky,' or have a fast metabolism, or (most often) that perhaps I have some sort of eating disorder. None of that is true. Or there's a suggestion that I am a bit shallow or vain by caring about being thin and putting that before the enjoyment of eating. Possibly - but the ironic thing here is that as I mentioned, MANY women worry about their weight on a daily basis, and I feel as though I think about this less than many other women I know. I very definitely do not think people who are not thin are gluttonous - I hope I know how complicated this is.

Same with very thin models. Every other poster says they look just like that- they are tall and naturally a size 4, without dieting....but actually they only like salad and lean meat anyway....
I know a friend who is naturally very slim her bmi is probably 17 or 18 and she does eat what she wants generally and does no exercise (not jealous at all!😉) but I would imagine majority of people would need to restrict food significantly to maintain a size 4 or 6, especially if they are tall.
I am a size 8 and not overweight but I'm substantially chunkier than any of the people mentioned.

To put that another way - sometimes being thin suggests to others a disordered approach to food and eating. My view is that my relationship with food is a lot more straightforward than friends, who are constantly on diets. Again, not intended to be smug. I am a complete lunatic in many other ways.

I was thinking about this again and I think:

There are some people who will always be slim - partly because of metabolism/genetics, partly psychological (not using food for comfort), good habits from childhood, a number of factors. Kate is probably in this category

Similarly, there are some people who will always struggle with their weight for the opposite reasons. Fergie is probably in this category

But most of us are in the middle and our environment does make a difference. I recently got a promotion and can afford a PT, that makes a huge difference to me. I also recently got more time to myself as my younger one started school and it gives me time to batch cook, make salads for the week etc. The combination of more money and time makes a difference to me for sure. I would guess Beatrice is in this category

No it's fine...I wasn't commenting on you personally. But just mentioning that there is a trend on here whereby lots of posters seem to insist they are the same size as Kate, yet never restrict food. Celebrities are the same...oh I'm always pigging out and never exercise and I'm just naturally like this. There will be the very rare person who is like this but most women who are very thin restrict food to some extent. Also let's not forget the camera adds pounds so a lot of these people will look much thinner in the flesh than they do in the magazines and on TV.

There was photos of Kate smoking, I don't know of she still does.

If you can afford it. Not everyone can.

She has and there is photographic evidence if you look.

I’m slim and I don’t eat what I want. If I did I’d be enormous. I practice what I now know people call ‘volume eating’ so large quantities of low cal food. I can eat vast amounts and I love pasta and cheese and wine, so I have to be really careful with those things and eat a lot of vegetables. There may come a point when I just give up on that and eat what I want.

Recently there was an article about Gwyneth Paltrow and she detailed what she ate in a day and it was basically coffee, broth and vegetables. And possibly iv vitamins

It was quite unusual for someone to admit that they eat very very little to maintain their figure.

Celebs are often using "being super busy" or "running after their children" as the reason for being extremely thin, (why aren't all non famous working mums a size 6 then?) when the real reasons will very likely be dieting/borderline eating disorders

The two slimmest people I know do not eat anything like a normal diet. They both drink black coffee, one smokes and they play with their food. A typical order is a caesar salad with no croutons and dressing on the side - in other words a bowl of lettuce and a black coffee.

I saw Joanna Lumley on the tv once and she admitted to not eating much!

I am friends with someone who is a bit of a socialite. She is actually a very nice person under the glamorous exterior. She doesn’t work and she and her husband support the arts and consequently she attends lots of concerts and gallery shows. She is very trim and very well turned out.

I’ve noticed when we eat out that she will take a few mouthfuls of the protein (usually chicken or salmon) and a few bites of salad and she leaves everything else! She never has dessert or a starter.

True. Apparently some people get really severe hunger pains (like me) and some just get a bit tired if they’re hungry (super skinny and fit husband)

Yes I think once you put on weight, the feeling of hunger becomes more acute. Partly because you have got used to eating larger quantities and partly because you don’t regulate your blood sugars as well so you get hunger dips in energy and become shaky. Well I do anyway!

Lily Allen is on record saying she’s abused ADHD meds in past & her weight goes up & down. Coke & amphetamines, ‘lipgloss & cigarettes’. In your 20s you can consume more for most part & won’t gain weight.

Appetite goes after a few days of not eating & you get a high.

Colonic irrigation to lose a ‘tummy’ pre event, as per Lady Diana. Sadly many 30 somethings are too familiar with laxatives.

Those freezing chamber things - celebs have built in house - 1-2 mins & 1,000 cals gone - whoosh. Some use after every meal & bingo, calorie neutral.

I much prefer it when celebrities are honest about what they eat.

I get really fed up of reading about celebrities who apparently love to pig out on takeaways and never work out and stay a size 4/6 by running round after their kids or taking the stairs rather than the lift. It creates such a skewed idea of things.