Victoria Beckham hasn’t eaten a refined carbohydrate in decades and openly admits she is ‘very, very disciplined’ with her food choices and rigid exercise routine
Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham is famous for her self-restriction, having followed an extreme diet and rigid exercise routine since her days in the girl band. The 49 year-old, now a prominent fashion designer who appeared at Paris Fashion Week last week, once confessed she is ‘very-very disciplined’ when it comes to food and exercise.
She admitted that this strict regime, which involves a two hour workout every single day, is important to her, saying: “That’s how I’m happiest. I expect a lot from my body.” She explained to the Guardian in 2019 that her daily routine begins with a bright and early start and a 7km run on the treadmill between 5:30 am and 6 am, which is a, “a mix of uphill fast walking, jogging, running,” and is the only time she watches TV.
The mum of four then takes some time to get her youngest child, 12 year-old Harper Seven, ready for school before launching into a gruelling hour long session with her personal trainer where she targets different areas of her body in turn.
She detailed the session, saying: “Thirty minutes legs, 30 minutes arms, toning and conditioning, then loads of planks and that kind of thing for my core. I work out every day when I’m at home. It’s part of who I am now, and I really enjoy it.”
The former singer lived with her husband footballer David Beckham and their children in Los Angeles, USA, for just over a decade but resettled back in the UK a few years ago, now residing in a £31 million town house in Holland Park, London. Back in 2016, famous celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck, who owns hundreds of restaurants across the world including one at the Hotel Bel-Air Los Angeles and Merois in West Hollywood, revealed that Victoria rarely deviates from her self-imposed rules.
The LA based chef regularly served Posh and Becks at his restaurant Cut located in Beverly Hills, sharing that Victoria’s usual order consisted of a bland plate of steamed vegetables and a portion of spinach topped with a pinch of salt. “David’s there with a steak and she’s there with vegetables,” he claimed to Heat Magazine.
Victoria excludes milk and cheese from her diet, but is a huge fan of avocados, eating three to four a day, telling the Telegraph that she “read that the key to glowing skin is consuming the right amount of fats.”
But while it sounds no fun, there is no denying that her diet includes a lot of healthy foods like fruit, vegetables, fish, green smoothies, sprouted grains, seeds and almond milk. The family even have a private chef at home who is able to cook meals for Victoria that fit in with her strict rules.
The star, who according to a close source hasn’t eaten a carb for decades, doesn’t even loosen the shackles on her birthday, opting for a cake that is made purely of fruit and includes precisely no real cake at all.
“When she says she hasn’t been near a carb – by which she means a refined one – in ages, she’s not joking. It’s a practically banned word for her,” the insider said.
“She loves edamame beans and steamed fish with veg for dinner, and hot tea with ginger for ‘snacks’’ She still swears by drinking apple cider vinegar each morning before breakfast, and then a green smoothie or scrambled eggs with smoked salmon.”
She apparently plans to let this slip only once, on her 50th birthday – which is next year.
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