Ok, so since I'm on a diet, body conscience kick with the celebrity coverage, I had to opine on Kate Middleton’s diet, wardrobe, hotness, etc.
I grew up in a family who’s women folk have always discussed two other families as though they live(d) down the block: the Kennedys and the Royals. The Kennedys seem to have moved away to a not-so-cool town, and we all stopped discussing them, when Andrew Cuomo divorced one about a decade ago. The divorce had nothing to do with our communal ditching of Kennedy discussions; it was simply around that time that it happened.
The Royals, on the other hand, continue to intrigue. Thanksgiving and Christmas gatherings are always filled with new nuggets of Fergy, Wills, Harry, Charles, Camilla, Kate and their goings on. From hideous hat incidents to stunts that are simply not done dear, this cast of characters (aka royal family) warm our hearts.
As the newest edition to the group, Kate Middleton offers much to discuss. She’s beautiful, slender and has a great stylist. Plus, she's (gasp!) a commoner just like us. We also know that we’ll have her around for a long, long time as maybe even one day a (gulp) queen!
Her big coming out was definitely her recent wedding to William, future King of England (natch). We learned about her jewelry, her clothing, her background, and her diet. While she claims that she forgets to eat sometimes, one wonders, how is that even possible when she has personal servants who schedule her meals for her?
Officially, she espouses a healthy diet and exercise. According to sources, she works out approximately 1 hour a day five days a week, which is really quite good and should help her stay healthy. She enjoys cycling, strength training, and running. Her body shows it (see pic above).
The net has been abuzz that to get super-slimmed down for her wedding, she tried the Dukan diet
, which her mom uses to watch her weight. So that you don’t need to read the entire book, the Dukan diet, which French folks swear by, consists of two phases, one allows you to only eat lean meat for a short period of time and the second encourages you to incorporate vegetables into the diet on a rotating basis, like every other day or five days on and five days off. It sounds mighty similar to the Atkins diet
, which many in the States have tried. As with the Atkins diet, and starvation discussed yesterday, the weight seems to creep back (plus some), once one steps away from the diet. So if you want to keep the weight off, you kind of need to stay on the diet indefinitely, which is hard on a number of levels, and may not even be healthy.Have any of you tried the Atkins
or Dukan diet? Have you kept the weight off long term?
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