{"id":1012,"date":"2011-01-10T15:05:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T15:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2016-07-01T19:44:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T18:44:10","slug":"victoria-beckham-expecting-a-baby-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/2011\/01\/victoria-beckham-expecting-a-baby-david\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Beckham expecting a baby (& David!)"},"content":{"rendered":"
As someone working exclusively in the world of obesity, diets and weight loss, I confess that Victoria Beckham (aka Posh Spice) fascinates me. Other than Nicole Richie, it is difficult to think of someone who has stayed so skinny for so long.\u00a0 Having personal experience of the misery caused by low calories diets, I have huge sympathy for Victoria – no wonder she always looks tired and is never seen smiling.<\/p>\n
Born on 17 April 1974, while Victoria’s height and weight are not public knowledge, the general consensus is that her height is 5’4″ and her weight is no more than 7 stone. If her height is 5’4″ and her weight is 7 stone, this would give her a (Body Mass Index) BMI of 16.8 – underweight – and well below the BMI of 18-19 that doctors try to help anorexics to reach while hospitalised (18.5-24.9 is considered a healthy range for one’s BMI). The on line site, handbag.com<\/a>, (page 2) even suggests that Victoria’s BMI could be as low as 15.3 – this would almost meet immediate hospitalisation guidelines if this were discovered in a young anorexic.<\/p>\n One doesn’t need to know the precise BMI to know that Victoria is underweight. Pictures show the characteristic lolly pop head on the lolly pop stick body<\/a>; the scrawny neck<\/a> and the jutting collar bones and visible rib <\/a>cage. I was personally very surprised to hear that Victoria was expecting another baby, as I would have put money on the fact that she was too low a body weight and too low in body fat to conceive. She may still be too low in both to have an optimally healthy baby.<\/p>\n What does Victoria eat?<\/strong><\/p>\n Again – one can not know this for sure. David Beckham probably doesn’t know this fully, as their work lives often keep them apart. In an interview in The Sun<\/a> the reporter noted that Victoria ate gilled fish and salad, water and peppermint tea but that she was trying to allow herself toast carbs for breakfast (but also trying to run 4 miles every day). Other on line reports are that Victoria eats strawberries, salad, fish, sushi and you won’t find much else mentioned.<\/p>\n I would expect that Victoria managed to get to an unnaturally low weight by following a very low calorie diet and that she has now ‘reached equilibrium’ at this very low calorie intake. She may be trying to live on 500-1,000 calories a day. The calorie theory (the myth that we will lose 1lb of fat for every 3,500 calorie deficit we create) can be proven wrong by Victoria alone – she should still be losing 1-2lbs a week every week at this incredibly low intake and yet she looks like she stopped losing some time ago – but she now needs to stick to this very low calorie intake to avoid regaining to a more natural\/healthy weight.<\/p>\n Victoria caused quite a stir when she was seen carrying the book Skinny Bitch<\/a>. This book is vulgar, aggressive and extremely unpleasant to read and has been called The Vegan Bible. The book is in favour of fruit, whole grains – carbs basically and is against animal products of any kind. Unfortunately for the now expecting Victoria, it is an inescapable nutritional fact that the most nutritious foods on the planet come from animal sources. Nuts and seeds are the most nutritious non<\/em>-animal products, but dieters often shun these anyway due to their fat and calorie content.<\/p>\n