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Bella Hadid, Victoria Beckham and Jennifer Aniston ate the same meal every day. Could you do the same to lose weight?

  • It may sound boring, but having the same foods every day might help you reach your health goals, experts say, but you must include all the important food groups
  • Hongkonger Tom Ma shed nearly 5kg in three months having rotisserie chicken every weekday

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Having the same foods every day just might help you reach your health goals, say experts. One Hongkonger, Tom Ma, does this by eating chicken every day.

In February, retired English football player David Beckham revealed that his wife, fashion designer Victoria Beckham, has eaten the same meal every day for 25 years.

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“Since I met her, she only eats grilled fish, steamed vegetables, she will very rarely deviate from that,” he said on the River Café Table 4 podcast, on which chef Ruthie Rogers – co-founder of London’s famous River Café – talks to celebrities about food.

The former Spice Girl isn’t the only famous Brit with a routine diet. On most days, Queen Elizabeth is said to eat cereal and fruit for breakfast, and fish with vegetables or grilled chicken and salad for lunch.

Actress Jennifer Aniston ate the same lunch every day while on the Friends set, according to her co-star Courteney Cox.

“It was a Cobb salad … with turkey bacon and garbanzo beans … [If] you’re going to eat the same salad every day for 10 years, it’d better be a good salad,” Cox was quoted as saying in a 2010 interview with the Los Angeles Times.

Bella Hadid’s daily go-to meal – a grilled cheese sandwich and fries.
Bella Hadid’s daily go-to meal – a grilled cheese sandwich and fries.
And in December 2016, supermodel Bella Hadid uploaded a photo of a grilled cheese sandwich and French fries to Snapchat, with the caption, “My meal everyday [sic]”.
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