Why is it that a vastly rich and intelligent man who is married to a divine Domestic Goddess chooses to live on nine eggs a day to lose weight?
If Charles Saatchi doesn’t know how to eat a balanced diet when he has a personal master chef at hand, what example is that setting for others with a food problem?
I often wish I was half a stone lighter, but there is no way I could forsake my delicious meals and starve myself. It surely makes sense to just eat less and exercise more when clothes begin to fit tightly.
This madcap egg diet is not 
the best advertisement for Nigella’s culinary skills either, of which I am a great fan. Why couldn’t he eat steamed fish and broccoli like other slimmers?
I am relieved to hear that having now lost five stone, Saatchi is giving up his egg diet which nutritionists have warned could raise cholesterol and damage the liver and kidneys.
I can’t understand why Nigella allowed him to go on an unhealthy egg diet in the first place. Why didn’t she devise a scrummy healthy eating programme – and then turn it into a sensational best seller?
Saatchi doesn’t look as if he is bursting with good health and vitality with this slumped posture in his slimline pic anyway.
He’s probably thinking, as Wallis Simpson once said, "you can never be too rich or too thin."
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I’d hate to see his cholesterol count.
Steamed fish and broccoli. Yummy.
I know if I had a gorgeous wife like Nigella, I’d want to eat the dishes she can cook, not nine eggs.
Eat less, more healthily an excersize more is the way to go!
Why does he live on 9 eggs a day ?
’cause 10 would be disgusting !
I’ve never forgiven Nigella for a cheap and nasty gag she once made about British troops in WW1 trenches – this was done on prime-time TV and I don’t know how she got away with it.
I can only guess that it was because the veterans were too innocent to know what she was getting at.
I hope Charles’ farts were unbearable for her.
Alas Elle,
hard to make yummy scrummy food that doesn’t add the pounds. Ask Nigella – lol
Though her father is barely a shadow of his old self.
However if it is any consolation, and you are not fond of steamed fish or broccoli – it is worth noting that vegetarians are rarely obese. And not because they do not eat or go hungry.
I mean go to George Harrison’s old Manor, the Krsna Vaktidaventa Manor in Hertfordshire, and indulge in gorgeous vegetarian delights to your heart’ content.
ok, ok some older indian women may have wider midriffs, but that could be partly because of repeated chilbirth, and most probably too much butter and/or ghee. But not because of eating too much rice and or begetables, and not because of eating too many sweets – sugar tends to rot teeth, but not pile on the pounds.
9 eggs a day? Is that the latest fad diet?
I’m sure Nigella did not condone it but she cannot allow or disallow what he does. Looks like she could lose a few pounds herself and she should try the fish and broccoli.
He was probably guided by Nigel Lawson
And he’ll put all the weight back on when he goes back to his normal eating!
Do you know the saying, “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.”??? She may have been sitting there just shaking her head!
Paaaarp !
You are bound to lose weight on such a small quantity of food… its not many calories and its bound to be horrible after a few days..
I think I could quite happily subsist on just cheese every day (well, maybe a little – well, big – of red wine to wash it down). But eggs? Dear me!
I think though that some people need to feel that they are on a mission when they are dealing with weightloss – that they are enduring something on the way to doing it. I can kind of identify with that. I don’t have a weight problem despite the quantity of cheese that I eat, but last year when I felt a lot glum I did go in for a rather radical eating plan and it helped funnily enough. It was good to focus my mind on sticking to that – a discipline thing,it was black and white, no fuzziness to which I could succumb.
But no, diets don’t work for weightloss. You have to change your lifestyle and exercise is very definitely the key.
Crikey he looks dreadful. I’m amazed he hasn’t died of cholesterol poisoning.
eggs are amazingly filling and keep you feeling full for ages.. you can eat lots of them on the slimming world plan…but just nine eggs on there own a day must be awful 🙁
Hmm perhaps it was less of a diet and more a bit of performance art for his lousy-art gallery….
I agree with Sally, eggs are an excellent part of a diet program for their protein, good fats and how they keep you full but NINE eggs is just ridiculous.