It's not easy to diet while married to a domestic goddess. But the multimillionaire husband of Nigella Lawson managed to lose
56 pounds by following a bizarre egg-only diet. He ate nine eggs a day and shed the weight. After he lost the weight, he converted to near vegetarianism.
In an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday's You magazine today, 48-year-old Ms Lawson says her husband's 'completely mad eggs, eggs and more eggs diet' now means that he is thinner than her.
But Mr Saatchi's bizarre diet is not recommended by nutritionists, who say the side effects could include bad breath, constipation and 'other gut problems'.
The egg-based options in Nigella's cookery books include Spanish omelette, Mexican scrambled eggs and even green eggs and ham.
But her husband preferred to opt out of thinking about food, sticking to plain boiled or scrambled.
'For nine months, he ate three eggs for breakfast, three eggs for lunch and three eggs for supper,' she reveals. 'The doctor said to me, "It's neck-and-neck whether Charles keels over or loses the weight first." But it was easier for him than engaging in the whole business of food.
'Being on diets is not the way to happiness but I know that if you get above a certain weight and you're not comfortable, then whatever people say – and I completely loved him and didn't need him to be thinner – you’re not happy with how you are.'
The new-look Mr Saatchi is now on a semi-vegetarian maintenance diet and Nigella says: 'I am a feeder, so I make sure I buy nice fruit or vegetables for him. I have to be part of it.'
No fruit or vegetables for nine months? That sounds awful. What about scurvy and vitamin deficiencies? Now he's gone vegetarian, but from the looks of the photo, he's still smoking. Nigella has also lost some weight, after she got a lot of grief about it from the press. They do look much better, but the egg-only diet sounds most unsafe.
