She’s famed for her love of sizzling bikini snaps.
And despite being in her seventh decade, Elizabeth Hurley has barely aged a day, still boasting an incredible figure and youthful glow now on her 61st birthday.
While many would assume that a Hollywood star like Liz would rely on a personal trainer and private chef to ensure she hit her diet and fitness goals, the reality is a far more old fashioned and simple hack.
Elizabeth has confessed that while she ‘always watched what I eat, since forever’, she considers her regime to be ‘very normal’, and says she doesn’t drink ‘weird green juices or anything like that’.
After learning about the difference between ultra-processed food and processed food in her 50s, Elizabeth ditched pre-packaged sandwiches in favour of food like roast chicken with mashed potatoes and vegetables.
The mother-of-one previously shared on Instagram: ‘My mantra is: don’t eat too much, too fast, too often or too late.
‘Or, put another way, eat smaller meals, chew properly, ban snacking and eat dinner earlier. This works for me.’
How to get a body like Elizabeth Hurley: We reveal the star’s ‘old fashioned and gym-free’ diet and fitness regime
Despite entering her seventh decade, Liz has barely aged a day, still boasting an incredible figure and youthful glow (pictured in her 2000 film Bedazzled)
Elizabeth continued: ‘I don’t drink weird green juices or shakes and only take supplements if a blood test tells me I’m lacking something.
‘I try to have vegetables or fruit equal half of every plate I eat – i.e. if I have a sandwich, I also eat an apple.
‘I eat pretty much everything but only have junk food as an absolute treat – and I count junk food as anything that contains any ingredient that I don’t have in my own kitchen, so that includes ‘diet’ and ‘low-fat’ everything, all ready meals, all bought sandwiches, cakes and biscuits and all sodas.
‘My best investment was a bread maker and I make a loaf a day. I also make cakes every weekend.’
Of course a healthy diet can only do so much, so Elizabeth also ensures she stays fit – but not by going to the gym.
Instead, she swears by Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis or NEAT exercises, as they have become known.
Despite its fancy name, NEAT exercises refer to the energy used to carry out any daily activity that isn’t a strict form of exercise.
Most activities that involve being on your feet are included, for example, cooking, carrying the shopping, gardening, playing with your children or even getting up and down for a tea break at work.
Elizabeth explained in her post: ‘Other than diet, my other advice is to move more.
‘I don’t go to the gym or do any set exercise but I’m extremely active. There endeth the sermon.’
Elizabeth previously revealed that she isn’t the only one who benefits from NEAT exercise, telling The Telegraph: ‘We have a rule in our house that no one’s allowed to put the TV on till 6pm, so nobody sits around until leading up to supper.
‘But I do a lot of gardening… that’s quite bendy-downy, picking stuff up!’
