From Hollywood A-listers like Jennifer Aniston and Nicole Kidman to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, intermittent fasting seems to be the diet du jour.
And now Linda Lusardi has credited the controversial eating trend with keeping her trim and toned as she approaches her 66th birthday.
The former glamour model said she doesn’t restrict what she eats, nor does she go to the gym, but she doesn’t let a morsel of food pass her lips before 1pm every day.
Linda said that she only eats when she’s hungry and can sometimes stretch until 3pm before she has some food and never has anything past 10pm.
‘I’m an advocate of intermittent fasting – I don’t normally eat until 1pm each day and I stop by 10pm, so you have a good period where your body can process the food,’ she told Best magazine.
Linda Lusardi, 65, has revealed her secret to staying slim doesn’t include any ‘diet or gym’ but she admitted she ‘never eats before 1pm’ (pictured left in May and right in 1982)
‘It quite suits me as I’m not very good at giving things up, I like a glass of prosecco and an Indian or a Chinese [takeaway].
‘And I only eat when I’m hungry – some days I go until two or three o’clock.’
She said she makes sure she has plenty of ‘fruit and vegetables,’ lots of ‘fish’ and only eats meat once a week ‘with a Sunday dinner.’
Linda, who has two children Lucy, 28, and Jack, 25, with actor husband Samuel Kane, said that she had not had any plastic surgery but regularly has ‘tweakments’ to maintain her youthful appearance.
‘I have ‘tweakments’, not surgeries or anything,’ she said.
‘At the moment I’m having a thing called NeoGen [a skin treatment which uses Nitrogen to stimulate the skin] on my face, neck and chest.
‘It only takes half an hour, and you maybe have a reddish face for a day after, but nothing else.
‘It gives you plumper, more refined skin and gets rid of blemishes as well. I think the poster girl for it is Shirley Ballas, who also has it.’
‘I’m an advocate of intermittent fasting – I don’t normally eat until 1pm each day and I stop by 10pm, so you have a good period where your body can process the food,’ she told Best magazine
Linda, who has two children Lucy, 28, and Jack, 25, with actor husband Samuel Kane, said that she had not had any plastic surgery but regularly has ‘tweakments’ to maintain her youthful appearance
She said that, while she is ‘not a gym person’, she ‘doesn’t stop’ and is constantly doing heavy lifting around the house as they undergo renovations.
‘We’re doing renovations in my house at the moment, most of it ourselves, so I’m always lifting things and doing things,’ she said.
‘I get my exercise that way. And we take my son’s girlfriend’s little chihuahua for walks. I’m a very active person.’
Ms Lusardi said she was ‘looking forward’ to getting her state pension when she turns 66 in September after ‘all those years of paying in.’
She said she doesn’t feel her age, but believes pensioners are not ‘how they used to be’ as ‘we are healthier, we keep ourselves in shape.’
Proponents of intermittent fasting claim it is a healthy way to boost energy and shed fat from the body, with Dr Michael Mosley, the late Mail health guru, one such advocate.
Celebrities including Coldplay’s Chris Martin and Bruce Springsteen are among those who practise an extreme form of intermittent fasting, which involves eating just one meal a day.
Linda pictured on a modelling shoot back in 1986
