Kate Beckinsale, the celebrated actress known for her roles in films like "Underworld" and "Pearl Harbor," has garnered attention not only for her acting prowess but also for her dedication to fitness and health. This article delves into Kate Beckinsale's weight loss, exploring her diet, workout routines, and her responses to concerns about her recent weight change.
Kate Beckinsale's Diet
Kate Beckinsale's diet is known to be fairly restrictive, focusing on whole, nutrient-rich foods. She actively cuts carbs and avoids processed sugar whenever she can, as these tend to leave her feeling bloated and sluggish. However, she doesn't eliminate carbs entirely.
Daily Meals
- Breakfast: Kate is a big fan of starting her day off with plenty of protein and fresh vegetables. When she's on the run, she might grab a green smoothie sweetened only with fresh fruit. When she has more time, she might have eggs with avocado toast.
- Lunch: For lunch, Kate likes to mix lean proteins and fresh veggies. Other options include mixed vegetable soup (again with in-season veg) or a salad with chicken breast or salmon.
- Dinner: For dinner, her favorite meals are incredibly simple. She loves to grill fresh fish, chicken breast, or turkey.
Snacks and Indulgences
Most of Kate’s snacks are low-carb and naturally low in calories. Along those same lines, Kate also avoids alcohol completely. Remember, drinking alcohol often means consuming TONS of carbs and sugar that your body really doesn’t need. Though Kate tries to satisfy her sweet tooth with fresh fruit, she’s no stranger to a little indulgence every now and then.
Kate Beckinsale's Workout Routine
Though Kate’s diet is incredibly healthy and focused on eating whole, nutrient-rich foods, the star knows that exercise is still important. When she’s shooting active roles like her role in the Underworld saga, she works out 4 to 5 times a week. These circuit routines are particularly tough and help Kate keep her heart rate up the entire time. During these workouts, she’ll do 3 sessions of cardio on the treadmill or elliptical. Those sessions are broken up with strength training exercises. It’s a lot like a HIIT routine, but you do need to be at a gym to make it work. Kate likes to keep things lithe and lean. This means she actively avoids exercises that overdevelop her muscles.
Morning Workouts
The Underworld film series star told WH that she's a morning exerciser. "I wake up, eat something, and go straight to the gym," she said. That's not all-she sometimes throw in two-a-days. "If I’m going to do cardio, I’ll do it later on in the day," she said.
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Workout Intensity
Some people like to chat or goof off before they start working out to ease into the whole thing-not Kate. Brad Siskind of Gunnar Peterson’s gym, said that the actress gets down to business ASAP. "The whole hour is work," he told WH.
Frequency
You'll find Kate working up a sweat (nearly) every day of the week with her trainer, Siskind. Before she hits the gym, she likes to eat some kind of protein, like chicken or eggs with grass-fed butter. The rest of the day she likes salads with radishes, Brussels sprouts, and safflower oil; salmon; and a handful of potato chips here and there. Because life is short.
Compound Exercises
Kate is big into compound exercises-that is, moves that work several parts at once. She kicks off her workouts with eight compound exercises that work two muscle groups at once, like biceps curls as she squats, or situps with combination punches.
Interval Training
After working through her compound exercises, Kate will do 90 to 120 seconds of a cardio interval, like rowing or the VersaClimber. She'll follow that up with her set of eight exercises again, but with heavier weights, bands, or faster reps. That all takes about 45 minutes.
Cardio
Kate tends to do a cardio interval at the end of her workouts. That can mean using a rubber Inertia Wave, or doing one-leg pushes on a curved SkillMill treadmill. She wraps up her workouts with a good stretch.
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Yoga
Kate is a huge fan of yoga. Kate sometimes goes out of town for filming, and she takes her workouts along with her. “You’ll find yourself in Bulgaria, and you don’t know anyone, and they’ll say, ‘Well, we have a trainer who’s available, and he’s literally called The Punisher,’” Kate told Women's Health. So, she packs yoga workouts recorded by Jessica James and Mandy Ingber. “I haven’t been injured while doing an action movie, and I think it’s partially from practicing yoga," she said.
Mini Trampoline
Kate told WH that she's "into trampolining"-calling it "the greatest thing." Kate likes to do LEKFit classes, which are streamed online. With LEKFit’s app, Kate can put her laptop on her counter and bounce on a trampoline in her kitchen. “It makes you feel kind of jolly!” she said.
Boxing
Kate shared an Instagram video in 2019 of herself punching a dummy in the face after doing an abs roll-up and roll-down. “Yippee ki yay, motherf*cker,” she hilariously captioned the post.
Tire Flips
Kate shared a super impressive video on Instagram in 2019 of herself flipping a tire at the gym. In the video, Kate flips a tire that's 150 pounds (not a typo), making it look like nothing. “Avail for farm work," she joked in the caption.
Core Work
Celebrity trainer Gunnar Peterson, who also works with Kate, told WH that the actress does fast-paced, total-body exercises with an emphasis on her core. A few core moves she likes? Supermans, pushups with shoulder taps, and bicycle crunches.
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Kate Beckinsale's Response to Weight Loss Concerns
Recently, Kate Beckinsale has addressed comments about her dramatic weight loss, hinting at going through something "deeply painful." In a since-deleted post on social media, she shared several photos of herself wearing bikinis that seemingly sparked a conversation in the comments about her appearance, per Page Six. "Yes I do. I'm going through one of the most deeply painful times of my life. The body keeps the score," she said, referencing the book The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk.
Social Media Interaction
After the Underworld star took to Instagram Tuesday to share photos of herself sporting a bikini. “Oh sweetheart, I honestly think you have a problem!!!” one person commented. “You don’t look good. I think you honestly need help,” the critic added. Beckinsale responded indirectly, explaining in the post's description that the photo does not represent her real condition, but is a brief moment of respite from the difficulties she is facing.
The actress fired back, “If it’s not a criticism, it’s a passive aggressive completely unnecessary opinion from someone I don’t know who knows nothing about my circumstances. While some fans expressed concern, one fan emphasized, “How about we stop talking about her weight because you don’t know what’s going on in her life. Another remarked, “always love and respect you, Kate.
Past Health Issues
Last year, the actress was hospitalized due to a hole in her stomach. She previously said her weight loss was due to her hospitalization and the death of her stepdad. Earlier in 2024, Beckinsale was hospitalized due to an unknown illness, which she later discovered was caused by a hole in her esophagus.
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