I’m greedier than slimline Samantha, says Cameron
HE has jogged in the park, sweated on cross-country runs and politely refused the bread basket.
But David Cameron’s efforts to trim his expanding waistline haven’t quite done the trick.
Yesterday the Prime Minister told how he struggles to control his appetite – especially while travelling Europe holding talks on EU reform.
Each stop of a tour of four cities last week was accompanied by a banquet – including a three-course breakfast topped off with a cheesecake in Warsaw with Polish prime minister Ewa Kopacz.
‘I try to go for a jog and play a bit of tennis but when you do these European tours there’s quite a lot of meals,’ he told ITV’s This Morning yesterday.
‘I was always brought up you have got to eat what’s in front of you. It’s not always a good idea… I think I had a three-course breakfast. I don’t normally have a three- course breakfast I can tell you.’ The Prime Minister admitted he was not ‘beach body ready’ after being asked about his wife Samantha, who was pictured looking svelte in a bikini on holiday in Ibiza last weekend. Mr Cameron said that he was ‘very lucky to have such a wonderful wife’.
‘She took the children off for a nice holiday while I was slogging around Europe trying to get this negotiation right. So I was a bit jealous I have to say,’ he said.
Speaking of his battle with his weight, he said: ‘I’m not as good as Samantha at controlling what goes in. I’m a bit greedier. She is very disciplined.
‘I’ve probably got some things to learn off her.’ It is thought that Mrs Cameron’s toned figure could be down to yoga, as she is said to do an hour of the exercise each morning before her children wake up.
Mr Cameron, who was pictured looking a little out of shape in Cornwall two years ago, once
‘I was a bit
jealous’
described himself as a ‘middle aged, slightly overweight jogger’.
His recent European trip began with a three-course ‘working lunch’ with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in the Hague on Thursday, followed by four courses including a lobster terrine that evening in Paris with French President Francois Hollande. After his breakfast in Warsaw on Friday he headed to Berlin, where he had another three-course lunch with German chancellor Angela Merkel.
In January Mr Cameron spoke of his latest attempt to shift the pounds, saying he was engaged in a ‘great patriotic struggle’ to slim down. He revealed his weakness was a snack in the middle of the day.