Trump goes on crash diet to lose a stone swapping McDonald’s for ‘half bun’ burgers and ditching steak and ketchup for grilled fish
A person familiar with the president's diet change said vegetables 'have begun appearing on Trump's plate, though it's not clear how much of them he is eating'
PRESIDENT Donald Trump has ordered the White House chef to serve fish instead of his favourite steak and has switched to "half bun" burgers in an effort to battle the bulge, it has been reported.
The diet change has seen the president swap his fast food favourites for healthier alternatives to lose a stone under a diet and exercise plan rolled out in January.
In January, White House physician Ronnie Jackson said Trump, who is 6ft 3in and weighs 239 pounds, has not done exercise "as part of his routine".
But he said there was a joint effort with Ivanka and Melania Trump to improve his diet and introduce him to a workout plan.
And , White House chefs have been instructed to limit the fat and calories in the president's meals, including swapping his favourite ketchup-slathered, well-done steak for Dover sole.
A person familiar with his diet change also told CNN that vegetables "have begun appearing on his plate, though it's not clear how much of them he is eating".
But outside the White House, Trump chooses his own meals - a steak at Trump International Hotel, the buffet at his Mar-a-Lago resort, and a cheeseburger at his golf clubs in Florida and outside Washington.
However, a subtle change to his burger was noted at a recent lunch - it came with half the bun.
"I do that, too, sometimes... It's a good way to do it," Rudy Giuliani, the president's private lawyer, .
Since his diet and exercise plan has been revealed, the president has downplayed the prospects of a new workout plan.
He told: "See, a lot of people go to the gym and they'll work out for two hours and all.
"Then they get their new knees when they're 55 years old and they get their new hips and they do all those things. I don't have those problems... Like people get on a treadmill, I go play golf," he said.
Why is Trump so obsessed with fast food?
Mystery has always surrounded why the billionaire Donald Trump - dubbed the "Fast Food President" - tucks in to so much cheap fast food.
In February last year, it emerged that it may be down to Trump's germophobia as he mostly eats takeouts from chain restaurants because he believes them to be clean.
Speaking at a Republican town, Trump praised Wendy's and McDonald's for maintaining what he called "a certain standard".
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He said: "I like cleanliness and I think you're better off going there than maybe some place that you have no idea where the food is coming from."
In Michael Wolff's explosive book Fire and Fury, he also claimed the President eats cheeseburgers in bed while watching three TVs.
Wolff writes: "If he was not having his 6:30 dinner with Steve Bannon, then, more to his liking, he was in bed by that time with a cheeseburger, watching his three screens and making phone calls - the phone was his true contact point with the world - to a small group of friends, who charted his rising and falling levels of agitation through the evening and then compared notes with one another."
Why does Trump hate exercise?
It has previously been reported that Trump hates exercise as he sees it as a waste of finite energy and can lead to an early death.
The Washington Post‘s Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher wrote in their book, Trump Revealed, that he thought exercise permanently sapped him of energy.
They : "After college, after Trump mostly gave up his personal athletic interests, he came to view time spent playing sports as time wasted. Trump believed the human body was like a battery, with a finite amount of energy, which exercise only depleted. So he didn’t work out.
"When he learned that John O’Donnell, one of his top casino executives, was training for an Ironman triathlon, he admonished him, “You are going to die young because of this.”
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