How do old wealthy women stay so skinny?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know where you're getting all this "skinny people don't eat" thing.

Lots of skinny people eat a LOT, they're just naturally thin. Maybe higher metabolisms is the answer.

This and not drinking calories.

yep. I often wonder why 20 year old college kids are plumb when they have those young, high metabolisms. Then I remembered how much I drank in my 20s.

I am working hard to take off 10 pounds in my 40s. HARD It used to melt away - a month of diet and exercise in my 30s and any excess weight was gone. So why was I always plumb in my 20s: BEER.

Also, I agree with pp that most women are ED-ish. Start up a conversation about weight and food and exercise with any group of women and then listen to the crazy. The amount of bandwidth we spend on this stuff is heartbreaking.

What is ED--ish?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My ILs keep no food in the house except Kashi, coffee, and skim milk. Their daily activity is going to the market where they buy exactly the amount of food they intend to eat for the day: one yogurt and an orange (MIL’s lunch), cottage cheese, a banana, 2 slices of roast turkey, one slice of cheese, 2 slices of bread (FIL’s lunch), 2 plain chicken breasts, fixings for a salad, and a vegetable to steam as a side (their dinner).

When they come to our house, they eat everything that is not nailed down, inhale an entire meal that I’d intended to use as leftovers another night, rummage through the pantry looking for more and routinely discuss how vacationing at our house is a treat. So they are pretty much just starving themselves in their own home. It’s awful to go there as they don’t adjust their habits at all so after traveling all day the first thing we have to do is go buy food because our small children will not survive on that diet! A typical serving size portioned out is 4 green beans per person.

Sounds like they are hungry and poor if they don't buy food for themselves or you, but eat everything you have when visiting your home.

Not in the least. They are very wealthy. They are cheap and don’t ever think of the needs of others.

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The wealthy old women come back to the era of Jackie O, and the diets that many mention sounds like taken straight from her life. The starvation, the one egg a day and few steam veggies now and then and some broiled chicken.. look it up. Even wealthy young women don't eat that way and are still skinny. The diet is more diverse and way more healthy.

Upper crust is not forgiving comes to weight. It is not in a good taste to be anything different then perfect and there is a huge pressure on you.

The fridge thing, it reflects the very basic needs for very basic foods. If you don't cook and don't eat then why bother with more stuff in the fridge?

It is pretty amusing how times changed. In the old days you wanted to be rich to have plenty of food and dress beautifully. Now when you are rich you need to starve and you need to wear clothes that shows the world that you don't care.. which you achieve by wearing very expensive artificially aged clothing.

[Anonymous]

There!..

Jackie Kennedy's strict diet of an egg for breakfast and cottage cheese for lunch recounted by her former assistant - who once walked in on the former first lady eating ice cream from the tub in the middle of the night

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[b]a boiled egg and tea in the morning, cottage cheese with fresh fruit for lunch, and a poached chicken breast or fish with a salad or steamed vegetables for dinner. Plain yogurt when I wanted a snack,


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4448962/Jackie-Kennedy-s-strict-diet-revealed-former-assistant.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There!..

Jackie Kennedy's strict diet of an egg for breakfast and cottage cheese for lunch recounted by her former assistant - who once walked in on the former first lady eating ice cream from the tub in the middle of the night

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[b]a boiled egg and tea in the morning, cottage cheese with fresh fruit for lunch, and a poached chicken breast or fish with a salad or steamed vegetables for dinner. Plain yogurt when I wanted a snack,


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4448962/Jackie-Kennedy-s-strict-diet-revealed-former-assistant.html

I think her attitude is/was common of women in previous generations. Both of my grandmothers had similar approaches. My dad’s mom was a blue blood and always ate like a bird. She would always boast that on her wedding day she weighed 98 pounds. My other grandmother worked hard to always weigh 130. I think it really was seen as some sort of deficiency to be chubby, and inexcusable to be fat, in their worlds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know where you're getting all this "skinny people don't eat" thing.

Lots of skinny people eat a LOT, they're just naturally thin. Maybe higher metabolisms is the answer.

This and not drinking calories.

yep. I often wonder why 20 year old college kids are plumb when they have those young, high metabolisms. Then I remembered how much I drank in my 20s.

I am working hard to take off 10 pounds in my 40s. HARD It used to melt away - a month of diet and exercise in my 30s and any excess weight was gone. So why was I always plumb in my 20s: BEER.

Also, I agree with pp that most women are ED-ish. Start up a conversation about weight and food and exercise with any group of women and then listen to the crazy. The amount of bandwidth we spend on this stuff is heartbreaking.

It’s PLUMP. Not plumb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just one way an older woman is skinny - she has enormous self restraint Every Day. Every Day. Now that I’m somewhat older and have a slower metabolism, I see even older women who are thin and admire their self restraint because I know how hard it is to maintain a healthy weight at an advanced age.

is it healthy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just one way an older woman is skinny - she has enormous self restraint Every Day. Every Day. Now that I’m somewhat older and have a slower metabolism, I see even older women who are thin and admire their self restraint because I know how hard it is to maintain a healthy weight at an advanced age.

is it healthy?

Is it healthy to be overweight?

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They don’t eat.

I would say they find joy in other things, but they aren’t a joyous bunch. I’m not in the DC area, but I’m around a wealthier crowd now. They aren’t much fun.
They aren’t pretty either. Just sort of thin and grim.

I’m fat right now. Not chubby. I’m fat. I’m sure these ladies are horrified by my rolls. I definitely have decided to prioritize my health this summer, and plan to lose weight, but if I had to choose- I choose fat and happy over whatever is happening with the thin and grim crowd.

[Anonymous]

My SIL is super waspy but in her twenties.

She is 5’6 but maybe 105lbs. She says she eats 600 calories a day. She works out hard every morning and eats maybe one small meal a day.

She is thin and gorgeous and fit. Clothes look amazing on her.

But she is very severe and not fun. She will have a bit or two of pizza or froesboccasiobally but nothing more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just one way an older woman is skinny - she has enormous self restraint Every Day. Every Day. Now that I’m somewhat older and have a slower metabolism, I see even older women who are thin and admire their self restraint because I know how hard it is to maintain a healthy weight at an advanced age.

is it healthy?

Is it healthy to be overweight?

A little bit, sure! Being super thin is for vanity purposes, not health.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know where you're getting all this "skinny people don't eat" thing.

Lots of skinny people eat a LOT, they're just naturally thin. Maybe higher metabolisms is the answer.

I’ve known many many slim or skinny women. Haven’t met one yet over the age of 30 that ate a lot. Not one not ever. There must be some out there somewhere.

[Anonymous]

Two options: They don’t eat or they don’t treat their diabetes (diabanorexic)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My SIL is super waspy but in her twenties.

She is 5’6 but maybe 105lbs. She says she eats 600 calories a day. She works out hard every morning and eats maybe one small meal a day.

She is thin and gorgeous and fit. Clothes look amazing on her.

But she is very severe and not fun. She will have a bit or two of pizza or froesboccasiobally but nothing more.

I doubt that she's fit. She's severely underweight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know where you're getting all this "skinny people don't eat" thing.

Lots of skinny people eat a LOT, they're just naturally thin. Maybe higher metabolisms is the answer.

I’ve known many many slim or skinny women. Haven’t met one yet over the age of 30 that ate a lot. Not one not ever. There must be some out there somewhere.

I am a skinny 39 who does not diet or eat the way Jackie O did. I eat bread, French fries, and pizza, sometimes in large quantities. But I don’t do this every day. I still eat other things though. It’s not binge/fast. I actually have a bad chick fil a habit - 2-3x a week for lunch or dinner.