Rich women how do you stay skinny?

[Anonymous]

^^ to add, I didn’t formally exercise at all for 8 yrs because I was overwhelmed with young children. But I was able to maintain a heathy weight by keeping my diet heathy and smaller portions.

So, exercise isn’t essential to being thin, but it makes it easier to be thin and you get much better muscle tone. Plus it is good for your heart and bones

[Anonymous]

Do you mean thin or fit or skinny? Because they are not synonymous. I can maintain thin and fit with some of the above, but "skinny" requires more and healthy lifestyle and exercise doesn't cut it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I exercise hard- great for muscles and a huge metabolism boost. And I don’t mean phoning it in on an elliptical or barre class.

I eat a pretty big breakfast, light lunch (salad with roasted vegetables and some fruit or yogurt, even lighter dinner (maybe just a small piece of fish or half a chicken breast).

I have a little dark chocolate daily. It really lifts my mood.

If I’m going to have something unhealthy, I take a very small portion. Kids size ice cream, a couple bites of a birthday cake slice, only 1 small piece of pizza.

I weigh myself daily. I really think that this is a key point to not gaining weight. If I start to creep up more than a few pounds I dial back my food amount.

I fully agree with this poster’s comment about exercising hard. It may sound silly, but I once read this phrase “Sweat is your fat crying”. I really think you need to be truly exerting yourself when doing cardio to get any significant benefit. If I’m not sweating and out of breath, I need to up the intensity or go longer. HIIT workouts are excellent. I use the Peloton app and there are so many good workouts on there. I have my own bike and treadmill, just pay $13 or so monthly for the app.

[Anonymous]

I've been skinny and I've been fat. I didn't need much food when I was skinny. I got full fast since my stomach had shrunk. I had simply lost my appetite and also did physically hard work. My appetite disappeared like it disappears when we are sick.
I have several skinny friends and you never see them eat. They are just not that hungry. I'm hungry at my current weight. It would take me a lot to shrink the stomach again and get to a point when I'm simply not hungry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I notice that rich women of all ages are skinny and fit. Even as they get older.

How do you do this?

I pay someone else to eat all my food, and I watch them eat.

[Anonymous]

Can we stop using skinny to mean thin ? Skinny is not desirable and not a compliment. It’s the equivalent of calling people fat.

[Anonymous]

I’m rich and skinny but I am the breadwinner in the household so probably not the type of person you are after. Regardless, I workout hard - did CrossFit for 8 years but have now toned it down and do more of a mix of very heavy weights and HIIT. I eat three meals a day and drink alcohol. Besides working out very hard, I don’t snack and avoid sugar as much as possible. I’ve been eating like this for 15 years since I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes in pregnancy.

Im 48 so think it might catch up with me once I hit menopause.

[Anonymous]

Just do what my WASP family has done for generations. No breakfast, hearty lunch, and a double martini at night. The latter should kill all appetite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I exercise hard- great for muscles and a huge metabolism boost. And I don’t mean phoning it in on an elliptical or barre class.

I eat a pretty big breakfast, light lunch (salad with roasted vegetables and some fruit or yogurt, even lighter dinner (maybe just a small piece of fish or half a chicken breast).

I have a little dark chocolate daily. It really lifts my mood.

If I’m going to have something unhealthy, I take a very small portion. Kids size ice cream, a couple bites of a birthday cake slice, only 1 small piece of pizza.

I weigh myself daily. I really think that this is a key point to not gaining weight. If I start to creep up more than a few pounds I dial back my food amount.

If it were this difficult for me to be thin, I would not be thin.

But I will say this - and sorry if it’s unpopular.

I am not sure ‘rich’ but I’m well off and I grew up well off.

I learned portion control at a VERY early age - not bc my mom would yell at me bc I’d get fat, but just bc it was proper and appropriate. It sort of goes along with self control and delayed gratification generally.

So even though I don’t exercise much, I am still thin bc I exercise portion control naturally now (later 30s). My mom is the same - just eat what is an actual healthy amount, NOT American sized portions.

I also think it helps that (1) I exercised like crazy until I was 22 (bc it was my extra curricular) and (2) I was never overweight as a child or teen so the fat cells didn’t develop then.

If you were ever overweight, you are going to fall back into being overweight easily. If you never were overweight, much easier to stay that way.

[Anonymous]

Not super skinny, size 2-4.

1. Portion control. No liquid calories, rarely eat out.

I eat pasta, bread, some sweets, even pizza occasionally, etc... 3 meals a day.
I find "restricting" agonizing but I try to avoid added sugar since it's not particularly healthy.
But I see no reason to avoid carbs.

2. Walk 45/min a day.

Can get to 0-2 with more discipline and exercise but it's just not worth the trouble at this point. I grew up as a runner but lost my touch after an injury. Never figured out what to do instead. Walking is great for maintenance though.

[Anonymous]

I think when you can have it all the desire to over eat diminishes. Also the food is very satisfying when you can just decide what sounds good in the moment and have that. You never look at prices on a menu! I also think they have full fat and richer foods just in very small portions which is satisfying (rather than cool whip it’s grass fed buttercream). Also, when you’re socializing you barely eat, too much to talk about. No one eats at fancy cocktail parties even though there’s passed heavy hors d’oeuvres.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think when you can have it all the desire to over eat diminishes. Also the food is very satisfying when you can just decide what sounds good in the moment and have that. You never look at prices on a menu! I also think they have full fat and richer foods just in very small portions which is satisfying (rather than cool whip it’s grass fed buttercream). Also, when you’re socializing you barely eat, too much to talk about. No one eats at fancy cocktail parties even though there’s passed heavy hors d’oeuvres.

Doesn't every mom tell their daughter to always eat a meal before going to a cocktail party?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we stop using skinny to mean thin ? Skinny is not desirable and not a compliment. It’s the equivalent of calling people fat.

Nope it's really not. We don't have an equivalent for fat calling and making people feel ashamed bc they are farm even people who get picked on for being scrawny, for the most part they understand that it's still better than being the fat kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not super skinny, size 2-4.

1. Portion control. No liquid calories, rarely eat out.

I eat pasta, bread, some sweets, even pizza occasionally, etc... 3 meals a day.
I find "restricting" agonizing but I try to avoid added sugar since it's not particularly healthy.
But I see no reason to avoid carbs.

2. Walk 45/min a day.

Can get to 0-2 with more discipline and exercise but it's just not worth the trouble at this point. I grew up as a runner but lost my touch after an injury. Never figured out what to do instead. Walking is great for maintenance though.

I don't feel like most wealthy people rarely eat out though. That's a tricky part

[Anonymous]

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