How do old wealthy women stay so skinny?

[Anonymous]

This thread describes my MIL. She has no dinner or wine for dinner. When she's getting crazy she'll have cheese and pear at dinner. Breakfast - yogurt. Lunch - maybe maybe not. When they visit us she talks about how she will be fasting the week she gets home. Also constant comments on what others are eating, including strangers, and the weight and size of others. So tiresome and judgmental

[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

(…)

[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

Let's don't forget that she was popping amphetamines non stop.

[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.

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.

Yes, we know, you post this all the time, and you are size 4 or 2? Are you that OP? As someone said, that size is not so, so skinny at all anymore. And you are 39, I was like you at 39, plus I could eat a whole box of sweets. Yes, I also eat on and off, and now at 49, the 10lbs won't go. Gained due to Lyme disease few years ago, even IF and eating nothing, nada. I will lose 5 and eat normal one day, and it is back. It is not the same, at 39, and at 60.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

(…)

[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

Let's don't forget that she was popping amphetamines non stop.

Right. That I don't know but if you say so.

However what else we are forgetting is that when someone has everyone to take care of everything from kids through cooking, cleaning, driving and even shopping for your clothing then the only purpose in life you have left is just to look beautiful and be fit. I tend to think that given this opportunity most of current stressed, stretched beyond imagination busy moms would have rather easy task to stay fit and skinny and beautiful on similar budget

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

(…)

[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.

Pretty weird you know the exact weight of BOTH your grandmothers. You might be the one obsessed with weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

(…)

[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

Let's don't forget that she was popping amphetamines non stop.

Right. That I don't know but if you say so.

However what else we are forgetting is that when someone has everyone to take care of everything from kids through cooking, cleaning, driving and even shopping for your clothing then the only purpose in life you have left is just to look beautiful and be fit. I tend to think that given this opportunity most of current stressed, stretched beyond imagination busy moms would have rather easy task to stay fit and skinny and beautiful on similar budget

I take care of all those things, am (still at 48) beautiful and fit, and my husband isn't rich. It is a combination of good genes, good choices and prioritizing my health and fitness consistently for 20+ years.

[Anonymous]

I knew an octogenarian skinny woman and she was very much a foodie. Always sitting at the kitchen table preparing the latest elaborate meal. My favorite was one day I arrived while she was in the middle of putting together an aspic. I mean, who makes aspics? I would bring her a box of gourmet cookies, very delicious homemade with a ton of calories, which she ate immediately and with pleasure. She sadly passed a few years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

Yes, we know, you post this all the time, and you are size 4 or 2? Are you that OP? As someone said, that size is not so, so skinny at all anymore. And you are 39, I was like you at 39, plus I could eat a whole box of sweets. Yes, I also eat on and off, and now at 49, the 10lbs won't go. Gained due to Lyme disease few years ago, even IF and eating nothing, nada. I will lose 5 and eat normal one day, and it is back. It is not the same, at 39, and at 60.

Maybe not, but my mom has been super thin her entire life and she doesn’t diet or fast either. I know it’s annoying to people, but some of us are just lucky.

[Anonymous]

I know the type you’re talking about, OP. In my experience, they’re usually relatively petite with those tiny little arms and legs. My grandmother was one. They eat like birds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I actually know a fair amount of plump very wealthy women. Many are what would be called frumpy.

Me too! People tend to notice the skinny, well put together ones. The frumpy plump ones just fade into the background like most older women.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know the type you’re talking about, OP. In my experience, they’re usually relatively petite with those tiny little arms and legs. My grandmother was one. They eat like birds.

And to add, I don’t think OP is talking about the usual size 2 or 4, which is thin but not skinny. These ladies are 00.

[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

(…)

[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

She was also a chain smoker, helped curb the appetite

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

Yes, we know, you post this all the time, and you are size 4 or 2? Are you that OP? As someone said, that size is not so, so skinny at all anymore. And you are 39, I was like you at 39, plus I could eat a whole box of sweets. Yes, I also eat on and off, and now at 49, the 10lbs won't go. Gained due to Lyme disease few years ago, even IF and eating nothing, nada. I will lose 5 and eat normal one day, and it is back. It is not the same, at 39, and at 60.

Maybe not, but my mom has been super thin her entire life and she doesn’t diet or fast either. I know it’s annoying to people, but some of us are just lucky.

Some, very few. But, I bet you if people actually paid attention, they would realize that those "skinny" people do not eat that much compared to majority of regular weight people. People just don't notice, which is fine, we are all generally paying attention and have our own truths. Maybe your mom can eat a cow a stay skinny, or maybe you just don't see that even if she eats a lot one day, but much less the next. Or she eats 5000 calories every day and has a thyroid problem. I have noticed that nobody notices when older women, especially in their family skip bread or the bun, or french fries. My niece is obese, she doesn't really pay that much attention to her skinny aunt's eating habits, or she does to bemoan the fact that I am skinny and ate so much!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

Yes, we know, you post this all the time, and you are size 4 or 2? Are you that OP? As someone said, that size is not so, so skinny at all anymore. And you are 39, I was like you at 39, plus I could eat a whole box of sweets. Yes, I also eat on and off, and now at 49, the 10lbs won't go. Gained due to Lyme disease few years ago, even IF and eating nothing, nada. I will lose 5 and eat normal one day, and it is back. It is not the same, at 39, and at 60.

https://lisawallerrogers.com/2010/01/11/jackie-kennedy-had-a-dr-feelgood/[url]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My mil only kept yogurt cups and fresh fruit in her refrigerator. If she wanted steak she had to get dress and go bye one or make reservations. No snacking whatsoever. Her final words, not kidding here, "I was never fat." My SIL was going to put that on her tombstone, she was that obsessed with thin.

Such a sad life goal. Women are beautiful at many sizes. It’s about being happy.

No, not really.