Teach me how to be skinny like the rich women

[Anonymous]

Don’t eat. Fast all day. Decline lunch with friends and family.

[Anonymous]

I would say I'm 'UMC' by DCUM standards, not rich-rich, although I am thin. Similarly to some PPs I eat whatever I want, I just only have a nibble of it. If I want ice cream, I have a single spoon. If I want spaghetti I make it for the family and have a tiny portion, etc.

I barely eat until dinner, and when I do it is <400 calories, so something like a few egg whites and vegetables, low fat cottage cheese, fat free greek yogurt, or a sugar free chia pudding with berries, veggies and hummus, a protein bar.

For dinner I eat whatever my husband and children want, pasta and carbs included, but that makes up about 1/3 of my plate and the rest is steamed vegetables or salad with light dressing, and maybe extra protein. And I use salad-size plates, not dinner plates.

I exercise every single day for 45+ minutes, and do a long run of 90+ minutes once a week. No alcohol, lots of water, lots of black coffee.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’d rather look young than skinny. Super skinny women age like milk.

we're talking american skinny, not russian skinny here

What is Russian skinny? Skinnier than the rich women here?

I lived there for six years. Russian skinny is MUCH skinnier than American skinny: long, graceful bodies that are naturally quite thin, but the ones who marry oligarchs and minor business men diet to become even slimmer, and they take plastic surgery to a whole new level: the Botox is meant to be strong and visible, and they like their giant filled lips as big as possible, to the point that looked cartoonish to us. My dh once picked up ds at the international school and then announced that the oligarch wives who were waiting for their kids all looked like they were wearing those huge wax lips we used to get as kids around Halloween. Those women's bodies look great forever, but their faces age at a shocking rate, probably due to the fact that smoking is almost universal among them and they drink a lot. However, you also see a lot of normal (ie, poor) Russian women walking around the city, and many of them have enviable slim bodies (natural, but also enhanced by smoking). Of course there are plenty of fat Russian women too, but there does seem to be that naturally thin body type that is more common there. Russian men in general become chubby and drink a LOT, which is why they die so much sooner than Russian women, and also why Russian women who want to marry a man who isn't quite so much of an alcoholic as the drunk who smacked her mother around need to remain hot to compete over the relatively few good marriage prospects available.

Forget being a hot mom; I want to be an oligarch wife!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d rather look young than skinny. Super skinny women age like milk.

we're talking american skinny, not russian skinny here

What is Russian skinny? Skinnier than the rich women here?

I lived there for six years. Russian skinny is MUCH skinnier than American skinny: long, graceful bodies that are naturally quite thin, but the ones who marry oligarchs and minor business men diet to become even slimmer, and they take plastic surgery to a whole new level: the Botox is meant to be strong and visible, and they like their giant filled lips as big as possible, to the point that looked cartoonish to us. My dh once picked up ds at the international school and then announced that the oligarch wives who were waiting for their kids all looked like they were wearing those huge wax lips we used to get as kids around Halloween. Those women's bodies look great forever, but their faces age at a shocking rate, probably due to the fact that smoking is almost universal among them and they drink a lot. However, you also see a lot of normal (ie, poor) Russian women walking around the city, and many of them have enviable slim bodies (natural, but also enhanced by smoking). Of course there are plenty of fat Russian women too, but there does seem to be that naturally thin body type that is more common there. Russian men in general become chubby and drink a LOT, which is why they die so much sooner than Russian women, and also why Russian women who want to marry a man who isn't quite so much of an alcoholic as the drunk who smacked her mother around need to remain hot to compete over the relatively few good marriage prospects available.

Forget being a hot mom; I want to be an oligarch wife!!

NP. Yep, like this one https://instagram.com/lizalizonka?igshid=1hunrbvk0czef

What strikes me is that everyone in the comments oohing and aahing what a great figure she has. Rare commenters who gently suggest she has an ED get bashed fiercely.

I admit I check on her every once in a while to see if she is still pay...

[Anonymous]

PP here - 'okay', not 'pay'.

[Anonymous]

You don't have to be rich to be thin, you just have to eat less.

The cross over between rich and thin is self-control, determination, and motivation. These women know that certain actions equal certain outcomes, and they are willing to be uncomfortable (hungry all the time) to make that outcome a reality because it's important to how they perceive themselves and how the world perceives them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don't have to be rich to be thin, you just have to eat less.

The cross over between rich and thin is self-control, determination, and motivation. These women know that certain actions equal certain outcomes, and they are willing to be uncomfortable (hungry all the time) to make that outcome a reality because it's important to how they perceive themselves and how the world perceives them.

100% agree.

[Anonymous]

I think it also depends on what size your body naturally wants to be at if that makes sense. I’m naturally around size 6 and can stay there and eat fairly healthy and not be hungry. I’ve been a 4 and was always hungry, thinking about food choices etc and exercising a lot more. At this stage in my life I’m happy as a six. I still look pretty good in a swim suit but am so much happier.

[Anonymous]

I have money and I’m overweight and it makes me sad. I love food and I have a thyroid issue so losing weight is hard. At the end of the day though I’d rather feel free to go out to a fancy $$ restaurant and actually eat...

[Anonymous]

I know this really kills people, but some people are naturally thin and not starving all the time. Life is not fair.

But also, rich people have money and time to make healthier life choices. Easier access to high quality and healthy food, time to exercise.

And finally, it's the peer group. If it's normed to be thin, you're more likely to have some motivation to stay thin. Even your social opportunities surrounding food will be normed to have options to make healthy choices to stay thin. Your friends might socialize through exercise. It just becomes part of the lifestyle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of gin or vodka and cigarettes.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d rather look young than skinny. Super skinny women age like milk.

we're talking american skinny, not russian skinny here

What is Russian skinny? Skinnier than the rich women here?

I lived there for six years. Russian skinny is MUCH skinnier than American skinny: long, graceful bodies that are naturally quite thin, but the ones who marry oligarchs and minor business men diet to become even slimmer, and they take plastic surgery to a whole new level: the Botox is meant to be strong and visible, and they like their giant filled lips as big as possible, to the point that looked cartoonish to us. My dh once picked up ds at the international school and then announced that the oligarch wives who were waiting for their kids all looked like they were wearing those huge wax lips we used to get as kids around Halloween. Those women's bodies look great forever, but their faces age at a shocking rate, probably due to the fact that smoking is almost universal among them and they drink a lot. However, you also see a lot of normal (ie, poor) Russian women walking around the city, and many of them have enviable slim bodies (natural, but also enhanced by smoking). Of course there are plenty of fat Russian women too, but there does seem to be that naturally thin body type that is more common there. Russian men in general become chubby and drink a LOT, which is why they die so much sooner than Russian women, and also why Russian women who want to marry a man who isn't quite so much of an alcoholic as the drunk who smacked her mother around need to remain hot to compete over the relatively few good marriage prospects available.

Forget being a hot mom; I want to be an oligarch wife!!

NP. Yep, like this one https://instagram.com/lizalizonka?igshid=1hunrbvk0czef

What strikes me is that everyone in the comments oohing and aahing what a great figure she has. Rare commenters who gently suggest she has an ED get bashed fiercely.

I admit I check on her every once in a while to see if she is still pay...

That's a great figure? She looks like a scrawny child got breast augmentation. Shudder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know this really kills people, but some people are naturally thin and not starving all the time. Life is not fair.

But also, rich people have money and time to make healthier life choices. Easier access to high quality and healthy food, time to exercise.

And finally, it's the peer group. If it's normed to be thin, you're more likely to have some motivation to stay thin. Even your social opportunities surrounding food will be normed to have options to make healthy choices to stay thin. Your friends might socialize through exercise. It just becomes part of the lifestyle.

+1 to the first sentence. Just as with parenting outcomes, genetics plays a big role.
I'm not particularly rich, have never thought of dieting or cutting out carbs/ sugar, binge on my kids snacks from time to time, don't exercise often (maybe a neighborhood run once a week) but at 5'4 I've always been a size XS or 00.
My sisters are like me too.

[Anonymous]

So I am UMC; grew up UMC. Live in a UMC/UC neighborhood. Belong to Country Club that is more UMC than even usual. Kids are in privates that are mostly UMC/UC.

I dislike the sameness of these women. Not sure what they are doing but when I see one I do not want to interact with her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know this really kills people, but some people are naturally thin and not starving all the time. Life is not fair.

But also, rich people have money and time to make healthier life choices. Easier access to high quality and healthy food, time to exercise.

And finally, it's the peer group. If it's normed to be thin, you're more likely to have some motivation to stay thin. Even your social opportunities surrounding food will be normed to have options to make healthy choices to stay thin. Your friends might socialize through exercise. It just becomes part of the lifestyle.

They are the minority, and by naturally thin, what that actually means is naturally have a small appetite and a very low threshold for feeling full and satisfied. Everyone else that is thin has to make a conscious choice to eat less and not eat exactly what they want.