How do old wealthy women stay so skinny?

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Why all the hard boiled eggs?

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Anonymous wrote:Why all the hard boiled eggs?

I'm one of the PPs whose MIL fits the description. She used to follow "the stewardess diet" religiously. I've never been able to find a print copy of it to verify this, but apparently hard boiled eggs were a staple. Also, eggs are cheap, last a long time, and are relatively filling.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread proved to me that I will not grow to be a skinny old woman.

Haha, same.

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Anonymous wrote:Social pressure. Status symbol.

The rest of us eat too much because it’s an affordable form of entertainment and stress relief.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Have we already talked about old white wealthy women and cottage cheese? A scoop of cottage cheese & a half a grapefruit was my grandma's daily lunch ration.

Last time I visited my sister, I saw cottage cheese in her fridge!! She's on that train now. White women keep the cottage cheese industry going. Very economical.

I am not old or wealthy but I love cottage cheese with sour cream and salt. So maybe don't worry about your sister. Unless cottages cheese is the only item in her fridge

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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.

Are your ILs doing ok with money? I totally get that their eating habits are a generational thing, but just wondering if they are concerned with finances, to your knowledge. (They seem ok, btw, but how would I know.)

no no no.. you don't get it PP.. one of the reasons why those ladies are so wealthy is that they don't spend money on food!
Marrying rich is one thing, maintaining wealth is another!
Imagine.. if a non wealthy woman spends 20 bucks a day on food.. and a skinny old wealthy lady spends 7 bucks.. that is savings of 13 bucks!
now calculate it in a lifetime?..
1 day - saved 13 bucks
10 days - saved 130 bucks
30 days = month - saved 390 bucks.. so that is almost 400 bucks a month for the sake of our calculation 12 months - 400
One year 12 months x 400 bucks = circa 5000 bucks..
So there.. it is 5K savings a year!

10 years - 50K
20 = 100K
30 = 150K
40= 200K
45= 250K

so you see?.. you can have a house for that in a lifetime!
Next time you see a skinny wealthy lady, bow in amazement, she is not only skinny, but she is a gigantic money saver!

If you factor compound interest that figure would be in the millions.

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Anonymous wrote:Why all the hard boiled eggs?

I think eggs are zero points in weight watchers now.
So they would really help you stay on points.

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Anonymous wrote:What women do you consider wealthy if they have no food or they only eat can of tuna

Kale. Arugula and kale.

Kale is really cheap.