Teach me how to be skinny like the rich women

[Anonymous]

Eggs for breakfast
Salad for lunch, dressing on the side - not carbs tossed in
Portion controlled dinner with the family - mostly protein and vegetables

Work out several times a week

[Anonymous]

Being skinny like that has fallen out of fashion hasn’t it?

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Anonymous wrote:So--it goes beyond being 'thin/skinny'. I am very athletic, fit and trim. But --I have muscles.

My mom and I talk about the 'WASP' bones. The waspy women we know (me in Georgetown), her growing up in Greenwich, CT have very tiny, petite bones---even if they are very tall. Their body frames are all very tiny. They have those pencil, skinny legs in their cigarette pants and teeny, tiny little wrists.

No matter how much I dieted, I could never be skinny-boned. We have peasant-stock body frames. Thick bones, large wrists and hands, big heads. BUT--we don't get hunched over with age, retain a youthful round face in older age, and those strong bones aren't brittle and we don't get hunched over or osteoporosis like a lot of that tiny wasp crowd.

So--babe, you are born with it. But, the good news, most men hate that skinny, bird look. My own husband despises it. He thinks they look like anorexic, smokers. Every time I drop a lot of weight, he tells me to eat. Women I would point out as attractive he thinks are too skinny or skeletor.

So you could starve yourself and get the bad bulimic breath a lot of them have and live on coffee, cocaine/Adderall and cigarettes or you could strive for a healthy, glowing, athletic look which might be more your natural type.

+1 I think that's right - it's like all these questions asking how you stay looking young, or how you get good skin. The answer is that you have the genes for it.

I grew up with a lot of those WASPy types. They just have tiny figures - even the tall ones. Some were very good athletes, too - tennis, running, lacrosse, whatever - and they stayed teeny. Me, all I have to do is look at someone doing a push up and my arms get bulky. Being that kind of rich skinny just wasn't happening for me - I'm short and I'm curvy, even when I am at my thinnest.

Yep. I come from a long line of "peasant stock" too. Strong and low to the ground, I always say my people were built for farming potatoes. I am thankful for my unlined face and muscular legs, but how I wish I could pull off a cigarette pant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Being skinny like that has fallen out of fashion hasn’t it?

not on dcum

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Anonymous wrote:It seems the higher up on the socioeconomic ladder you are the skinnier your wife is. We’re solidly middle class but i aspire to be as skinny, healthy and fit. What are your secrets?

You win = Dumbest post of the year award!

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I live an active lifestyle and eat healthy foods (though with a sweet tooth) but I have to be honest, it's genetic. I've simply never had a problem controlling my weight, have never craved large portions of food, and am thin boned. It's just the way I am built.

[Anonymous]

The ones I know don't eat dinner, just wine. Or eat breakfast, just coffee. I'm assuming they eat lunch I guess? One pool mom once told me she skips dinner so she gets drunk faster. She was dead serious.

[Anonymous]

As others have said, genes help. I have managed to stay slim throughout my life with basically no exercise. Now in my fifties I noticed the pounds creeping on. My strategy during the work week: coffee for breakfast and a handful of almonds (keep a big Costco bag in my work desk drawer); salad for lunch with a hard boiled egg and avocado for lunch plus fruit (berries) for dessert; maybe some more nuts or snack size mozzarella balls for snack; small dinner. Basically try to avoid avoid carbs. No bread, maybe a slice of WASA bread. No sugar. Drink water. This is during the work week. Weekends, I indulge in a Saturday morning bakery run. I’ll eat a full breakfast ... eggs, hash browns. I’ll have a glass of wine. If I go out, I’m not going to eat a salad... I’m going to have steak frites. So tl;dr ... moderation, cut carbs and sugar.

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Anonymous wrote:The ones I know don't eat dinner, just wine. Or eat breakfast, just coffee. I'm assuming they eat lunch I guess? One pool mom once told me she skips dinner so she gets drunk faster. She was dead serious.

I have a friend like this. She never eats dinner. I'm not sure I've ever seen her eat a full meal. She grabs a bite here and there while cooking for her kids, and that's it.

[Anonymous]

I am naturally skinny and everyone is suspicious of me. Mid-40s. I eat 3 meals a day, without fail. Mostly healthy and in moderation and then sometimes not. But I absolutely eat and more than a lot of people I know who aren't skinny. I exercise 1-2x a week, if I'm lucky. It's genes. Dumb luck. Unicorn.

As for most people, I do know a lot of skinny older woman who basically don't eat. So for many people, yes that's the strategy. Or they eat a semi-greasy breakfast sandwich in the morning, talk about it a lot, don't eat anything else all day because they're so "full" and then eat a bowl of cereal for dinner. I could not survive like that. They must feel like complete shit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Being skinny like that has fallen out of fashion hasn’t it?

What are you smokin?

Lol

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:La cocaina

Or adderall.

This. They're medicated.

[Anonymous]

Run. Run. Run. Obsessively run or workout or binge and purge. Or all of the above.

That, and I agree with the PPs who mentioned cigarettes, adderall, and other illicit drugs.

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There are plenty of fat wealthy women, they aren't all skinny.

Are you maybe talking specifically about gold diggers and trophy wives.

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My sister is a trophy wife, and must keep herself slim and young, even at 60. She had all the major cosmetic surgeries, some twice, if they sell it for aging skin she has owned it (this started at 30 which is a waste because 60 yrs does what 60 yrs does no matter what. Daily trainers and weekly massages in the home, conferring with other trophy types on the latest exercise regimen and other beauty issues. Spends hours getting ready to go out, even the grocery store. Special diets and never sitting down to eat. God gave her good looks but if he forgot something she just spent money to fill in. Her husband actually thinks all women do this. I was envious in our 30 and 40s but now realize how damn hard she has it.