Teach me how to be skinny like the rich women

[Anonymous]

You go have the fat frozen off or sucked out, puke after meals and drink booze and diet soda to numb the stomach pangs.

[Anonymous]

I work and make a fair amount but my DH is a surgeon and makes big bucks. I stay thin mostly because I am a clean eater (mostly fish and loads of veggies everyday), I lift weights twice a week, yoga twice a week and I don't drink (although I occasionally have a glass if I'm cooking with wine or when out to dinner) but I do have an edible occasionally on the weekend.

My DH is surrounded all day by very attractive accomplished doctors, nurses, and administrators. I am pretty secure in my marriage, but I will own that my innate competitiveness with these other women is sometimes a driving factor.

[Anonymous]

"strong and low to the ground" I love you...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work and make a fair amount but my DH is a surgeon and makes big bucks. I stay thin mostly because I am a clean eater (mostly fish and loads of veggies everyday), I lift weights twice a week, yoga twice a week and I don't drink (although I occasionally have a glass if I'm cooking with wine or when out to dinner) but I do have an edible occasionally on the weekend.

My DH is surrounded all day by very attractive accomplished doctors, nurses, and administrators. I am pretty secure in my marriage, but I will own that my innate competitiveness with these other women is sometimes a driving factor.

How heavy do you lift?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The sheer terror of wealthy husband leaving is a great motivator.

And the idea of actually having to work and not being able to live off the child support payments after the alimony runs out.

[Anonymous]

So dumb to think that rich women are financially dependent on their spouses

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So dumb to think that rich women are financially dependent on their spouses

The young model-looking ones are. Even Vanessa Trump didn't leave her toad husband (at a very early age for a rich SAHM!) until her own mother inherited $50 million and then could easily afford to take care of Vanessa, her brood, and the lawyer's fees.

The not so good looking ones that inherited their own individual wealth and still managed to snap a wealthier spouse are rarer.

[Anonymous]

They are fat as often as the rest of us, but you only notice the skinny ones. It's like Asian women. There's tons of fat Asians but you only notice the skinny ones. The fat ones are either invisible to you, or don't get photographed as much. Generationally wealthy women don't give a fig what you think of how they ought to look.

[Anonymous]

As someone in recovery from anorexia, you have to keep in mind that you are looking at a short time in a person's life of weight fluctuations. Once you get down to let's say BMI of 16 or below, it is basically unsustainable - almost 100% of anorexia sufferers basically either (1) recovers and gains weight back to the middle of the bell curve of weight distribution, (2) transitions to bulimia (with the horrifying health problems that can cause) or (3) dies.

None of those options are particularly appealing. It's best not to get on that particular carousel at all if you can help it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone in recovery from anorexia, you have to keep in mind that you are looking at a short time in a person's life of weight fluctuations. Once you get down to let's say BMI of 16 or below, it is basically unsustainable - almost 100% of anorexia sufferers basically either (1) recovers and gains weight back to the middle of the bell curve of weight distribution, (2) transitions to bulimia (with the horrifying health problems that can cause) or (3) dies.

None of those options are particularly appealing. It's best not to get on that particular carousel at all if you can help it.

Never hospitalized for anorexia but had 2 severe eating disorder bouts, once as a teen then in my 20s. And both times I returned to the bell curve. I have the upper body of size 2 and the lower body of a 6 or 8. When I am lucky, a 4 or a 6. Have been working out for a month as the 8 was creeping to a 10 with my menopot. Also cut carbs, processed foods, and sugar from my diet as well as intermittent fast. Have dropped six pounds in 30 days. The next six will be hard and any after that are vanity. Probably won't happen but will be happy if I can get back to the size 6 I was for the last five years.

[Anonymous]

I eat whatever I want but have a relatively good/healthy diet. Don't smoke, drink alcohol or take drugs. Don't have a eating disorder.

My secret is I run 4-5 days a wk avg ~25-30 miles outside. After my run I do 150 pushups and 150 dips, like pushups except I am facing the sky. I also do yoga 2-3 times a week not in a class.

[Anonymous]

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.

This is me. My frame is tiny, tiny. I don’t work out other than walking but my daily life is very active. I’m rarely sedentary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Agree with you, that's sounds like way too much work. The battle gets harder the older you get.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Agree with you, that's sounds like way too much work. The battle gets harder the older you get.

I don't know. I did it the hard way and worked through high school and college, got my degrees, work full time, stress about retirement, etc. Sometimes I wish I had taken the easy road and found a sugar daddy. I'm thinking I would be happy working out 2-3 hours a day and pampering myself to make a man happy : )

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I eat whatever I want but have a relatively good/healthy diet. Don't smoke, drink alcohol or take drugs. Don't have a eating disorder.

My secret is I run 4-5 days a wk avg ~25-30 miles outside. After my run I do 150 pushups and 150 dips, like pushups except I am facing the sky. I also do yoga 2-3 times a week not in a class.

My DH who is retired sometimes goes with me. His family is old money and we have been together for over 30 yrs. I am his first and only wife. I am slim and still very pretty in my 50s. Also, very well educated with advanced degrees in my field. No work done or botox but I will when I need it.

I don't think my exercise routine is too much work and it is worth it because I am in excellent health. People in my family usually die from high blood pressure and/or diabetes neither of which I have. My internist is happy with my numbers When you get older it is much more than about looks.