Teach me how to be skinny like the rich women

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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 : )

Saaaame here

[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.

150 push-ups?! Wow, you are in phenomenal shape. I have a hard time doing 25 (...and I'm actually in decentish shape myself)!

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I don't exercise nearly enough, but I'm careful about what I eat: nothing between dinner and breakfast but water or tea, small portions, minimal sugars, carbs or alcohol. As someone else mentioned, eventually eating more or eating sweets or carb-heavy meals just doesn't feel good.

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Anonymous wrote:Every time you want to eat while at home watch a clip from my 600 lb life as a deterrent

I admit I have done this. I also sometimes watch hoarders to scare me into keeping a cleaner house.

Doesn't work for me. I have to watch skinny super models instead. I have been skinny, but not super model skinny and I remember how good it feels, but to answer OP's question, I stopped eating. After awhile my stomach shrunk and I ate only 25% of regular dinner. My work is all about walking, so I literally walked back-and forth ca 12 hours and all the weight came off.
Have to agree wit the cocaine. One sniff doesn't make you high, but makes you nauseated when you think about food. Why haven't they made a lollipop of sort that kill you appetite in a second?
I have bad genes and absolutely need to stay away from sugar and white bread. Not easy to do.
Anyhow, you have to suffer through the time til your stomach shrinks. Eat, but eat less and eat good food- apples, asparagus, watermelon, cucumbers,celery.

12 hour shifts? I hope you are not a nurse.

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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.

Sounds like you are some sort of cousin of mine. (especially since you mention potatoes, my ancestor's main food source just prior to the potato famine)

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Cut gluten and dairy from your diet 100%.

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I feel like even the middle class can afford fresh, healthy foods. We're not talking Section 8 here people.

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The fact that most rich women are skinny is self-selecting. Rich men typically marry attractive, thin women, who pass down the thin genes to their children. Self-made women achieve success because they are hard-working and disciplined, traits that tend to translate to a healthy lifestyle and make them more likely to watch what they eat and exercise.

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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 : )

Saaaame here

Well, at least you won't have to worry about being a post menopausal "hottie" - trying in vain to keep your 65 year old body looking taunt and pert. You have control of your own retirement, your own health insurance, etc. You get to decide whether and where you go on vacation or where you will live in your old age.

I would hate, hate, hate to be a trophy wife. It might be all well and good when you're 35 but trying to maintain that trophy status at 50+ would suck big time. All the botox, lipo, fillers, hair extensions, boob jobs, plastic surgery......no thanks.

I'll take fat, frumpy but satisfied over that any day of the week.

[Anonymous]

I am thin and poor. Dh is a professor and I sah with our 2 year old son. I've always been thin BUT I do have to limit what I eat now that I am in my 30s. If I have a huge lunch ( think chipotle) I skip dinner. I suggest gluten free diets. It helps you cut out most processed foods. Do not buy all the processed gf foods. Most of the time they're higher in calories! You can start with the frozen waffles ( I like the chia) and add almond butter to your waffles. I cook gluten free pasta and shrimp, lentils and rice and butter chicken with coconut milk instead of butter chicken.

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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.

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.

I remember my mom telling me as as teenager that I have "strong German legs". Basically I have a larger frame. My mom and aunts do too. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
I have no fat on me and I'm athletic but I'll never be slight or lithe.

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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?

Huh? DH and I are both in medicine and there is nothing hot about 90% of the people there. You must be seriously insecure. We are all trying to see patients and get the f out of the hospital.

[Anonymous]

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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?

Huh? DH and I are both in medicine and there is nothing hot about 90% of the people there. You must be seriously insecure. We are all trying to see patients and get the f out of the hospital.

But the t.v. shows (like ER) suggest otherwise. You know you're a hottie, don't deny it! We've all heard about what goes on in hospital supply closets....tsk, tsk.

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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 : )

Saaaame here

Well, at least you won't have to worry about being a post menopausal "hottie" - trying in vain to keep your 65 year old body looking taunt and pert. You have control of your own retirement, your own health insurance, etc. You get to decide whether and where you go on vacation or where you will live in your old age.

I would hate, hate, hate to be a trophy wife. It might be all well and good when you're 35 but trying to maintain that trophy status at 50+ would suck big time. All the botox, lipo, fillers, hair extensions, boob jobs, plastic surgery......no thanks.

I'll take fat, frumpy but satisfied over that any day of the week.

I would hate it too. I am 45 though and personally make a lot of money. When my kids were little a trophy wife gig sounded amazing. Now I couldn’t imagine anything worse. The number of well off guys I work with having affairs is mind boggling, particularly the ones that travel a lot for work. I suppose if you didn’t mind your husband having an affair it would be ok but I would find that hard.

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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.

What is an “edible”?