To wonder what posh Mums cook for dinner…

[Primrosecottagelover]

I have just seen Pippa Middleton’s bikini photos on the DM. Three different bikinis so far, washboard abs & nothing jiggles as she chases three kids. She could easily pass as a fibreglass mannequin. I’m wondering why it is that the Middleton women and affluent women (even middle class at my child’s school), always seem to be so impossibly slim. I struggle with my weight and I would love to see the groceries, fridge contents, packed lunchboxes and dinner plans of the other half. Obviously I know what healthy eating and cooking is but, the bodies of Mothers these days is next level. Why am I struggling to keep my tummy from flopping out while women in their 40’s pull off wearing linen mini shorts (not in UK) and high waisted jeans.

Avocado, while lovely, is calorific. Healthy but not for those wanting to lose weight. Yes fizzy drinks are calorific, but if you cut out both soft drinks and alcohol, you miss out on the healthy effects of socialising in the pub. Diet drinks? No thanks. Can't stand the taste of artificial sweeteners.

@Idontpostmuch

Agreed. I was 8-10 in the 80s and now I’m 6-8 - same weight and size.

A friend of mine had anorexia at uni late 80s and she went down to a size 6. But they were hard to find and she ended up wearing kids clothes.

Genetics plays a big part, surely? My parents are both slim and so are my siblings and I. I can still wear clothes from when I was a teenager, despite having had kids.
I am 46 and eat toast for breakfast; have mid morning coffee with a biscuit; take a packed lunch to work (today was Ryvita, cheese, apple and crisps); then I will have a cuppa at 3pm but no snack; and tea cooked from scratch when I get home; and another cuppa later, maybe with a late night snack.
I drink wine at weekends and never turn down cake! We have a takeaway every couple of months but eat out in restaurants often and I just order what I fancy.
I've never needed to diet, but equally, I suppose I don't have a huge appetite.
I sit at a computer most of the day and my only exercise is a quick dog walk. I don't sit down much at home before 9pm because there's always housework or kids' stuff.

@Idontpostmuch I don’t calorie count at all, too much effort and you end up cutting out some healthy whole foods that are actually really good for you (such as avocados or nuts) just because they’re high, but then allow low calorie options that are full of additives, emulsifiers or sweeteners which are really bad for the body. Bonkers, if you ask me! And I don’t mind a small glass of wine or a whiskey now and then.

A local bakery. We are lucky to have a couple in town. I buy 'posh' bread, for my sins.

That implies that people who are deemed to be fat by their own hands, as it were, ARE banished.

Fat people with no 'reason' to be so probably are looked down on behind their backs in these circles.

Really? A few of my friends are on the bigger side and none of us could care any less! They are so wealthy they couldn’t give a damn about opinion or have to care about how they look.

I rather admire them actually. It is what I would consider to be real personal power, they drive clapped out cars too and wear moth riddled cashmere. The desperately skeletal set are insecure and conveying that insecurity by slavishly ‘trying too hard’ its all very 1990s - not so cool now.

Well there you go, the skinny insecure set probably are looking down and judging fatter people, thats what I said, your friends don't sound like the sort of people being discussed on this thread anyway so I'm not sure what your point is?

This is so not true.

I work in an University with a very high proportion of Chinese students and they are very wealthy, and they are always eating vast amounts of white rice in their lunch - and they are all skinny without exception.

Nope my friends have titles and manners, and probably wouldn’t associate with anyone that puts vanity before character or intelligence. We have sets of friends of all sizes I find the idea that anyone is judged for their size to be completely strange.

Just for the record, most of us have housekeepers that cook. Most are skilled and proficient and have been with us for decades. Very normal here - to have help 3/4 times a week.

Well, you want to join the real world then if you think thin people, fat people, disabled people, BAME people etc etc etc aren't judged by society and cliques alike.

Define 'posh'
Or rename it 'posh vs common mum's feeding regimens' rather than a veiled pop at those you deem to be better off than others. I doubt anyone would write a thread title 'what do common mums cook for supper'
Reverse snobbery

It’s genetics plus diet and exercise.
I’m a 36 year old mum of one and 8.5 stone and always have been slim. I eat relatively well but exercise. I haven’t always exercised though, it’s just my body shape and metabolism.

You judged people (extremely harshly) for their size literally a couple of posts up.

The desperately skeletal set are insecure and conveying that insecurity by slavishly ‘trying too hard’ its all very 1990s - not so cool now.

Here ☝️ since you don’t even seem to realise you did it.

Quite. Perhaps they don’t have titles!

Horrible post.

No, not at all. Neither parents nor me.

I just don't have much of a sweet tooth (but love salty snacks and cheese)

@Newchapterbeckons
The desperately skeletal set are insecure and conveying that insecurity by slavishly ‘trying too hard’ its all very 1990s - not so cool now.
Wow. Just wow. What a horribly judgemental thing to say about skinny people.

Strokethefurrywall · Yesterday 00:33

Explain your remark please. Mums who have nannies do not pick children up. They sit down and nanny puts the child in her lap. That and other things which save the backbone enable rich mums to keep their figures. As for what they eat, I suspect half of them a bulimic and eat when no one's watching

Strokethefurrywall · Yesterday 00:33

What's that supposed to mean?

Louloulouenna · Yesterday 08:42

@llizzie what percentage of the population do you think actually lives like that?

How do I know? I don't walk in such exalted circles. I suppose as many as you see wearing the latest designer goods on slim figures walking about among us lesser mortals who cannot afford the luxury. The OP asked why the Middleton women and their friends have such lovely slim figures and what do they eat to stay so slim when they have children.

I gave an opinion on how we could all be slim and ponce about in the latest designer foundation garments and fashions if we had the money. Perhaps they don't eat at all.

There are probably more people with money than we think. You cannot stop poverty: as soon as you give someone money, the rich are there waiting to take it from them. How else can they afford mortgages of up to £10K a month.

I think some people just don't particularly like eating; really just eat because they have to - eat to live.

Others will be denying themselves because they value being slim over everything else pretty much. I think if you do exercise that can help with that as well because you're adding something into your life rather than depriving yourself.

For PM she lives in a world where she is high profile and constantly photographed and presumably wants to be able to present herself in a certain way. Back when she first came to prominence at William and Kate's wedding everyone was obsessed by her bum if you remember.