Then, when I was in college, it was dry, plain chicken breasts eaten under the guise of "meal prepping." When I was 17, it was lightly salted rice cakes, eaten so that I could fit into a wedding dress I never actually wore. I turned to plain cottage cheese topped with a ludicrous amount of ground black pepper paired with hours of walking uphill on the treadmill (because that's what I had heard the contestants on " The Biggest Loser" did off-camera). When I was 15, I shifted from figure skating into ballroom dance and was told I needed to "lean out" to look uniform with a more slender partner. Want more great food writing and recipes? Subscribe to Salon Food's newsletter, The Bite. "Freeze grapes," she once sagely decreed. My best friend's older sister, a volleyball player with her eyes on a college scholarship, doled out tips that she had picked up from sneak-reading supermarket tabloids. So, I finally let myself eat until my body felt full, confident in my newfound knowledge that I could just lose the weight again.įalling into a crash diet was really easy.īut then from that moment on, I was always losing weight for something - and there was always a new diet food to help me get there. I'd get woozy when I'd lift my head too fast and gasped for air when lapping the skating rink but I noticed that both my tights and my plaid, pleated school uniform skirt were looser. Within a few days, I was running on fumes. However, they left this film on my tongue that tasted like wet pennies, which I'd promptly cover up by chewing sticks and sticks of sugar-free gum. The shakes were supposed to taste like chocolate, and they did - while I was drinking them. It was the late 90s or early 2000s, so I just raided my mom's stash of SlimFast shakes and used them to replace two meals a day, typically breakfast and lunch, just as the company itself recommended. I wasn't sure if there was quite an inch of flesh, but there was more than the year prior and that alone seemed like too much.įalling into a crash diet was really easy. I felt the way the new soft curves of my body were constricted by the tights, especially around the stomach. Sew your straps at the top of your bag on either side then sew one button on one side of your bag at the top and the other side at the top of your bag.The older girls had always joked about how one of the coaches - a five-foot-two blonde named Barbie whose voice had the distinctive rasp of a lifelong smoker - would threaten them with more cardio if she "could pinch an inch" of fat anywhere on their bodies. Sew it on the bag and attach the the top of the wings and the bottom of the wings to the bag be careful not to sew all the way through the bag. Then pull your stitching tight but not too tight then it should look like butterfly wings. Get your patterning t-shirt and draw a rectangle (up to you what size you want) then get your needle and thread and sew in the middle from top to bottom. Then when you are finished cutting it out, turn it inside out on top of each other and sew along the bottom and sides of your bag then turn it right way out. You can cut how ever big you you want your bag. Make sure you cut it out the same on both front and back of you shirt. Get your plain t-shirt, draw a half of a oval with it curving in at the top. *3/4 of any colour cotton ribbon (depending on how thick you want the straps) Instructions *2 t-shirts (atleast one with patterning) Turn an old t-shirt into a butterfly purse with these simple steps! What you need
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