my drama-avoiding endeavors

Okay, wanted to pop in today to write about eating at the dinner table, with family or friends.
I don't know about all of you guys, but whenever I'm told i've got to eat at the table with a group of people that i love or share friendship with, My emotions shoot through the roof. I get torn between being DESPERATE not to upset them, and being utterly repulsed by food.

I've done the whole chew and spit..I've spooned food into my pockets, I've done allsorts. But they both involve a lot of food (which can be sloppy) going somewhere that might not contain the mess. At my school, While the boys were learning to make chairs and shelves and whatnot, the girls learn to make bags, hats, hot water bottle covers and other such things using sewing etc.

One day, after a particularly horrible dinner, where i ate and then purged...only to return and have my mother burst into tears because she could "smell sick on me" (which rings her alarm bells because of the times i have previously gone into recovery at newbridge house) I started to think...isn't there some way that I can avoid all this upset?

So i thought about it for a while and then i decided to try a little idea i came up with.

You'd need: a needle
thread
a sandwich bag
some form of blazer/jacket with sleeves that are loose-ish but not floppy (can also sometimes work with a dressing gown, if you can convince your parents that you're too cold without it)

okay, first of all, get a few of these sandwich bags to test out the needles on them. You want the stitches to hold, and you don't want the bag to rip. Try to get the sandwich bags made from the slightly thicker plastic..they're mostly resealable.

not too far down the sleeve, but low enough to be unseen, stitch the bag to the inside of the sleeve, so that one side of the bag is stitched at the top to your jacket, and the other side is free. (you'll need to turn the blazer/jacket inside out to stitch it) You need to make sure that when you put the blazer on, the bag is in a place in the sleeve where it can hang freely (hence the loose but not floppy sleeve-if it was floppy as well as loose, the eventual weight in the bag would drag it down and ruin everything) oh, and i just remembered- stitch the bag to the sleeve of the OPPOSITE hand to the hand that you hold your fork in.

make sure you match the colour of your thread to the blazer. It doesn't have to be perfect, just not obvious-trust me, your folks won't ever think to look for this, but if you have a random line of stitching standing out like a sore thumb against the fabric of your jacket sleeve, they're gonna think it's a little weird.

okay, so after testing it with a few weights, you can go have your meal.

• ONLY put a spoon/forkful of food in your sleeve when no one is looking
• ALWAYS remember the bad, if you put your arm flat on the table, the food might spill- depending on the size of the bad, you can normally lean the underside of your forearm against the table, hand slightly aloft and just look like your holding your knife. You can still cut the food, i promise, but just be careful.
• if you've got bread, you can tear it in your hands, as if you're eating it in little chunks, and then with the same hand as your bag-sleeve, you can just wait till the opportune moment, and just drop it in there!
• this isn't such a good idea at restaurants

when the meal is over, excuse yourself, empty the bag in the toilet and deal with cutting the bag off later, or take a quick trip to your room instead of the bathroom, and cut the whole thing off into the bin. (maybe wanna tie the top in a knot first)

it's unlikely that you can skip a whole meal this way, but you can certainly reduce the amount you have to eat, especially seeings as you can leave some on your plate on top of this, and say you're full.

this may all sound a little strange and difficult, but if you practice the concept a few times before using it at an actual meal, you should be able to get it down :-)

anyway, hope this works out for any of you who try it, let me know!!! ;-)

Jemimah

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