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Emma/ Regina

Emma's pov

I love ballet and today it looks like we are focusing on technique. Making sure we all look the same.
Regina and I can't talk during class but we stand next to one another on the bar. I step into a plie, and move back into a needle after stepping through all the positions.

We move onto pirouette form and I'm able to do four perfect pirouettes Regina can only do three but I think she could've tried harder she simply gave up.

Our instructor pulls this girl Lilian into the hall. Thank God this isn't the Vaganova class everything is much more strict and cut throat there, however there is also only four students.

I'm standing close to the hall so against my will so I can hear the conversation.

" Lil, I'm going to be honest you are not the best technical dancer , but that is made even worse by your weight it makes your movements look slowly and flabby. When you run through are counts and your body jiggles that makes you look slow ...... Loose some weight please..... Pounds or we'll push you down from the advanced class. "

My heart breaks for her, but the instructor is right, I was pushed down once. They want us all to look the same and her weight coupled with her bright green dyed hair doesn't really do that.

Having that fat on your body can sometimes makes you look sluggish and it's ballet anything above 95 is "fat". Well I guess that depends on your height.
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Cate's pov

I'm at gymnastics now, in two weeks we have an opportunity to move up in levels if we have all our skills. I'm a level six and I'd love to finally move up. I've been working on it for awhile and practicing at home when I can. I'm really great full to be able to enjoy gymnastics. Although I use it as an exercise tool for my Ed I'm glad it's not why I started restricting.

I start stretching while looking the mirror, when I go to do a toe touch my stomach pudges out I hate it. It gets all rolly and flabby it's terrible.

" I'll try and fast for the next 30 hours " I say to myself, hopefully I can actually do it.

After feeling all stretched out I jump up into a back handspring before going over to join the rest of the group.

I love gymnastics I feel strong and jumpy my floor routines are made up of movements that require me to truly push off from the mat, I can thank my strong legs for the heights I reach.
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Rebecca's pov

After my incredibly heart breaking binge, I go to soccer practice.
I love soccer but I'm the biggest girl on the team and I gt disgustingly hot and sweaty.

Coach has us start running through drills. For me this is the worst part because every single girl is faster than me. I can kick pretty far though.
It's the only drill I like.

However two girls,

Belle and Snow, can both kick further than me. But for a big girl soccer is still a great achievement to me.

I don't like the running I'm slow, so slow I can't be the goalie because I can't move quick enough to catch the ball. But I push through tight kick drills, running up and down the field and passing with my teammates.
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Lee's pov

I love weightlifting, I blast my music super loud in my ears hit some deadlift pr's with ease, toss in some lateral raises, rows, bench and shoulder presses mix it up every few days and I'm great!
On another day I'll do chest flys, stair master, leg press, tricep push downs or whatever else I manage to think of, maybe squats on a crazy day. If I see don't know what to do for a workout Alyssa Coppolino is typically my inspiration if I'm missing anything.

I much prefer being muscular and lean over being stick thin, I'll take this any day. I just feel special like I have something more to offer. I like people's perceptions of me more when I'm muscular over when I'm thin. In addition to that girls like it more.

I finish out my workout with some pull ups, a personal child hood favorite of mine. I used to use the bar in my closet as a pull up bar.

Now I can do about 5 at a time usually getting around 15 pullups in a workout.

Plus my teammates are mostly all super cool. Everyone is fit and decently fast however I'm on varisity so my perception of fast is a bit off. However we have this one kid, and I can't feel bad for him because he's an ass, but he's so slow and so weak in the weight room I can't help but laugh. He's trans and chooses to run with the boys and that doesn't help at all. His 400 meter time was the slowest of an entire meet boys and girls at around 1:35 and his 800 being 3:16. From last year his 1600 was 7:37. It must be bad genetics or injuries or something but I swear absolute worst on the team.

I think he weighs about 116 and he can't even bench press 35 pounds. It's teammates like that, who make me wish we had track tryouts. Because why is that competing with me? Mind you I've never run a 100m above 14 and even when I did I was a freshman. We have insanely fast, and one insanely slow person on our team.