Winona Dimeo-Ediger

Stage one: annoyance. Stage five: obsession!

Our fierce fashion ace Winona Rose helps our editor Katie Tandy avoid the purgatory of endless Old Navy trousers.

1. Only eat salad and grilled chicken. Salad and grilled chicken, as a general rule, don’t ruin lives. Salad and grilled chicken are great... sometimes. Unless you’re going to amazing restaurants all the time and ordering nothing but salad and grilled chicken — then salad is definitely ruining your life.

fashion entrepreneur. advocate for human trafficking victims.

I’ve always hated shopping for dresses in general (I’m seriously supposed to track down one garment that fits properly on my chest, waist, arms, and hips simultaneously?), and finding the right thing to wear to a wedding is always tricky (do they really mean casual?).

I regularly call upon personal saints for help. Really specific ones whose sainthood only exists in my own mind, but they’re very effective. Today I’d like to introduce you to a few of them; feel free to call on them as often as needed.

5. You start feeling insecure about the distinct lack of rappers in your social circle.

The side effects of weight loss are not—gasp!—all positive.

These things could never happen. But WHAT IF THEY DID?

A couple years ago, I started down a path of living a more natural, eco-friendly lifestyle.