Dieting

I don't know.

That one works for me too, because it takes it from like dieting.

to like this is like who i am and this is like how i show up in the world i don't know for for me it's very resonant too

well sometimes it leads me to take another action like i'm gonna go make my bed or i'm gonna like clean the shit out of the kitchen so that like it is up to my standards like i i know you're the same i love living in a clean house i love a beautiful house like that is there's no better feeling so kind of it will prompt me to go do something that is within my standards

It was like all as packaged up.

It was all shelf state.

Like I I've been dieting my entire life.

I've never been like, I think that most I ever weighed non-pregnant was probably like one 65 maybe.

... wait, this is kinda fucked up."

And also, like, even if it was true, when your story is, "Dieting killed my mom-"

[laughs] I know

... "so let me make more money off of teaching you people how to diet."

I know.

'Cause, like, to me, the response should be, "Dieting killed my mom.

Holy shit, we need to convince everyone not to diet-

[laughs] I know

Hi there, it's Bronwyn.

Welcome back to Before Dieting.

This is the first of the eight episodes I introduced last week where I'm using women's food and weight stories to look at what gets missed when we try to explain repeated weight gain.

And I want to start with something that happens very easily when we look back at a diet that didn't last.

The repetition is precisely what makes the pattern worth investigating.

In the next episode, we're going to take another piece of eating behavior that seems quite easy to explain and add more of a woman's story around it.

If listening to Before Dieting has started to loosen the idea that your weight isn't simply about calories and dieting, then the next step is to turn some of this thinking towards your own story.

Start by understanding your weight ecosystem.

And I don't get on my soapbox a lot, but that is so wrong.

Dieting is for...

You know what? Not even the word dieting.

Just so you know, this isn't me saying this.

Yeah.

Dieting is not a happy

word.

Yeah.