Sep 8, 2026 · 7 min · 7 segments
For the next eight episodes of *Before Dieting*, Bronwyn is taking a closer look at women’s experiences of eating and repeated weight regain, using stories women have shared with her over the years…
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Bronwyn FletcherHost
The idea came up because I've been thinking a lot about what it means to tell women's food and weight stories.
And I'm talking about the ones that aren't sanitized clinical ones of what they weighed, what they lost, and how they did it.
Over the years women have told me things about their eating they've said they've never told anyone.
And that's things like hiding and sneaking food, sometimes even stealing it.
They told me about their no limits eating they were doing late at night when they were alone.
And there were many conversations where they described the competing voices in their heads, with one voice lecturing them on weight loss and another craving the relief that eating large amounts of chocolate could bring them.
But what struck me in these conversations at the deepest level was how frightened and powerless they felt when they were overtaken by a desperate urge to eat.
Now the conversations didn't start off with those things, they were things that emerged from talking about childhood kitchens, family food rules, and things that happened around food that they still can't shake off decades later.
And of course most of them could not explain the logic of wanting one thing and doing the exact opposite, because it didn't even make sense to them.
So there were many difficult things said that are in fact quite difficult to say particularly out loud.
I want to use them to illustrate the existence of an eating system that can be described, named and dismantled.
The idea came up because I've been thinking a lot about what it means to tell women's food and weight stories.
And I'm talking about the ones that aren't sanitized clinical ones of what they weighed, what they lost, and how they did it.
Over the years women have told me things about their eating they've said they've never told anyone.
And that's things like hiding and sneaking food, sometimes even stealing it.
They told me about their no limits eating they were doing late at night when they were alone.
And there were many conversations where they described the competing voices in their heads, with one voice lecturing them on weight loss and another craving the relief that eating large amounts of chocolate could bring them.
But what struck me in these conversations at the deepest level was how frightened and powerless they felt when they were overtaken by a desperate urge to eat.
Now the conversations didn't start off with those things, they were things that emerged from talking about childhood kitchens, family food rules, and things that happened around food that they still can't shake off decades later.
And of course most of them could not explain the logic of wanting one thing and doing the exact opposite, because it didn't even make sense to them.
So there were many difficult things said that are in fact quite difficult to say particularly out loud.
I want to use them to illustrate the existence of an eating system that can be described, named and dismantled.
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