About... Weight Loss and Why I've Never Talked About It
Tell Me More with Nicole Walters
Dear Media
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Your body was never the barrier.... but the way you’ve been taught to think about it might be.
In this chat I’m sharing something I’ve intentionally stayed quiet about for a long time… my body, my weight, and why I don’t share the details of “how” I’ve lost it.
Not because I’m hiding something but because I’ve seen how harmful that conversation can be.
We live in a world that feels entitled to comment on women’s bodies. To analyze them. To assign meaning to them. To decide what they say about your discipline, your success, your worth.
And I’m just not open to that.
This chat is a deeper, more honest look at what it actually means to navigate body changes in a very visible life… and the mindset that’s allowed me to show up in every version of myself without waiting to “arrive” first.
We’re talking about weight loss, yes… but more importantly, we’re talking about self-trust, autonomy, and what it looks like to like your body in every season.
We chat about:
- The truth about weight loss and why almost everything “works”
- Why body image struggles often have nothing to do with your actual body
- The pressure women face to look a certain way before they’re taken seriously
- How body commentary online can quickly cross the line
- How to approach your own health journey in a way that actually supports you
- The mindset shift that changed how I show up in every version of my body
If you’ve been stuck in the cycle of “I’ll feel confident when…” or “I’ll show up when…,” I hope this chat gives you permission to do it now.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:06.6 | Welcome to the Tell Me More podcast with Nicole Walters, the only podcast where I'm not seeking to make you think more like me, but to help you keep thinking for yourself. |
| 0:29.1 | Hey, y'all. So I am really excited to have this chat with you because we haven't had a solo talk in a little while. And while I love bringing people in on our conversations, |
| 0:33.0 | there's a couple things I want to talk about with you too. So this one is all about our bodies. Now, |
| 0:40.8 | if you've been following along for a while, you know that I have been through a lot of iterations |
| 0:46.1 | of who I am and what I look like. And if you are a recent substack subscriber, you know that |
| 0:53.5 | I've had conversations behind the scenes |
| 0:55.6 | of everything. If you aren't a substack subscriber, I would love for you to check out my |
| 1:02.1 | substack. I'll have the details in the show notes below. It's called Context is Everything. |
| 1:07.5 | And that's because it is. I always like to fill in the gaps. |
| 1:11.0 | So I want to do a little bit of that here, but obviously you can read more and hear more and have conversation about it in the community there. |
| 1:18.5 | Now, you know, I've been on the internet now for 15 years, I think, in a higher visibility way and 20 plus years, you know, literally my school was like the 14th school to show up on Facebook. |
| 1:33.7 | So, I mean, I remember sitting in my dorm room watching when John Hopkins University went live on Facebook and we all were like, ah, we're like in social network. |
| 1:44.8 | Like it was a thing. |
| 1:45.7 | So aging myself. |
| 1:48.3 | But that said, ever since then, |
| 1:50.0 | I've been sharing photos online, |
| 1:51.8 | uploading to albums, |
| 1:53.3 | and basically growing up, |
| 1:56.2 | you know, |
| 1:56.7 | and with that, |
| 1:58.4 | like anyone now, |
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