Redux: Trust Your Body
Dear Sugars
WBUR
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🗓️ 28 March 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This episode was originally released on June 11, 2018.
Her doctor categorized her as overweight when she was 5 years old. Her grandmother always introduced her as the “chubby one.” As an adult, she vacillates between moderation and binge-eating, restricting food some weeks, and gorging on cake and ice cream during others. “It’s only when my pants are nearly impossible to button that I force myself to lose weight,” writes the letter-writer who calls herself Body Negative. “And then the pattern starts all over again.”
The sinister cycle of dieting and binge-eating plagues many American women. The body positivity movement promotes fat acceptance and attempts to reverse body-shaming, no matter one’s size. But Body Negative is skeptical, writing, “I struggle with how to be body positive after years of being told it’s wrong to be my size and weight. Is there such a thing as unconditional body acceptance?”
Hilary Kinavey, M.S., L.P.C., and Dana Sturtevant, M.S., R.D., the co-owners of Be Nourished, join the Sugars to offer Body Negative and women like her some hope. Ms. Kinavey and Ms. Sturtevant present new definitions of health and discuss alternatives to the “dieting mind.” Ms. Kinavey explains that before body acceptance is achievable, “most of us who have experienced a lot of body shame … and weight stigma have healing work to do.”
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| 0:39.1 | The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. |
| 0:43.1 | The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears. |
| 0:44.1 | I'm Steve Alman. |
| 0:45.5 | I'm Cheryl Strayed. |
| 0:47.2 | This is Dear Sugars. |
| 0:53.4 | Oh, dear song, won't you please? |
| 0:55.0 | Share some little sweet days with me. |
| 1:00.0 | I check my bellbyes every day. Oh, in the sugar, you've seen my way. |
| 1:19.6 | Dear sugars, I've been on and off diets for 25 years. |
| 1:23.6 | I don't think I can string two days together when I was not starting a diet, thinking about starting a diet, on a diet, or falling off the wagon. |
| 1:32.3 | The goal of my first diet was to fit into a pair of guest jeans. I was in fifth or sixth grade at the time of that first diet, and guest genes were popular. |
| 1:43.6 | I'd fantasize about buying the jeans and wearing them |
| 1:46.3 | to school with my shirt tucked in so that all of the kids could see the symbol on my back pocket. |
| 1:52.6 | I never lost enough weight to buy those jeans. Over time, they became a symbol of what losing |
| 1:58.6 | weight would feel and look like for me. |
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