Before Dieting...

About Before Dieting...

Investigating Weight Regain Before You Try to Fix It. If you've spent years losing weight, regaining it, and wondering why the same pattern keeps repeating, this podcast is for you. Before Dieting is an investigative podcast from the Weighting for Happiness Project. Using women's experiences as a starting point, each episode investigates a different part of the weight ecosystem, revealing connections between seemingly unrelated experiences and the way we eat. Each episode replaces judgement with understanding, helping you see familiar experiences in a completely different way. The Weighting for Happiness Project is built on one simple distinction: Weight loss and weight regain are different problems. Many women have proved they can lose weight. The unanswered question is what keeps recreating the same pattern. Before Dieting exists to investigate that question. Whether you've tried countless diets or you're simply tired of blaming yourself, this podcast offers a different place to begin. Not by asking what's wrong with you, but by asking what conditions make this eating necessary. These questions are worth asking before you begin another diet. That's what Before Dieting is here to investigate.

Publisher

Bronwyn Fletcher

Category

health & fitness · health & fitness · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Jul 2025

Latest episode

20 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

63 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Oct 2026

   The Family Food Culture Behind Weight Regain

   Carmela’s story reveals what can happen when changing your eating also changes how you fit inside your own family. After years of sharing rich, comforting meals with her mother and sister, two years in Japan reshaped her habits, and her weight. Coming home meant facing an unexpected tension: she still loved her family deeply, but no longer wanted to eat in the way that had always bonded them. This episode explores how family loyalty, belonging and long‑standing food rituals can quietly influence repeated weight regain

2. 

   13 Oct 2026

   Kelli's Story: When Criticism Becomes Part of the Weight Regain Problem

   Kelli’s story shows how lifelong weight criticism fuels repeated dieting. Family pressure, judgment and food‑culture clashes shape her eating far more than willpower ever could.

3. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Judith's story - Relief Eating vs Comfort Eating

   Judith could lose weight. What she couldn't understand was why relief eating kept returning. In this revisited story, we look beyond willpower and examine the repeating pattern around Judith's eating and weight. Using systems thinking, we explore the elastic band effect, the hidden function a troublesome behaviour can acquire, and how a solution that works in the short term can contribute to the problem returning later. Judith's story also takes us into childhood food experiences, private comfort, visibility, agency and the unexpected significance of a cheese toasty.

Reach and audience

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Spotify

4.0 / 5

2 ratings