Redux: Trust Your Body

Dear Sugars

WBUR

Boston, Wbur, Sugar, Cheryl Strayed, Society & Culture, Dear, Relationships, Advice, Steve Almond

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Her grandmother always introduced her as the “chubby one.” Now, she vacillates between moderation and binge-eating. “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 Sugars discuss and share their own struggles with body image.

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0:00.0	W-B-U-R Podcasts, Boston.
0:13.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:18.0	The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
0:21.0	I'm Steve Olman.
0:23.0	I'm Cheryl Strayed.
0:24.0	This is Dear Sugar's.
0:28.0	Oh, dear song, won't you please?
0:35.0	Share some better sweet days with me.
0:43.0	I check my bell by every day.
0:50.0	Oh, and this sugar, using my way.
0:58.0	Dear sugars, I've been on and off diets for 25 years.
1:02.0	I don't think I can string two days together when I was not starting a diet, thinking about starting a diet,
1:08.0	on a diet, or falling off the wagon.
1:11.0	The goal of my first diet was to fit into a pair of guest genes.
1:16.0	I was in fifth or sixth grade at the time of that first diet, and guest genes were popular.
1:22.0	I'd fantasize about buying the genes and wearing them to school with my shirt tucked in,
1:27.0	so that all of the kids could see the symbol on my back pocket.
1:31.0	I never lost enough weight to buy those genes.
1:34.0	Over time, they became a symbol of what losing weight would feel and look like for me.
1:40.0	Guests genes turned into a new basketball uniform to play on the team in junior high,
1:45.0	new genes for my first day of college, or whole new me for law school.
1:50.0	After 25 years of dieting, I feel like an accidental expert.
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