Obesity and overweight are central issues in contemporary western societies, and the public debates in media are extensive. This paper investigates stories from participants in the reality TV-show Biggest Loser, and how the participants invoke temporal identity changes and childhood traumas to produce discursively accepted narratives about the causes for being obese. This study analyses personal stories about being overweight, and narratives of living a life of obesity. The findings illustrate narrative trajectories in personal stories used to explain overweight within a contemporary therapeutic discourse, and how the participants use chronology and childhood as narrative resources to explain their obesity. These narratives do not only produce preferred explanatory narrative elements, but also highlight that a number of psychologized explanatory storylines must be used in order to produce a culturally valid and discursively accepted personal obesity-narrative.

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在真人秀节目《最大的输家》中心理化童年

肥胖和超重是当代西方社会的核心问题，媒体上的公开辩论也很广泛。本文调查了真人秀节目《最大的输家》参与者的故事，以及参与者如何援引暂时的身份变化和童年创伤来产生关于肥胖原因的话语被接受的叙述。这项研究分析了关于超重的个人故事，以及过着肥胖生活的故事。研究结果说明了在当代治疗话语中用于解释超重的个人故事中的叙事轨迹，以及参与者如何使用年表和童年作为叙事资源来解释他们的肥胖。这些叙述不仅产生了首选的解释性叙述元素，