MELISSA ZIMDARS is an assistant professor of communication and media at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts.

"Zimdars offers a gripping analysis of fat TV as a site for contesting meanings of health, fatness, and embodiment. Her examination of global trends in televising fatness is meticulously researched."— Kathleen A. LeBesco, author of Revolting Bodies?: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity"Well-written and enjoyable to read, Watching Our Weights evaluates the various ways that fatness is portrayed on television. It will make an important contribution to popular culture studies in general and television studies specifically."— Esther Rothblum, coeditor of The Fat Studies Reader

• Contents1          Televising Fatness2          Competing Understandings of Fatness3          Does TV Make You Fat?: Television as Causing and Solving the "Obesity Epidemic"   4          The Globesity Epidemic: Adapting Weight-Loss Television Around the World5          Exercising Control and the Illogics of Weight-Loss Television6          Spectacle, Sympathy, and the Medicalized Disease of "Obesity"    7          Celebrating Large Bodies on the Small Screen: From Fat Visibility to FatAcceptance8          The Decline of The Biggest Loser      AcknowledgmentsIndex

MELISSA ZIMDARS is an assistant professor of communication and media at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts.

"Zimdars offers a gripping analysis of fat TV as a site for contesting meanings of health, fatness, and embodiment. Her examination of global trends in televising fatness is meticulously researched."— Kathleen A. LeBesco, author of Revolting Bodies?: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity"Well-written and enjoyable to read, Watching Our Weights evaluates the various ways that fatness is portrayed on television. It will make an important contribution to popular culture studies in general and television studies specifically."— Esther Rothblum, coeditor of The Fat Studies Reader

• Contents1          Televising Fatness2          Competing Understandings of Fatness3          Does TV Make You Fat?: Television as Causing and Solving the "Obesity Epidemic"   4          The Globesity Epidemic: Adapting Weight-Loss Television Around the World5          Exercising Control and the Illogics of Weight-Loss Television6          Spectacle, Sympathy, and the Medicalized Disease of "Obesity"    7          Celebrating Large Bodies on the Small Screen: From Fat Visibility to FatAcceptance8          The Decline of The Biggest Loser      AcknowledgmentsIndex

MELISSA ZIMDARS is an assistant professor of communication and media at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts.

"Zimdars offers a gripping analysis of fat TV as a site for contesting meanings of health, fatness, and embodiment. Her examination of global trends in televising fatness is meticulously researched."— Kathleen A. LeBesco, author of Revolting Bodies?: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity"Well-written and enjoyable to read, Watching Our Weights evaluates the various ways that fatness is portrayed on television. It will make an important contribution to popular culture studies in general and television studies specifically."— Esther Rothblum, coeditor of The Fat Studies Reader

• Contents1          Televising Fatness2          Competing Understandings of Fatness3          Does TV Make You Fat?: Television as Causing and Solving the "Obesity Epidemic"   4          The Globesity Epidemic: Adapting Weight-Loss Television Around the World5          Exercising Control and the Illogics of Weight-Loss Television6          Spectacle, Sympathy, and the Medicalized Disease of "Obesity"    7          Celebrating Large Bodies on the Small Screen: From Fat Visibility to FatAcceptance8          The Decline of The Biggest Loser      AcknowledgmentsIndex