Explores the competing and contradictory fat representations on television that are related to weight-loss and health, medicalization and disease, and body positivity and fat acceptance. Watching Our Weights establishes both how television shapes our knowledge of fatness and how fatness helps us better understand contemporary television.

Examines the resistance inherent within TV representations and narratives of fatness as a global health issue, the inherent and overt resistance found across stories of medicalized fatness, and programs that actively avoid dieting narratives in favour of less oppressive ways of thinking about the fat body.