Objective:

To analyze the social representations about obesity and the feeding and exercise practices of a group of women and men with said diagnosis and clinical treatment residing in Mexico City.

Methodology:

It was based on a qualitative methodology. Choose the in-depth interview as a technique for obtaining data.

Results:

In discursive terms, each participant identifies the importance of exercising and having a good diet, but few put it into practice. Men and women have a path of life with obesity from very early ages; our future attention will be enabled by their differences in the stages of life, their self-care practices and living conditions related to economic-political, social and cultural in their social contexts.

Limitations:

Do not resume interview results for people with obesity without clinical treatment.

Conclusions:

For the participants, obesity represents a limitation for the establishment of personal, social and labor relations; however, they reproduce in their speeches this social rejection of obesity, which is recruited for women by beauty stereotypes and their relationship with health. The knowledge they have about foods that are fattening, and those that are not fattening; reproduce the medical discourse and messages of health promotion, however, do not translate into a change at the level of daily food practices