From the perspective of a final year physical education and sport and exercise science undergraduate student, this article explores the relationship between learned and lived experiences related to the body. The research uses an autoethnographic approach that focuses on the educational and social issues that the first author faced as his physical identity changed. The author reflects on the ways in which his once acceptable body experienced declining capital as his body became too ‘fat’ within the spaces that he was connected to. In an attempt to resist institutionalised understandings that imply that larger bodies are a result of neglect and poor lifestyle choices, this research demonstrates the impact of cultural understandings on the everyday life of a university student seeking an ‘acceptable body’.

从最后一年的体育教育和运动与运动科学专业的本科生的角度出发，本文探讨了与身体有关的学到的和生活的经验之间的关系。这项研究使用了一种自动人种志方法，该方法着重于第一位作者的身体特征发生变化时面临的教育和社会问题。作者反思了当他的身体在与之相连的空间内变得太“胖”时，他曾经可以接受的身体经历了资本下降的方式。为了抵制暗示更大的身体是疏忽和不良生活方式选择的结果的制度化理解，本研究证明了文化理解对寻求“可接受的身体”的大学生的日常生活的影响。