The stories about dieting seem to ordinarily circulate in our society and they are mainly tied to feelings of guilt, frustration and dissatisfaction. Based on this context, this research aims to investigate the construction of suffering in dieting narratives through semi-structured interviews conducted with university students who were under dietary assistance with a nutritionist. It seeks to understand how the discourses about eating, body and health act on the life stories of women who go on a diet and how they are made significant through their narratives. The SocioInteractionist perspective and the Narrative Analysis, which are located in the qualitative and interpretative research paradigm, are used as theoretical framework. The analysis starts from the microssocial situation, specifically narratives coconstructed during the interview, since it is a space of construction, contestation and negotiation of the meanings that go through the macrossocial sphere. The results show the narrative strategies used by interviewees to move away from physical and psychological stigmas. It also points out the cyclical structure of these narratives, relating the process of dieting to an endless journey that seeks to meet expectations about eating habits, body and health, built both individually and socially. These cyclic narratives shape the sense of imprisonment caused by the rigorous control of eating, constructing the idea of suffering. Finally, this dissertation opens space for a critical and multidisciplinary discussion, since disciplinary practices of the body and eating have been resulting on embarrassments to self-expression.