Nepal’s ongoing sanitation programs have an ambitious goal of sanitation for all by 2017 meaning by then the country will have every single household with toilet and be declared open defecation free (ODF). As much as these programs form a part of the global and regional responses to sanitation crisis, they also signal a shift in people’s embodied practices from open defecation to defecation in the toilet. Among many things, the two things remain salient in Nepal’s contemporary sanitation programs: first, campaigns for toilet construction; and second, ODF declarations. While the Nepali state is increasing its efforts toward the goal of sanitation for all, my paper explores the multiple contexts and meanings of transformation in bodily habits evident in the move from open defecation to private defecation in the toilet. Drawing on ethnographic research methods (in-depth interview, participant observation, information discussion, and life history), this paper addresses these questions: How is the transformation of one’s defecation habits experienced? What are the conditions that drive this transformation? What are the multiple manifestations and networks of actors that the ongoing sanitation programs in Nepal embody? Using the theoretical framework of embodiment, this paper sheds light on how construction of toilet and move away from open defecation becomes an embodiment of modern subjectivity and citizenship and how the toilet figures in the bodily experience of Nepali people. In doing so, I talk about the cultural meanings of toilets and defecation habits among different people as well as the way sanitation and toilets permeate the social life and public imagination in Nepal. As this paper demonstrates, the mundane and private act of defecation becomes not just a marker of social and cultural difference but also a project of cultural production of a particular body, self, and personhood at a particular time and space. Further, the transformation from open defecation to the privatization of defecation corresponds with the changes in our relationship with our own body, people and culture around us, the environment, and the state.