Shahroo Izadi

I'm just decoupling diet culture from weight loss in order to enable people to lose weight.

I never thought about that.

So I just thought it was normal to be judging other people's bodies, comparing my body to theirs.

And I was gaining weight like wildfire, thinking, what's going wrong?

I know a lot now that I wouldn't have known then.

Put on a diet.

You're asking someone to care about an aesthetic in the future when they have a need, physical, like fundamental.

existential you've got to eat oh god that's so interesting it was infused into us be thin be thin be thin be thin don't eat so much and then body positivity came but our own learning was too deep diet culture left me scared of food and that's when i had started to treat my weight problem as a food problem not as a size problem and i was losing weight at speed wow

There are millions of people out there who would be able to manage their weight and their relationship with food had they never tried to lose weight in the first place.

Yes.

What's really important is that everyone's got something they want to change, something they feel powerless over.

I want to lose weight.

I want to stop doing this.

I want to not look at my phone in the morning.

All day, we're engaging in habits.

If you didn't choose them, they chose you.

Yes.

Of The Kindness Method.

I can't tell you that there was a specific moment, but I can tell you that round about eight years old, I became aware that I was comparatively much bigger than the other kids.

So they would let you know at school, of course, every time you went to the GP.