Shahroo Izadi

enabled you to deal with your feelings so that perhaps you didn't do more damage, contained you, you are saying goodbye to your friend.

So people need to give themselves a break and say, you wouldn't have done this if it wasn't doing something for you.

And I wish I could say that to people who, the family members and the friends of people who are legitimately fed up with someone who can't stop using.

It's like...

You know, they'll say things like, well, you've stopped fusing now, so it's been a couple of weeks, so why don't you get a job?

And it's like, they've just given up.

There's a mourning going on, a massive, massive mourning process going on here, where someone has had something that enables them to feel calmer, has got them through the hardest times of their lives.

You're asking them to be without their friends and then go find other friends when they've not known any other way.

And, P.S., all their existing friends and habits and everything are still here.

I mean, it is the... Shame.

Oh my God.

It really is a whack-a-mole.

Cultural reference there.

I don't want anyone to now feel ashamed to have to go back to the diet industry to purchase a solution to a problem that they created in the first place.

So if you are in a situation where you need to quieten the food noise by injecting yourself

then you do what you need to do as far as I'm concerned.

But what I do know is because you can't be abstinent from food, it's very unlikely that if you got to a stage where you felt that you needed to go to this length, I say this comparing it with the gastric band,

It's likely that you to some degree feel powerless or disempowered around food.

It's likely that you are so unhappy with your weight and have been for so long that you're prepared to forego food as a comfort anymore or, you know, all of those things.

And you're just happy not to be hungry and not to have the food noise.