Shahroo Izadi
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
People will stop complimenting you.
I don't wake up every day after losing eight stone and go, oh, marvelous, this will be another perfect day because I'm thin now.
You've still got to deal with life.
You've still got to deal with life.
Yeah, exactly.
And also, you still legitimately have problems.
And it's because of diet culture that you've been made to think that all of them will go away if you're slim.
And you become disillusioned.
And you have to eat.
Yeah.
I started working in prison.
And it was largely with gang members.
In a men's prison?
Substance misuse, yeah.
I was working with probation.
And the idea was that I would be able to help people who were in prison on remand because of drug use.
And temporary.
Yeah, it's very hard.
Fear.
It's very hard to help someone at that point too, because also you, whether it's employability or whatever else, like thinking to the future is hard.