Shahroo Izadi

How diets make us fat also has a process of unlearning diet culture in order to actually lose weight.

So if you choose, for example, if you chose to say, I know that the way that I eat sugar is responsible for my weight gain.

And I know that I wouldn't have come to overeat sugar and binge on it and become emotionally dependent on it and associate it with binging in the last time had it not been for diets making me feel that way.

What that means is that whilst you're restricting sugar, be it with the aid of medicines or not, you are still in a place of feeling fearful about being in contact with sugar.

Yes.

an otherwise very smart, capable human being.

And I have seen what that does to women's self-esteem.

They're not able to internalize extraordinary accomplishments because there's a little voice that goes, yeah, but you can't control yourself around a slice of toast.

It's almost so silly that for it to be so hard, I need to give them permission to have this be the hardest thing you've ever done.

It was the hardest thing I've ever done to change the way I eat.

And it requires decisions all day that

The deprogramming you have to do is wild because it's been reinforced all day constantly in various different ways, toxic and otherwise.

And so how diets make us fat is basically for everyone who understands that title because there are millions of people out there who know full well that they would be able to manage their weight and their relationship with food had they never tried to lose weight in the first place.

Yes.

Because it wouldn't have become emotionally charged.

No.

And they would be able to implement a new way of eating.

When I speak to most people about changing the way they eat, the way that I did when I thought, how would I eat if I never lost weight?

Well, I'd like to be a relatively healthy person.

I'd like to be a person who doesn't have takeouts every night.