Shahroo Izadi

Or rather, don't be fat.

Great.

Sorry, we're also calling like jacket potatoes, cheese and beans healthy for lunch.

Yes.

You know, people be like, I've had a healthy, brilliant lunch.

I've been really healthy.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm going to have... And I was like, brilliant.

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

How come?

Well, because... Well, for various reasons.

One of them was that restriction from an early age was making me sort of...

want to get my hands on it the way that one does when you feel like you're not allowed to have something and it's naughty.

This is unfortunately before I even understood that it was naughty.

I think some people forget that someone has to tell you that what you eat happens to increase the size of some people's bodies and that may or may not impact your quality of life based on the society you live in.

They're so inextricably linked to us.

If you don't want to be overweight, why would you eat so much?

That's extraordinary.

It's like one of the only things you absolutely have to do to survive.

And you're asking someone to care about an aesthetic in the future, right now when they have a need, emotional, physical, like fundamental, existential.