Shahroo Izadi - The Last Diet: Discover the secret to losing weight – for good

Discover the secret to losing weight

FOR GOOD

For my mum, whos proof that kindness and strength go hand in hand.

Put in the work and this WILL be the last diet book you ever read! Shahroos warmth, empathy , humanity and first-hand experience of food related struggles shine through every page.

Im so happy with this book. Not only is it more enjoyable to be kind to myself instead of trying to bully myself into things, but being kind is simply a more effective way of making changes.

The exercises are truly eye opening and have helped me find a new focus when it comes to my approach to food. It was nice just to feel understood!

Shahroo made me realise Im not alone , and that tuning in to my internal dialogue is helpful.

Habits are hard to break and changes even harder to sustain and The Last Diet is the best approach l I have found to achieve both!

A completely different take on losing weight and keeping it off. Ive finally hit a point where I feel like Ive managed to start to change some of the habits and ingrained thought processes that had left me struggling.

Although every diet book tells you it will transform your life, Izadis book is the only book I know of that holistically looks at the body and mind and finally gets them working together to the same goal a happy , content life no matter what size it is.

Shahroo shares brilliant practical tips and advice for changing your mindset as well as your body.

This book changed everything. Shahroo is wonderfully capable at making me feel like I can stick to a way of living, that I can be the master of my own habits and that behaviour change IS possible.

This is the book I have been waiting for all my life and Im nearly 76. Im now into week 9 of not eating compulsively and that may not sound much but to me its magical .

For those of us who have done diet after diet and who still look and weigh the exact same... this is the book for you! Its changed my life! Read it, do it, live it.

You will walk away from The Last Diet more empowered , more capable, more resilient than ever before. Most importantly though, you will learn self-compassion.

Shahroo has subtly taught me how to treat myself with kindness and respect something I hadnt quite realised had been lacking to such a sad degree. This book has had a massive impact on me; in the way I talk to myself, in the way I treat my body and in the way I live my life.

There are things in this book I will remember forever .

The Last Diet completely changed the way I think about myself and eating.

A brilliant, no nonsense approach which is practical, jargon free and written from a place of compassion and experience.

The Last Diet approaches eating and weight loss from a totally fresh perspective, leading with kindness and self-care. I feel motivated , in a calm, confident way not a punishing, restrictive way.

Clear and easy to read. Credible evidence and facts. No counting calories, no cutting out different food groups! This is the real deal .

This book is a warm hug to anyone who has a complicated relationship with food and their weight.

Shahroo Izadi is a Behavioural Change Specialist whose approach to lasting habit change is influenced by her frontline addiction treatment work in a number of different settings. Through this experience, Shahroo developed a knowledge of how to elicit self-led, sustainable and meaningful change, even in those who are most resistant to it. Shahroos first book, The Kindness Method, has been translated into five languages.

First published 2019 by Bluebird

This electronic edition first published 2020 by Bluebird

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All I wanted was for this book to convince people that they didnt need to punish themselves in order to change their eating habits and manage their weight on their own terms. I got what I wanted. And yet, the lengthy and heartfelt thank yous I receive from readers are often bittersweet.

I was far too busy worrying about whether The Last Diet would be genuinely helpful or well received to consider that behind every message of gratitude and feedback, there would be a painful story.

A story of a young person who learned to dislike themselves and grew into an adult who had become accustomed to punishing their body. A story of someone who spent a lifetime ashamed of how they look, ashamed of their inability to manage their own habits, ashamed of the lengths theyd gone to try and change their bodies and ashamed that they didnt feel capable or worthy of taking the same common sense advice theyd give their loved ones.

I could never have imagined the extent to which my own story would be told back to me, and how needlessly alone I would realise I had been this whole time.

Of course I wanted readers to relate to the case studies in the book, and to find the exercises useful, but I could never have guessed how many people would relate to the most personal parts of it and how many would tell me that they could relate to every single word.

Not only did people not judge or ridicule my experience (as Id spent so many sleepless nights fearing), but the compassion that readers of The Last Diet have shown me has surpassed anything I could have hoped for or imagined in my wildest dreams. Many shared that the similarities they saw in my story helped them to find compassion for themselves. I can absolutely relate to this every time Im overwhelmed with empathy and compassion for readers and their very familiar experiences.

Turns out, it wasnt just me who had grown accustomed to spending all day thinking about what I would (or wouldnt) eat, or replaying a constant internal soundtrack about myself and my body that was unkind and unfair. Readers now regularly share with me that they too got to a stage where theyd have chosen to change their eating habits even if the by-product wasnt weight loss, just so they could reclaim their brain space.