How Diets Make Us Fat

The gig’s up. 70 years since ‘cabbage soup’, obesity has tripled, 97% of all dieters gain it all back – and more, and diets are 5 times more likely to result in an eating disorder than sustained weight loss. In this ground-breaking book, Shahroo Izadi delves deep into the intricacies of food addiction perpetuated by diets and unveils the secret to sustainable weight loss through actively unlearning damaging – and fattening – diet habits.

Drawing on both professional and lived experience, Izadi challenges conventional wisdom surrounding diets and obesity treatment, offering readers a clear, compassionate and restorative framework for reclaiming power over food and losing weight for good. Diets Are Why We’re Fat serves as a defiant call to arms against the diet industry’s exploitation and manipulation. By learning to truly trust and believe in themselves again, readers can flip a defiant middle finger to the industry that has profited from their suffering for far too long and finally find the mental peace and physical balance they so deserve.

Author Biography

Shahroo Izadi is a psychologist and addiction specialist, who has written two bestselling books. She has hosted workshops Amazon, Google, Facebook, and JP Morgan among others that help people build healthier habits. She was named Thought Leader of the Year at House of Lords by the Baton Awards and her work has featured in The Telegraph, Marie Claire and Grazia among others. Shahroo herself has struggled with food addiction, and is keen to spread a message of healing that is built on kindness. Her appearance on The Diary of a CEO has received 1.2 million views. She has almost 40,000 followers on Instagram: almost 50% are in the UK, 12% in the US, 5% in Australia. She is friends with Mo Gawdat and has connections to Steven Bartlett. Her previous books have been reviewed in the Guardian and in Women’s Health.