How Diets Make Us Fat

<p>Start the new year by reclaiming your power over food: unlearn diet myths, find balance, and make this your year of sustainable change!<br><br><b>You've probably lost weight before. The hard part is keeping it off.</b><br><br>Diet culture has trained us to chase quick fixes, believe restriction is strength, and feel that rules are safer than trusting ourselves with food.<br><br>It leaves us dependent on plans, suppression, and external control, convinced that without them, we'll spiral. And ultra-processed foods keep pulling us back into the binge-restrict cycle, making balance feel impossible.<br><br>The truth is, losing weight doesn't silence food noise. Unless you learn to work with your all-or-nothing thinking and unpick the damage diets have done, the same struggles will resurface - whether you're dieting, medicated or winging it.<br><br><i>In How Diets Make Us Fat</i>, Shahroo Izadi shows how diets created the very problem they promised to solve, rewiring millions of us to eat in extremes while selling us back our own power at a price. Drawing on interventions used in addiction recovery for the most resistant clients, and her own experience of losing eight stone and keeping it off, she lays out a clear, compassionate framework for developing a dieting-damage-informed way of eating - one that finally allows you to manage your weight without fear or dependence.<br><br>Because losing weight is only part of the story. Learning to live free from diet culture's grip is the real victory.</p>