The Last Diet: Discover the Secret to Losing Weight – For Good

Shahroo Izadi

Dec 2019 · Pan Macmillan

About this ebook

'No banned foods, no recipes, no fads – psychologist and addiction expert Shahroo Izadi’s weight-loss book is all about changing the way you relate to what you eat.' – The Times

This is the last diet you'll ever need. Transform your relationship with food and your body for good with The Last Diet from Behavioural Change Specialist, Shahroo Izadi.

Shahroo Izadi presents the best approach to losing weight, without telling you what or how to eat. Shahroo goes deeper than traditional diet plans, using her professional experience working in addiction treatment and personal experience of struggling with her own weight and body image to help you find the best diet for your body and your life.

She shares how the same evidence-based tools she used effectively with her clients in active addiction helped her to lose eight stone in weight, increase her self-esteem and help her manage a range of unwanted habits around food and negative talk. Shahroo introduces her revolutionary kindness method and highlights the importance of positive self-perception, showing how to embrace self-kindness and self-respect.

The Last Diet helps you identify where your unhealthy habits come from, and how to accept them, change them and what to do when you slip up through self-tailored exercises to maintain your physical and mental wellbeing. Shahroo guides you through every step, helping you to draw out your own wisdom and find motivation for changing long-term habits and losing weight – for good.

'A kind, realistic book that will be a real help to people who struggle with their weight.' – Marianne Power, Sunday Telegraph

Ratings and reviews

This is one of the most sincere books I've read so far. I think that if you let it it will take you to the exact reason of not being able to lose weight. It's not for everyone, you will have to be honest with yourself to make it work and that's a huge process.

About the author

Shahroo Izadi is a Behavioural Change Specialist and author of The Kindness Method, which has been translated into five languages and was a Shelf Help Club book of the month. Her therapeutic approach is influenced by her frontline addiction treatment work in clinical, community and prison settings. During this time, Shahroo developed a knowledge of how to elicit self-led change, even in those who are most resistant to it. She shares how the same evidence-based tools she used effectively with her clients in active addiction helped her to lose eight stone in weight, increase her self-esteem and help her self-manage a range of unwanted habits around food and negative self-talk.

Shahroo's work has been featured widely on BBC Radio 1, the Telegraph, Psychologies and Red magazine and she ran a sell-out workshop at The School of Life. Her work has been well-received by the field of mainstream personal development and she was invited to chair the One in Five panel on mental health for Women of the World at Southbank Centre. She has also featured on The Diary of a CEO podcast. She runs workshops on her Kindness Method and is a regular event panelist on the topics behavioural change, mental health and addiction.