Diets are out and body positivity is in but it's still okay to want to change your body, according to this expert. Here's how to do so with kindness
podcast, she had a ‘huge influx of enquires from people who were a little bit apologetic about wanting to lose weight,’ she says. ‘They said things like, “I know I should just be happy with the size I am.” That was especially true if their starting weight was slimmer than I am now.’
Izadi says whatever weight you are, want to be or have been is absolutely fine with her. Despite her book’s title, it’s really a programme to help people reframe their relationship with food as a happy one. So someone who’s ‘happy and healthy and overweight, and feels freedom and joy when it comes to eating’ would have no need for it.Some of her clients are overweight; some are thin but binge on sugar and feel ashamed about it.
‘When I was size 8, I didn’t feel good. But I’ve never been more applauded and complimented,’ she says. Eventually, though, the compliments stopped because people were used to her being that weight. ‘It’s unfair if you’ve grown up being told one thing – that you need to lose weight – to now be told you need to accept yourself at this larger size. That’s a huge shift,’ she says, ‘and one a lot of women don’t feel capable of making at this stage’.
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