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The Last Diet: Discover the Secret to Losing Weight – For Good
'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
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
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March 16, 2023
I learned about Shahroo Izadi on a podcast and decided to read her book as she made some compelling arguments for showing yourself some kindness. Her goal to make sure the dieting culture dies within one generation is something that I support.
The book blew my mind. The author (rather refreshingly) assumes that you actually know what you need to do to lose weight and how you need to do it, and does not perscribe any approach to weight loss. Instead she looks at why is it we self sabotage, derail our own plans, pick unrealistic goals, kick ourselves, and start on Mondays.
Spoiler alert: everyone is different, diets dont work long term, and what works for a student does not work for a working parent of three. Yet we tend to kick ourselves instead of choosing a fitting route.
I especially appreciated the hands on methodology (mostly mindmaps) that really makes you think about the way you think about yourself, and gives you the tools to shift the negative perspective or self depreciating thoughts towards showing compassion and appreciation to what you already do, to what your body can do, what your mind can do. It felt a little like therapy.
Even if the book focuses on weight loss, i think this kindness method goes way beyond that and can be apllied to a lot of other areas of ones life.
One of the few books I think should be mandatory reading for everyone. Looking forward to reading the authors second book.
The book blew my mind. The author (rather refreshingly) assumes that you actually know what you need to do to lose weight and how you need to do it, and does not perscribe any approach to weight loss. Instead she looks at why is it we self sabotage, derail our own plans, pick unrealistic goals, kick ourselves, and start on Mondays.
Spoiler alert: everyone is different, diets dont work long term, and what works for a student does not work for a working parent of three. Yet we tend to kick ourselves instead of choosing a fitting route.
I especially appreciated the hands on methodology (mostly mindmaps) that really makes you think about the way you think about yourself, and gives you the tools to shift the negative perspective or self depreciating thoughts towards showing compassion and appreciation to what you already do, to what your body can do, what your mind can do. It felt a little like therapy.
Even if the book focuses on weight loss, i think this kindness method goes way beyond that and can be apllied to a lot of other areas of ones life.
One of the few books I think should be mandatory reading for everyone. Looking forward to reading the authors second book.
April 7, 2020
This book is not another eating plan. Izadi assumes, rightly I think, that we readers know diets, foods, calories, nutrition, etc. We've read the books and tried the diets. We don't need to understand dieting. We already do. We've lost weight (and gained it back) many times. What we need to understand is ourselves, why some diets work for us, why we quit, why our motivation changes, and why we over eat in the first place.
Izadi concentrates on helping us look deep within as we move to change eating habits. We become aware of our self beliefs and increase our self awareness over all. She has included many writing exercises to help us become aware of our feelings and thoughts. I really like her mind mapping exercises. They were very helpful in creating my own eating plan, one I know I will follow.
This is a very good book for people who want to understand their relationship with food. It provides the foundation we need to develop our own goals and eating plans we know will be best for us. Izadi offers very practical ideas to help us shape our thinking about our bodies, prevent self sabotage, deal with our beliefs from childhood, and much more.
If you already know the how of losing weight but want to understand the why you do what you do, this book is for you. You'll learn how to treat yourself with forgiveness too.
I received a complimentary egalley of this book from the publisher. My comments are an independent and honest review.
Izadi concentrates on helping us look deep within as we move to change eating habits. We become aware of our self beliefs and increase our self awareness over all. She has included many writing exercises to help us become aware of our feelings and thoughts. I really like her mind mapping exercises. They were very helpful in creating my own eating plan, one I know I will follow.
This is a very good book for people who want to understand their relationship with food. It provides the foundation we need to develop our own goals and eating plans we know will be best for us. Izadi offers very practical ideas to help us shape our thinking about our bodies, prevent self sabotage, deal with our beliefs from childhood, and much more.
If you already know the how of losing weight but want to understand the why you do what you do, this book is for you. You'll learn how to treat yourself with forgiveness too.
I received a complimentary egalley of this book from the publisher. My comments are an independent and honest review.
January 19, 2020
There are many diet and weight loss books on the market. This discusses the mental processes that hinder losing weight and keeping it off. The central theme is behavior modification. This was a free review copy through Goodreads.com.
December 31, 2023
A great self help book that focuses on mindset instead of an actual diet plan. The mental exercises seem very helpful. This is the kind of book you keep on your shelf for reference. Thank you to goodreads for hosting a giveaway. These opinions are entirely my own.
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September 4, 2023
I don't know why I picked this book up. Maybe cause it isn't really a book about a diet plan but more of how to treat yourself well and change habits that might effect your eating habits. Anxiety, depression, disappointment and complacency.
I don't bingen eat but I do have the tendency to eat food that isn't healthy due to a hectic day to day routine and this is also an excuse.
There are some tools that I have found useful and shall implement.
If I would recommend it's debatable.
I don't bingen eat but I do have the tendency to eat food that isn't healthy due to a hectic day to day routine and this is also an excuse.
There are some tools that I have found useful and shall implement.
If I would recommend it's debatable.
April 24, 2020
* I received a free copy from Goodreads.
This was not a book for me, not the book's fault. I've never been on an "official" diet. I was overweight for many years, but never tried anything other than just trying to watch carbs and fats.
The one impressive thing I liked about it was that there was no suggestion of a particular diet and understands that everyone has different needs.
This was not a book for me, not the book's fault. I've never been on an "official" diet. I was overweight for many years, but never tried anything other than just trying to watch carbs and fats.
The one impressive thing I liked about it was that there was no suggestion of a particular diet and understands that everyone has different needs.
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September 29, 2024We'll see if this really is the last diet....
The crux of the book, however, is that we have to take care of ourselves and be compassionate with ourselves in order to truly lose weight. It's similar to Good Food, Bad Diet in that way.
I do like this approach to being healthier. The good Lord knows that beating myself up has never worked.
The crux of the book, however, is that we have to take care of ourselves and be compassionate with ourselves in order to truly lose weight. It's similar to Good Food, Bad Diet in that way.
I do like this approach to being healthier. The good Lord knows that beating myself up has never worked.
December 20, 2023
I think this book suits ladies more than men.
March 29, 2020
"The Last Diet" helps readers replace shame and guilt with self-compassion, and these tools have the potential to change the way we think about weight loss. I appreciate this approach and the fact that author Shahroo Izadi never tells us what or how to eat. Instead, this book provides evidence-based tools and worksheets that help us improve our self-compassion, reduce negative self-talk, and use self-kindness and self-respect as we think about and eat food.
While many of the principles in this book mirror those in Izadi"s "The Kindness Method," this book has the potential to reach a different audience. And the principles of kindness work whether we're addressing addiction, overeating or another issue.
Note: some profanity
Some of my favorite tips/quotes:
"{B}elieving you're entitled to be happy regardless of your size is actually what helps you to be a size you're happy with."
"Design a long-term eating, exercise and wellbeing routine-on purpose."
"What is kindness? {Pa]tience, understanding, consideration, compassion and helpfulness."
"In many cases, riding out a short-term urge or craving isn't an act of unkindness or depriving yourself, it's an opportunity to show yourself how capable you are."
"{S}low down your actions and curiously question the thoughts and feelings that drive them."
Develop a kind attitude toward your whole body, record the amazing things your body has managed to accomplish in the past, and realize that your whole body is capable of achieving weight loss and more.
"This is a person who deserves to be treated well. That is a person I imagine has a lot of self-esteem. That is a person who is capable and worthy of achieving any goal they like."
Practice showing kindness to myself every day. Small kind choices impact the next one and the next one.
"Unless I started feeling happier overall, I wouldn't be motivated to keep up any plan of change. Feeling miserable made me want to eat in ways that made me gain weight."
Use high-risk situations as opportunities to practice noticing the urge and pushing through it.
Write down actual facts to reduce worry, feel calmer and become more in control of actions.
Gratitude can play a big role in helping with feelings of resentment.
Reduce "all or nothing" thinking.
Notice gateway foods. They're "very personal because they're often based in our associations rather than with common sense principles of nutrition and weight loss."
While many of the principles in this book mirror those in Izadi"s "The Kindness Method," this book has the potential to reach a different audience. And the principles of kindness work whether we're addressing addiction, overeating or another issue.
Note: some profanity
Some of my favorite tips/quotes:
"{B}elieving you're entitled to be happy regardless of your size is actually what helps you to be a size you're happy with."
"Design a long-term eating, exercise and wellbeing routine-on purpose."
"What is kindness? {Pa]tience, understanding, consideration, compassion and helpfulness."
"In many cases, riding out a short-term urge or craving isn't an act of unkindness or depriving yourself, it's an opportunity to show yourself how capable you are."
"{S}low down your actions and curiously question the thoughts and feelings that drive them."
Develop a kind attitude toward your whole body, record the amazing things your body has managed to accomplish in the past, and realize that your whole body is capable of achieving weight loss and more.
"This is a person who deserves to be treated well. That is a person I imagine has a lot of self-esteem. That is a person who is capable and worthy of achieving any goal they like."
Practice showing kindness to myself every day. Small kind choices impact the next one and the next one.
"Unless I started feeling happier overall, I wouldn't be motivated to keep up any plan of change. Feeling miserable made me want to eat in ways that made me gain weight."
Use high-risk situations as opportunities to practice noticing the urge and pushing through it.
Write down actual facts to reduce worry, feel calmer and become more in control of actions.
Gratitude can play a big role in helping with feelings of resentment.
Reduce "all or nothing" thinking.
Notice gateway foods. They're "very personal because they're often based in our associations rather than with common sense principles of nutrition and weight loss."
December 26, 2019
The Last Diet by Shahroo Izadi is a very inspirational book that makes a lot of sense. I've read it in a few days but intend to read it again while doing the written exercises in it.
Refreshingly it's not about what to eat and what not to eat but about the mental and emotional thinking about why we eat the wrong things or too much. It encourages the reader think about their relationship with food while putting into practice plans for eating more sensibly. This involves a series of written exercises and maps to delve into our own psyche and help to formulate an eating plan. The idea is to do a five minute review each day with a longer twenty minute review at the end of each three weeks which can then be tweaked for the next three week plan.
I really like the plethora of practical advice given and also many scenarios and examples which are personal to the author but help the reader to think of their own situation. I'm reading it on a Kindle so finding it not so easy to skip back and forth to the written exercises and maps. A printed edition would be a better format to buy this book in in my view. .
The author has lost 8 stone in 18 months which is inspirational in itself. This is about one and a half pounds a week, or one fifth of a pound a day, which is sensible and very achievable. She also gives lots of encouragement about how to be nice and like one's body and how to deal with temptation and relapses.
I want to lose just a stone in 10 weeks. I am figuring that the week of Christmas and New Year is probably not the best time to do this when my fridge and store cupboards are loaded with food and fattening food at that. So while Shahroo Izadi doesn't encourage the 'I'll start next Monday' thinking I think I might have more chance of this once there's less of the wrong food sitting around! I will come back and update this review in mid March when I expect to be able to say I lost that stone....and keep it off.
With thanks to NetGalley and Bluebird and Pan Macmillan for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Refreshingly it's not about what to eat and what not to eat but about the mental and emotional thinking about why we eat the wrong things or too much. It encourages the reader think about their relationship with food while putting into practice plans for eating more sensibly. This involves a series of written exercises and maps to delve into our own psyche and help to formulate an eating plan. The idea is to do a five minute review each day with a longer twenty minute review at the end of each three weeks which can then be tweaked for the next three week plan.
I really like the plethora of practical advice given and also many scenarios and examples which are personal to the author but help the reader to think of their own situation. I'm reading it on a Kindle so finding it not so easy to skip back and forth to the written exercises and maps. A printed edition would be a better format to buy this book in in my view. .
The author has lost 8 stone in 18 months which is inspirational in itself. This is about one and a half pounds a week, or one fifth of a pound a day, which is sensible and very achievable. She also gives lots of encouragement about how to be nice and like one's body and how to deal with temptation and relapses.
I want to lose just a stone in 10 weeks. I am figuring that the week of Christmas and New Year is probably not the best time to do this when my fridge and store cupboards are loaded with food and fattening food at that. So while Shahroo Izadi doesn't encourage the 'I'll start next Monday' thinking I think I might have more chance of this once there's less of the wrong food sitting around! I will come back and update this review in mid March when I expect to be able to say I lost that stone....and keep it off.
With thanks to NetGalley and Bluebird and Pan Macmillan for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
May 30, 2023
My review is on how motivational this book is and how exciting the promises are and how achievable the process to get there seems to be - not on how effective it is as I have just finished the book and haven't started any action as yet.
But blimey, I have read so many 'diet' books over the years, and this is different in so many ways, firstly, it doesn't set a food plan, assuming we all know how to eat healthily, it's putting that knowledge to effect that we struggle with, and we are all different. One size doesn't fit all.
Secondly, diet books are about not trusting yourself, punishing yourself and not being good enough. This book is about loving yourself, acknowledging your strengths, finding your own resources to help yourself in your endeavours, and learning from slips, and loving that you got to learn something new. It's such a different outlook.
I plan to do the work identified in the book and to start putting the ideas into effect. The writer is OA informed and I think the ideas work well with OA.
But blimey, I have read so many 'diet' books over the years, and this is different in so many ways, firstly, it doesn't set a food plan, assuming we all know how to eat healthily, it's putting that knowledge to effect that we struggle with, and we are all different. One size doesn't fit all.
Secondly, diet books are about not trusting yourself, punishing yourself and not being good enough. This book is about loving yourself, acknowledging your strengths, finding your own resources to help yourself in your endeavours, and learning from slips, and loving that you got to learn something new. It's such a different outlook.
I plan to do the work identified in the book and to start putting the ideas into effect. The writer is OA informed and I think the ideas work well with OA.
August 3, 2020
Note: I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All of the opinions are my own and this did not affect my review in any way.
I was very intrigued with the idea of this book focusing more on the psychology of weight loss than actually telling you what to eat. So when I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review I started reading right away.
The Last Diet is a book that presents a new approach losing weight focusing on the psychology and through evidence-based tools the author used effectively with her clients who struggled with addiction.
I think this book is great. This book gives you the tools to help you identify what you want to change, why you want to change it and find proper motivation along the way. It helps readers replace shame and guilt with love, compassion and self-acceptance. My favorite part of the book, and I think it is what makes it unique, is that it focuses on the mental and emotional thinking of our eating habits. It really encourages us to first work on the internal things while assuming that once we have them under control the external things will follow.
This book is great for mental health as well, you feel good while completing the exercises and in the end you end up with a new feeling of motivation that if put with the right diet could really be the last diet you would ever need. The author includes so many examples that it is impossible not to feel related to some of the issues all of us experience in our weight loss journey.
Overall I don’t believe this is a magical book that will automatically help you lose weight, I still believe you need to go to a proper specialist to do that, but I can really appreciate how much self-reflection this book made me do. Of course this book won´t make me lose weight just by simply reading it but I loved how much I discovered about myself after reading it.
If you are currently going through a weight loss journey and you are starting to fell stuck I would definitely give this books a chance.
I was very intrigued with the idea of this book focusing more on the psychology of weight loss than actually telling you what to eat. So when I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review I started reading right away.
The Last Diet is a book that presents a new approach losing weight focusing on the psychology and through evidence-based tools the author used effectively with her clients who struggled with addiction.
I think this book is great. This book gives you the tools to help you identify what you want to change, why you want to change it and find proper motivation along the way. It helps readers replace shame and guilt with love, compassion and self-acceptance. My favorite part of the book, and I think it is what makes it unique, is that it focuses on the mental and emotional thinking of our eating habits. It really encourages us to first work on the internal things while assuming that once we have them under control the external things will follow.
This book is great for mental health as well, you feel good while completing the exercises and in the end you end up with a new feeling of motivation that if put with the right diet could really be the last diet you would ever need. The author includes so many examples that it is impossible not to feel related to some of the issues all of us experience in our weight loss journey.
Overall I don’t believe this is a magical book that will automatically help you lose weight, I still believe you need to go to a proper specialist to do that, but I can really appreciate how much self-reflection this book made me do. Of course this book won´t make me lose weight just by simply reading it but I loved how much I discovered about myself after reading it.
If you are currently going through a weight loss journey and you are starting to fell stuck I would definitely give this books a chance.
September 4, 2020
Probably the most important book I’ve read this year. Authentic, rooted in reality and written beautifully by an author who truly “gets it” (as well as having all the official credentials...I believe they understand the complexity of relationships with food and bodies) Practical and kind. Life-changing.
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February 25, 2023Heard about this on The Diary of a CEO podcast, some interesting ideas, but whether this will be the ultimate diet book for me remains to be seen.
April 4, 2025
Of all the books that have profoundly influenced my life, and helped me initiate much-needed changes, this is top of the list.
February 27, 2020
Great book
Want to read
March 10, 2020Won this book on goodreads. Still have not received it...
January 11, 2025
'The Last Diet' is a very unique book on the idea of weight loss through the principles of kindness. I'd heard Shahroo Izadi on a podcast and was interested to see what else she could share on the subject.
What I liked about the book: It's a very gentle and kind approach to weight loss without the burden of appearance as a factor. It's also quite clear that this book is more specifically helpful for women who have struggled with all kinds of diets, eating disorders or body dysmorphia as well as those who find societal standards of weight oppressive.
The chapter titled 'The Plan' is the one that clearly lays out what you need to do. And the one entitled 'Your Soundtrack' had me tearing up because I could recognise how I used to speak to myself in the past.
What I wish had been better:
While I personally agree with most of the principles she espouses in the book, I still feel that the concept of kindness and quasi-intuitive eating may not work for everyone initially, especially those who have a lot of weight to lose, purely from a health perspective.
Weight loss (by itself a problematic term) can take many months or a couple of years to actually yield results. Most people can't wait that long. So some insight into what can be done to help tide over that waiting phase would have been helpful.
Similarly, weight loss is very singular in context and doesn't account for fat loss, muscle mass loss or skeletal muscle loss - all of which can happen when one loses weight. I wish she had touched upon this topic as well.
I also listened to this book on audible so I couldn't get the 'feel' of the exercises she recommends in the book. For that reason, the paperback version would be better suited to most readers.
What I liked about the book: It's a very gentle and kind approach to weight loss without the burden of appearance as a factor. It's also quite clear that this book is more specifically helpful for women who have struggled with all kinds of diets, eating disorders or body dysmorphia as well as those who find societal standards of weight oppressive.
The chapter titled 'The Plan' is the one that clearly lays out what you need to do. And the one entitled 'Your Soundtrack' had me tearing up because I could recognise how I used to speak to myself in the past.
What I wish had been better:
While I personally agree with most of the principles she espouses in the book, I still feel that the concept of kindness and quasi-intuitive eating may not work for everyone initially, especially those who have a lot of weight to lose, purely from a health perspective.
Weight loss (by itself a problematic term) can take many months or a couple of years to actually yield results. Most people can't wait that long. So some insight into what can be done to help tide over that waiting phase would have been helpful.
Similarly, weight loss is very singular in context and doesn't account for fat loss, muscle mass loss or skeletal muscle loss - all of which can happen when one loses weight. I wish she had touched upon this topic as well.
I also listened to this book on audible so I couldn't get the 'feel' of the exercises she recommends in the book. For that reason, the paperback version would be better suited to most readers.
March 7, 2020
“This book is for those who want to create their diet on purpose. Those who have come to realize that without some basic guidelines to follow, their current automatic eating habits will result in their bodies looking and feeling a way they’re not comfortable with.”
Right from the intro I could tell this books was different. I appreciated that the author has had her own struggles with weight loss and talks about them openly mentioning the three reasons she tended to gain weight.
I don’t do well with being told what I can/can’t do so this book immediately resonated with me. It’s more of a “let’s dive in and find out WHY” and that always works better for me. The book gives a series of exercises to help the reader think about their choices and cultivate their own successful weight loss plans. Something that is personal and will be sustainable.
I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review, and even though I’ve read the book, I plan to buy it in April so I can go back and physically highlight and flag pages. I found the exercises to be insightful.
Right from the intro I could tell this books was different. I appreciated that the author has had her own struggles with weight loss and talks about them openly mentioning the three reasons she tended to gain weight.
I don’t do well with being told what I can/can’t do so this book immediately resonated with me. It’s more of a “let’s dive in and find out WHY” and that always works better for me. The book gives a series of exercises to help the reader think about their choices and cultivate their own successful weight loss plans. Something that is personal and will be sustainable.
I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review, and even though I’ve read the book, I plan to buy it in April so I can go back and physically highlight and flag pages. I found the exercises to be insightful.
December 23, 2019
I r eceived a copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
The last diet is a book that teaches you how to change your eating habits in order to lose weight. Refreshingly this does not recommend eating piles of vegetables and never dining out ever again. It just encourages you to sit and think about the foods that are triggering and whether to cut down or cut out and gradually reintroduce if you feel that they won’t be a problem anymore. This book also talks a lot about emotional eating which is something I definitely have a problem with.
There are exercises you do throughout this book to help you put strategies in place and stay on track. For the purpose of this review I did not do any of these exercises I just read it straight through but I will be going back and doing the exercises.
The last diet is a book that teaches you how to change your eating habits in order to lose weight. Refreshingly this does not recommend eating piles of vegetables and never dining out ever again. It just encourages you to sit and think about the foods that are triggering and whether to cut down or cut out and gradually reintroduce if you feel that they won’t be a problem anymore. This book also talks a lot about emotional eating which is something I definitely have a problem with.
There are exercises you do throughout this book to help you put strategies in place and stay on track. For the purpose of this review I did not do any of these exercises I just read it straight through but I will be going back and doing the exercises.
March 27, 2020
The last diet is a book that encourages you how to change your eating habits in order to lose weight. It's a book that approaches your problems with diets and eating like an addiction problem, which in most cases it is as it's so hard to say no to that piece (lets face it) whole bar of chocolate even though you know deep down you shouldn't have it!
It does not recommend eating piles of vegetables or never dining out ever again. It just suggests you consider which foods are triggering you to eat, emotional eating and internal dialogues defeating you.
There are exercises-not the physical sort - worksheets/mind maps at the end of each chapters so you can do them throughout the book to help you put strategies in place and stay on track.
I received this book from Netgalley in return for a honest review.
It does not recommend eating piles of vegetables or never dining out ever again. It just suggests you consider which foods are triggering you to eat, emotional eating and internal dialogues defeating you.
There are exercises-not the physical sort - worksheets/mind maps at the end of each chapters so you can do them throughout the book to help you put strategies in place and stay on track.
I received this book from Netgalley in return for a honest review.
May 12, 2020
A really unconventional book. No hoity toity language, no preachy messages and it's NOT a self-help book. I am digging each word. As I keep on reading I realise how much my thoughts and actions concur with the author's stance on health and diet. Bottomline, the book knows that you know why is it important to be healthy, how to lose that extra weight and also knows that you are STILL not doing anything about it. This book doesn't tell you what to eat and what not to eat. It is a guide and a reminder that will encourage you to bring about that change from within. So difficult to put to words how this book makes me feel.
Anyway! It has a lot of written exercises which will keep you busy. And that acts as a checklist and reminder!
Anyway! It has a lot of written exercises which will keep you busy. And that acts as a checklist and reminder!
April 7, 2020
This book is written for those who are weary of diet plans that don’t work. The author starts with her own story of personal weight loss, explains whey traditional plans may not work for some. The book offers a clear plan for someone who is motivated and willing to take responsibility for his or her own experience.
I found this book impressive. I especially liked the way the author explains ideas and then offers options to the readers--respecting the power of the individual to take charge for themselves, and finally have an experience of success.
My thanks to the author publisher, and NetGalley for providing an advance copy to read and offer an honest review.
I found this book impressive. I especially liked the way the author explains ideas and then offers options to the readers--respecting the power of the individual to take charge for themselves, and finally have an experience of success.
My thanks to the author publisher, and NetGalley for providing an advance copy to read and offer an honest review.
May 25, 2020
I’ll be picking up a copy of this book this Summer since I wasn’t able to put most of the wonderful ideas into action due to COVID-19 & the world turning upside down. It’s far from your usual “diet” book since it’s not a list of what to eat (or avoid), but instead a compassionate guide into knowing why we have overeaten and learning to take better care of ourselves using these lessons Ms Izadi has perfected after years of practice.
January 17, 2020
This is a book that examines why we over eat and has some great exercises to fill out. I think it will help me because food makes me feel better and that is not a good thing.
July 21, 2023
I resonated so much with the lessons in this book and recommend it for ANYONE trying to overcome a serious binge eating or food addiction disorder.
January 23, 2025
I first saw Shahroo Izadi on a popular podcast and was instantly taken in by her confidence and her positive message of kindness. She spoke so fervently of her own struggles, her own success in shedding over 100 pounds, and her utter disdain for our modern day diet culture and the havoc it has wrought on the lives of so, so many of us. As an addictions counselor, she speaks of how sheapplied her knowledge of substance abuse to her own struggles with food. I have often thought to myself, isn't food just as dangerous as drugs, just as insidious? Bug those who manage to kick drugs can stay away from them to stay safe. Those of us with food addictions do not have that luxury. nFood cannot be avoided. For us, the struggle must be faced and conquered.
In The Last Diet., the reader is granted the tools to identify unhealthy habits and where they come from, an understanding of how to change them, and helpful strategies for actions after a slip up. The author uses all of her evidence based knowledge to create an action plan based on kindness. To change the way we deal with food, we need to change our self talk. Kindness is key.
The Last Diet. is a refreshing take on a common problem. Shahroo Izadi says her mission is to eliminate diet culture and all of its negative messages. I, for one, hope she is succesful.
In The Last Diet., the reader is granted the tools to identify unhealthy habits and where they come from, an understanding of how to change them, and helpful strategies for actions after a slip up. The author uses all of her evidence based knowledge to create an action plan based on kindness. To change the way we deal with food, we need to change our self talk. Kindness is key.
The Last Diet. is a refreshing take on a common problem. Shahroo Izadi says her mission is to eliminate diet culture and all of its negative messages. I, for one, hope she is succesful.
July 6, 2025
I live in 2 continents, and for 3 years i have been gaining and losing 7kg 2 times a year depending on where im in.
Being fit and healthy is something i have always prioritised and for the last years i have been on my fitness journey,
The last 2 months i have gained more than 13kg rapidly because of an autoimmune disease, my bf% hqs increased and i have a little health anxiety, i found myself consumed by the way my body has changed, started constantly worrying about the little things and now that my anxiety is making my disorder worse and thus gaining more weight.
Reading this book made me realise the importance of kindly treating myself regardless of my weight, becoming aware that if i changed the way i speak to myself i will make progress again in my fitness journey.
I mean how lucky am i to start all over again? To learn what works best with my body regardless of my weight and shape.
Especially where my criticism comes from ahhh
Im just a woman who is trying her best to stay healthy, set backs happen, and thats exactly where its important to stay rooted and treat myself with love.
Being fit and healthy is something i have always prioritised and for the last years i have been on my fitness journey,
The last 2 months i have gained more than 13kg rapidly because of an autoimmune disease, my bf% hqs increased and i have a little health anxiety, i found myself consumed by the way my body has changed, started constantly worrying about the little things and now that my anxiety is making my disorder worse and thus gaining more weight.
Reading this book made me realise the importance of kindly treating myself regardless of my weight, becoming aware that if i changed the way i speak to myself i will make progress again in my fitness journey.
I mean how lucky am i to start all over again? To learn what works best with my body regardless of my weight and shape.
Especially where my criticism comes from ahhh
Im just a woman who is trying her best to stay healthy, set backs happen, and thats exactly where its important to stay rooted and treat myself with love.
September 18, 2020
I've read both of Shahroo's book and OMG they have been such game-changers in my life! I've had huge breakthroughs in so many aspects of my life just by being kinder to myself. I've been able to enjoy the finer things in life guilt-free and I feel so much lighter because I'm free from the mental cage of doubt, low-self esteem, and self-sabotage. I cannot recommend these books enough, I literally tell everyone about how great they are!
I recommend fully committing and doing the exercises as you read. It took me three days to read and complete the entire book. I could immediately feel the difference because Shahroo brings awareness to everything you've never even considered before.
This book empowers, inspires and motivates you without even telling you once what you should and shouldn't eat or how you should exercise. Shahroo walks you through all the inner work so that you can follow your intuition to be your authentic self and in effect improve your relationship with food.
LOVE LOVE LOVE!
I recommend fully committing and doing the exercises as you read. It took me three days to read and complete the entire book. I could immediately feel the difference because Shahroo brings awareness to everything you've never even considered before.
This book empowers, inspires and motivates you without even telling you once what you should and shouldn't eat or how you should exercise. Shahroo walks you through all the inner work so that you can follow your intuition to be your authentic self and in effect improve your relationship with food.
LOVE LOVE LOVE!
October 29, 2022
rounding this up to ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5.
picked this one up out of curiousity when i heard that its not like a typical dieting book. we have lost weight ((and gained it back)) many times but what we truly need to understand is ourselves - why some diets work for us, why we quit, why our motivation changes and over eat in the first place.
the exercises are probably not for everyone and personally only some of them are q helpful for me. found myself skimming some parts but overall, i like how it serves as a reminder to take care of ourselves first before anything. its somehow written in a way its more self-help-ish??
recommend if you are looking to improve your health + be more aware of your relationship with food.
picked this one up out of curiousity when i heard that its not like a typical dieting book. we have lost weight ((and gained it back)) many times but what we truly need to understand is ourselves - why some diets work for us, why we quit, why our motivation changes and over eat in the first place.
the exercises are probably not for everyone and personally only some of them are q helpful for me. found myself skimming some parts but overall, i like how it serves as a reminder to take care of ourselves first before anything. its somehow written in a way its more self-help-ish??
recommend if you are looking to improve your health + be more aware of your relationship with food.
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