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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

E222: Behaviour Change Scientist: How I Lost 120lbs With Kindness: Shahroo Izadi

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

If your friend tells you about a new goal they want to achieve, would you tell them that there is no way they can do it, or that it wasn’t for people like them? Of course you wouldn’t! But why is it that so many of us speak to ourselves in this way?

If you really want to change your habits for good, behaviour change specialist Shahroo Izadi believes that this self-talk is what is holding you back from the real change you want to achieve. Instead, Shahroo believes we have to treat ourselves with kindness to create lasting difference.

In this necessary conversation Shahroo breaks down her kindness method and how her own life influenced it, from her work as an addiction therapist to the struggles in her personal life. If you want to change any habit in your life for good, this episode is essential for you!


Topics:

  • Your professional bio
  • What’s your relationship with food now?
  • Why do people fail to change?
  • Impostor syndrome
  • How do we prepare ourselves to relapse
  • Diets don’t work
  • The best actionable advice for change
  • What’s your relationship with food now?
  • What are you working on now?


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Impostos in Joan. How does one move past it?

0:03.0

Ugh, sit back.

0:05.0

Sharu Izadi.

0:06.8

She is an expert in breaking bad habits and beating addiction.

0:09.8

Women's Health magazine has called her Britain's answer to Brenno Brown,

0:13.8

and she's also an author, including the number one bestseller,

0:17.1

The Kindness Method.

0:18.4

I am determined to have binge eating and powerlessness

0:22.6

and lack of trust that people have as a direct result of weight loss diets

0:26.8

to die with my generation.

0:28.5

Why?

0:29.3

I started dieting from a really, really young age.

0:31.7

And I was using food as a drug.

0:33.1

When I got to my heaviest, I was like, that's it, I'm done.

0:35.5

How heavy?

0:36.3

126 kilos, and it eventually culminated in secretly getting a gastric band fitted.

0:41.5

I started working in addiction treatment, and I started realizing that I was going about this the wrong way.

0:45.9

I wasn't meant to be making my body smaller.

0:47.9

I was meant to understand why.

0:49.1

I didn't like myself enough to take the same advice I'd give someone else.

0:52.1

When someone you love is struggling to get back on track,

0:54.9

you don't pretend that what they're trying to do is simple,

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