Oprah finally admits to taking weight loss drug

Once she stops taking it she will blimp out again

Well how could she not, after coming out as Ozempified with that purple dress?

Something must be done to get Oprah eating again.

She took it after much anguish, a lifetime of self-reproach, and extensive panel discussions, and it wouldn’t work if she didn’t exercise religiously (it would). Stop treating her like a garden-variety celebrity Ozempic-user—-she’s Oprah. She wouldn’t even defecate without purpose or reflection.

Has it also curbed her appetite for Gayle's snatch?

Whatever you do, do *not* offer her...bread.

The Ozempic-Weight Watchers deal must have been approved

R7 took the words outta my mouth

What does losing weight have to do with being a messiah?

I think she looks good. Maybe she used drugs but so do lots of other people

Ozemprah

Wasn’t she the WeightWatches spokesperson? Oops

R5 Now, if there was only a pill 💊 for Gayle’s toothsome snatchcakes

It puts the lotion on its skin

Imagine if she wiped the slate clean 🧼 and admitted to Ozys & Lesbo and walked away as free as a bird 🦅

Up with uppers!

🐻 👑: changing the name to “L” Magazine

Where's the wagon of fat?!

But how many layers of shapewear under that purple dress, hmm?

Ah but she looks good. Does being unable to eat lead to of the rise of other habits such as gambling or drinking as happens with gastric bypass sometimes? Months ago, someone here on DL said ozempic helped curb their drinking (unintended consequence). Where does that addictive impulse go, I wonder.

[quote]Wasn’t she the WeightWatches spokesperson? Oops

NO she's one of the owners.

R9. It has to do with being a messiah because she initially wouldn’t acknowledge it. That’s kind of inconsistent with her supposed authenticity and being spokesperson for a program relying solely on diet and exercise for weight loss.

Even after shedding some weight, she still reminds me of Grimace.

Ozempic is going to end the day bigger than Apple

Not aware of how Ozempic affects a person's eating habits-- I hope O can still indulge in whatever culinary things she enjoys. I thought she looked great these past few years with a fuller figure, so not having to worry about dieting is the only reason I'd think she'd go down this path. She's going to be 70 in a month, and it's not like being "sexy" or "fuckable" was ever part of her persona, no matter how much weight she gained or lost or how beautiful her face may be.

She's on Instagram constantly, and the weight dropped off very quickly. I'm imagining all of these celebrities standing in the front of the mirror and admiring their Death Becomes Her transformations in real time.

SO, O would have a hefty stake in O

What's next? Suzanne Somers (pimper of The Thighmaster®, ButtMaster® Torso Track®, SomerSize Diet Program®, Suzanne Somers Toning System®, Sexy Leg Renew®, Gut Renew®, SomerSweet Sugar Substitute®) caught getting liposuction? Oh, wait.

You left out her Vagisizer, r25.

Her show’s makeovers hazed people on their style and made every woman look like a newscaster, circa 1998. At least she is laughing at herself here.

If Oprah is on Ozempic, can she still do the Jardiance dance?

finally? we just saw the bitch looking thinner like a week ago.

O , who has more wealth than several nations combined has struggled with her weight for her entire adulthood. Even with access to personal trainers and private chefs.

These medications are a game changer.

O is a sixty year old woman who has developed a classic coke bottle shaped figure overnight. Obviously, she is taking a medication to cure American fat ass syndrome!

The delay was caused by the waiting for her a-ha moment.

Lookin good O

Is Gayle still big? I bet Oprah's a chubby chaser.

O , who has more wealth than several nations combined, has struggled with her weight for her entire adulthood, even with access to personal trainers and private chefs.

She no longer has a weight problem, she has a prescription for a weight loss medication.

O did not lie when she said that her weight loss is not the result of taking Ozempic. She is on Wegovy or Mounjaro or another version of this Ozempic.

Weight watchers is developing their own medication and giving up the counting points bullshit.

I love the fact these medications are being used by the rich and famous who don't have to wait to lose weight. Let them be the guniea pigs so we can watch for any debilitating side effects caused by the medication to become known.

And YOU get a weight loss drug, And YOU get a weight loss drug, And YOU get a weight loss drug.

She bought the company.

So it really was what your eating and not what’s eating you.

Whoopi Goldberg and other The View hosts are also deflating in size. What has changed? Access to these medications.

I don't watch The View but I noticed Whoopi has gotten large, it will be interesting to watch her slim down

Everyone who joined Weight Watchers and didn't lose a lot of weight should get a refund.

I want ozempic but I can’t afford it

She didn’t get the drawn, haggard face that Mindy Kaling, Kelly Osborne, etc. have after taking the weight loss drug. She looks great.

Lying ass pig. Everyone knew she was usning Wegovy all along, but she’s such a garbage human she thought everyone believed every lying word that came out of her miserable mouth.

Please y’all, keep subscribing to WW. You’ll see immediate results as your bank account loses weight! And keep buying the cauliflower pizza. It’s the most important thing for weight loss. The drugs are just a small factor…the cauliflower is really the key!

Duh, she was an idiot for even thinking anyone believed otherwise.

[quote]She didn’t get the drawn, haggard face that Mindy Kaling, Kelly Osborne, etc. have after taking the weight loss drug.

Yet.

Have a look at this image of O being presented with a portrait. You can see her weight loss immortalized in the image.

O has a waist again.

This is what these medications can do.

She owns 8% of Weight Watchers.

"That’s what people want to hear. The truth is boring."

"Done with the shaming!"

"Done with the lying", is more like it.

The drug’s price is about $1,000 per month or more, regardless of whether you take it for diabetes as it’s indicated for, or for obesity off-label. Ozempic (semaglutide), another diabetes drug routinely prescribed off-label for weight loss, also retails for roughly $1,000 out of pocket.

A higher dose of semaglutide, branded as Wegovy, is indicated specifically for weight management, and costs about $1,300 per month.

All three medications, which belong to a class of drugs called GLP-1 agonists, come with coupons that can drop prices as low as $0 instead of north of $12,000 or more a year, depending on your insurance coverage and when you got the coupon.

That’s why people losing weight on Mounjaro, some as much as 100 pounds or more, have despaired at the loss of the cost-saving coupon.

For now, manufacturer coupons for Ozempic and Wegovy last a year and two years, respectively, from the time a person begins taking the drug.

Oprah walks now. Oprah does stairs now.

She looks good.

She looks great, but at what cost eventually? I can't believe smart people don't realize there are likely serious consequences to vital organs down the road. Maybe at age 69, and having experienced life on an astronomically lavish scale already, she's decided she doesn't give a fuck. I'd opt to stick around longer and enjoy my billions, not giving much of a fuck about weight or looks.

I know a lot of people drag her for her face but I honestly think she looks really pretty and better than most at 69

What's the big deal in the first place?

I honestly think she looks better fat because it balances out her enormous head.

I can 't work out her hair.

Opzempic Winfrey

she looks so absurd in the picture at r48! hilariously pompous 😂

[quote] Not aware of how Ozempic affects a person's eating habits-- I hope O can still indulge in whatever culinary things she enjoys.

Thanks for your input, Rose.

She can hike everyday way up into Gayle’s Canyon, but unless her snackpurse is stuffed with Ozys, She ain’t be going anywhere!

What does she do all day? Why did she retire from that huge show so early? Isn't she an actress any longer?

She goes to the hairdressers 3 times a week.

Oprah has struggled with her weight for most of her life. You don't build a multi-billion dollar empire without some stressors. She has been open about every aspect of her life and she NEVER claimed that her obesity was healthy.

I am pleased that she is pleased and she looks great.

[quote]What's the big deal in the first place?

The big deal is that she makes a living hawking a bunch of weight-loss strategies that don’t work at all, even for her.

I'm a few years from 50 and have 20 pandemic pounds I can't shake, plus a family history of thyroid cancer. I am not touching those drugs.

If I were Oprah—with a decade or less to go in life expectancy, and having been plagued by weight my entire life—hell yes I would try them.

HOW DARE YOU GAYS CRITCIZE OPRAH!!!!

[quote]The big deal is that she makes a living hawking a bunch of weight-loss strategies that don’t work at all, even for her.

Weight Watchers works for a lot of people. Tina Fey took off 30 pounds in the late '90s because of WW, and she's kept it off because she said the program "taught her how to eat."

But nothing works for everyone, especially compulsive (emotional) eaters like Oprah. Therapists for conditions like depression, OCD, and alcoholism say you can't talk yourself out of those issues—you have to act your way out.

That's hard for people who are driven to compulsively eat because their brains suggest that's the best idea. These medications seem to tell that area of the brain to STFU.

Oprah is still fat. And the foundation and compression garments are impressive, to give her a figure. Many parts of her body are likely deflated and hanging flaps of flesh.

-- Truth Fairy

Weight Watcher purchased Sequence, a telehealth company that oversees weight loss and prescribes Mounjaro primarily. The CEO said something to the effect of we can’t keep using rotary phones when the whole world has cell phones. Their business model hadn’t changed for decades, so something had to give.

At least I don’t have 40lbs of fat hitting me in the face or on top of my head anymore when I have to tongue out my mortgage payment every month.

It’s a win/win for everyone.

🤢🤢🤮🤮.

[quote]If I were Oprah—with a decade or less to go in life expectancy, and having been plagued by weight my entire life—hell yes I would try them.

She could easily live to 100.

She's the messiah of weight loss drugs!

[quote]Stop treating this woman like a modern day messiah.

Are you posting from 1992?

R77. That’s partially true, but look at the mass, hysterical adulation she got just a few years ago for the stupid, lazy, unprofessional interview she did with the former royals that pretty much everyone concede now that as a complete embarrassment. She still has a lot of capital apparently.

[quote]She could easily live to 100.

But she's 69, and female life expectancy is 79.

And that's without necessarily having been obese for half a century, off and on.

If I were her, I'd say, go to town. Shoot me up!

Maybe she wants to fit into a wedding dress for Steadman?

I don't know how anyone respects any billionaire sitting on top of their cash mountain. Yes O deserves the best things her money can buy but it's ego that keeps all these crazy rich people hanging onto their wealth. 100m would be more than enough to live an unbelievable lifestyle for several lifetimes, why hoard the rest?

Anyone else got any suggestions on this mentality?

I think she's an egomaniac for never seeking counselling for her many issues. Oh, that's right: She's a narcissist!

I could never tolerate a minute of her stupid talk show, she was that obnoxious playing up to the white women with her over the top ebonics.

Embarrassing on every level.

I've never tried WW myself, but a lot of people I know have, and it really does seem to work. I am concerned that with the cost of these medications, and their supposed plan to toss out the points system, only people with considerable expendable income and good insurance will be able to afford the program.

They would be smart to have tiers. One for the poors--points system only. The not quite so poors--can only afford the occasional shot, and still depend on the points system. Then the rich bitches who can Wegovy themselves whisper thin--points are for the poors.. Though it would be a pity to lose such an egalitarian program where they were all using the same program with no extra advantage.

Your tier proposal makes a lot of sense, R83.

I also fear the thyroid cancer black-box warning is going to manifest itself in the coming years. My mother died from thyroid cancer—if you don't have the kind that can be easily zapped by radioactive iodine, it is a horrific disease and death.

But I do think that because obesity affects so many straight people, insurance companies are going to be pressured into covering these drugs even faster than they were into covering PrEP. Like, within a year.

Your chance of dying from heart disease, stroke, or complications from diabetes due to obesity… are FAR higher than the chances of developing thyroid cancer due to these drugs.

This woman of power and wealth can get Ozempic. (It was offered as part of Weight Watchers as one time, although I don’t know of the scarcity of the supply has changed that.)

I wasn’t in the mood for her Oprah-isms, so I haven’t read her justification for lying or how she was “shamed”. What I do know, is for every pound she lost, and every day she denied using Ozempic, she shamed millions: Those who were using Ozempic to lose weight, and those who couldn’t lose weight like she did (hiking! Where? To the moon?) because they didn’t or couldn’t use Ozempic. All this queen of personal empowerment had to say was that’s she’s on a personal health journey, and that she will share her methods if she is successful in reaching her goals. But she remained adamant in her denials.

Kelly Clarkson also seems to want to credit healthy eating and activity alone as well, yet she’s seen daily on her talk show where she is disappearing before our eyes. Listen, I’m a fatty who has lost and gained 70 lbs at least four times in my life. It’s not hard to lose weight, but it’s hard, if not nearly impossible, to push past a plateau to a goal weight and it’s hard to maintain. These formerly overweight celebrities are succeeding at it, and while I cheer them for their successes and wish them well, it is frustrating to know they have a key advantage others don’t while trying to deny they don’t. And that’s a powerful way of shaming others that they don’t seem to realize yet.

Female life expectancy is 79? That’s news to me. The only women I knew who died by that age were alcoholics or obese.

[quote]Your chance of dying from heart disease, stroke, or complications from diabetes due to obesity… are FAR higher than the chances of developing thyroid cancer due to these drugs.

Frankly, the truth of that statement is TBD. The drugs haven't been in widespread use that long.

When my mother was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, we were told it was "99% curable," and "if you were to get cancer, this is the kind of cancer you want to get." She suffered and died a terrible death anyway. First you can't swallow, then you can't breathe.

My takeaway was: if there's anything you can do to lower your risk of getting thyroid cancer, do it.

I would say approach these drugs with eyes wide open—don't dismiss the risks, and be aware of the gamble you're taking. Make sure it's right for you.

[quote]Once she stops taking it she will blimp out again

You don't stop taking it, R1. If you're on it for diabetes or obesity, you stay on it forever.

Also, see below. It may be early days, but remember medicine has already found plenty of links between obesity and all kinds of potentially terminal diseases. The latest news is that semaglutide is so good for the kidneys that they're investigating exactly how it has that effect, in the hope of spinning off new drugs from it specifically for that purpose.

She has a big head. Her body looks like shit with a big head atop.

Al Sharpton is like that, too. He looks like a human microphone.

Jesus just isn't enough, apparently.

The 79 year life expectancy is irrelevant. That is life expectancy at birth now. For a woman who has already reached 70 it’s 17 years or so. Then you have to consider her wealth and the health care it buys.

No, life expectancy for a woman born in 1954, as Oprah was, is 79.

And that's not accounting for decades of obesity, including potential diabetes or prediabetes, high blood pressure, etc.

Do a damn Google search before wasting your time yapping.

There's so much focus on Ozempic and other Diabetes related drugs, I wonder if there are drugs out here for weight loss that are not primarily for diabetes? BEcause if your blood sugar isn't too bad and you take Ozempic you can really mess yourself up. YOur blood sugar can drop to dangerous levels. So I am curious about what she took. Of course she won't tell us ...unless she gets a contract and $$$ to endorse it. When Oprah likes something it creates chaos.

I’m living my best life!

I used to like her show as a kid but I wonder at her bad taste for getting involved with the likes of Dr Phil

Meh. I don’t blame her at all. She had a life long weight problem - unusual for someone with her drive , ambition and success.

But unusual given her horrific childhood background and the outward display of emotions that made her successful.

Shes the kind of person Ozempic was made for.

[quote]“The fact that there’s a medically approved prescription for managing weight and staying healthier, in my lifetime, feels like relief, like redemption, like a gift, and not something to hide behind and once again be ridiculed for.”

Or, she can just deal with her issues with over-eating and, you know, PUT THE FORK DOWN.

You'd think she could divert her control issues toward self-control.

Oprah is a heavy set woman. It's who she is. Always has been, always will be. She has the genes. She needs to stop trying to be a thin, white woman. Also, her wigs have gotten absurd. She is a billionaire. Do your own thing, girl. Stop trying to look like a RHONY.

No doubt thousands of antivaxxers have suddenly stopped demonizing big pharma for at least 60lbs.

I have to make the distinction between "struggling to lose weight" and "an obsession to be rail thin." Whether through diet, exercise, or with the help of undergarments, she never presented as "fat" after her major weight loss in the early 90s. She had an hourglass figure with big boobs, a big ass, and a defined waist. She looks wonderful now and I'm happy she found something to help to achieve her "lifelong dream," but I'd respect her more if she learned to love and find confidence in her body at the weight she's more or less maintained for the past two decades.

[quote]I'd respect her more if she learned to love and find confidence in her body at the weight she's more or less maintained for the past two decades.

The body positivity movement is wrong. She should not find love and confidence. She should be working to be at a healthy weight.

O-o-O-o-O Zemprahhh

R94 Oh, dear. You went in big for the humiliation, didn't you? Maybe you should ask yourself it you are a foul and really stupid simpleton before yapping. What you linked s life expectancy for people born in those years. The average number of years you are expected to live at birth is very different from the number of years you are expected to live you have already reached the age of 69. The life expectancy at birth averages in all the deaths before age 69. The life expectancy of someone has managed to reach age 69 is quite difference. This is a very basic actuarial consideration that you clearly don't know, but you do know about Google, so continuing to glory in that achievement, as well as in your personal foulness.

Here is a government showing female life expectancy for a 69-year-old of 16 years.

OP is fat.

Buck would have never admitted to using a weight loss drug.

How soon we forget? Anytime there is some revolutionary weight loss drug release to the market 9 months to a year down the line it is found to have significant consequences. Remember Fen-Phen?????

[quote]BEcause if your blood sugar isn't too bad and you take Ozempic you can really mess yourself up. YOur blood sugar can drop to dangerous levels.

That’s not how it works.

[quote]How soon we forget? Anytime there is some revolutionary weight loss drug release to the market 9 months to a year down the line it is found to have significant consequences. Remember Fen-Phen?????

Ozempic has been on the market for a long time.

It is always good to be cautious about developments that seem to be miraculous, but many, many aspects of modern life, including medications, seemed to be too good to be true when they were introduced. Antibiotics are so routine now that we don't realize that what they accomplish would have been almost incomprehensible to someone living before the 20th century. And, yes, their predecessors (sulfa drugs) ended up having intolerable consequence and perhaps we might have worried at the time antibiotics would prove to be similar. Antibiotics do have some adverse consequences, but we manage them.

There is already some history to Ozempic to assess its risks and time will provide additional information. If I were someone with severe long-term obesity, I would consider its benefits to outweigh its risks at this point. I wouldn't if I were only slightly overweight, but with additional history of the drug's use I might.

To be thin why not just smoke, drink wine, eat two bites of fois gras and make love with your friend’s husband?

Yes, R112, but people don't take antibiotics in order to slim down and look hot. People are taking a pharmaceutical for vanity purposes and I don't think it's going to end well for those who are not the target demo. People who are not diabetics or morbidly obese. It's excessive.

[Quote] Anytime there is some revolutionary weight loss drug release to the market 9 months to a year down the line it is found to have significant consequences.

Yes and what was that calorie free fat called, Olestra? It was the one with molecules too big to be stored as fat. It ended up sliding right through the body onto a chair.

Your analogy os poor. We do unfortunately use antibiotics for a lot of nonessential reasons. And I clearly said I would take it currently for a significant weight loss and not for a minor weight problem so your comment most be intended for a different poster who would currently use it for vanity.

Oprah is heavy enough that losing weight could provide significant benefits to her health and well-being

R115 Photo link request 😆🤣

R116, yes, while antibiotics are used what you deemed nonessential uses they are not used for such vacuous reasons ie vanity. And I did not mean to infer I was talking about your specific choice, I was speaking in general terms. This drug will be abused by those who want to take off five, 10, 15 pounds.

Antibiotics are used for very vacuous reasons. They are used in connection with growing meat. They are used in recovery from cosmetic surgery.

As a general matter, we incur a large number of avoidable risks every day for frivolous reasons. Once there is a longer track record, it may very well make sense to take this drug even for obesity that is not severe, including weight loss purely for vanity. However, even small weight loss usually has a benefit to well being as well.

You talk as if human beings pursue riskless lives until they are forced by some compelling reason to incur a risk. That is not at all how people live.

You have to take the shot for life though right? Apparently the weight comes back on and then some....Kelly Osbourne stopped taking it when she was pregnant and got ENORMOUS. She gained way more than pregnancy pounds. Now she looks pale and anorexic. Nothing about that chemically induced yo yo is healthy.

I can see taking this if you have Type 2 diabetes or other co-morbidities...but nothing beats good nutrition, portion control and exercise. This is said by a former fattie btw.

If you can't afford Ozempic there's an easy solution: get yourself a Groupon for semaglutide. It's the same thing, but far cheaper --as little as $100 for a 6-week starter pack supply. And for many of their offers you don't have to see or even speak to a doctor--you just fill out an online form.

I started on it about 3 months ago and progress has been slow but steady. I've lost about 15 pounds in 3 months, with another 15 or so to go. The weight loss probably would have been a lot faster if I'd been obese to start with but I wasn't, just slightly overweight (according to my BMI).. And it's been effortless. I feel full after just a few bites and am no o longer tormented by hunger pangs and food obsessions.

She looks good. Not sure if she has had work done on her face but, if she hasn't, the face has held up very well.

The body is also looking very good, drugs or not. However, you really cannot lose this much weight (and as often as Oprah has, through the years) without massive amounts of loose skin. Either she is binding her body underneath her current clothes, or she has had skin removal done previously, because at her fattest points there would have been no avoiding that with significant weight loss (which she has in undertaken several times).

I have to wonder how someone gets to age 70 without being able to figure out how to eat properly on their own, or with a reasonable amount of counseling, especially with her fortune. She has never conquered the food/obesity demon in all of her years. She finally needed a miracle pill to do it, even after Weight Watchers educated her on things like portion size and the simple mathematics of calories in/out? It's sad, in a way.

Purple is very slimming.

[quote]I have to wonder how someone gets to age 70 without being able to figure out how to eat properly on their own, or with a reasonable amount of counseling, especially with her fortune. She has never conquered the food/obesity demon in all of her years.

She’s like any other substance abuser. It’s just that she is abusing food the same way Ben Affleck can’t put down the bottle. It’s not a matter of not knowing what foods to eat, it’s a mental illness.

R124, as well as therapy, what would be the best psychiatric medicine to reduce the urge to drink or overeat? I'm not talking about the meds that people take to stop alcohol working if they do drink. Are the urges coming from poor coping skills and would anti-depressants help?

A lot of psychiatric meds seem to cause weight gain, so maybe for people who overeat there are specific ones which don't cause that.

[quote] Yes and what was that calorie free fat called, Olestra?

WOW! chips were delicious and slimming, well worth putting up with the sharts and skidmarks.

[quote]Antibiotics do have some adverse consequences, but we manage them.

If only that were true. I'm permanently crippled due to a fluoroquinolone antibiotic. Not managing well at all. There are unbelievably dangerous antibiotics on the market but you'll never hear that from your doctor, your pharmacist or the FDA. No...the public is left to learn this lesson themselves, the hard way.

That's awful, r127. Wish you the best.

Sorry that happened to you R127

r107 actually I used to be chubs but I lost weight on Weight Watchers a few years back and have fought to keep it off. I never liked Oprah's involvement in WW, I feel like she ruined it. They hired WW ambassadors like DJ Khaled and James Corden who never lost weight. It became about "wellness" instead of weight loss because Oprah could never lose the weight. Now WW is pushing weight loss medication which goes against their original concept.

Thank you @R121

They’ve totally done a 360 at Weight Watchers. No more weigh-ins or coaches. Take a pill!

r132 are they not doing weigh ins at meetings any more?

WW is completely rebranded as an Ozempic Oasis. The new multimillionaire CEO purchase the company Sequence ( the Ozempic component ) and joined it with weight watchers .

[quote] have to wonder how someone gets to age 70 without being able to figure out how to eat

She eats her feelings...feelings, whoa whoa whoa feelings...

Gee, maybe there is something in her life she really can never come to terms with that she self medicates with food?

R136 the fact that she's an entitled cunt?

Are they giving up their Voodoo point system and Oprah sorcery?

Even with Wegovy or Zepbound you still need to eat less and exercise to lose weight and maintain the loss. The drugs are not a get-out-of-dieting-free card.

Apparently, they literally are!

A bit off topic, but what is with the media’s fixation with telling everyone that exercise does nothing for your weight or body? It isn’t true. I know that overeating shitty food can ruin any exercise plan (unless you’re in your teens or 20’s), but exercise absolutely DOES help with weight loss.

Oprah FINALLY admits to scarfing down a DOZEN donuts 🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩 a day.

The founder of Weight Watchers must be rolling over in her grave with the company now pushing weight loss injections

How come Marc Benioff and Reid Hoffman her fellow billionaires not on Ozempic? Is it the double standard that men can be obese and still command respect?

All of the body positivity stuff is bullshit. Oprah is foundational to body positivity and now this. I knew it. It has always been and will always be about being thin and white.

R132 you mean WW did a complete 180; a complete 360 means they’ve gone back to doing what they always did (it’s a complete circle.)

R145 every fat chick who claims that they “love their body” is lying. They ALL want to be thin.

r147 waiting for Lizzo to be next...

R143. Why would the founders be horrified at the use of weight loss injections?

Lizzo will need skin reduction surgery when and if she drops the lard.

Life expectancy has dropped (in America) in recent years.

R83, Zepbound (and other incarnations) will likely be approved by insurance companies for patients with 2 or more weight-related comorbidities. One of the worries is that once the patient loses weight the drug will no longer be covered. Talk about yo-yo-ing!

Rosie O has a really great interview with her doctor who explains a lot about the pros and cons of these drugs and how they work.

Is Rosie on da stuff?

Is Rosie using??

[quote]You have to take the shot for life though right? Apparently the weight comes back on and then some.

Yes, you do. The weight "comes back on and then some" when you stop ANY diet. When you stop Ozempic, your appetite returns, you return to your former eating pattern, and the result is exactly the same as when you fall off the wagon with any normal diet.

Chronic obesity frequently has emotional triggers underlying, but it is not only "a mental illness". Psychotherapy and psych drugs will not fix it. Research over recent years has shown that chronic significant overweight causes the hormones that govern fullness to go haywire, and that dieting and even regaining your ideal weight does NOT put them back as they were, so you continue to be much hungrier than other people for literally years. They now know that this is why diets don't work for people who need to lose more than a few winter pounds or some recent baby weight. Ozempic does put the hormones back in order--as long as you stay on it.

So if you can take it to get a swimsuit body, and then go off it without regaining more than a couple of pounds, shame on you: you shouldn't have been on it in the first place.

She looks wonderful.

R154 & R155,

Yes, Rosie is apparently a Type 2 diabetic. As of that recording she had been on a very low dose of Mounjaro for about 6 months and hadn’t experienced any adverse side-effects.

She's a bit of a navel gazer, Rosie, nowadays. For example it bugged me that she went on and on about how Mounjaro is a life-changer for the millions in need and how Eli Lilly should lower the cost to 10 dollars a month because everyone needs it and obviously it's basic decency. Just makes me so pissed off over the decades of highway robbery by Pharma with such ridiculously high priced HIV medicines and preventative PrEP. In Western world. When the medicine is a life changer and millions are in need.

R159, I understand what you’re saying. I think though, on the whole, Rosie stands up for what she thinks is right, and I agree with her more often than not.

She seems to acknowledge her privilege and spoke to how, even with her resources, she sometimes had trouble accessing the prescription (which she had been given to treat her diabetes).

Go ask Oprah, I think she’ll know

[quote]Mounjaro is a life-changer for the millions in need and how Eli Lilly should lower the cost to 10 dollars a month because everyone needs it and obviously it's basic decency.

I thought she said the should charge 10% of what they are charging now. There is no way they would charge $10.

Psychotherapy and psych drugs will not fix it.

Not true. EMDR fixed it for me. So did exercise and eating better and less.

Imagine that, Rose!

You still have to exercise and eat less (and hopefully better) on Ozempic. It just makes it possible to do so consistently.

And, lucky you. You're the one person out of tens of millions who got long-term obesity fixed by psych drugs.

No drugs, r164. EMDR is simple and effective which is likely why you've never heard of it. It healed my trauma which was was I overate my entire life.

O? Wearing foundation garments? That is sensible, more women should do the same. She's wearing hair extensions? Looks natural and attractive.

Oh no!

Oprah always regains the weight so Ozemic doesn't work in the long run!

Dammit!

It does work but you are required to take it for life

Are we supposed to be surprised by this? Orcah has unapologetically hoisted herself upon every weight-loss fad. Remember her Optifast shrinkage?

She is the fakest person out there, her whole life is a lie so it's ironic so many people think she is so wise and idolize her

You sound a little bitter, R170. Oprah probably could give you some good advice about overcoming that and living your best life.

^ Stop Being Poor And Miserable !

I understand biology is complicated. And that we don't know her full health run down. But with all that money and time, and she still relied on a weight loss drug?

It appears she just didn't want to do the work. I'm not shocked by that. But if she hasn't had help with the binge eating (remember the whole pecan pie?), it's all pointless. And the side effects from those "miracle drugs", are horrifying.

I can't relate to Oprah's food issues—like eating two pounds of mac and cheese the night she learned her movie bombed—but I can understand their source.

For me, alcohol is similar. You get comfort from a habit, and over time your tolerance increases, so you need more and more to find relief. You stop for a while, but life is tough, and it's hard not to lapse back onto the path of least resistance to seek that comfort.

One area where I challenge her: She's never been to therapy? A woman who was raped by multiple family members and gave birth to a child at 14 Perhaps she is being disingenuous and will clarify.

R173, she claims to have never seen a counsellor, psychologist or psychiatrist about anything, just talks to Gayle, who should surely have suggested she seek professional advice, instead of allowing herself to be used as a crutch and yes-woman. The food issue is huge, but that aside, Oprah still has a lot to work on.

And there are amazing chefs who can make healthy food taste decadent. Even recently, Oprah was pigging out on crap like bread and special meats.

[quote] Oprah finally admits to taking weight loss drug

Was it meth?

R173. You do realise, I hope , that the long-term success rate of diet and exercise for the long-term significantly obese is essentially zero? Not only is this widely known statistically and anecdotally, it is illustrated by Oprah’s own history On at least two occasions she has achieved significant weight loss only to gain it back quite quickly.

We can therefore rephrase your statement: I cannot believe that at almost 70, Oprah did not embark on yet another futile and unpleasant weight loss effort and instead availed herself of drugs that have been in n the market for several years that may have unknown risks but which I will assume, on the basis of no evidence to have horrific side effects.

R173 has been owned.