Oprah Winfrey defended her use of weight loss medication, emphasizing that obesity is a disease and not solely due to a lack of willpower.
She discussed her struggles with weight loss and how she used to believe willpower was her failing.
After knee surgery in 2021, she began hiking and adopted new eating habits, including using WeightWatchers principles and weight loss medication. (Trending: Democrat Excludes White People From Holiday Party In Controversial Email)
“It was public sport to make fun of me for 25 years,” Winfrey said.
“I have been blamed and shamed, and I blamed and shamed myself.”
“After knee surgery, I started hiking and setting new distance goals each week. I could eventually hike three to five miles every day and a 10-mile straight-up hike on weekends,” she said.
“I felt stronger, more fit and more alive than I’d felt in years.”
“I eat my last meal at 4 o’clock, drink a gallon of water a day, and use the WeightWatchers principles of counting points. I had an awareness of [weight-loss] medications, but felt I had to prove I had the willpower to do it. I now no longer feel that way.”
“I was actually recommending [the medication] to people long before I was on it myself,” she added.
Winfrey highlighted a change in her thinking about weight loss medication, stating that it’s a tool to manage weight and not something to be ashamed of.
She emphasized the relief and freedom she felt in using it, particularly to avoid excessive weight gain during holidays.
“I had the biggest aha along with many people in that audience.”
“I realized I’d been blaming myself all these years for being overweight, and I have a predisposition that no amount of willpower is going to control.”
“Obesity is a disease. It’s not about willpower — it’s about the brain,” Winfrey said.
“I now use it as I feel I need it, as a tool to manage not yo-yoing.”
“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. I’m absolutely done with the shaming from other people and particularly myself.”
“Because I knew I was going to have two solid weeks of eating,” Winfrey stated, adding “instead of gaining eight pounds like I did last year, I gained half a pound.”
“It quiets the food noise,” she said.
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