Jillian Michaels expressed skepticism about the use of Ozempic and similar medications for weight loss, highlighting potential side effects and long-term concerns.
She emphasized the importance of research and warned about the challenges of stopping such medications.
Despite her reservations, she acknowledged the positive impact of increased awareness about weight loss. (Trending: Two Names Emerge As Trump’s Possible 2024 Running Mate)
Michaels advocated for traditional weight loss methods, stressing the significance of consuming less food and engaging in activities one enjoys.
Additionally, she promoted specific and purpose-driven goal setting, cleaner eating, and reducing added sugar as key components of a healthy lifestyle.
“If it was the easy way out, I would recommend it,” Michaels said. “I’d be like, ‘Fantastic, let me get in the business. Let me get my app on board. Let me sell these drugs through my app.’ Just like Weight Watchers.”
“Of course, I would get in line and profit like crazy if I didn’t really believe these things were bad, based on the research that’s already out there.”
“All these celebrities are not health experts,” Michaels said. “They’re not nutritionists. They’re not fitness experts. And they don’t spend all day talking to doctors.”
“Every medication, whether it’s antibiotics or vaccines, have a cost-benefit analysis. They all have side effects,” she added.
“So, when we look at Ozempic and all of those drugs there are many side effects from extremely nefarious to just absolutely s—ty, no pun intended.”
“We’re starting to hear about ‘Ozempic face,’ which is accelerated facial aging, hair loss,” she said.
“Here’s the problem with this: [It’s] that you can never get off these drugs. If you do get off of them, all of the meta-analysis shows us that you will gain all the weight back, and then some, two-thirds of it within the first year,” she added.
“You will plateau on Ozempic. It will stop working right around the 18-month to two-year mark. It’s going to stop working. Now what are you going to do? Because now you’re literally beholden to it. It’s expensive. Insurance isn’t going to cover it forever. Are you going to be on it forever? So, we don’t even know what this looks like five years down the road, ten years down the road.”
“It has proven what I’ve been saying for three decades, calories in, calories out is weight loss. Health is a different conversation, but it facilitates weight loss.”
“Second thing, we know that women and men of all ages can lose weight because most of these people on Ozempic are 40-plus. And they’re shrinking, so it looks like you can still lose weight if you’re eating less food.”
“And the third thing,” she added, “is now we’re allowed to say that obesity is deadly again because the pharmaceutical companies have shaped that narrative one more time. So, those are the only good things about it.”
“I’m going to tell you that if you can find a way to eat less food without these drugs, you will lose weight, and [there] will be nothing but upside,” she said. “Instead of all the negative side effects, you will have a list of positive side effects from improved cognitive function, improved heart health, improved hormone balance and on and on and on.”
“It’s obvious, but sometimes I think messaging is so cliché. People tend to negate it because they’ve heard it before, but they don’t really think about what it means. We take on goals because we think we should, and the ‘shoulds’ in life can feel like more work, extremely punishing. And when the going gets tough, adding more punishment on to it is just a no-go,” she said.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s profound or superficial as long as you care about it,” she said. “Because if your goals reflect the things you want instead of the things you should, then they’re based in purpose, which is a labor of passion and love as opposed to punishment.”
“If you like hiking, if you like dancing, if you like yoga, paddleboarding, I don’t care what it is, if it’s an activity you like, do more of it. Because the No. 1 key to fitness outside of intensity and volume and all the terms is consistency.”
“Eat real food. As little processed food as possible, minimally processed,” she added. “It should have a mother or come from the ground in some sort of recognizable fashion.”
“Added sugar. Not a banana. The crap in a box, high fructose corn syrup, brown rice syrup, all the crap. All the different names for sugar.”
“It is literally killing us. And you would have caught me. I don’t know, up to five years ago, I was like, ‘Well, you know, just balance it,’” she added.
“Nothing has to be perfect. You don’t have to give up all sugar. Maybe give up soda for the month and build on top of that,” she said.
“Progress is progress. Any step in the right direction, literally and figuratively, is exactly that.”
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