So when I shrank from 203 pounds to 161 in a year, I was baffled by my feelings.
I was taking Ozempic, and I was haunted by the sense that I was cheating and doing something immoral.
But the fact that so many of us are turning to the new weight-loss drugs can be an opportunity to find a way out of that trap of shame and stigma — and to a more truthful story.
I was born in 1979, and by the time I was 21, obesity rates in the United States had more than doubled.
And how do these new weight-loss drugs work?
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