“Which one did you order?” They leaned into one another as though perusing a single menu together at a popular restaurant. “I’m going to try Metformin! It’s supposed to have fewer side effects than Ozempic!” “Oh, tell me how it is. I really want the Ozempic injections, but they’re like $600 a shot!” Oooohhs and ahhhhs reverberate throughout the vaulted ceilings as they titter back and forth about weight loss drugs.
I’m back in LA and I can tell who had an eventful summer and who stayed home to recover from their plastic surgery. Weight loss medications are all the rage, but I forget this until I get back here and am thrust into these convos. You may have witnessed people’s waistlines shrivel in front of your eyes in no time.
We have all seen it in celebrities, some of whom keep it hush-hush and in people who have proudly declared that they’re taking “Ozempic, baby!” Regardless of the reason or the prominence with which one admits it, there are real considerations to taking anything to make us smaller. Weight battles are hard to kick. Although I generally feel good enough in my clothes and on the scale, there’s still a part of me that would KILL to look like Kate Moss in the 1990s (well, maybe add 7 pounds to Kate Moss in the 1990s), but I would never get there in a healthy way, and being too thin certainly isn’t healthy to begin with.
These drugs remind me all too much of Dexatrim in the 1980s and 1990s (the latter decade is when I took it). Wi.
