Sharon Osbourne discusses her experience with the latest weight loss medications, claiming that they are not a quick fix.
While hosting The Talk UK, the 70-year-old highlighted the recent trend of using drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro after it was announced that the launch of Wegovy in the U.K. had been paused owing to concerns that demand would be strong, perhaps causing shortages.
Wegovy is an FDA-approved prescription medicine for patients suffering from persistent obesity. It's one of the brand names for semaglutide, also known as Ozempic (for type 2 diabetes), which targets brain areas that regulate appetite.
During the show, Obsourne revealed that she recently utilised weight loss injections, which assisted her in losing weight.
"But I took [the injection]," she went on. "I took it for four months and lost 30 pounds, but there's no quick fix in life." For several months, I was really ill. I was nauseous for the first few months. Every day, I felt queasy, and my stomach was irritated."
"But listen, I took it for four months, and I lost 30 pounds," Osbourne continued. I simply pushed two chips into my mouth during the break, and I'm eating normally now, and I haven't gained a pound. Nothing."
"It is a mental problem," Osbourne said of those who struggle to lose weight. "It really is, apart from, you know, when children grow up in a household where they live off chips and pies."
Experts, however, differ. Ania Jastreboff, M.D., PhD., a Yale University obesity medicine physician scientist, recently told HotGossipNewz that patients who use Wegovy must continue taking the meds if they want to sustain their weight loss because obesity is a chronic disorder.
"If you have a patient with high blood pressure, hypertension, and you start them on an antihypertensive medication, and their blood pressure improves, what happens if you stop the medication?" We're not surprised that their blood pressure might rise again. "The same is true for anti-obesity medications," she noted.
"[Expecting a patient with chronic obesity to lose weight through willpower] is akin to having a patient with diabetes and thinking that they can concentrate really hard to bring their blood sugars down," Jastreboff remarked. "You can't do that, and with obesity, our patients can't use their prefrontal cortex to influence every morsel of food they eat for the rest of their lives." As a result, we have no control over it.
