Fans have been following Lizzo’s amazing weight loss journey for the past two years. And while you won’t find too many people who don’t think the singer, who has always embraced body positivity, is looking “Good as Hell” these days, you will find a ton of different theories about the secret to her amazing transformation. Now, it looks like the singer is ready to share her truth.
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In a June 19 appearance on the “Just Trish” podcast, the 37-year-old admitted she did try incorporating Ozempic into her weight loss journey, but ultimately decided it wasn’t right for her. This comes after a September 2024 Instagram post in which she slammed a commenter who accused her of getting a boost from the drug, writing, “whyyyy do u follow me?.”
“Ozempic works because you eat less food, yeah? So if you eat right, it makes you feel full,” Lizzo told host Trisha Paytas. “But if you can just do that on your own and get mind over matter, it’s the same thing.”
Instead, the singer told Paytas she chose to focus on changing her diet — including moving away from a vegan diet — which she said caused her to eat more food, including “fake meats,” bread, and rice to stay full.
“When I started actually eating whole foods and eating, like, beef and chicken and fish, I was actually full and not expanding my stomach by putting a lot of fake things in there that [weren’t] actually filling me up,” she said.
But while semaglutides like Ozempic or Wegovy – which have helped celebrities like Tracy Morgan, Cheryl Underwood, and Oprah Winfrey lose weight – didn’t work for Lizzo, she’s not with shaming others for what works for them. She told Paytas in the interview that she believes telling someone that using the drug is cheating is equivalent to being “fatphobic.”
Commenters on the episode overwhelmingly appreciated Lizzo and Paytas for sharing an honest conversation about a difficult topic.
“It’s so refreshing to hear two women who are not size 4 talk casually about everything!!! I swear you guys are validating & healing me all at once,” wrote someone on YouTube. “I feel like I’m in the room talking w you guys UGH I love it.”
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