{"id":266,"date":"2025-06-20T21:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T21:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/266\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T21:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T21:33:09","slug":"lizzo-shares-the-truth-about-ozempic-and-her-weight-loss-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/266\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzo Shares the Truth About Ozempic and Her Weight Loss Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans have been following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/inside-lizzos-14-million-beverly-hills-mansion-now-up-2000045975\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/inside-lizzos-14-million-beverly-hills-mansion-now-up-2000045975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lizzo&#8217;s<\/a> amazing weight loss journey for the past two years. And while you won&#8217;t find too many people who don&#8217;t think the singer, who has always embraced body positivity, is looking &#8220;Good as Hell&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>\n            Video will return here when scrolled back into view\n        <\/p>\n<p>AI Is the New Civil Rights Frontier: Loren Douglass on Wealth, Politics &amp; Power<\/p>\n<p>        <video id=\"theroot-video-2000046545\" class=\"video-js vjs-fill vjs-default-skin\" controls=\"\" preload=\"auto\" width=\"640\" height=\"720\" autoplay=\"\" muted=\"\" playsinline=\"\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"vjs-no-js\">\n                To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that<br \/>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/videojs.com\/html5-video-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supports HTML5 video<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p>        <\/video><\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/theroot-video-player\/assets\/images\/theroot.svg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AI Is the New Civil Rights Frontier: Loren Douglass on Wealth, Politics &amp; Power<\/p>\n<p>In a June 19 appearance on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DwDpqwcNWbQ&amp;t=911s\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DwDpqwcNWbQ&amp;t=911s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Just Trish&#8221; podcast,<\/a> the 37-year-old admitted she did try incorporating Ozempic into her weight loss journey, but ultimately decided it wasn&#8217;t right for her. This comes after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DAEaUyqyYXw\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DAEaUyqyYXw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 2024 Instagram<\/a> post in which she slammed a commenter who accused her of getting a boost from the drug, writing, &#8220;whyyyy do u follow me?.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOzempic works because you eat less food, yeah? So if you eat right, it makes you feel full,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DwDpqwcNWbQ&amp;t=911s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Lizzo told host Trisha Paytas.<\/a> \u201cBut if you can just do that on your own and get mind over matter, it\u2019s the same thing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the singer told Paytas she chose to focus on changing her diet \u2014 including moving away from a vegan diet \u2014 which she said caused her to eat more food, including &#8220;fake meats,&#8221; bread, and rice to stay full.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen 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\u2019t] actually filling me up,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DwDpqwcNWbQ&amp;t=911s\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DwDpqwcNWbQ&amp;t=911s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she said.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But while semaglutides like Ozempic or Wegovy \u2013 which have helped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/what-black-celebs-have-said-about-ozempic-and-other-sem-1851352245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">celebrities<\/a> like Tracy Morgan, Cheryl Underwood, and Oprah Winfrey lose weight \u2013 didn&#8217;t work for Lizzo, she&#8217;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 &#8220;fatphobic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Commenters on the episode overwhelmingly appreciated Lizzo and Paytas for sharing an honest conversation about a difficult topic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s so refreshing to hear two women who are not size 4 talk casually about everything!!! I swear you guys are validating &amp; healing me all at once,&#8221; wrote someone on YouTube. &#8220;I feel like I\u2019m in the room talking w you guys UGH I love it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sftr\">Straight From <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/rootlogo410x94.png\" alt=\"The Root\" width=\"200px\" height=\"46px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"sftrcta\">Sign up for our free daily newsletter.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans have been following Lizzo&#8217;s amazing weight loss journey for the past two years. 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