Oprah Winfrey Explains Why She Changed Her Mind About Using Weight-Loss Medication

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has helped her maintain a healthier lifestyle.Winfrey revealed that she takes a weight-loss medication in a new conversation with , telling the outlet, “I now use it as I feel I need it, as a tool to manage not yo-yoing.”“The fact that there's a medically approved for managing weight and staying healthier, in my lifetime, feels like relief, like redemption, like a gift, and not something to hide behind and once again be ridiculed for,” she continued. “I’m absolutely done with the shaming from other people and particularly myself.” had but decided not to.

She , “Even when I first started hearing about the weight-loss drugs, at the same time I was going through knee surgery, and I felt, ‘I've got to do this on my own.’ Because if I take the drug, that's the easy way out.”In the new interview she explained why her attitude changed, and it came down to understanding weight as a result of predisposition, not willpower.

Around the same time that she revealed she wasn't on medication, she spoke to experts about its uses, and said, “I realized I’d been blaming myself all these years for being overweight, and I have a predisposition that no amount of willpower is going to control….

Obesity is a disease. It’s not about willpower—it's about the brain.”This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Winfrey added that her health journey, which began after a knee surgery in 2021, includes far more than medication.