Chrissy Metz has confirmed she started taking a GLP-1 and explained her reasons why.
The 45-year-old This Is Us star previously revealed that the thought of taking the popular medication brought up “very complicated feelings” for her. GLP-1 medications are commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes and have also helped people lose weight.
Chrissy Metz shared her journey towards GLP-1s
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“I was very skeptical of starting a GLP-1 for a very long time. I’m talking probably six years, since really COVID, when people were sort of talking about it. I’m just very diligent about what and how things work within the body, and I’m like, ‘Oh, I don’t know what that’s gonna be like,’” she told E! News.
“I’ve been on diets for a very, very long time, since I was a kid, and I know I can lose weight but I didn’t know that I could quiet food noise and I didn’t know there were other factors. There’s so much shame around being in a bigger body, so just knowing that I wasn’t doing it purely for vanity’s sake, but because people are pressuring me, or I should, or shouldn’t, do that,” she added.
She told People, “I just wanted to take care of myself…I’m not getting any younger. I’m in perimenopause, and there were obesity issues within my family and with my father, and I felt like I’ve tried so many modalities, whether it was diets or therapy, and none of it really worked for me.”
Chrissy Metz reveals the benefits she’s seen after starting the GLP-1
“It’s helped with inflammation. It’s helped with just overall health lab work and blood work and just generally just an overall feeling of space and creativity that the food noise has quieted. It opens up just more ability to be present and for me to be more creative and to really spend my time—my mind time, as I say—with the show and not obsessing about food noise that I didn’t even know was a thing, which is crazy,” she added.
“I was the biggest skeptic. I was like, ‘No, no, no, no, no.’ So, I hope it enlightens people to an option that might be right for them,” she added.
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