‘Pioneer Woman’ Ree Drummond Talks Ozempic Use After MASSIVE Weight Loss
‘Pioneer Woman’ Ree Drummond Talks Ozempic Use After MASSIVE Weight Loss
Ree Drummond set the record straight about how she dropped 60 pounds three years ago and if Ozempic played a role in her success story.
The Pioneer Woman explained on Facebook this week that she was updating a 2021 blog post that detailed how she shed the weight.
She clarified — “I did not take Ozempic, Wegovy, or similar medications.”
Multiple stars have been outed for using the type 2 diabetes drug to manage their weight, over the past several months. Ozempic is one of several names for semaglutide and tirzepatide, FDA-approved medications that work in the brain to thwart appetite.
“I support anyone who has success using the above medications,” the 55-year-old wrote. “I know they have been an absolute godsend for so many people; I have friends who’ve experienced incredible results.”
Drummond joked that the “boring truth” was that she had never heard of the drug when she made the decision to trim down. She admitted that she “might have been tempted to try them.”
She concluded — “Today, even though I have gained a few pounds up and down, I still have not chosen that option … but you’ll never hear a second of judgment from me about people who choose that direction!”
Drummond had already dropped almost 40 pounds when she began chronicling her weight loss journey, in May 2021.
“No gimmicks at all. I just cut calories, exercised more, lifted a lot of weights,” Drummond explained at the time.
The mom of four included a photo that showed off her trimmer physique. Drummond was snapped in jeans, a loose top, and pink sneakers as she posed alongside her pups.
“I look better but I feel so much better, and that’s what really counts,” the popular Food Network personality added. “I’m still a goofball, I just have a lot more energy.”
The TV chef shared that she hit a “rock bottom” binge-eating moment that pushed her to make lifestyle changes.
“I have a cooking show, I write cookbooks, I have a cooking website. I have a restaurant, a bakery. So you know, it just kept creeping up and in January of this year, we took my son, Bryce, to college. And I tell this story, but I basically hit rock bottom eating chips and salsa one night. I went a little overboard, but I thought that night, ‘I am going to start tomorrow, I am doing something different.’ And I just started and I almost lost 60 pounds now,” Drummond told Entertainment Tonight, in September, 2021.
The “Dinner’s Ready” cookbook author added that her entire outlook on food and fitness had changed since making the shift toward better health.
“I feel great and that’s what matters. The scale was sort of a gauge for me that I was heading in the right direction. And it was never about I have to lose this amount, it’s really about how I feel,” she shared. “I feel great, I have, I feel strong. Even when I was thinner, I don’t think I ever have been a squatter or a lunger before. Not since my ballet days. So it’s really nice to just kind of feel the muscles that I thought were gone forever.”
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