Our desperation to lose weight has spawned a million fads, classes, diets, and trends. We’ve tried jazzercise, boxercise, dancercise, fasting, Atkin’s and paleo — and it feels like work. We’re either sweating or starving, or sweaty and starving.
That all changed when GLP-1s such as Ozempic and Mounjaro were released and, suddenly, weight loss didn’t involve so much effort anymore. Just stab yourself in the waist and, hey presto, adios to ten kilos. It all seemed too good to be true — but somehow, it wasn’t. (Spoiler: it was).
