New obesity medications are changing the way people look at holiday meals

A new generation of weight-loss drugs is changing the way many people who’ve struggled with obesity look at food, which can have a big impact around holidays that center on food. (stock.adobe.com)

For most of her life, Claudia Stearns dreaded Thanksgiving. Having struggled with obesity since childhood, Stearns hated the yearly turmoil of obsessing about what she ate — and the guilt of overindulging on a holiday built around food.

Now, after losing nearly 100 pounds using medications including Wegovy, a powerful new anti-obesity drug, Stearns says the “food noise” in her head has gone very, very quiet.