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Jen* says her first time taking Ozempic was like flipping a switch on the food noise inside her head. Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/The Guardian

Jen* recalls her first time taking Ozempic. She says it was like flipping a switch on the food noise inside her head.

“I didn’t realise I was that obsessed with food, [with] eating and thinking about procuring food, and just how much of my waking life was an obsession with it,” she says.