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Countless Americans struggling with obesity are anxiously anticipating a potent new medication from Eli Lilly known as retatrutide, which has shown weight loss effects comparable to those of bariatric surgery.
There are reports, though, that some individuals are bypassing the approval process from the Food and Drug Administration and are instead rushing to obtain it through dubious channels. Continue reading “Report: One 79-Year-Old Patient Got Early Access To New Weight Loss Med”
On a recent episode of her podcast, Oprah Winfrey shared that being on a GLP-1 drug such as Ozempic and Wegovy has changed her perspective on “thin people” and how they stay that way. Continue reading “Oprah Winfrey: Weight Loss Drugs Changed Her Perspective on ‘Thin People’”
Chicago-based Realtor Greg Bloomer (via Instagram)
I hesitated posting this because I’m still not totally comfortable in my own skin. I know my body is far from what we are taught we should look like, especially in the gay community, BUT today marks 90 days since I decided to start getting healthy and I’m proud, so idgaf 🥳🥺🥰 pic.twitter.com/z928KB6Bzn
— Gregory✨ (@This_Isnt_Greg) July 20, 2020
Self care is the BEST care…remember to also shed those negative thoughts and surround yourself with the same people who supported and saw you when you did not want to be seen!!
— WashSpinDryFold (@spin_wash) July 23, 2020
Inspiring, love that your accepting yourself wether or not you feel more attractive now know that the man in both those pictures is beautiful on the outside and inside loving your skin is beautiful as are you 👑
— Angel Desans (@AngelDeSans) July 20, 2020
There's someone who loves on the left right, and everything in between. If he's not another gay, make sure he's you. Congrats on developing the discipline and working so hard.
— Hunq (@DaHunq) July 21, 2020
I'm so pleased for you, that's a real achievement. For the record, I think you are hot in both the before and after pics, but it's about how you feel in your own skin that counts.
— Pup Björn (@pupbjorn) July 21, 2020
On both the left and the right you look handsome! Congratulations on your journey, and good luck getting to where you want to be, you're smashing it.
— Michael Silvester (@Mmprorange2) July 21, 2020
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Sam Asghari, Britney Spears’ main squeeze, recently revealed that he wasn’t always the woofy, muscle hound he is today. He also shared how he was able to lose 100 pounds in becoming the fit beast he’s become.
In a recent profile in Men’s Health, the 24-year-old said he began to gain weight after being cut from his college football team. He eventually tipped the scales at an eye-popping 290 pounds.
“I was eating Doritos for breakfast, fast food, sugar, candy, no protein, a lot of carbs, and drinking sugary sodas,”Asghari shared. “My nutrition was extremely horrible. The stress and the fear of not going anywhere [in life] combined gave me my depression.”
After six months of seriously bad nutrition and not working out, Asghari committed to making changes in his life.
“I could either continue going through the same thing or I could give it another 100 percent,” he said. “I didn’t want to have to deal with that depression and disappointment anymore. I had to restart.”
Working three jobs was proving to be a deterrent to better health and fitness as well. Asghari quit two jobs and made fitness his primary job.
Along the way, he did swing a bit past center in the obsessive department: measuring his body fat percentage daily and limiting his calorie intake to 1,500.
In only six months, he was 100 pounds lighter, and had reached a stunning 9% body fat.
With all the changes in his health and appearance came high-profile gigs with A-list artists including his appearance in the Fifth Harmony video, “Work.”
Shortly thereafter he was cast in Britney’s “Slumber Party” video.
Hello + chemistry = couple-hood.
Now, Asghari shares his fitness regime with Brit via Instagram.
“The exercises, I come up with them, but the videos are because of my better half. She’s the video director,” he said. “It’s a very fun thing, and I look back at them and smile. Working out together is always nice and we try to do it a couple times. It’s super healthy, mentally and physically. It takes your mind off of everything else.”
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Some news items you might have missed:
• Sometimes it’s a good idea to look back – as fitness athlete Pierre Vuala (above) makes abundantly clear. #TBT
• The woman who launched a homophobic attack on two female soldiers is now banned from the restaurant where the incident took place, and she’s lost her part-time gig teaching at a local college.
• This gay Canadian man thought losing 70 pounds would bring him joy. Turns out, not so much.
• The cast of the upcoming Broadway revival of Boys In The Band donned pink triangle t-shirts in honor of The AIDS Memorial.
• The first Quinnipiac University poll for this year’s race for Sen. Ted Cruz’s seat in the U.S. Senate is in a statistical dead heat with Rep. Beto O’Rourke (Texas), his Democratic challenger, only 3 points behind Cruz 47%/44%. O’Rourke has raised $6.7 million compared to Cruz’s $3.2 million in campaign donations.
• Lobbyists at the anti-LGBT organizations the Heritage Foundation and Family Research Council were secretly involved in drafting the Trump administration’s policy banning transgender military service members. And now those same folks are hopping mad because their communications have been subpoenaed which could reveal to the world their hateful statements.
• Fraternity brothers at a joint-hosted Phi Gamma Delta and Kappa Sigma Xi-Lambda off-campus party last Friday broke the leg of a gay man in an alleged homophobic attack. Watch the report below.
Check out the new Kirstie Alley – 50 pounds lighter – and her CHEERS co-stars, George Wendt and John Ratzenberger, in this new ad for Jenny Craig.
Don’t you love Wendt and Ratzenberger nailing that comic timing so effortlessly all these years later?
