Lisa Miller

Did she tell you why she was having so much trouble keeping the weight off?

She talked about food noise.

And the feeling of self-loathing that she describes of not being able to control that.

And she says to her doctor, how about one of these GLP-1 drugs?

And he wrote the script.

And can you just remind us, Lisa, how do these drugs actually work?

Well, they work by reducing your feeling of being hungry.

And because of that, people lose a ton of weight really fast and people who have been dieting their whole lives and struggling with their weight are able to keep their weight off as long as they're on the drugs.

And, you know, she starts losing a lot of weight really fast.

You know, 10 pounds, 20 pounds.

I mean, she lost 60 pounds inside of eight months.

And then, you know, she notices that, like, people start treating her differently.

You know, she's a successful professional.

She's always been a successful professional.

Now, suddenly at work, she's getting these outward-facing opportunities where she's being put forward as a talking head to talk to the media, for example, in a way that she hadn't been before.

Now, this is a thing that others have said, too, about these drugs, that doors open.

And a lot of the people I talk to for this story talk about the opportunities that get presented to them, promotions and dates.

And if you're married, it presents a whole world of things that you have to suddenly start figuring out that you didn't anticipate at all.

And that was definitely true for Jean and Javier.

I mean, one of the first things that happened was that she totally lost her appetite for alcohol.