Life after Ozempic
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What sparked the discussion about body mass index (BMI)?
During the 2024 Olympics, a player on the U.S. women's rugby team, Alona Mar, got a ton of attention for talking about her body mass index.
I do have a BMI of 30. Well, 29.3 to be more exact. I've been considered overweight my whole life. I remember vividly one time in high school, I had to turn in the physical to the office, and right at the bottom of the page, it said overweight.
Ms. Ma'am went on to win a bronze medal and also to illustrate the absurdity of BMI. But doctors and insurance companies still use this number to make judgments about your health. And then just yesterday, a global panel of experts advised that we measure obesity differently. The relationship between diet and weight and health seems like it should be clear and knowable by this point, but it's really not. Coming up on today explained why the gospel on weight loss is always being rewritten and how medications have added a brand new chapter.
How has the perception of obesity changed over time?
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You're listening to Today Explained. Sumita Mukhopadhyay is a writer and editor who was very anxious when she was hired as the executive editor of Teen Vogue back in 2018. Like everyone else, Sumita had seen The Devil Wears Prada, and she knew that the fashion industry was unforgiving. But not long after she started there, she realized that things were changing.
You know, I entered the fashion industry at a really unique moment where there was a an increased interest in plus fashion. And so when I got the job at Teen Vogue, I started having all these fashion brands reaching out to me to be like, wow, we're so excited. We're launching a plus collection. We'd love to talk to you about it. We'd love to send it to you. How does it feel to be a fat fashion editor? And at the time I had kind of newly gained the weight. And so I wasn't totally embracing it. It didn't feel empowering. It almost felt like something that was happening to me where I was like, oh, wait, I'm fat? You know, where I had to kind of get over that first step before being like, I'm fabulous. I love being fat.
Okay, so you're in a period where Teen Vogue has become more accepting. It is okay to be a person in a larger body. And in fact, there's even some sort of advocacy or activism around the fact that there is more than one body type. And then you get some news that, again, changes how you see and experience all of this. What happened?
While I was at Teen Vogue and kind of as I was leaving Teen Vogue, I had had a series of stressful family-related things happen. My father passed away of diabetes-related complications. My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. I had this really hectic job and I was managing all of it. And my stress response was eating. And it was not just eating. It was like really not taking care of myself ultimately, right? It was taking Ubers. It was getting takeout. It was kind of not really having a lot of time for myself. And that did lead to some unwanted weight gain on my part. And I was having
What led Sumita to consider medication for weight management?
some mobility issues i was having trouble kind of i i just thought it was because i was exhausted because i had never had these experiences but i was having trouble getting up and down the stairs on the subway and i would just chalk it up to like oh i'm just so busy you know like i have to take ubers because i'm like busy and i'm exhausted um and i was having trouble keeping up on walks and i was having trouble sleeping i wasn't feeling well
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What sparked the discussion about body mass index (BMI)?
0:01–1:00
2
How has the perception of obesity changed over time?
1:00–3:54
3
What led Sumita to consider medication for weight management?
3:54–10:21
4
What are the side effects of Manjaro?
10:21–15:00
5
How did Sumita's relationship with food change on Manjaro?
15:00–17:04
6
What challenges did Sumita face after discontinuing Manjaro?
17:04–20:57
7
Is the era of diet and exercise coming to an end?
20:57–25:06