Fitzy & Wippa with Kate RitchiePeople Are Revealing They Are Addicted To Ozempic
The weight-loss drug that’s got everyone talking – but is it getting out of hand? We unpack the growing obsession with Ozempic, the people hooked on it, and whether the hype is worth it (or just a sign we all need to relax).
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This is always going to happen because the popularity of ozeen Pick has taken off.
We know that.
I mean when sixty minutes are doing stories on it. I think Channel seven even did a whole special on it as well, and Hollywood stars.
Are coming out endorsing a zen pick.
It takes off, not not cheap, a lot of people using it. Now, this is what happens when something is popular like that, but people come become addicted to it and then you have problems. So they're talking at the moment Scott Dizzick, who which kardash In was?
He married to.
Courtney and I'm not Courtney Courtney Courtney.
So he has finally sided. He's handed himself in.
He is seeking help for his ozempic use after he has left his friends and family shocked by his appearance.
He looks gaunt, he.
Has large black bags and his eyes he doesn't look healthy.
Sunken eye look, doesn't he because faces at school?
I think that photo we're looking at is a bit doctor.
I would assume it was is the perfect photo for the story.
Yeah, thirteen twenty fourteen, Do you know something?
Do you know someone that this is happening to a made of mine. His wife.
He was actually really down talking to me about this the other day, but he said it fits to the point now where she will not come to the restaurant with me because she doesn't eat anything. And the worst thing about it is, I'm glad that now that she's got control of her eating, but.
It's she's she's sick, she's.
Nauseous, and she has that feeling and then that affects her mood.
But she's now become addicted to it.
Are you addicted to the drug itself or are you addicted to the effects of the drug. Do you know what I mean? Like skinny you look, yeah, the feeling skinny.
Yeah.
In a similar way to perhaps you're you're addicted to going to the gym and working out and you see some results and then you cannot not go to the gym, progress or the solarium. In the old days, it couldn't get keep people out of the solarium.
The thing that the thing that gets me down about it is that we've remember we've always reacted to our body in the way that we feel. So whenever you feel nauseous or you feel sick in the stomach. You instantly know there's something wrong.
It's trying to tell you something.
My body's trying to tell me something, and it's the worst feeling ever. Well, you know, then you sit down and you try to you know, you drink water and you try to get through that.
But to feel like that all the time. I think you're right, Kate.
People are becoming addicted or acclimatizing to that feeling of nausea nausea and they can get their body through it. And now that's become the norm for them. They're they're looking better in the mirror, but now it's going.
To their eyes. They're looking better in the mirror.
Do you know.
It's kind of the conversation when ozepics that have changed, hasn't it, because it's gone from hey, how good is this wonder drug apparently diabetics had it, to oh my god, this has actually filtered its way into general society, and then there was chat about yes, the side effects where you feel nauseous, and also it's coming out at the other end and now it's like, we don't know much about this long term.
No, Well, anything that you take that is going to affect your metabolism. If you're not fueling your body correctly, there are long term effects not only on your physical health, but your mental health.
Well, remember I told you the other day. I went to the doctor and I said I want to have a heart check up, and he gave me a referral to the cardiologist, and on the referral it said his weight remains an issue talking about me. What then followed in that conversation the doctor was they recommended a possible drug to help with weight loss. Don't give me that crap. I don't need that.
Yeah, I agree some.
People you do need it. I don't think I need it. Jump in and go. You're not that big.
You can still carry a few extra but also have a very healthy lifestyle and still feel great about yourself.
That's the thing. And if I was ever lost in the humalayas these stores of fat around my.
Midwhile, mate, there'd be some great rum steaks coming off your clack and.
So you can come in handy. I don't think wherever.
You are in your life and well, whatever age you are, if you if you are having if you're kind of consistent around health and exercise, and you everything is about moderation. Then I think your body naturally will find where it sits in its most healthy state.
Okay, can we please?
I want to ask, are you worried about a friend? Are you someone who's using a zim pig and you're feeling that you have? You are becoming addicted to it, you need.
It all the time. Do you think you can wean yourself off it?
Cloudy has given us a girl from Riveston. Tell us about your with it, Cloudier.
I think it's a bit of both positive and negative. I can see why people get addicted to it because when you do go on, you can lose weight so quickly. But also I've seen the scariest side of the side effect as well, because I go on it now I get offered because I do think from it, and I do feel quite sick.
Feet Clauda, you've been on it, you had rapid weight lost. How many kilos did you lose?
I'm twenty five kilos?
Wow? Over watched what time period?
Nearly a year? But listened a year?
Okay? And then you went off for a while, did you yep?
And now I went back on it again, and why did you.
Go back on? Did the weight did the weight come back.
The weight didn't come back on, but you weren't losing as quickly as you like. So you go and you think, oh gosh, I can't deal without Othmpic fun and get back on it again because I want that look like, oh wow, I am losing right quite quickly.
So you've fainted a couple of times, Claire, you are you worried? Do you feel healthy? Or are there moments where the nausey is just too much for you?
It sometimes does get scary because you do get quite nauseous and quite you feel quite ill, and then you go, why are you doing this to yourself? And then you think, oh, because there is somewhat health and as you are losing weight, you can get upload my blood pressure medication because of it, and you think of the positive and then you go, but it's it really worth long term?
What does your day on a plate look like? Are you eating much at all?
No?
I'll have a morning like a meal placement shake for breakfast, some grapes at lunch, and then a bit of steak and dinner.
That's a bat all really not much.
I'm hungry, Sarah and Willoughby, all right, tell us about h you're a pet, So can you tell us about some of your clients?
How's that going?
Sah, yeah, So I think that it's a bit, it's a bit up and down. So I've got clients who have used it because it's been advised by their medical team. And I'll speak of one client specifically because I know that she doesn't mind me sharing her story. She is pcos she's insulin resistance and not diabetic. But also I can like when you think about our health as an overall, I guess in the whole approach is you know, diet, exercise, all those sort of things. And so her body was basically resisting against all those things. So that she's tried the ozepic. And I watched her literally call because my gym that I own is upstairs, so she would literally call her way up the stairs with little energy to try to get through a training session. She'd ignauseous, she'd be unwell, she wasn't able to eat, and just like the girl just spoke, then, is that she's not eating much at all. And then if you're trying to think about, you know, back to basics, energy in versus energy out, you can't output energy and look after your health if you're not eating. So nothing that happened for her was she was barely eating four hundred calories a day, but she wasn't losing the weight either because her body just wasn't accepting it. So she I think persisted for about eleven weeks, and in that eleven weeks, her determination to still try and do what she was trying to do because she was trying to lose weight because she wants to have a baby because of PCOS, and it ended up having a really bad negative effect on her because now that she's not on it, it's taken a probably it's been about six months maybe since she's been offered, and it's taken her body so long to bounce back from that.
Thank you for your story, Sarah. That's unbelievable. That's full on.
Denise in Newport. You had some drastic side effects with the zimpic. Is that getting on it or getting off at Denise?
It was while I was it was actually while I was on it, I ended up having I ended up losing about eight kilos, which was great, but I ended up going to the doctor and having a blood test and it actually affected my liver d up having from the function and function. Yeah, so my doctor recommends to go off and as soon as I went off it, I actually ballooned right, came back and came back with a vengeance.
Yeah.
Over what period of time did you stack it rapidly?
Probably for about six months afterwards and it was Yeah, and then I've been on another diet which has worked amazingly. It's kept the weight off, but it's just.
A healthy diet or is that a drug, Denise.
No, healthy, very healthy diet. It's time today, small meals, but yeah, basically it just feeds your metabolism up, which is amazing.
Well, I mean if you had to go through that to find something that works, that's awesome. Well done. Well done to those out there fighting the bowl.
Well, look, it's been negative towards it.
Sue's actually was she she recommends that She's on the line now.
So what are your experiences with a zimpig Sue?
Yeah, I had really high blood pressure, was passing out at work all the time, and so my doctor said to me, and I was a bit overweight, not massively, but if I'm going to try you on a zampi and see if we can get some weight off and lower your blood pressure. My blood pressure's gone down. I'm not having any more gidea attacks. I was on the four dose of a zampick, which I last nineteen kilos since January, and now I'm back to having just half a dose and I feel fantastic. My appetite is a bit suppressed, but I only eat what I feel like eating. I don't push myself to eat. I still eat healthy and I feel great. That's been really good.
If there's education around it, I think it can work, can't it, because if you need weight loss to lower other levels within your body, but you know it's a temporary fix which is going to be part of an educational program.
Yeah, But I look, I think, like with most drugs, there are parts of the community that are going to misuse it. And I think I'm a little.
Bit worried about doctors prescribing it. This is the thing now.
I look for diabetics and for people that need in their life. Obviously that's what it was prescribed for. But if you, like, if you were prescribed.
It, whip. I just don't know. I don't understand that. That just I don't know. It gets me down.
I feel like it's a quick fix for a doctor, but you trust that profession. That's something that I don't think that needs to be for a scribed.
I just need to think it is something foreign and if there's other ways of doing it as a healthy option, then maybe so, depending on your size. That fits in Whipper with Cape Ridgie podcast got a phenomenal story. It dates back in time, but it's about one man in his backyard, sitting in a garden chair who decided to come up with something that shocked the world. He was lucky to survive that story.
In fifteen, I want to talk about nicknames because I even just reading the article. Oh, I lolled in. I lolled in the home office because I think the most Okay, I don't like nicknames when people have given themselves nicknames, but I love a nickname and it's a bit mean, but that the person who you've nicknamed doesn't know it's their nickname, and it's just a little joke between friends, like oh, we call such and such up the corridor. I'll give you an example because I'm not doing it very well, am I. So give us a call if you've got a funny name for someone at work, and then we can reveal what we call the whipper behind his back. It's hilarious.
That's what I was sort of waiting for because I noted that on the ideas list. And then we can reveal to what we call him.
So you're repeating the joke.
That not yet, no, not yet, hang on for that. That's hilarious. I've got a few here just to get the ball rolling. If you've got one, give us a call. They've surveyed all these people. So there's one guy and I don't know. He's got a busy street, a very busy street, but doesn't know the name of the neighbors except for the nickname. So they call one guy the torch up the road. He's now moved on, which is probably for the best, because there was no do it yourself job around the house or around the yard that he wasn't prepared to set himself on fire for. So they called him. They caught him the torch. I love this one. We had a dead Dave down the street because this because no one had seen Dave for a while. Everyone thought he'd died. Oh did you know Dave died? No, he didn't die. Oh, but now they just call him dead day her call another guy thong Man, and that is because apparently the wife hit this guy's wife who's telling us the nicknames. A parcel arrived on their doorstep that wasn't from them, and they opened it up and it was a pleath thong, and then they've obviously had to go up the road and give the box back and say, I think you're missing this. So now thong Man lives at number sixty nine. I'm guessing what a.
Play the thong, which is what I wore to Australian fashion where you said.
Oh, what's the nickname for the neighbor?
Ah? Hi, We've got a person who likes to break into our home and raid our pantry, so we call him Goldilocks.
Or all the thief. You could use the word criminal if you want to.
Are you cash No?
No, And the police say he's harmless.
Well he's a criminal though.
This is exactly what we say when that actually happened about five years ago. I was sitting on the front verandah money amount having my cup of tea one morning, and when I went to go back inside, I noticed that there was curried rice down the hallway and thought, oh, damn, kids, they've fed the dogs currying, and I was cursing. And it wasn't until seven o'clock that night when my daughter came home and went to her room and so I was screaming. He'd eaten the curried rice in her bed, climbed through her window while I was on the front verandah.
It sounds harmless to me.
He lost me out.
I need to do something about this immediately.
We have called the police because he'll come and eat from our bins. My neighbor will send a message Goldilocks is on the loose closure gates. We call the police all the time and they're like, oh, Joel. They call him Joel, but we call him Goldilocks and he's harmless. But you know, I mean, he's not harmless. If I meet him in the hallway.
And your daughter's bed eating curry.
Yeah, I could not get her back in that bedroom for a week.
Funny though, Okay, guys, this is a really big moment for the show because last night on the email, I went back, wait till we tell Whipper what his nickname is behind his back? So let's get a drum roll for cakes. I have a beat ready, here we go, what bullying have you got this morning.
I've got to find the message. Sorry, guys. These are great because these are the things we would say to you, like the big Rig that's a good one, that's not it, the Beast from the East, that's not it, Whipper, the double Dipper.
What does that mean?
You know?
No? And my favorite is Whopper. I mean but you know that one, so it's not really fair.
Thank you k Richie and thank you Royan James Fitzgerald and with a with.
Kate WHITCHI podcast had a beautiful weekend, guys.
Share Share got out of town share Share.
I went down down to Victoria and I've realized I don't really know. This is so sad. I don't really know Victoria very well. I've traveled to Melbourne so many times over the years, and I it's embarrassing when I start speaking to people from Melbourne where my knowledge of Melbourne is really just the logies and staying at South Backwards. Dude, Melbourne's so great.
You grab the golden come home mate.
Great food and coffee and you get your makeup done and we'll go to the logis. And I know there is much more to Toria than that your.
Message saying I had the best coffee of my entire life.
I did at a place called the Store on Philip Islands.
Right, Oh, yes, Philip Land. So that's a couple of hours out of Melbourne, is that correct?
It did. It took a couple of hours to drive there from the airport, and I wanted to go down and see the little penguin. Oh so the penguins come out of the ocean just on dark and they kind of waddle up and it's all very cute, and we we partly we did that because my daughter has Penge, who is this incredible soft toy. And I mean I could I could fill you in on the journey of Pengy. This is Peggy number two, because the first Penge was left at the mother in law's house and then apparently put in the mail and then never arrived.
Let me, Lenny still got Porky, Pine and Foxy.
Really.
Yeah, so we took Peggy to meet the people. Oh we've all got a soft first. But it was it was, actually it was. It was really amazing. Stayed at some beautiful accommodation, which was kind of it felt like you were a million miles from anywhere, which give.
Me one fact you learnt about a penguin.
They they come out of the ocean, and then they spend a lot of time spreading the oil on their feathers, spreading the oil all over their feathers so that they can insulate and protect themselves. And then they come it comes out of a gland, yeah, and so they cover themselves in it, and then they go burrow in under the ground. And then on Philip Island because it's a conservation area national park, they stay in these little houses and sometimes they've swum fifty kilometers to get to the to the and also there are no foxes on Philip Island, so that's why the penguin and also the cape berry goose are back from the brink of extinction. Incredible. I bought some tea towels.
Good news. Huge.
I got to Philip And the thing is, now, you've even ruined my tea towel buying experience because I bought two te towels. And all I could think of is you guys thinking, oh, hell's said, She's so said. But I've got two Philip Island tea towels. And then I got I got a Melbourne te tawel with a tram on.
It beautiful from Switzerland from me last week?
I did I mention those because they'll have there. You said I have to put them on the story, so I haven't had time to do that.
Did you get us anything?
Did we give this story? And I haven't even started it yet. So you know how you hear all these horror stories about people risking their lives to get the perfect photograph. Well that's I'm I'm lucky to be here today. What did you I really died on Phillip Island at five acres. I imagine if it had ended like that, in some ways it would have been perfect. I would have been on acreage in the middle of nowhere where no one was bothering me with my daughter. I mean, it's practically Kate Richie heaven. And so I'm checking out the farm that we're staying on in the family that lived there, just so lovely, and little Oscar's showing us around, and they had those amazing highland cattle right with the fringe, with the fringe so cute horn. I'm leaning like it's all you know about the gram. I haven't even put this photo up, but I will show it to you in a second, because it's not even a great photo. It's not a great photo, but I could be dead. I was leaning so far into the fence because you couldn't go into the actual paddock because there was one female, one male, and I think he gets a bit cranky leaning so far into the fence that all of a sudden, as I'm leaning to try and get the perfect shot. I don't know what happened, but I was electrocuted because it was it was an electric sense. Have a look at the photo that I got.
It's amazing, that's great, it's perfect.
Would you put that on the ground.
It looks shaky because you've been zapping on the back of the neck. Where did that? Where did the fence line get you?
Well, in my hand because I'm doing hand Yeah, people listening, but I'm leaning in. No, it's not, No, it's not. But do you know what the scary thing is that I that I realized that I must have so much pain in my life. For probably three seconds happened. I didn't even notice I was and I thought, oh oh. And then the woman Katie, she said, oh, you've been your eyes. I said, you better be careful. I'll be out here in the middle of the night, John.
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