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Borrowed the audio on a whim after knowing so many people taking weight-loss drugs, specifically Ozempic. I honestly thought about retuning it unread as I‘m in my fiction era, but I gave it a shot and it captured my attention immediately. Hari brings up important issues, weighing the pros and cons of using the medicine, as well as the motivations behind the weight loss—including his own! Are we using this to improve health or to “be skinny”? Good!

My take away from this book is no pill, surgery will fix your mindset about food only therapy will. If you use food to soothe/hide behind/self medicate the pill/surgery won‘t cure you. If you can‘t eat because of surgery or pills you will substitute ‘medicating‘ with another addiction. And my Lego poinsettia is officially complete

Bags #4 and 5 of the poinsettia. I got sidetracked with tree decorating and errands. This book is quite interesting but I‘m looking forward to it being finished so I can just listen to Christmas music and escape reality

Booked off today so I could sleep in and fight the good fight against all the germs at school. A lot of listening to this book while loads of laundry were done, kitchen tidying, nails were painted and a turkey breast was roasted for a Wednesday night dinner. I‘d like the holidays to be here now

Bag #3 of the poinsettia and starting a new audio book. I read about this somewhere and now I have it. I don‘t remember knowing this was about Ozempic 🤷🏻‍♀️

I found this book to be interesting but problematic. Hari looks at GLP-1 drugs for weight loss (Ozempic/Montjaro) as he starts take one to lose weight. As far as looking at the development and use (in general) of these drugs, it‘s a fascinating book. As far as his own cognitive dissonance about his reasons, I‘m glad a friend pointed out that he wasn‘t that fat and was mainly taking it for vanity over health. An enlightening read.

⭐️⭐️💫 Frustrating. Background on the development of Semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) was fine, but he seemed to use his experience of being overweight (eating so much KFC employees gave him a card for being their best customer) to paint every overweight person with the same brush. Never attempted to disentangle what health effects were from behaviors that also lead to weight gain from the excess weight itself. Seemed like a big miss.