![]() Semaglutide has helped her lose about 40 pounds. “But that’s healthy,” she added, for someone like her, who had a compulsive relationship with food. ![]() “It takes a little bit of the enjoyment out of it,” Burriss told me. ![]() Eating becomes a source not of comfort or pleasure, but simply of sustenance. Doctors see the drug as a powerful biochemical tool to help patients build healthy long-term habits. More fundamentally though, it works by altering one’s relationship with food. Semaglutide works by suppressing the appetite and promoting a feeling of fullness. She didn’t lose weight at Disney World, but she didn’t gain any either. At the French pavilion, she savored a Grand Marnier orange slush. At the Biergarten buffet in Epcot’s Germany pavilion-where she might have once piled her plate high, justifying to herself that, after all, this is vacation-she was satisfied by just a small taste of everything. She was indeed hungrier after skipping her weekly injection, but not ravenously so. She was going to Disney World, and she wanted to enjoy the food-at least a little. So before her vacation a couple of months later, she decided to skip a dose. She had also lost her taste for alcohol, a side effect of the drug. ![]() She had just upped her dose of semaglutide-the diabetes and obesity drug better known by the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy-and her appetite had plummeted. ![]() At Christmas dinner, Jenny Burriss remembers eating exactly one bite of beef before feeling full. ![]()
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