Ana Navarro denies Ozempic use after drastic weightloss

I didn’t say I wasn’t taking Mounjaro.

Tapeworm abuser.

Pickleball???

She lost a lot.

Hopefully it was Ozempic. Otherwise, the weight is surely coming back.

It comes back with Ozempic as well.

It's possible she lost it naturally. I lost about 65 lbs right before hitting menopause through exercise and sensible eating. This was about 10 years ago. I imagine if it were today, Ozempic would be he first thing that comes to mind. But for a television personality? Hmm.

Hmm, taking a page out of Starr Jones' playbook and denying how she really lost weight. Is Ana's husband also gay like Starr's was?

That dress on the left was a questionable sartorial choice. She made it worse by jamming her meaty mitts into the pockets.

Does anyone owe anybody an explanation on how or why they lost weight?

It's Mounjaro. That is how people like Kyle Richards, Erika Girardi can all say they are not using Ozempic because they are using Mounjaro. It is similar to Ozempic but offers accelerated weight loss due to its second peptide.

It’s like plastic surgery. People used to deny using it. Eventually people started to admit it.

George Conway, formerly the husband of Kellyanne and a massive gout-like fat throat has been a grateful recipient. Ruth Marcus of the NY Times, too, who has written about her struggles with weight.

I was channel-cruising the other day, and I happened upon a particularly inane (even for them) discussion on The View.

The topic? "Gift registries: pro or con?"

In an exclusive and deeply personal moment, Ana Navarro revealed, in national television and for the first time ever, that her special friend Lee recommended having one, using this ironclad logic: "If they don't know what to buy you, they'll just guess, and you'll hate what they pick." I'm paraphrasing.

In all honesty, after that, what else is there to say on the topic?

Prepare to be Underwhelmed: The View Edition

Accepting gifts at their age is tacky. I wonder why Ana accepted a hand in marriage from such a gross man 25 years older. When I read she married, I assumed it was a joke.

[quote]It is similar to Ozempic but offers accelerated weight loss due to its second peptide.

No, it doesn't, it's about as effective as Wegovy according to the only studies we have. There's a new head-to-head study about to be launched or already in progress that will pit both against each other, which is the only way we'll know for certain which one is more potent.

R16 You weren’t kidding. She’s like 51 and he’s 75, wow.

Who cares? Why would I?

r17 Mounjaro is more effective than Ozempic for weight loss, though it’s important to note that neither drug is approved for weight loss. Participants in Mounjaro clinical trials lost 12 to 25 pounds, according to Eli Lilly’s clinical trials.

In Eli Lilly’s SURMOUNT-3 and SURMOUNT-4 clinical trials, study participants who took Mounjaro achieved 21.1% weight loss after 12 weeks and a total mean weight loss of 26.6% over 84 weeks.

In Novo Nordisk’s SUSTAIN 7 and SUSTAIN FORTE clinical trials, study participants who took Ozempic lost 9.3 to 14.1 pounds. On average, people who took Ozempic lost about 15% of their body weight after 68 weeks, according to clinical trials results published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

I’m positive she’s lost weight with portion control and sensible exercise! Most women of a certain age lose weight really easily that way!

Gurl bye what, OP? She's not going anywhere, hunty.

People CAN still lose weight the old-fashioned way, you know. It's just that the old-fashioned way won't keep it off (unless she's truly had a complete lifestyle change and maintains it). The new drugs will keep it off, as long as you stay on them.

The long term success rate of weight loss through diet and exercise alone after significant long-term obesity is fairly close to zero so let’s hope it’s drug-induced

R24, the drug-induced use of Ozempic and its ilk also make weight loss very difficult if not impossible to keep off without significant adjustments to one's approach to exercise, diet, etc. So a drug-induced weight loss program is hardly an answer in the long term.

R25. What is the evidence for that? These drugs are new At most you can say we don’t know what the long-term results will be.

Doctors say you have to stay on them long-term. If you're obese, which is when you SHOULD be using them, the prognosis at the moment is that you need to stay on them forever. They may learn more as we go along, but that's the present state of play.

So there's no point using these drugs to lose 5-10 lb, because staying on the drugs long-term might do more harm than being 5-10lb overweight. It probably won't do more harm than being 100lb overweight, though.

The average incidental weight loss diabetics experienced from these drugs wasn’t that dramatic. People who are losing a ton of weight on Ozempic, etc. are still making an effort, they’ve just hugely increased their likelihood of success. It’s like bowling with the guard rails up. You still need to aim and you still aren’t going to bowl a perfect game, but if you started out really sucking at bowling your score is got to be much higher.

They are losing weight by eating less. The drugs just make it easier to eat less.

I don’t understand the hostility towards these drugs.

R27. I took it as given that long term weight loss requires continuing to take the drug. I would be astonished if it were otherwise.

I said significant weight loss so the scenario of five to ten pounds isn’t relevant and most people aren’t taking it for that kind of minimal weight loss.

I believe she’s been really open about gaining a lot of weight over drinking and over eating during Covid.

R26, there are all kinds of evidence that say using these drugs require you to stay on them or the weight will come back.

R28, it sn't about hostility toward the drugs. But it is about all kinds of bad side effects you can get while on them.

[quote]So there's no point using these drugs to lose 5-10 lb, because staying on the drugs long-term might do more harm than being 5-10lb overweight.

r27 well fuck it, they need to make an Ozempic-lite version for people who aren't obese but need to lose 10-20 pounds. Its not fair that people who eat like there is no tomorrow get to achieve their weight loss in a matter of weeks after getting on these drugs. Meanwhile everyone else is made to feel the starvation and work out constantly to lose the annoying 20 extra pounds (which can also cause residual health problems) because we don't meet the guidelines for the obese people drugs. Even more so for those who are at an age where metabolism has slowed down.

Whenever I see stuff like this, I always think "Fen Phen" and the tales of woe and destroyed health.

Being skinny is worth putting down the fork and skipping a desert. It's not worth long-term heart damage.

R26. I should have been more explicit. I would never have imagined that you could stop taking the drugs and maintain the weight loss.

[quote]Its not fair that people who eat like there is no tomorrow get to achieve their weight loss in a matter of weeks after getting on these drugs.

What a laughably childish and immature point of view - it's not "fair" - lol.

Are you going to stamp your feet and throw a tantrum - oh wait, you already did in your post.

Well r32 simply gain 20 more then go on Ozempic. Problem solved!

She looks great

R33. Your post ignores the reality that long-term weight loss after long-term significant obesity is close to zero.

The choice for most people is 1l) do I hope to be one of the vanishingly small number of people in history who maintain significant weight loss through diet and exercise alone or 2) do I take the risk of unknown side effects of a new drug or risk the long-term health risks of significant obesity.

R32, I agree with R35. You sound like a child.

Do you also think it's unfair that you have to have the means to afford this very expensive and hard-to-acquire drug? Most people's insurance will not cover it for mere weight loss.

I'm on Ozempic, too. It just hasn't kicked in yet.

Lord, we must have plenty of time on our hands today to be worried about Ana Navarro's weight loss method. She's about as insignificant as they come.

[quote] Lord, we must have plenty of time on our hands today

R41, what do you think Datalounge is for?

What I find interesting is that while these drugs in America range from 1000-1200 (depending on brand) in every other country in the world they cost merely hundreds out of pocket. Canada’s online pharmacies have halted selling Ozempic to Americans. Keeping it in stock has been an issue world-wide and the Canadian government was concerned that too many Americans were dipping into their supply.

R43, big Pharma in the US is as much a scourge and as prevalent as gun violence. Because politicans are craven and many of them are in the pockets of the pharma industry, Americans continue to be gouged.

Why is Ozempic shameful? It's like PreP - if it works and your doctor is ok with prescribing it and the end result is good for your health, why not use it?

R45 Ozempic isn't shameful, but it's intended to be used for those suffering from Type 2 diabetes, not vain celebrities wanting to drop pounds without actually working at it.

There are now shortages of Ozempic for those who truly need it because people like Navarro are gobbling it up like candy. In addition, the long term effects of those without diabetes who use it to lose weight is still not fully known, and that makes it a risky drug to take if you really don't need it.

[quote]There are now shortages of Ozempic for those who truly need it because people like Navarro are gobbling it up like candy.

Well in her defense she did look like she was one candy bar away from diabetes

From the looks of her at her heaviest, Navarro's BMI score easily was in the obese range. Obese people clearly derive a health benefit. It's not like Meghan Markle or Sharon Osborne using it to take off a few extra pregnancy pounds or assuage elderly neurosis

I hate this bitch - and yes, I'm calling her a bitch not because she's a woman, but because she repeatedly lied on television for DECADES for the Republican party.

She's STILL a Republican - even though she doesn't really stand with any issue the Republican party aligns itself with.

She was willfully used by the Republican party to court the Latino and women's vote - and she gleefully played along the entire time.

She's a dime-a-dozen Latino immigrant who incorrectly thinks that any parts of socialism will lead to the unstable democracies of Latin America. She stole the 75 year old husband of another woman so she can use his power and contacts to further her career.

She's a piece of shit.

[QUOTE]She stole the 75 year old husband of another woman

More details, please. A Miami poster on the Nadine Menendez thread said that the pattern is common among Cuban men. Once they get to a certain age they dump the wife they'd cheated on since day one of the marriage and find a younger, brassy blonde who inevitably looks like a tranny. Ana fits one count.

I didn’t realize she was such a heifer pre-Mounjaro.

When used for weight loss it is long-term use. It is correcting an issue with your metabolism.

Here's an excellent (but long) article about weight loss drugs by Ruth Marcus who I mentioned at r13. She covers just about every aspect of the new weight loss drugs, their development, method of action, social and behavioral aspects of obesity and weight loss, as well as economic impacts.

R53 - thanks for the link!

[quote][R33]. Your post ignores the reality that long-term weight loss after long-term significant obesity is close to zero.

[quote]The choice for most people is 1l) do I hope to be one of the vanishingly small number of people in history who maintain significant weight loss through diet and exercise alone or 2) do I take the risk of unknown side effects of a new drug or risk the long-term health risks of significant obesity.

I ignore nothing. Taking a fat pill which may kill you to address longstanding weight, exercise, and health issues is just another symptom of the mindset that allowed you to become a fatty in the first place.

You offer a false choice. The choice is to put the fork down and stop pretending that it isn't a failure of anything other than literally wanting your cake and eating it too.

R55 — wow, that second sentence (and your bigotry) could use some work.

You ignore a lot and fantasize even more. It is possible that the pill may prove to have adverse consequences, just like any pill. At this point, is not known to have any serious side effects. You ride cars that are known to be capable of killing you. We could all stop using cars because of the small chance they will kill us, just as we could stop using this pill. Or women could stop using contraceptive pills because it's always safer not to take a medication. Or people could stop taking antidepressants. Your sensationalism is founded on nothing but fantasy at this point.

You do ignore the enormous evidence, both statistical and anecdotal, that long-term significant weight loss through diet and exercise alone is so rare as to make it not really a viable solution to sever obesity for most people. The medical studies substantiating this are readily available and easy to find. Anecdotally, have you ever known a person who was more than 50 pounds overweight for more than five years who then kept that weight off for the rest of his or her life? It is so rare, as not to be a consideration for most people.

You are welcome to your preferred theories about life and the comfort they bring you, but you don't have a right to your own facts.

[quote][R55] — wow, that second sentence (and your bigotry) could use some work.

"Bigotry" - lol

I think you'll find I'm in the majority here in calling Ozempic and its predecessors and analogs as "fat pills" in aggregate.

The vast majority of people in the US and many other so-called first world countries are grossly overweight. It's a public health crisis that the rest of us are going to have to foot the bill to address.

Fatties of the world, put the forks down.

R55 clearly has ignored medical professionals and scientists, preferring to do his "own research." Or he thinks he's smarter nd more possessed of knowledge than they are. An RFK, Jr type, if you will, about obesity and weight loss.

The article at r53 would be a good place for him to start reading if he really stands behind his dubious claim of "I ignore nothing."

Underwhelm Me, Caramel Apple edition 2.0

R42 Exactly. I should have added a parenthetical comment to my post (as I pour myself another cup of coffee and tuck into reading every detail about Ozempic)

R41

r20 You're completely wrong. The Mounjaro study lasted longer than Wegovy's and so now people keep repeating the bogus claim that it's more effective. Of fucking course it's more effective because the participants were on it for longer.

Ely Lilly is launching a proper head-to-head study this year (or it has already launched, I forget), which is the ONLY way we can know for certain. Please do your research next time before spreading misinformation.

Girls, it isn't a pill. It's a once-weekly injection.

The price of using these drugs is more than most people make in a year.

I've lost a significant amount of weight without taking any drug. Just diet and exercise.

I've already been asked by a few people if I'm taking Ozempic and it pisses me off. I have stayed away from all weight loss drugs in the past and now. Those things will mess you up and they don't address why people are overweight to begin with. Until one figures that out, any weight loss will be temporary. For me, it took finally paying for EMDR therapy to help me see my worth and to heal the childhood trauma I survived.

She's a Republican. If her lips are moving, she's lying.

R65 In principle the weight loss will be permanent if you continue to take the drug. I don't want to be discouraging, but the long-term success of significant weight loss through diet and exercise alone is almost zero.

[quote]What does Ozempic do to your organs? Other serious side effects of Ozempic include thyroid tumors, pancreatitis, changes in vision, hypoglycemia, gallbladder issues, kidney failure and cancer. The most severe complications Shah sees in her patients are pancreatitis and gallbladder issues — either can lead to hospitalization.

[quote] Hmm, taking a page out of Starr Jones' playbook and denying how she really lost weight. Is Ana's husband also gay like Starr's was?

Al Reynold (Star Jones' ex-husband) insists he's bisexual.

Does anyone care to explain those numbers in terms of the clinical trials? Or, indeed, the incredibly low, low probability of outlying side-effects of the many life-saving medicine on the market? If you're black and taking diabetes medication, the PDR (look it up) doesn't see you as any different from subjects in clinical trials that have tremendous positive impact in the African American community.

It seems to me that there are a lot of people on this board who may not be fat, but they're something way worse -- fatuous.

I love how all of the cranky assholes whose entire personality is I'M THIN! Are so pissed that now everyone is privy to their superpower. Who will they look down on now that "fatties" are off the menu?

[quote]Fatties of the world, put the forks down.

So, pizza is OK?

She’s making too much noise! 🚨

Mounjaro Navarro