{"id":114492,"date":"2025-12-31T03:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/114492\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T03:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:36:11","slug":"for-oprah-a-croissant-is-now-just-a-croissant-thanks-glp-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/114492\/","title":{"rendered":"For Oprah, a croissant is now just a croissant (Thanks, GLP-1!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yes, Oprah Winfrey has discussed her weight loss and weight gain and weight in general before \u2014 many<\/a>, many<\/a> times<\/a> before. The difference this time around, she says, is how little food noise there is in her daily life, and how little shame. It\u2019s so quiet, in fact, that she can eat a whole croissant and simply acknowledge she had breakfast. <\/p>\n

\u201cFood noise,\u201d for those who don\u2019t experience it, is a virtually nonstop mental conversation about food that, according to Tufts Medicine<\/a>, rarely shuts up and instead drives a person \u201cto eat when they\u2019re not hungry, obsess over meals and feel shame or guilt about their eating habits.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis type of obsessive food-related thinking can override hunger cues and lead to patterns of overeating, undereating or emotional eating \u2014 especially for people who are overweight,\u201d Tufts said. <\/p>\n

Winfrey told People<\/a> in an exclusive interview published Tuesday that in the past she would have been thinking, \u201c\u2018How many calories in that croissant? How long is it going to take me to work it off? If I have the croissant, I won\u2019t be able to have dinner.\u2019 I\u2019d still be thinking about that damn croissant!\u201d <\/p>\n

What has changed is her acceptance 2\u00bd years ago that she has a disease, obesity, and that this time around there was something not called \u201cwillpower\u201d to help her manage it. <\/p>\n

The talk show host has been using Mounjaro, one of the GLP-1 drugs<\/a>, since 2023. The weight-loss version of Mounjaro is Zepbound, like Wegovy is the weight-loss version of Ozempic. Trulicity and Victroza are also GLP-1s, and a pill version of Wegovy<\/a> was just approved by the FDA. <\/p>\n

When she started using the injectable, Winfrey told People<\/a> she welcomed the arrival of a tool to help her get away from the yo-yo path she\u2019d been on for decades. After understanding the science behind it, she said, she was \u201cabsolutely done with the shaming from other people and particularly myself\u201d after so many years of weathering public criticism about her weight. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have been blamed and shamed,\u201d she said elsewhere in that 2023 interview, \u201cand I blamed and shamed myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, on the eve of 2026, Winfrey says her mental shift is complete. \u201cI came to understand that overeating doesn\u2019t cause obesity. Obesity causes overeating,\u201d she told the outlet. \u201cAnd that\u2019s the most mind-blowing, freeing thing I\u2019ve experienced as an adult.\u201d<\/p>\n

She isn\u2019t even sharing her current weight with the public. <\/p>\n

Winfrey did take a break from the medication early in 2024, she said, and started to regain weight despite continuing to work out and eat healthy foods. So for Winfrey the obesity prescription will be renewed for a lifetime. C\u2019est la vie seems to be her attitude.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not constantly punishing myself,\u201d she said. \u201cI hardly recognize the woman I\u2019ve become. But she\u2019s a happy woman.\u201d<\/p>\n

Winfrey has to take a carefully managed magnesium supplement and make sure she drinks enough water, she said. The shots are done weekly, except when she feels like she can go 10 or 12 days. But packing clothes for the Australian leg of her \u201cEnough\u201d book tour was an off-the-rack delight, not a trip down a shame spiral. She\u2019s even totally into regular exercise. <\/p>\n

Plus along with the \u201cquiet strength\u201d she has found in the absence of food noise, Winfrey has experienced another cool side effect: She pretty much couldn\u2019t care less about drinking alcohol. <\/p>\n

\u201cI was a big fan of tequila. I literally had 17 shots one night,\u201d she told People. \u201cI haven\u2019t had a drink in years. The fact that I no longer even have a desire for it is pretty amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

So back to that croissant. How did she feel after she scarfed it down? <\/p>\n

\u201cI felt nothing,\u201d she said. \u201cThe only thing I thought was, \u2018I need to clean up these crumbs.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yes, Oprah Winfrey has discussed her weight loss and weight gain and weight in general before \u2014 many,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[61235,54032,48,52,51,61237,47,50,49,22874,61241,14464,61239,61242,592,61243,61240,61236,61238,61234,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-114492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-croissant","9":"tag-enough-water","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-headlines","12":"tag-la-news","13":"tag-little-food-noise","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","16":"tag-los-angeles-news","17":"tag-many-time","18":"tag-mounjaro","19":"tag-obesity","20":"tag-oprah","21":"tag-overeating","22":"tag-people","23":"tag-public-criticism","24":"tag-wegovy","25":"tag-weight","26":"tag-weight-loss-version","27":"tag-winfrey","28":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}