Yahoo Lifestyle Josh Gad Makes Bold Declaration About Weight Loss Drugs After Losing 40 Pounds
Josh Gad is the latest celebrity to talk about using a weight loss medication—and while his experience has been positive, he does have some doubts about his transformation.
“I’m on a GLP-1...this is the first time I’ve opened up about this,” the 43-year-old actor told Dax Shepard on the Monday, Jan. 27 episode of the Armchair Expert podcast.
“It has suppressed, in a great way, that noise," he continued. "When I wake up, I feel hunger pains—and so much of that is psychological, right? And what this does is it takes away that signal.”
As the Grammy Award winner explained, he lost 40 pounds on the first GLP-1 he tried but unfortunately had to change to a different medication after developing diverticulitis.
“It is a miracle drug,” Gad declared. “I was really bummed out because it was working incredibly for me and I had to switch.”
Still, he's having success with the second drug—though he also emphasized the importance of making lifestyle changes in addition to taking medication.
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“I’m figuring out this new one, and it is life-changing, but it also doesn’t negate the fact that it can’t be in the place of having a healthy relationship with food,” he said. “It can’t be in the place of having a healthy relationship with exercise...I’m having my own journey with it. Sometimes I feel like I’m cheating myself by doing this.”
Gad admitted that he's unsure how his weight loss will affect his career.
“I’ve always been the funny fat guy. Can I be the funny skinny guy?" he asked. "Can I be the hot leading man? I don’t know that people would accept me as those things.”
Ultimately, however, the star's top priority as a father is his health. (Gad shares two daughters—Ava, 14, and Isabella, 10—with his wife, Ida Darvish.
“I’m not as worried about [my career] because my primary goal is, I want to be there for my kids,” Gad said. “Everything else is bulls--t.”
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