00:01So how does it feel?
00:02Most days I feel nothing.
00:06I mean, I think it's been around three years now,
00:10and at this point it's a part of me.
00:15And on the bad days?
00:17It burns.
00:21I feel it in my eyes, my nose, my mouth.
00:31All over, really.
00:38I never asked to be on it.
00:41People seem to think that Ozempic is a cure-all.
00:46That once you're on it, all your problems are fixed, gone away.
00:51It's sort of a cross between a blessing and a curse.
00:59I'd say that help is a loose term.
01:02I mean, I do most of the work.
01:06You know, I gotta eat right.
01:08It's tough when you're never really hungry.
01:12And exercise about tri-weekly?
01:18The way it works is that it tricks my brain into thinking I'm full all the time.
01:23I see it as a sort of chemical reaction.
01:26The gastric juices meet with the Ozempic and, in a way, create this new synthetic me.
01:34I guess my journey started at 16, when I was determined pre-diabetic.
01:39And being 295 pounds at 16 would lead me down a path to lose two limbs by 40.
01:47So, soon enough, I started treatment.
01:50Progress was imminent.
01:52But things were still really tough.
01:57Part of the reason I think it was tough was because eating had become a way of coping about my
02:04loneliness for so many years.
02:09To be honest, I felt monstrous.
02:12Like I was becoming some sort of beast.
02:41I think that part of the process is also forgiveness.
02:45Self-forgiveness.
02:46I don't think there's anyone else to blame.
02:49But I also don't think that I need to blame myself, either.
02:54I kind of need to just keep going.
03:00I mean, what's the point in throwing in the towel?
03:06Let's see it.
03:07Wait.
03:08No, no, no.
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