Influencer and podcast maven Claudia Oshry used Ozempic to kickstart a newfound wellness journey.
“After a couple of weeks, I had minimal nausea and it went away pretty fast [and] I felt like, ‘This was the right drug for me,’” Oshry, 30, said on the Wednesday, February 12, episode of the “On Purpose With Jay Shetty” podcast. “I was on it for a year, and the first six months I just, kind of, let the drug do its thing. I didn’t change my life at all, like, I was still eating like crap, but that’s how the drug works. You eat like crap, but you eat half.”
Once Oshry started seeing weight loss results, she began overhauling her daily routine. (Ozempic and other GLP-1s are used to help adults who struggle with weight-related conditions. It is not approved for casual weight loss.)
“I was losing weight and then, halfway through, I was like, ‘OK, now that I’ve gotten my life a little bit under control, let me actually try and change my life,’” Oshry recalled. “I joined a gym, I got a trainer [and] I started working out. I started eating way healthier, so I did the journey in two parts, one where I just let the medication run me and [another] where I use the medication as a tool to change my life.”
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Oshry eventually knew that she wanted to “see if [she] could” maintain her weight without the medication.
“I had wanted to get pregnant sometime soon, and you have to be off the medication for a minimum of two months [before trying], so I got off of it in December of 2023,” the “Toast” podcaster, who is now expecting her first baby with husband Ben Soffer, said. “I knew in the next year I wanted to get pregnant and I wanted to put as much time between being off the drug and starting my journey.”
Oshry ultimately found that she was able to “keep up” with her newfound workout and diet routines without resuming the use of the drug.
“That’s one of the things I’m most proud of, ’cause I never would have been able to get there if it weren’t for the tool of Ozempic and all those GLP-1 medications,” she stressed. “The only thing I feel like I’m mourning is my body.”
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She added, “Nobody talks enough about what it’s like to lose significant weight and then get pregnant. As a woman, it’s not like you give birth and then you go back to work. It’s a two-year thing from conception till you really start to feel like yourself again.”
According to Oshry, it also took a beat to accept and love her body.
“I really had to work at it,” she said. “I just remember one day waking up and deciding to be confident. Slowly but surely [and] brick by brick, I built up a sense of confidence that was real, but it was based on a foundation of lies and now that I changed my life, I felt so confident … that I was capable of change.”
