Hollywood Star feels he ‘cheats’ after losing 40 pounds with drug for weight loss

Hollywood actor Josh Gad fears he’s taking the lightweight way out when it comes to his Weight loss.

The “frozen” star, who expressed Snowman Olaf in the Hit Disney movie, admitted he lost 40 pounds on “Miracle Drug”, GLP-1.

“I’m on a GLP-1 … This is the first time I’ve opened for this,” shared Gad on Dax Shepards “Armchair Expert” podcast.

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“It has suppressed in a great way that noise. … when I wake up, I feel hungry pain – and so much of it is psychological, right? And what it does is to remove that signal.”

GLP-1 medicine, which includes Ozempic, mainly helps deal with blood sugar (glucose) levels in people with type 2 diabetes. Some GLP-1-agonists can also help treat obesity, according to Cleveland Clinic.

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Gad, 43, said he previously took another medicine that caused him “Diverticulitis,” – An inflammation of small pockets that can develop on the inside of your colon.

He said his GLP-1 medicine worked “incredibly” for him until he had to change.

The star “Beauty and the Beast” also admitted that the weight loss medicine has skewed his perspective on his health.

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“I find out this new one, and it’s life -changing, but it also doesn’t lapse the fact that it can’t be on site to have a healthy relationship with food,” he added. “It can’t be on site to have a healthy relationship with training. … I have my own journey with it. Sometimes I want to cheat myself by doing this.”

Gad continued to say that he feared his identity would change after he throw 40 pounds.

“I’ve always been the funny fat guy. Can I be the funny, thin guy?” He asked. “Can I be the warm leading man? I don’t know if I can be these things. I know I can be these things, I don’t know that people would accept me like these things … and it’s always right Hard.

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He said his main focus is to be present for his children.

“I’m not so worried about (my career) because my primary goal is, I want to be there for my kids,” Gad. “Everything else is bull—-.”

Gad shares two young children with his wife, Ida Darvish. Their daughters are called Isabella Eve and Ava Tanya.

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