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.”
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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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