Life after Ozempic: ‘Half the weight I’d lost, I put back on over six months’

Life after Ozempic: ‘Half the weight I’d lost, I put back on over six months’

John Kane always had an easy solution to being overweight: buy bigger suits. And then, came one fateful afternoon. “I remember sitting on the couch, and I dropped something and I went, ‘yeah, I’ll leave that’,” the 76-year-old from Killiney, Co Dublin recalls. It reminded him of his mother, who had mobility issues in her final years. “She too would drop something, and would often just have to leave it there.”

Is Jewish dieting culture over? Reading 'This is Big' in the age of Ozempic

There’s a meme of sorts about how people from all cultural backgrounds claim that what makes their own unique is its love of food. As versus which other culture, is the retort. Every culture (fine, apart from WASP culture) is the one with the food. So too, perhaps, with dieting. To me, dieting feels like a deeply Jewish pursuit, like something inherent to mid-century-to-Y2K North American Jewish culture. But also, I happen to be a woman born in …