Welcome back to another episode of The Real Dish, I'm Chef Mareya, and today in episode 122, we're going to unpack an ultra hot and a minefield of a subject – weight and fat loss. I will do everything I can to handle this with the utmost sensitivity.

Now, there’s a LOT of sizzling conversation semaglutides, aka Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro, which are actually intended for people with Type 2 diabetes, which helps manage blood glucose levels.  At the time of this recording, they are not FDA approved for weight loss, but because they have an off-label side effect of weight loss, and have the Hollywood blessing, a lot of people are on the bandwagon. Megastars like Oprah put a spotlight on it in her recent Weight Special on national television.

What people don’t really see is that once you start taking these, this is intended to to be a...