{"id":214203,"date":"2025-12-30T23:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/30\/oprah-winfrey-feels-more-alive-because-of-weight-loss-medication\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T23:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:06:09","slug":"oprah-winfrey-feels-more-alive-because-of-weight-loss-medication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/30\/oprah-winfrey-feels-more-alive-because-of-weight-loss-medication\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah Winfrey feels &#8216;more alive&#8217; because of weight-loss medication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-12-30\" datetime=\"1767135969\" pubdate=\"\">30 December 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/oprah-winfrey\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,oprah-winfrey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oprah Winfrey<\/a> feels &#8220;more alive and more vibrant&#8221; since she started using GLP-1.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Oprah Winfrey has opened up about her weight-loss journey<\/p>\n<p>The 71-year-old TV star started using weight-loss medication two and a half years ago, and she admits that GLP-1 has transformed her life.<\/p>\n<p>Oprah told People: &#8220;I thought it was about discipline and willpower. But I stopped blaming myself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel more alive and more vibrant than I\u2019ve ever been.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oprah admits that she now feels happier in her own skin.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;I\u2019m not constantly punishing myself. I hardly recognise the woman I\u2019ve become. But she\u2019s a happy woman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nBy contrast, Oprah previously felt &#8220;embarrassed&#8221; by her appearance.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe explained: &#8220;I\u2019ve always been confident in whatever I was doing, but I was at the same time disappointed in my overweight body.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Was I embarrassed by it? Yes. Was I disappointed in myself for continuing to fail? Yes, every single time. I felt it was my fault.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, Oprah previously revealed that she once declined a party invite because she thought she was &#8220;too fat&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe TV star embarked on a weight-loss journey in the late 1980s &#8211; but Oprah found that in spite of her best efforts, she quickly regained the weight that she&#8217;d lost.<\/p>\n<p>\nDuring an appearance on The Jamie Kern Lima Show, Oprah shared: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t have a morsel of food for five solid months in losing that weight on [the all-liquid diet] Optifast.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Three days later, I was 5 lbs. heavier, and a week later I was 10 lbs. heavier.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The week before Christmas, I remember Don Johnson &#8211;  the Don Johnson, of Miami Vice &#8211; was having a party and had invited me and some members of my show to come, and I wouldn&#8217;t go because I thought I was too fat to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nOprah recalled feeling a sense of shame about her weight struggles.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said: &#8220;I&#8217;d gone from 145 [lbs.] on the day of the show. I think I was 157 [lbs.] in the course of, like, a week and a half or two. And the shame started again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/oprah-winfrey-feels-alive-weight-loss-medication-1435276.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 December 2025 Oprah Winfrey feels &#8220;more alive and more vibrant&#8221; since she started using GLP-1. Oprah Winfrey has opened up about her weight-loss journey The 71-year-old TV star started using weight-loss medication two and a half years ago, and she admits that GLP-1 has transformed her life. Oprah told People: &#8220;I thought it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[248],"class_list":{"0":"post-214203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-oprah-winfrey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}