Hey, it's Ryan. This is trillion dollar shot, a special series about a new class of drugs like Ozempeck, which are helping people to lose weight.

The first two episodes are already in your feed, and you can find a link to them in the show notes. Hello again Brad.

Hello.

Here we are.

It's a big day.

It is a big day as I understand at least.

Yeah, we're going to be talking about your story in this episode.

Yes, and I think I hope it's a relatable story.

I mean, I think so.

You know, so many people in this country have been wanting to lose weight or have tried to lose weight and you know you've said before that you've been on this weight loss journey for about 20 years can we go back to the start?

Where did it all begin for you?

It kind of starts with the weight gain, really.

You know, I got married and I think just kind of wasn't well.

I don't know how else to say it

and ate my feelings

as it were for quite a while, had kids right away as soon as I got married and so I was just in my 20s.

And I think with the stress and everything, one kind of easy thing to do was to, you know, enjoy food.

And so, how would you describe your attempts to try to lose that weight?

You know, it's a lot of defeat. You get kind of

temporary victories and and all of the diets really almost feel like ways of like kind of tricking your brain into going along with something for a while.

But then you just have this kind of this creep.

Yeah.

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