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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Your host.
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Jonathan Ressler.
Hey, welcome back to Shut Upand Choose the podcast that cuts
the noise and nonsense and allthat bullshit out there that the
internet gurus and Instagraminfluencers are throwing your
way.
We all know it's a bunch ofshit, but that's what we're here
to talk about today.
Today, I want to talk aboutsomething that's really kind of
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shocking.
Actually, ozempic is not themiracle that you've been sold.
Huh, those GLP-1s aren't asgreat as everybody thought.
Wow, there's a shocker.
Huh, and lawsuits piled up.
They're just the beginning.
You probably heard the hypedoctors calling it a
breakthrough, celebritiesparading their miracle
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transformation, social mediadrowning in before and afters,
ozempic, wagovi, majaro, all theGLP ones They've been marketed
like salvation in a syringe.
Finally, the drug that will endobesity once and for all.
That's the story.
But here's the truth nobodywants to say out loud.
The story is starting tocrumble Fast and those lawsuits
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you're now seeing they're cracksin the foundation.
But Ozempic is not new and it'snot revolutionary.
It's the same old trap we'vebeen falling for for decades.
Only this time it comes with aprescription pad and a needle.
Think about it.
For 70 years, the 70 billiondollar diet industry's employing
all the same shit.
All the same moves promise ashortcut, sell the fantasy and
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profit off failure.
Whether it's diet shakes in the80s, atkins in in the 90s did
that one, weight watchers pointsdid that one, keto meal kits
did that one, or now it's theGLP-1 injections, it's always
the same pitch.
This time it's different.
This time we've cracked thecode, this time we've found the
secret.
Except, it's never different.
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It's always the fucking samething.
The lawsuits are starting toexpose the obvious Side effects
that are more than just anuisance.
People aren't just losingweight, they're losing muscle
mass, developing severegastrointestinal issues, dealing
with malnutrition and evenending up hospitalized.
And here's the kicker A lot ofpeople who stop the drug gain
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the weight back almost instantly, and often with a little bit of
interest.
Why?
Because nothing about theirhabits or their relationship
with food has changed.
The drug didn't fix anything.
It just muted the symptomsuntil the prescription ran out.
And that's exactly why I callExempic nothing more than Weight
Watchers and a syringe.
It's the same model Gives you afalse sense of control, keep
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you dependent and profit whenyou fail.
Look, let's be real here.
If these drugs actually workedlong-term, if they actually
solved obesity, you'd see thediet industry collapsing, not
booming, but you don't.
The industry doesn't want youfree.
It wants you hooked hooked onmeal plans, hooked on shakes,
hooked on programs and nowhooked on weekly injections that
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actually cost a fortune.
And when it fails because italways does they'll be right
there to sell you the next shinynew solution.
That's the scam, that's thecycle, and Ozempic and GLP-1s
are just the latest chapter.
Now here's why it matters thelawsuits.
They're not just about legalliability.
They're about pulling back thecurtain on the illusion, because
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for once, people are startingto see the pattern, the promises
, the hype, the failures, thedamage, and maybe, just maybe.
This is the wake-up call thatpeople really need, because
weight loss has never been abouta miracle drug or a perfect
plan.
It has always been and alwayswill be about common sense,
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small, smart choices made,consistently, learning to trust
yourself, instead of outsourcingyour decisions to a diet or
some fucking idiot coach or nowa pharmaceutical company.
That's not sexy, it doesn't fitinto flashing Instagram ads or
late night infomercials, but itworks and at last, small, smart
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choices are the only way toreally lose weight and keep it
off.
And the lawsuits are piling upagainst Ozempic.
It's not just about one drug.
They're proof that the hypemachine of the diet industry is
breaking down.
The cracks are showing.
People are fucking pissed andpeople are waking up.
And that's why I'm here,because it's time for a
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revolution, not against one drug, not against one company, but
against the entire system that'sbeen lying to you, profiting
off you and keeping you stuckfor decades.
Ozempic isn't the miracle.
The miracle is realizing younever needed it in the first
place.
So let's talk about why Ozempicblew up in the first place, why
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it's been crowned.
The magic shot.
The sales pitch is simple right, effortless weight loss.
A tiny injection once a weekand poof, your appetite vanishes
.
Sounds good to me.
You're not thinking about foodall the time.
You're eating less without eventrying.
No calorie counting, no mealprepping, no giving a pizza or
wine, no lifestyle changerequired, just take the shot,
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sit back and watch the poundsfall off.
And honestly, I get it.
I get why people want tobelieve it.
Who wouldn't?
We live in a world whereeverybody wants results.
Yesterday, fast weight loss,minimal effort, maximum payoff,
a shot that makes you skinnyfeels like the ultimate life
hack.
I get it.
I thought about it, so Itotally get it.
It's the exact fantasy the dietindustry has been dangling in
front of us for decades.
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But here's the part that the adsand the celebrity testimonials
don't tell you behind the hypethere's some really fucking ugly
realities, and those realitiesare now showing up in the form
of lawsuits.
Let's start with the sideeffects.
And we're not talking about oh,I felt a little nauseous today.
Anybody can deal with that.
We're talking severe, long-termgastrointestinal issues people
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developing stomach paralysis,malnutrition, er visits because
their bodies literally can'thandle the drug.
And while the companiesdownplay it, the lawsuits that
are piling up are exposing thetruth.
These aren't rare, isolatedincidents.
They're happening to realpeople every single day.
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Then there's the rebound weightgain.
You stop taking the drug, theweight doesn't just creep back,
it rockets back, and for a lotof people it comes back with a
lot more weight.
Why?
Because nothing has changedtheir habits, their food
environment, their relationshipwith eating.
None of it got fixed.
Ozempic and GLP-1s don't teachyou how to navigate the
restaurant menu, or how tohandle stress without overeating
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, or how to build sustainabledaily choices.
It just flipped the off switchon your appetite for a while and
the second that switch turnsback on.
It's fucking game over.
That means, if you think aboutit, people are stuck in
dependency.
To keep weight off, you justhave to keep taking the shot
forever.
And a thousand or fifteenhundred bucks a month, that's
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not just unsustainable, it'sexactly the kind of financial
trap the diet industry loves Getyou hooked, keep you paying and
make sure the only way tosucceed is to stay on the hook.
If that sounds familiar, itshould, because this isn't new.
It's the exact same cycle we'veseen with every so-called
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miracle before it the pills inthe 60s, slimfast in the 80s,
atkins in the 90s, detox teasand fat burners.
In the 2000s, ketosubscriptions in the 2010s and
now, in the 2020s, it's GLP-1injections.
Different package, same fuckingscam.
The pattern never changes Bigpromises, quick results, some
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early success stories to make itlook legitimate.
Then the dark side shows up theside effects, the rebound,
weight gain, the failure ratesthrough the roof and the
industry shrugs and it blamesyou for not sticking with it and
moves on to the next shinything.
Meanwhile, billions of dollarschange hands and millions of
people stay stuck.
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That's why I keep hammering onthis point Ozempic is not a
revolution.
It's just the latest costume inthe same old, tired play.
And the lawsuits they're justthe proof.
Proof that, once again, thehype doesn't match the reality.
Proof that, once again, peopleare paying the price in money,
in health and in lost hope.
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And here's the truth.
Nobody's selling you this drug,wants you to hear.
Weight loss was never aboutfinding a magic bullet.
It's about common sense.
It always was and it alwayswill be.
Here's the thing about theGLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and
Govi and Manjaro.
They've been sold as arevolution, but in reality
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they're nothing more than dietculture in a syringe.
Think about it.
These shots don't fix anything.
They don't change yourrelationship with food.
They don't teach you how tomake better choices at a
restaurant, or how to handlestress without eating, or how to
stop mindless snacking whenyou're tired at 10 o'clock.
What they do is simple theyshut off your appetite, that's
it.
For as long as you're on them,you eat less, but the second you
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stop, your appetite comesroaring back, and so does the
weight.
That's not a cure, that's afucking leash.
And that's the exact same modeldiets I've been using for
decades Weight Watchers Pointsdid it, jenny Craig.
Mealboxes did it.
Keto Subscriptions did it.
Detoxies all right.
Well, I never did that one, butall of them work in the short
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term, because they limit yourchoices, they put you into some
little box.
But the second you step outsidethe box, like, let's say, you go
on vacation, or when you eatout, or if life just throws you
a curveball.
You've lost, you're lost, youdon't know what to do.
So you snap back to the oldhabits.
Cue the rebound, weight gain,the guilt and the never-ending
cycle.
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Glp-1s are no different.
They just wrapped diet cultureor lab coat and injected it into
your arm or, I guess, into yourstomach is where, I guess, you
inject it.
But let's talk a little bitabout the side effects, because
this is where the mask, wherethe scam really slips up.
The hype train makes it soundlike you'll deal with a little
nausea when your appetitedisappears.
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But the reality is much, muchdarker.
I mean, first let's talk aboutthe infamous ozempic phase.
But the reality is much, muchdarker.
I mean, first let's talk aboutthe infamous ozempic face.
When the weight drops quickly,it's not just body fat you're
losing, it's fat in your face.
That's what gives you a healthy, youthful look.
Without it, the skin sags, thecheeks hollow out and suddenly
you look 10 years older.
People chasing confidence endup feeling worse, staring into a
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mirror at someone they barelyrecognize.
And once again, the systemcashes in.
Now plastic surgeons are makingfortunes fixing the side effects
with fillers and faceless andcosmetic procedures.
It's diet culture's favoritetrick Create a new insecurity,
then sell you the product to fixit.
But it doesn't stop there.
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Now we're even seeing lawsuitsand reports of something that's
even scarier.
That's vision loss.
Some patients on GLP-1 haveexperienced sudden severe damage
to their eyesight, evenpermanent blindness.
Imagine that you signed up tolose 40 pounds and instead you
lost your ability to see.
That's not a side effect,that's a life sentence.
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And yet you won't see that riskhighlighted in the glossy ads
and TikTok testimonials.
Because if people knew the realcost, the hype would collapse
overnight.
And that's what's happening.
And here's the brutal truth.
Glp-1s aren't a revolution.
They're a rerun, a reboot ofthe same tired shit we've been
watching for 70 years.
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Diets have always worked thisway Restrict and lose weight
fast, suffer the side effects,rebound when it ends, blame
yourself for failing and thenbuy the next solution.
Now, instead of restrictingcarbs or counting points,
they're handing you a syringe.
Same shit, same cycle, samedependency, same profits for the
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diet industry.
And let's not ignore the money,the injections.
We all know they cost anywherebetween $1,000, $1,500 a month.
That's not treatment, that'sreally.
That's literally a subscriptionservice and, like every other
diet product, it's built ondependency.
If you stop paying, you stoplosing, and if you stop losing,
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you rebound.
And then the shame starts again, all over again.
The drug companies know that Infact, they're counting on it.
They don't want you fixed, theywant you hooked.
And that really is diet culturein a nutshell.
And now it's literally in aneedle.
So the question becomes are wereally going to fall for it
again?
Are we really going to pretendthis time is different, even as
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people deal with those epic facegastrointestinal paralysis,
malnutrition, lawsuits and nowblindness or are we really going
to finally wake up to the truththat weight loss was never
about gimmicks, hacks or miracleshots?
Because here's the real deal.
When you look past the hype,glp-1s teach you the exact same
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lessons diets do.
They prove yet again, shortcutsdon't work.
They prove that when yououtsource your health to an
external system, whether it's apoint tracker or a box of shakes
or a $1,500 injection you losetwice.
Once you win, you regain theweight and again when you
realize you wasted your time,your money and now we're finding
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out, in a lot of cases, yourhealth.
Glp-1s are the diet culture'slast big play, their final magic
trick, if you will.
But like every other trick,once you see how it's done, the
illusion dies and the lawsuitspiling up, they're just pulling
back the curtain faster thanever.
So at the end of the day, theanswer has always been the same
it's not in a box, it's not in afucking PDF and it sure as hell
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isn't in a needle.
It's in your choices that youmake every day.
Small, smart choices, commonsense.
That's the revolution andthat's the one thing the diet
industry can't sell you, becauseonce you realize you have the
power, you don't need themanymore.
And here's the part that nobodywants to talk about.
Ozempic isn't the problem, it'sthe symptom.
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The real disease is the dietindustry machine, a $70 billion
behemoth built on failure.
Think about it If diets worked,there wouldn't be a diet
industry.
If one program, one pill, oneapp or one shot actually
delivered lasting weight loss,the whole fucking thing would
collapse.
There'd be no repeat customers,no endless cycle of
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subscriptions and shakes andsurgeries and now injections.
One good solution and theproblem will be solved.
But that's not how the industrymakes its money.
Instead, the entire businessmodel is built on keeping people
stuck, hook you with hype,deliver just enough results up
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front to make it feel real, andthen let it collapse when you
inevitably gain the weight backbecause you will.
You don't blame the program, youblame yourself.
Oh, I didn't stick with it or Iwasn't disciplined enough, or
I'll try harder next time.
And what do you do?
You open your wallet again.
That's the playbook.
Always has been, always will be.
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And Ozempic and GLP-1s fitperfectly into that playbook.
Because here's what happenswith the GLP-1s you pay
thousands of dollars to takeyour shot.
You lose weight quickly, youdeal with brutal side effects
everything from nausea tomalnutrition, to Ozempic face,
to lawsuits over stomachparalysis and even blindness,
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and then, when you stop, theweight comes roaring back on.
Instead of questioning the drugor the system, you tell
yourself I failed, I couldn'tstay on it.
The guilt is the fuel, theshame is the business model.
The machine is designed to keepyou blaming yourself while they
keep cashing checks.
And they're smart, they knowhow to reinvent the same lie
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over and over again.
The 80s, like I said, it waslow-fat everything.
In the 90s it was Atkins I didit.
In the 2000s it was detoxes.
Never did those but South Beachand fat-burning pills.
In the 2010s it was keto,intermittent fasting and endless
body transformation programs.
Now, in the 2020s, it's GLP-1slike Ozempic and Mungovi and
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Manjaro.
Every decade a new shiny object.
Every decade the same trap.
And look at the marketing.
The industry doesn't just sellyou products, it sells you.
Hope that this time will bedifferent, that this is the new
science, this new diet, this newdrug is finally the
breakthrough.
And they're masters at pullingemotional levers.
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They show you the happy beforeand afters, the celebrities
swearing by it, the influencershashtagging their way through
miracle transformations.
They make it look easy,inevitable and definitely
permanent until it isn't.
And here's another harsh truththe diet industry has never been
about health.
If it was, the focus would beon long-term sustainable change.
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It would be about teachingpeople how to eat in the real
world, how to manage stress, howto build habits they can
actually live with.
But they don't teach thatbecause if you learned it, you
wouldn't need them anymore.
They don't want you free, theywant you dependent.
And ozempic and all the GLPones prove that.
Big pharma saw what the dietindustry has been doing for
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decades and thought hey, whatthe fuck, why not us?
They packaged the samedependency model into a weekly
injection, slapped aprescription label on it and
marketed it like salvation.
But it's the same old scam,different packaging and much
higher stakes.
Because, let's be real, what'smore profitable than a product
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people have to take forever tosucceed?
A pill you pop for a week,that's one thing, but an
injection you're stuck with forlife at a thousand a month,
that's the subscription modelthat Wall Street dreams about.
And when people are chasingtheir dream, the consequences
pile up, not just in money butin health.
I said it before a zempic face,stomach paralysis, vision loss,
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dependency, rebound, weight gainand, the cruelest part, people
walk away from this shit,blaming themselves instead of
realizing the truth.
The game was rigged from thestart.
Here's what the diet industrydoesn't want you to know.
Your body is not broken.
You don't need saving.
You don't need gimmicks, hacksor miracle shots.
What you need is the one thingthey can't sell you, which is
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common sense, small, smartchoices, made over and over
again, real food that you enjoy,movement that you can stick
with, learning how to makebetter decisions in the chaos of
daily life.
That's what works, that's whatlasts and that's the one thing
the machine can't monetize,because once you realize it,
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you're out, you're free.
That's why they keep danglingshiny new solutions in front of
you, because if you ever stoppedand said, wait, this is the
same lie as last time, theentire $70 billion empire would
collapse.
Ozempic isn't just a drug.
It's the latest disguise of thesame predator, a predator that
thrives on keeping you stuck,ashamed, dependent and fat.
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And until we stop feeding it,it's going to keep reinventing
itself, decade after decade,while people waste their money,
their time and their healthchoosing the next fantasy.
The machine doesn't want you tohear this, but here's the truth
.
You don't need them, you neverdid.
At this point it should beobvious.
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Ozempic isn't the revolution,it's the rerun.
It's the same trap, dressed upin a lab coat, the same gimmick,
recycled with a needle insteadof a PDF.
And the lawsuits piling upprove it's not just ineffective,
long-term, it's fuckingdangerous.
But here's the real problem.
We've been playing the dietindustry's game for so long.
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We don't even realize the boardis rigged.
We keep following the rules andthey keep winning.
That's why it's time to flipthe table.
It's time for a revolution.
And let me be crystal clear.
I don't mean a revolutionagainst Ozempic or Weight
Watchers, or Keto or Atkins orSlim Fats or whatever comes next
.
No, this is bigger than that.
This is a revolution againstthe entire system that's been
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lying to you, profiting off yourpain and keeping you stuck for
decades.
Because here's the truth thatDiet Insert never wants you to
know.
Weight loss was nevercomplicated.
It's never been about secrethacks or special meal plans or
magic injections.
It was and always will be aboutcommon sense.
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Small, smart choices madeconsistently.
That's it.
But common sense doesn't makeanybody rich.
You can't patent it, you can'tpackage it up in a shiny
subscription and you sure asshit can't sell it for $1,500 a
month.
That's why the industry ignoresit, dismisses it, even laughs
it off, because if you everembraced it, they'd lose you
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forever.
So what does this revolutionlook like?
It starts with refusing to playtheir game.
It starts with saying no morechasing quick fixes, no more
believing the next shiny projectwill magically save you, no
more blaming yourself when thesystem fails because it was
designed to fail, and no moreoutsourcing control to a program
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or a drug or an app.
The revolution is about takingyour power back.
It's about choosing to buildpatterns, not chase perfection.
Choosing to trust yourself, notsome external set of rules
Choosing progress over gimmicks.
It's about learning to makebetter decisions, not some
external set of rules Choosingprogress over gimmicks.
It's about learning to makebetter decisions in the chaos of
real life Instead of relying ona system that crumbles.
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The second things get fucked upand think about it.
You don't need Ozemi to tellyou eating 3,000 calories of
cheese fries every night isn'thelping you.
You don't need a diet app totell you that walking daily is
good for you.
You don't need a celebrityendorsement to prove that
drinking water instead of sodamakes a difference.
You already know.
You've always known the dietindustry, just convinced you
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that it had to be harder thanthat so you'd keep buying.
The lawsuits against Ozempicaren't just about the drug.
They're a wake-up call, proofthat the hype is collapsing,
proof that people are startingto about the drug.
They're a wake-up call, proofthat the hype is collapsing,
proof that people are startingto see the truth.
The diet industry never wantedto fix you.
It wants to own you.
But here's the good newsRevolutions don't start with
corporations.
They start with people Oneperson deciding they've had
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enough, one person refusing toplay the game, one person saying
I'm done chasing gimmicks, I'mready to start choosing.
And when enough people makethat choice, the whole system
crumbles, because the dietindustry can't survive without
your money, your hope and yourbelief in their bullshit.
Take that away and they gotnothing.
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So maybe the lawsuits againstOzempic are the beginning of the
end.
Maybe they're a crack in thewall that finally brings the
whole house down, or maybe it'lltake longer.
But one thing is certain thatrevolution has to start with you
, because you don't need anotherplan, another pill or another
shot.
You don't need permission fromthe diet industry to take back
control.
You just need to decide.
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You need to choose.
Decide to stop dieting anddecide to stop outsourcing and
decide to start choosing.
That's how the revolutionbegins, not with another fad,
but with a simple choice, andit's yours.
So let me kind of land thisplane, because I'm worked up
right now.
Ozempic isn't a miracle.
It's been solved, as it's not arevolution.
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It's just the latest costume,the tired play that diet
industry has been running fordecades pills, shakes, points,
detox, eat, surgery, apps andnow injections, different
packaging, same shit, thelawsuits piling up against
Ozempic are proof that the hypeis collapsing, proof that, once
again, people have been sold adream and quickly turns into a
nightmare.
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If you've been caught in thatcycle before, it's not because
you're weak, it's because thesystem was designed to keep you
there.
But you don't have to staythere.
The real revolution isn't in asyringe, it isn't in a PDF and
it sure as shit is not in asubscription box.
The real revolution starts withcommon sense, with small, smart
choices you can actually livewith, with taking your power
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back from an industry that'sbeen profiting off your
frustration for decades.
That's why I'm here, because Ilived it.
I lost 140 pounds withoutdieting, without gimmicks,
without ozempics and any GLP-1s,and I kept it off, not because
I found the magic bullet, butbecause I finally stopped
playing the game, and that'swhat I want for you.
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break the diet industry.
I want to watch them crumblebecause they kept me trapped for
59 years until I figured it out.
It was about common sense.
Now I get it.
The lawsuits are not going toend ozempic, but the truth will,
and the truth is this you don'tneed another diet, another drug
or another scam.
Honestly, you need to shut upand choose.
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So that's my rant on GLP-1s.
It's been a crazy week A lot oflawsuits coming out.
If you want to read all about myjourney, you can buy my book
Shut Up and Choose on Amazon.
We're an Amazon bestseller.
I get emails every day tellingme that the book has changed
people's lives and that'sprobably the most gratifying
thing in the world.
If I can save you $1,500 amonth by not going on Ozempic, I
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feel great.
The reality is, this is allabout small, smart choices.
It's all about common sense.
It's all about taking controlof your own life, not giving it
to somebody else.
This is about learning how toeat in the life that you're
living, giving it to somebodyelse.
This is about learning how toeat in the life that you're
living, not changing your lifeto live and eat on somebody
else's meal plan.
So again, it's all aboutchoices.
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Now all you have to do is shutup and choose.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
You've been listening
to Shut Up and Choose.
Jonathan's passion is to sharehis journey of shedding 130
pounds in less than a yearwithout any of the usual
gimmicks no diets, no pills.
And we'll let you in on alittle secret no fucking gym.
And guess what?
You can do it too.
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We'll be back soon, but in themeantime, find Jonathan on
Instagram atJonathanWrestlerBocaRaton.
Until next time, shut up andchoose.