Fat Joe Credits Ozempic for Helping Him Lose 200 Pounds

Fats Joe is giving credit score to Ozempic and a brand new weight-reduction plan for serving to him lose over 200 kilos.

Fats Joe Talks Weight-Loss Journey

Fats Joe has been on a weight-loss journey for some time with the Terror Squad rapper seeing the fruits of his labor in recent times. On Monday (Oct. 14), he opened up about dropping pounds in an interview with Us Weekly.

“We simply attempt to eat all the things with the least carbs as doable,” Joe, 54, instructed publication. “So we attempt to keep away from the bread, the pasta, the rice. That’s the neatest technique to eat.”

“Like this morning I ate breakfast, I had this toast. I reduce the nook off, ate it and saved it shifting,” he shared. “Usually I’d’ve ate [sic] the entire thing. However , that’s what we do. We reduce carbs and attempt to be smarter.”

Along with his newfound consuming habits, Joe additionally admitted to utilizing the Kind-2 diabetes drug and weight reduction help Ozempic, which has change into widespread amongst celebrities in recent times. Just lately, Ice Spice has been accused of Ozempic to shed kilos, which she has denied.

“Ozempic says you might solely have two items of your favourite stuff,” Joe joked.

Regardless of his slimmer body, do not count on the Bronx, N.Y. native to be altering his title anytime quickly. “My spouse would kill me. She likes me being a giant boy,” Joe famous.

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Fats Joe Sheds 200 Kilos

Fats Joe, who at his heaviest weighed round 470 kilos, first realized he wanted to shed some pounds following the dying of his protege Large Pun, who died in 2000 from a coronary heart situation at 28 whereas weighing 700 kilos.

“I went to his funeral and I felt like Ebenezer Scrooge,” Joe instructed Males’s Well being in 2023. “Like, I seen me. And I’m taking a look at his little daughter. She was the identical age as my daughter. I mentioned, ‘You gotta shed some pounds; in any other case you outta right here.'”

He misplaced his first 100 kilos across the launch of the hit single “Lean Again” in 2004 and has continued to drop kilos within the final 20 years and has now dropped over 200 kilos.