As if somehow your weight loss doesn’t count if it wasn’t a struggle to get there. What taking weight loss medication has taught me, though, is that we are not all fighting the same battle when it comes to food. Melissa Nightingale: I weighed 113kg at my heaviest (pictured) before starting on weight loss medications. For the first time in my life, I stopped thinking about exercise in relation to weight loss and started going to the gym because I just wanted to be fitter. Weight loss medication changed my relationship with food and, maybe more importantly, taught me to be kinder to myself over my own limitations.

Source: New Zealand Herald December 26, 2025 17:34 UTC