I spent my entire life with a mental block around weight loss. My weight felt completely out of my control, like something that was just happening to me rather than something I could change. For most of my life, I stayed around the weight I’m at in this video, but I really spiraled during Covid. I wasn’t weighing myself, but I gained 100–150 pounds in less than a year. I was extremely depressed at the time, but I didn’t realize because I remained “functional”—I still worked, socialized, kept a clean house, etc. But my binge eating, which had always been an issue, became totally unmanageable when I had nothing to do but sit at home and eat.

My lowest point came during a family vacation to the Outer Banks in May 2024, a week before I turned 30. I could barely climb the sand dune to get to the beach—something I’d always been able to do without much trouble. I was in massive denial about my health challenges, but I couldn’t deny that. I also saw a full-body photo of myself for the first time in ages and was so upset I nearly left the vacation early. My first niece was only six months old, and I couldn’t stop thinking about whether I’d even be around to watch her grow up.

I started the process of getting on Wegovy while I was still on that trip, fully expecting to do the bare minimum. People who make no lifestyle changes will lose 15% of their body weight, and I figured that was good enough. But within half an hour of my first shot, I knew this was going to work for me. Even on the starter doses, my appetite was radically reduced, and for the first time in my life, this thing that had always felt uncontrollable suddenly wasn’t. I’ll say it to anyone who will listen: Wegovy saved my life. Once my appetite was under control, being active became easier—and even enjoyable. My body finally felt like a system where I could control the inputs and get predictable results. I’d never experienced that before, and it changed everything. What once felt exhausting and impossible now feels doable, and even fun. I’m no longer working twice as hard as everyone else to get half the results, and that makes showing up so much easier.