Australian Idol winner Kate DeAraugo praises Ozempic use following 12kg weight loss – but details a major side effect no one talks about

Kate DeAraugo has opened up about using Ozempic for weight loss after her impressive weight loss of 12kg.

The singer, who won Australian Idol in 2005, has documented her journey on TikTok and says her experience was “nothing but fantastic”.

But she recently detailed the drug’s downsides and revealed the best and worst things about taking the miracle weight loss drug.

‘The best thing about Ozempic for me wasn’t necessarily the obvious weight loss. Of course that was great. I managed to lose about 12 kilos in about four months, but it wasn’t the best for me,” she said.

‘Hands down the best part of staying at Ozempic for me was the freedom from food noise.

“I’ve struggled and fought and struggled and suffered from food noise all my life. It’s constant. It’s from the moment I wake up in the morning to the moment I go to bed at night. I’m thinking and obsessing over how I’m not going to eat, how I’m going to eat, what I’m going to eat, all this crap that happens in front of me every day, and the medication just took it away.”

The singer, who won Australian Idol in 2005, has documented her journey on TikTok and says her experience was ‘nothing but fantastic’.

Kate, who is currently pregnant with her second child, added that no other diet or weight loss surgery she has tried took away the “food noise.”

“Yes, of course they physically stopped me from overeating, but they didn’t take away that food frenzy in my head, and Ozempic did that,” she said.

‘I could still eat normally, I got hungry, I couldn’t eat too much. But I just wasn’t consumed by the thoughts of food. Food just became food, and when I ate I was hungry, I ate until I felt a little bit full, and then that was it, and I didn’t think about it again until I naturally felt hungry.

“So I just had incredible experiences. And I would 100 percent go back on the meds if I felt like I needed to after I gave birth.”

However, in another video, Kate mentioned the downsides of weight loss medications that no one seems to talk about, especially after stopping them.

She told her followers that she experienced significant fatigue while taking Ozempic, which she believed was due to poor dietary habits rather than the medication itself.

“The worst thing about Ozempic for me, honestly, was probably the fatigue,” she said in a clip.

“I don’t know if anyone else has that, but I noticed that I felt incredibly tired in the afternoon.”

After stopping her Ozempic medication to try to have another baby, the “food noise” she had previously experienced quickly returned

Kate stopped taking Ozempic to try to have another baby. She is now pregnant with her second child. Pictured with husband Shannon and son Hudson, who is almost two

Although she initially had some nausea, Kate said it was not severe or persistent.

‘I didn’t really experience much nausea. It bothered me a little in the first two weeks as I got used to it, but it certainly wasn’t intense or debilitating,” she continued.

“So it was probably the fatigue. To be honest, I’m not sure if that was due to the medication or the fact that I probably didn’t use the time I was on the medication as wisely as I should have.

“I haven’t implemented more nutritious foods and all that stuff that I would still reach for the sugary, processed, quick fix, quick hit, types of foods, that obviously weren’t giving me the energy that I needed.” necessary and left me with quick highs and quick crashes.’

After stopping her Ozempic medication to try for another baby, the “food noise” she had previously experienced quickly returned.

Her symptoms were as severe as they had ever been, which she said was distressing.

“The food noise came back almost immediately as soon as I stopped taking the meds, and it was as big and as bad and as loud as it had ever been, which was super devastating for me,” she said in another TikTok video.

“Unfortunately, when I got rid of all the food, noise, craziness, binge eating, and all the bad behavior, they came right back, and that, combined with the weight gain during pregnancy, is all the weight I lost.” back again, and then some. ‘

She told her followers that she experienced significant fatigue while taking Ozempic, which she believed was due to poor dietary habits rather than the medication itself.

Kate previously revealed she suffered from binge eating disorder in high school after struggling to feel comfortable in her own skin.

Opening up about the disorder in her new podcast Why do I feel this way?she confessed that she would hide and lie to people about the food she ate.

‘Binge eating started very young for me. From maybe the age of five, I hid and lied about my food and eating,” Kate said.

“That was my first way to regulate those emotions and those out-of-control feelings of not feeling well.”

Last year, Kate told 9Honey that finding fame on Australian Idol helped fund her addiction to methamphetamine.

She said she saw drugs as a “solution” to her struggles with social anxiety and body image issues during her performances with The Young Divas.

“I think maybe I was making some money at that point so I was able to maintain a pretty big habit pretty quickly,” she said.

“I suffered from social anxiety and insecurities and all that stuff throughout my teenage years, and when I got involved with drugs in a social setting, it felt like my solution at the time.”

Kate previously revealed she battled a binge eating disorder in high school after struggling to feel comfortable in her own skin

Kate added that her addiction not only tore her life apart, but also caused turmoil in the lives of those she loved.

The Australian Idol winner found herself at a low point in 2017 after pleading guilty to ice possession, drug driving and weapons offences.

To avoid conviction, the star was given a community corrections order and has since made every effort to rehabilitate herself and transform her life.

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