Ozempic Shrinks Everything Except the Shame | A Matter of Fat Podcast

What are we supposed to think about weight in 2026? A Matter of Fat is a new podcast for anyone who has no idea what they think about weight, bodies and the rapidly changing conversation around them. Hosted by journalist Rose Stokes, who brings 30 years of lived experience with weight and obesity, and Dr Giles Yeo, a University of Cambridge scientist who has spent three decades studying the genetics of body weight, this podcast brings together lived experience and science without pretending to have all the answers. In our first episode, we confront the elephant in the room: Ozempic, Mounjaro, Wegovy and the arrival of GLP-1 weight-loss medications. We cover: • What GLP-1 medications actually do inside the body • Why weight and appetite are not simply a matter of willpower • Rose and Giles’ own experiences of taking weight-loss medication • Why Giles kept his Wegovy use secret and felt like a fraud • Whether weight-loss drugs really cause muscle loss • Why weight stigma can make losing weight harder, not easier • Plus, we fact-check “nature’s Ozempic” and revisit Rose’s disastrous experience with Orlistat SUBSCRIBE to stay up to date with A Matter of Fat. RESOURCES Pennington Biomedical Research Center: Food noise study https://www.pbrc.edu/news/media/2026/... The Food Noise Questionnaire https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1... UCL and BMC Medicine: 1.6 million UK adults used weight-loss drugs in the past year https://www.eurekalert.org/news-relea... Major, Rathbone, Blodorn and Hunger: The Countervailing Effects of Weight Stigma on Weight-Loss Motivation and Perceived Capacity for Weight Control https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/... Sutin and Terracciano: Perceived Weight Discrimination and Obesity https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art... FIND US 👇 Instagram:   / amatteroffatpod   Rose Stokes:   / rosestokes   Giles Yeo:   / gilesyeo   Questions, thoughts or a story you want to share? Email us: amatteroffatpod@gmail.com