Weight Loss and Wisdom with Ian Karmel

The Dr. Drew Podcast

PodcastOne / Carolla Digital

Talk Radio, Comedy, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week, Dr. Drew talks to writer and comedian Ian Karmel. Ian opens up about his memoir, which chronicles his struggles with weight issues and how past traumas impacted his rise in the entertainment industry. He shares his journey to weight loss, including the strategies he used to shed the pounds and maintain his new lifestyle. Ian and Dr. Drew also discuss the risks associated with semaglutide medications, such as Ozempic, and offer their perspectives on the body positivity movement. Ian's new memior: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723034/t-shirt-swim-club-by-ian-karm Please support the show by checking out our sponsors! CookUnity: Go to cookunity.com/DREW or enter code DREW before checkout for 50% off your first week.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome the piecous, everybody.
0:01.0	I appreciate you being here,
0:02.0	appreciate your continuing to support the people to support us,
0:14.2	so we can keep doing this thing.
0:16.1	Always think of a guest you'd like to hear from at contact at Dr.
0:20.5	Reu.com.
0:22.2	Today we have Ian Carmel, he is a former head writer for James Corden and Chelsea
0:27.1	handler.
0:28.1	Writer, stand up, he's got his memoir where he shares having been well moderately overweight is that a kind
0:36.2	way of saying at the end?
0:37.8	I think medically considerably overweight.
0:42.4	Would morbid obesity be a little tighter
0:45.0	a tighter description?
0:47.0	On the rare occasions when I found myself at a doctor's office, the word morbidly
0:50.9	obese was was freely and accurately tossed around to the scribe
0:54.8	work. I was literally afraid that you'd heard that term before. Yeah. But you
0:59.4	it says you lost over a hundred pounds during COVID but you look that like a hundred
1:04.5	pounds down you look like two hundred pounds down I lost two hundred pounds at
1:09.3	most and then it's leveled off somewhere around 180 after I did a little adjusting to a realistic lifestyle
1:16.8	bounce there at the end, but yeah from about 420 to 220 back to around 235 or so. I mean you look like you're the way
1:24.8	you're designed to be. Thank you very much I feel I feel that way too which is
1:30.2	nice because I've still got a little cushion you know yeah well
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