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More Americans on Ozempic Means Smaller Plates at Thanksgiving

People on weight-loss drugs are less fixated on the turkey and trimmings. This could mean trouble for food companies.

Thanksgiving this year will look very different for Julissa Alcantar-Martinez and her family.

The Houston-area realtor has been taking the appetite suppressing medication Mounjaro for one-and-a-half years following fifteen months on Ozempic. She has lost 115 pounds after years of struggles with dieting and diet-related disease. Her son, 17, has lost 65 pounds on Ozempic, and her 21-year-old daughter has lost 50 on it.