Brian Piotrowicz
Appearances
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
It was you, and you don't know this story, but we were right outside here. Yeah. It was right before we taped the ABC special. We were taping something else here.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
You and I had a brief conversation, and I said I was scared of the side effects, and I was scared of mourning the loss of food.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
And you said to me, what are you waiting for? And then, of course, we taped the ABC show, and... The reason I ultimately did it was that push. But, you know, I have the classic symptoms and signs of the disease of obesity, which we didn't know we had.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
Waiting on the weight. I had tried every diet. I counted. I've gained and lost the same 50 pounds six times in my life. Getting to that point, for me, it didn't feel like I was underwater. It felt like I was empty. Mentally and physically.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
Correct. For me, though, it felt like emptiness. So when I lost the 50 pounds and got to what I now know as my set point, I mentally and physically felt empty and thought, I'm going to eat. I work so hard. I'm only here once. Why am I doing this? Yes. Now, I no longer feel that way. I've lost more weight than I ever have and don't have those feelings.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
So I started at 312 pounds. I've lost 70 in five months. So I'm losing about 15 pounds a month. I need to lose 50 more or would like to. But yeah, I'm still losing.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
Fantastic.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
What I didn't know was the anti-inflammatory properties because I noticed those almost immediately. The natural aches and pains you have, I'm over 50, went away.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
I'm over 50 now.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
You've known me for a long time, yeah, in my 30s.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
So, yeah, I feel great. I mean, I can bend over and tie my shoes. We were on a shoot in New York. I could run up and down those Starbucks stairs. Like, it's life-changing.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
I was a sugar addict, so it was... You were a sugar addict. What are those going to be today? And if I don't have them, do I need to have them delivered to the office? Or if somebody put donuts out in the office, I know I'll have one. How can I sneak the second one so I don't look crazy? And then I had to talk myself out of not eating the third one because I knew I would be sick for the day.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
So that was the mental game. And that's the food noise. That was happening to me, and that was the food noise.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
None. I've had a tiny bit of constipation, but that's manageable, and I learned how to manage it, and that's it. I've had no other at all. And the day I took it, whether that's psychosomatic or not, I don't know, but the day I took it, It all stopped. The food noise, not feeling full. I did not wake up hungry. I mean, I would be ravenous if I didn't eat lunch until noon.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
You know, that's just gone. I mean, I just don't. I look at food like many people must have always looked at food now.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
It's so freeing.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
All that time you get back from not thinking about it or figuring out how to get it, like I said, I did want to add, we talked in the first show about misconceptions. I do want people to know that it's still hard work. It's not a miracle shot. You don't take it and then eat whatever you like. I mean, you have to lean into the diet and exercise.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
Easier to do when you start to eat that way. You crave it even more. That's what you crave. Yes. And now a strawberry for me is so satisfying and I'm so grateful for that and that taste. I know. I freeze grapes as my candy.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
It's wonderful.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
Yes, and you say my belly, but always the first thing people would look at was my belly. Then look me in the eye. Really? It was huge.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
I notice people look me in the eyes now. We were just in New York doing a Starbucks shoot, and everyone was so much friendlier to me. Strangers in the elevator. Someone struck up a conversation with me in the lobby. People we were working with. I mean, I think that...
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
Nobody did. Really? I also know I feel better and I'm more outgoing, so I probably attract people to say hello or ask me, where are you in from? You know, which is what a guy said to me in the lobby. That never would have happened.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
Both. You make yourself invisible and they don't see you either. So you're invisible on both sides of that coin. And it feels great. It feels so much better. I've always been kind, but it allows me to be even extra kindlier. Is that the word? Kindlier to people because I feel like it. Because I know I won't be shot down and I don't have to keep my head down.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
Yeah, I'll never get off it. I thank you for the nudge. And, you know, I always get emotional, but I want to thank you. I'll have the opportunity because I do thank God twice a day for it. But to thank you because I know you've made ZipBound available to people like me. I know you've helped in that process. So, so grateful.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
Bye.
The Oprah Podcast
Oprah and Dr. Ania Jastreboff on How People Treat You Differently After Weight Loss
Do people treat you differently? People look me in the eyes now, and everyone was so much friendlier to me.