Remi Bader is sharing insight into her wellness journey. A year after revealing she quit using the drug Ozempic to lose weight, the TikTok star shared a before-and-after video documenting how her body has transformed since beginning a new fitness routine. Remi wrote atop the video shared to her Instagram May 21, "The difference of a few months focusing on my mental, emotional and physical strength.
" In one of the before-and-after shots, the influencer was seen struggling to do pull-ups on a gym machine toward the beginning of her journey. In a second clip, Remi effortlessly completed a handful of pull-ups before jumping down from the machine and walking off proudly. "This is not about weight, or looks or appearance," the 28-year-old's message continued.
"It's about putting myself first and finding myself again. Always put yourself first." Remi's inspirational message arrives a little over a year after she reflected on her experience with Ozempic , which she stopped using due to what she said were negative effects on her overall health after getting prescribed the drug for being pre-diabetic and insulin resistant.
"It was brand new, just got FDA approved, no one knew about it and I was so scared," Remi recalled during a January 2023 episode of the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast . "They said I need this. And I had a lot of mixed feelings.
" After pausing her use a few months in, the model explained that she went into a cycle of "bad binging" and gained back "double the weight" s.