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Emily Simpson is continuing to use a GLP-1 for weight loss in hopes of shedding 10 more pounds.
Nearly three years after confirming she’d dropped 40 pounds after using Ozempic for “one month,” the 50-year-old Real Housewives of Orange County star spoke out in a couple of interviews, dishing on her plan to lose 10 more pounds in one and offering an update on her and Shane Simpson‘s 11-year-old son, Luke, in another.
“I do still. Not as much as I did. I use it now just to, like, maintain. So I’ll go a few weeks and not use it, and then I’ll feel like I’m starting to gain weight, and then I’ll do it again,” Emily told Us Weekly in a video interview shared on TikTok days ago.
According to Emily, she actually used the weight loss drug weekly for not one month, but “12 months.”
“I was very regimented. Now I just — every few weeks. I guess what they call micro-dosing or whatever, just a [maintenance] system now,” she explained, noting that she was still “not at [her] goal weight.”
“My goal weight’s like, 10 pounds less than what I am right now … [but] I also have to ask myself if my goal weight is reasonable or not,” Emily added.
@usweeklyEmily Simpson exclusively tells Us she’s still using a GLP-1 but has shifted to a maintenance approach instead of the strict weekly regimen she followed for 12 months.♬ original sound – Us Weekly
As RHOC fans may recall, Emily confirmed her use of the drug during an appearance on SiriusXM’s Jeff Lewis Live years ago.
“I knew that I had gained weight. I didn’t like the way I looked, so I went to the doctor,” Emily revealed. “I did a full blood panel. My cholesterol was high. I have zero testosterone. I was pre-diabetic, so she actually said, ‘Why don’t you do a semaglutide?’ [And] that was a great kickstart for me.”
“I’m just gonna say that for me, it worked amazing because it really just kind of all the bad habits that I had where I was just kind of grazing, not really paying attention to what I was eating, eating late at night, eating my kids’ food, it just, all that stuff just kind of went away,” she continued. “It made me more conscientious of what I was eating, and so that was a really great kickstart for me. I didn’t lose a lot of weight doing it. I maybe lost five to seven pounds or something like that.”
In a separate interview, Emily spoke of Luke, who has been diagnosed with ARFID, an eating disorder, and PANDAS, which is similar to obsessive-compulsive disorder.
“Luke is very, very sweet,” Emily began on the August 7 episode of Access Hollywood’s Reality Nightcap.
She then admitted his challenges were “hard” for her and Shane, 51, to navigate.
“I can’t really even articulate it because we deal with a lot of different things when it comes to Luke. I don’t know if he’s better, per se, or if Shane and I are just, we’re very accustomed to him, and we navigate him better as parents,” she explained. “Maybe that’s what’s better — is having a better understanding. I read a lot about all the different things, all the different layers of Luke, like the ADHD, the PANDAS, the being on the spectrum, like all the different things. And so I try to constantly educate myself and go to therapy. I spend a lot of time asking my therapist to help me be a better parent to him because we have to parent him completely different than we parent the other children.”
“It’s just an ongoing, daily [journey], and at the end of the day, I feel good some days where I’m like, ‘That was a good day. That was a good day with Luke. Luke had a good day. I feel like I parented well. And then there’s other days where I go to bed and think, ‘I really messed that one up. I didn’t do great. But I’m gonna do better the next day,’” she noted.
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The Real Housewives of Orange County season 20 airs Thursdays at 8/7c on Bravo.