Josh Peck Jokes About Losing 100 Lbs. 'Naturally' Before Ozempic Weight Loss Trend

The former child star poked fun at how he lost weight with diet and exercise — long before Ozempic was around

Josh Peck isn’t feeling any “glee” about the timing of his weight loss.

The Drake & Josh star shared an Instagram video, set to Glee’s cover of “Rose’s Turn” from the Broadway hit Gypsy, where he mouthed the lyrics, “All that work and what did it get me?”

“When you lose 100 pounds naturally and then Ozempic,” Peck, 37, captioned the video, poking fun at the diabetes drug that’s become a wildly popular weight-loss method.

Ozempic — prescription medication for type 2 diabetes — and Wegovy — prescription medication for clinical obesity — are brand names for semaglutide, which works in the brain to impact satiety. Taken once a week by injection in the thigh, stomach or arm, the medications have been praised by celebrities.

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But that’s exactly what Peck, who weighed nearly 300 lbs. at 15, did to lose weight. After 18 months of following a keto-like diet, according to Parade, and adding in exercise, he dropped 127 lbs.

But the weight loss came with its own set of problems, Peck said last November. He shared on the Cancelled with Tana Mongeau podcast that "at 17, I lost all this weight but I was like the same head but in a different body. I thought, 'I'm at the finish line. I did it. Now I just don't have to worry about anything.' "

"But quickly, I was still plagued with the same thoughts and things that had plagued me my whole life. Dad issues, you name it," the actor continued.

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Peck said that he wanted to make up for his lost teenage years while building his showbiz career and working on the Nickelodeon hit Drake & Josh from 2004 to 2007.

"I also was 17 and supremely stupid, and it's time for me to catch up. I have to party now because I spent my teenage years alphabetizing my DVDs and not going and making out with people. So now it's time," he explained, revealing that he traded a food addiction for a drug and alcohol addiction.

He succeeded in getting sober in 2008 at age 21, and now, he feels lucky to have gotten a handle on his addiction before things grew even worse. "To be able to have gotten out of it at 21, I feel grateful. There were a lot of close calls," he said on the podcast.

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"I just felt like a cliché. And I was breaking my mom's heart," he added of his motivation to seek treatment.

Peck also wrote about his years-long struggle with addiction in his memoir, Happy People Are Annoying, released in May 2022. In an interview with PEOPLE at the time, he said he was "always looking for something outside to fix my insides."

"It took me a really long time to love the 15-year-old version of me," he told PEOPLE. "But now I understand how strong he was."

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