RHONJ’s Dolores Catania Jokes She ‘Hasn’t Been This Heavy Since 1988’
The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Dorothea Catania is feeling her best during her weight loss journey.
“I feel good. I’ve lost about 20 pounds,” Dolores, 52, said exclusively We weekly at BravoCon in Las Vegas on Friday, November 3. “I haven’t been this heavy since 1988, so yeah, I feel good.”
Dolores credited her wellness routine to “Mounjaro and the gym,” noting her boyfriend Paul “Paulie” Connell often encourages her to exercise.
“She trains really hard in the gym,” enthused Paulie, 48 Us about Dolores, with whom he has been in a relationship since 2022. “And she eats very well.”
Despite cutting out “junk food,” Dolores still has her cheat meals. “I still love my McDonald’s. That’s the truth, Paul,” she joked to her friend. “I must always tell the truth.”
Dolores even almost indulged in her guilty pleasure in the middle of BravoCon. “I looked out the window [earlier today] and I saw McDonald’s in the parking lot downstairs,” she said Us. “And I was like [counting] The steps.”
Dolores revealed in April that she had started taking Mounjaro, a weight-loss drug mainly prescribed for diabetes patients, six weeks earlier.
‘I wasn’t planning on going to the [season 13] reunion looked bigger than anyone else, so I jumped on the bandwagon,” the Bravo star said during an appearance on Watch what happens live with Andy Cohen before noticing her side effects. “[I’m] just not hungry.”
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Dolores also explained that she started working with a personal trainer to help her lose weight.
Nearly three months later, Dolores had lost 20 pounds. “Right now I’m 137. I was 157 when I started,” she said The American sun in July, noting that her “realistic” goal is to “be in the low 130s.”
She continued to the outlet: “I took Ozempic, stopped and then started Mounjaro. I was prescribed both because I am insulin resistant, pre-diabetic and have a thyroid problem.”
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Dolores noticed that she was “gaining weight every month” before starting the injections. “It doesn’t happen overnight. It is not easy,” she said The sun.
In addition to prioritizing her health, Dolores filmed an “action-packed” season 14 RHONJ.
“You won’t be disappointed. It’s very surprising. It’s very unpredictable, and there will be a lot of emotions when you watch it,” she teased Us on Friday, add that Teresa Giudice And Melissa Gorga‘s hatred for each other reaches a boiling point. “It’s hard for me. Normally I don’t let anything in life affect my daily life.”
Dolores added: “This season has brought the best out of me. [Paulie] Even had to ask me, ‘He said why are you so quiet?’ And I’m like, ‘Listen, I’m dealing with a lot. I have to sit down with a group of people and I don’t know what’s going to happen.’ How can they hate each other more than they do?”
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi