People lost up to 85 pounds on Lilly’s experimental weight loss drug, company says NBC News Top Stories By: Berkeley Lovelace Jr. 21 May 2026 at 10:45 Eli Lilly’s highly anticipated new weight loss drug, retatrutide, helped people lose up to 30% of their body weight, about 85 pounds, in a late-stage clinical trial, the drugmaker said in a news release Thursday