Nearly a grand on ordering food in less than two months, please help

How do you know she needs help with weight loss?

No body is prescribing Mounjaro for her! They are recommending she consults a doctor who may consider prescribing a medication to assist with weight loss and binge eating disorder.

Also addicted to perfume. I am much better than what I was, but still haven't stopped.

If you opt for weight loss injections they are prescribed by doctors and are explicitely aimed at people who over eat! That is literally what they are for treating so not irresponsible.

Also you can be diagnosed Elvanse which is an ADHD drug for binge eating disorder. You could consider seeing a Phsychiatrist for that and they might prescribe that for you.

Maybe this isn't the right suggestion but have you every thought about a GL1P medication like maunjaro? Ive been on it as I found it so difficult to stop over eating and snacking and my weight was ballooning and honestly it's life changing. I no longer crave sugar and snacks and have found it easy to eat healthy with smaller portions and feeling full and satisfied. I order from Cloud Pharmacy and a month is about £135 for 4 weeks injections, money well spent

She said she was worried about her weight

If you are overweight you could consider trying the weight loss jabs. They disappear your appetite and cost less than your food delivery habit, about 200 quid a month.

See my comment above - consider this money already gone.

Like OP (i assume sorry OP if this isnt the case), I wont be able to afford therapy until i stop bingeing. But i wont be able to stop bingeing until i have therapy.

A conundrum!

Use the takeaway money for therapy not weight loss injections.
If you have an addictive personality you’re just switching addictions for the dopamine hit that the jab and weight loss brings. Dangerous! Get proper help.

That's a good idea. Sounds like this problem has got out of hand and you need help

without knowing your issues, here are my tips around reducing your spending on takeaways:

1. Delete the apps.
2. Make a list of easy meals that you've got the ingredients for in the house. Stick it to the fridge. When you consider ordering a takeaway, choose something off the list and make it instead (jacket potatoes with cheese and tuna mayo, frozen pizza, pasta with simple tomato sauce). Go to the supermarket once you've made this list and make sure you've got the ingredients in the house.
3. Buy and plan for treats on your regular food shops - get what you like, make sure you've got a few snacks in and they are both sweet and savoury.
4. Have an allocated 'fakeaway' night when you make whatever your favourite takeaway would be, but from scratch with supermarket ingredients.
5. Put some of the money you would have spent into a separate pot (monzo is ideal for this), when you consider ordering a takeaway, but don't. If there's something big you'd like to buy, set a savings goal of the amount to buy it, and once you've saved that much buy it for yourself! Could even be booking a holiday, if you'd prefer.
6. If part of the barrier is around time to cook, let yourself choose the 'quick and easy cheat' at the supermarket - microwave rice, prechopped veg etc.

Wow, the people recommending weight loss jabs - how utterly irresponsible. You know nothing of the poster’s eating disorder, general health, nothing. What awful advice.

Yes assuming she fits the BMI rules of course. I have purged in the past but wouldn't say I have bulimia but it has stopped all that for me.

but if o/p is not overweight she won’t qualify.

i have disordered eating and i really do think MJ would help in my situation.

however i am only just overweight atm so nobody can prescribe it.

if o/p has bulimia it’s unlikely to stop her purging. She may be normal weight or even be underweight. It may be helpful for some types of ED but we need to be really careful recommending wld, especially when we have no idea of o/p’s medical history.

it’s also wrong to be categorically recommending a wld in this situation. In could be incredibly harmful.

you are trying to build sustainable, long-term healthy habits, not work overnight miracles.

This, 💯

Also, I forgot to say - as a comfort eater with depression & anxiety, ive found eating nutritiously really helps to level out the dips. So when things are bad I aim for one nutritious meal every day & try not to eat crap in the evening. Anxiety is always less the next day when I do this.

Might also be worth making sure you're not deficient in anything and that you're drinking enough. People say that the body confuses thirst for hunger, but I've actually found that if I'm dehydrated I crave rubbish & comfort foods and that it's not hunger but a craving. It won't cure your ED but it might help you to manage it x

Some really poor advice on this thread. Im on the adult ED waiting list too OP, and spend similar amounts per month on food - i see you, it sucks.

No advice but youre not alone. Im working on reducing to every other day - its going okay so far, everytime i get the urge i tell myself i only have to wait until tomorrow.

And for the posters saying you have the money for private therapy - i cant speak for the OP but no i dont. Maybe if i didnt spend the money on the food i would, but addiction is a terrible thing.

The money i spend on food is already committed and i wouldnt be able to 'just stop'. In order to start private therapy, id have to get myself into months of debt (and pray eventually it worked and i could stop buying so much bloody food to get back to living within my means)

These things are complicated. Sending hugs.

Is that food just for you?
Do you buy other food in the month?
My husband and I can easily spend between £400-£500 a month on food, a big chunk of that is for fresh meat from our local butchers and delicatesant!

Miaow

It does, it literally does fix disordered eating. I am a binge eater, sometimes with a purge. MJ has changed my life entirely, I am free of the chains of food. It is life changing. Don't say things so categorically when you clearly have no experience of MJ.

Maths bot great either, you have spent more than 1k

😂😂😂

The poster means via a reputable pharmacy not any where dodgy.

I spend a large amount of money on takeaway food as well. The plus side is that I can technically afford it and most of it is reasonably healthy.

it’s not how I want to be spending my money though and I want my diet to be better. I’m having good luck with a weekly meal delivery service. I tried a few before I found one that clicked for me. They aren’t cheap, but if the comparison is daily delivered takeaways they are a bargain.

The key is to order food you know you will enjoy, not order a bunch of diet food that you will hate. you are trying to build sustainable, long-term healthy habits, not work overnight miracles.

Start by getting your comfort foods delivered. They will be portion controlled even if they aren’t the absolute best meals. You can start adding better choices later. My box this week has lots of kale, not my favorite, but it’s good for me and I’ve learned to appreciate it.

make sure you have extra fruits, veggies, and some cut up cheese around for snacks in case you need extra. If you are sitting there starving you will place an order. Better to have an apple and a slice of cheese.

Do NOT do this. There are a lot of disreputable places out there offering it and you have no way of knowing if it’s genuine or not. Cousin’s friend got it from one of those places. She’s now dead.

I've previously used UberEats etc too much, and I think it'd be useful to drill down into why/when you use it. In my case:

• hungry but realised too late
• not good at cooking appetising food
• going out to work hungry, and therefore always being caught short at 11am/noon
• lack of cooking facilities at work

I still occasionally get a takeaway but never from desperation. Instead I:

• plan in the morning/evening before what I'll eat that day, so there's time to defrost something, go to the shops etc
• keep list of five easy and ultra quick meals, and ingredients in
• weekly shop delivered on auto-renew
• healthy ready to eat options in freezer
• bought microwave for the office, and took meals/oats in

It may be different for you, but maybe something will chime.