What did you spend on overeating?

[Finallydoingit24]

Do you feel that rather than an expense, Mounjaro is actually cost-neutral or even a saver?

I was going through my bank statements the other day and worked out that I used to spend about £60-90 a month on takeaway or deliveroo grocery orders of junk food. It is harder to work out what I spent at the supermarket because I can’t see the items I bought but usually where there’s a spend of about £10 at the co-op fairly late in the evening on my bank statement, it suggests I was buying biscuits, crisps, sweets and sugary drinks for an evening of binge eating 😳

I also used to waste healthy food as I had to throw it away when it expired because I’d been eating giant portions of pasta and cheese that day rather than the healthy stir fry I’d planned.

I would make a lasagne to last four meals but would eat all of it in one evening so meal prepping was out of the question.

Now I can actually plan my meals from my food shop - nothing goes to waste. I can prep meals or leave half for the next day.

My MJ pen is £120 or so so I reckon I am actually saving money or at least breaking even. I also used to impulse buy a load of rubbish on vinted which I don’t anymore so I have saved there too.

I am saving money.

I used to have 100 in my current account as my spends. The majority of it so say 80 ish ponds a month was spend on snacks. That's now stopped. Our monthly food bill is also about 100-150 pounds cheeper (forbthe reasons you have highlighted). So all in all I eould say I'm saving about 200 but spending about 150 so yeah more then cost neutral for me.

I had weight loss surgery years ago before injections were invented and I still saved money.

You should definitely save money on injections

A good few hundred pounds. Not just mine but Dh is the cook of the house and if he was out at all I’d order in a takeaway for me and the dc. I haven’t ordered a takeaway in 4 months. It was probably £200 a month (£50/ one night per week).
im also not deliverooing lunch to the office which was probably another £150 a month.
Then added to that, if I did go into town to get lunch at work I would pick up treats for everyone.
There are so many more other ‘little bits’ that I’m just not picking up on the weekly shop.
I’m definitely spending way less than the pen costs me.

Amazing! I think it’s the same for lots of people. People say that it’s so expensive but so is a dominos pizza and I know which one makes me feel better.

I'm exactly the same. I haven't had a takeaway since June last year. I haven't bought any wine since then. I was having a drink every day and would always buy little snacks to eat with it. I remember thinking I couldn't afford the injections and then an email arrived from Laithwaite saying they were going to deliver a box of wine that was almost the same cost as the monthly injection. It really does make such a difference, just not drinking alcohol or having takeaways. It's other things as well though like shopping when you're hungry is easy now because even if I feel hungry I can control myself.

Wow, that’s really impressive that even surgery ends up saving money in the long run (and of course saves the NHS lots, as do the injections).

Sounds like a huge saving!

It really does make a world of difference

Yes mine is offset, a couple of bottles of wine at a tenner each, prob a hundred a month on takeaways for us, we seldom have them now, and much smaller portions of food.

my husband doesn’t use the drugs, but is on a health kick too, we have both developed an expensive Huel black ready to drink habit, but to be honest the grocery bill is still smaller month on month.

cost wasn’t my driving factor, health was, but yes I think it’s prob a wash all in.

I am saving a lot on food, I never had a lot of takeaways, maybe one a month but my weekly grocery bill has gone from £90-100 down to £60-70 so saving £120 a month just on that. Then there are the stop offs at the supermarket after work which used to happen at least twice a week after work where I would spend £10-£20 a time on junk food. On top of that when I eat out I used to have at least 2 courses and lots of cocktails, whereas I now have one course (often just a starter as I can’t manage a large meal) and no more than 2 cocktails. So big savings all round really!

I easily spent £100pm at the local Coop. I cannot say for sure that was all for junk/over eating food - some would have been staples.

But since going on the WLD that spending has cut down dramatically to maybe £10-20pm (and that is definitely on staples like salad and milk), so I mght assume I am saving at least £80pm of extra food money.

Wanting to be healthy was really what made me start WLI. I knew I wouldn’t save money on other things because I don’t have all these habits people had which would have resulted in cost savings. We’ve always cooked and only have a treat day in a month and that never stopped, I just reduced my portion.
DH has always been the big eater in the house and he still is but because he plays a sport as a hobby at almost pro level, he needs food, lots of protein to fuel him but doesn’t gain weight either so we still spend as much on food. We don’t drink alcohol as a household so there was nothing to cut off.
The thing is cooking has never been cheap for us as a household because of the meat but what MJ has made me realise is that I just can’t eat as much as I used to. I’ve reduced the oil I use in foods, stopped frying stuffs and using the air fryer instead, etc so making healthier versions of the food we normally cook.
You can eat home cooked meals and still over do it and that was my case.
No cost saving however the improvement in my health (mentally and physically ) is worth the cost I’ve invested in it.

Same with me - also the co-op 😂

Yeah I still think it would be 100% worth it even if it resulted in no savings at all. I just think some people dismiss it because they think they could never afford it when actually it often works out either neutral or cheaper.
I also agree that it is possible to overdo it on home cooked meals. I definitely did that some of the time and then other times it would be McDonald’s (enough for 2 people) or biscuits and sweets.

Yes that’s right. However, I can see how it’ll be easier for people to stay on MJ long term when they are maintaining if it has resulted in cost savings elsewhere but for me, I knew I’ll have to stop when I got to a healthy BMI which I did because what I was spending was part of what I used to save so I’m saving the money now and hoping all the changes I’ve made and what I’ve invested will see me through whilst maintaining.

Brace yourselves but it's $350 a month where I live... but food is expensive so I guess it's all relative.

How much is it working out for the price of your pen, £120 a week?
I really want to give this a go but I'm worried about side effects and don't know which site is the best value for money?
We get a takeaway about once a week for 3 of us, so thats about £100 4 weekly. Then the food shop about £100 -£120 a week.
I know some people spend more than that on food but I'd rather be thin instead of a size 18 - 20.

I’ve had no real side effects (other than feeling a bit cold, sometimes a little tired and a bit of burping but nothing major).
There is a comparison site https://monj.co.uk/mounjaro-price-comparison-by-monj/
this gives you the best prices. Do remember that they’ve tightened up the prescription guidance now so it might be worth going with one that’s not the cheapest. Some of them give big initial discounts but then the cost of the pen goes up a lot. It could be difficult switching providers every month to get the deals if you are classed as a new patient each time.
Mine is from Simple Online Pharmacy.
It’s definitely worth it for me.

Oh and it’s £120 a month, not a week. If it was per week I’d not be able to afford it. I can comfortably afford £120 and with the savings in other areas that I’m making, it’s actually not really an added expense.

Our food bill has gone down, fewer take aways and less wine. I was thinking about this earlier and I think it's net neutral for me.

@Menobaby79 ive been with Oushk since the beginning of my injections and usually find a code to knock 10% off, (I’m not here to share codes don’t worry! There are loads if you just google), I think mine is coming out around £160 per month at the moment.
it does get more expensive the higher up the doses you go.
i also think there are websites for price comparison and I know some people have chopped and changed providers to get the best deals if you’re up for the admin challenge.
I’m so fortunate, other than being chilly and constipation on and off (but this is the norm for me even when not on MJ) I’ve not really suffered with negative side effects, that’s not the case for everyone but I was willing to take the chance and see how it went.

Thanks I will take a look at that. I tried orlistat a couple of years ago and lost 3 stone but its steadily crept back on and I think most people know the rough side effects of that one!
I will take a look at that site though thanks. I've seen before on here with the injections, that these companies seem to hook you in with a cheap deal to begin with for the first month, then the price shoots up.
I've really had enough of being this size though. I'm quite tall but I was always a 12-14 until my mid 30s then having a child and perimenopause is now seeing me at 45 unable to get smaller than size 18 for years now. 😔 Not just for how I look but for my health.

I am new to this but I estimate about £80 pcm for me like @CoverMeInMarmalade

So not cost neutral …but not as pricey as first thought.

I don't think I've saved much at all. I was mostly eating healthy meals with lots of veg and protein but going over my daily calories on things like skinny bars, cheap low calorie bags of own brand multi pack crisps, an occasional supermarket pizza, Aldi dark chocolate etc

Rarely got takeaways and don't really drink alcohol, don't buy coffees out etc.

Yeah it’s not quite cost neutral for me, but the net cost is about £40 a month.

I'm not saving anything as I wasn't spending on takeaways and my food budget is the same. I've only tweetked my diet a bit as I was eating well just eating too much!!!