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What did you spend on overeating?

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Finallydoingit24 · 17/02/2025 08:58

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.

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SevernWonders · 20/02/2025 15:19

DP and I are both doing it and saving loads on not buying crap and we haven't had a takeaway in months.

When we go out we tend to have main and share a pudding or cheese, instead of a full three courses with sides and loads of booze.

I would say it is probably cost neutral for us, but it is also saving us years of our lives / health problems further down the line.

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