Mounjaro - 10 stone or more to lose - Thread 15.

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Everyone welcome - we are all friends here.

Some starting the journey, some already reached their goal, all sharing the ups and downs along the way.

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Just a heads up for anyone about to buy a pen, MMP have just announced new prices from midnight tonight……

Hurrah!

Maybe the arrival of the pills meaning they’re doing reduction in price?

I buy all mine from them so I am well pleased. Although I just got one last week annoyingly!

Some welcome good news!
That will help now we are not getting so many doses out of each pen.

Thanks for sharing.

That's a pretty good price! I just paid £175 for a 7.5mg (normally buy 5mg but as it was such a good price thought I might as well get the bigger pen) but that deal disappeared the next day, and was only for new customers anyway. If these prices are long term I'll look to buy from them next month. Does that price include postage or is it extra?

OH! I’ve been meaning to mention this NSV! Bags with shortish handles that now fit over the shoulder! I don’t always need a cross-body strap!

I love that…

I use MMP and postage and everything is included in that price.
Never had any issue with them. They are efficient and reliable.

I’ve only ever bought from MMP and their prices have always included P&P so I assume that won’t change. They use Royal Mail and don’t require a delivery signature.

Thanks, that's good to know. It looks like this might be quite a widespread price drop so it will be interesting to see where all the suppliers land. In a way I'm quite glad I've only just ordered so I can sit back and see where things go. At least my latest pen was in line with these prices anyway so I won't feel like I've lost out!

According to Reddit we’re going to see big reductions from all the big suppliers, MMP were just first to announce. It’s something to do with something called Eli Lilly direct but to be honest I’m not interested enough to care about the whys, just interested like the rest of us in lower prices 😂

There's also some talk that it may be only for multi-pen bundles so that will be interesting. EliLilly Direct is their own distribution service - you order through a pharmacy as normal but the pharmacy use EliLilly Direct to fulfill the order rather than holding their own stock. My last but one pen came that way, no real difference except I got a sharps bin I hadn't asked for (and didn't need) and a box of 100 wipes.

I was going to order a pen tomorrow from Swift Doctor but I may wait and see what happens to their prices and others. It’s tempting to swap to MMP but I guess they’ll be inundated with people swapping and might have issues as a result.

I've just paid slightly under £300 for 12.5 mg
Had to do photos holding up a sign with my weight on
Couldn't get it quite how they wanted it ,so took a few goes .
I really need this craving for chocolate to go ..
So much for trying to come of it altogether

That’s fabulous. I’m so excited that I can wear a cross body bag now. Had such a large chest that they used to sit upon my boobs.

I was too sceptical about MMP. Shortly after I posted last night, I decided to order from them given how much cheaper they were than Swift Doctor. I did the relevant photos and video (bit of a pain to do live via their website but managed it in the end), uploaded ID, previous prescription and so on. They have reviewed it all today and are now processing the order, as I've passed the clinical review. I will happily stick with them assuming the order arrives ok and in a timely fashion, if their prices remain as low as they are at the moment.

They're really reliable and consistent in my opinion. Every third order you have to do the photo/video on the scales but it only takes a few mins. I've been with them for nearly a year now and very happy. So lower prices is a good thing! They let you order every 7 weeks, which is what I do. But someone said you need to order every 35 days for the cheaper prices which I'm happy to do too.

I'm much happier jabbing every 5 days. Not having the 'hungry' days at the end of the week is making me feel much more consistent. Just eating the same things and having the same appetite every day is nice. I thought I'd miss Day 7 (as I used to let myself eat as much as I wanted) but I don't.

The ordering process asked me to tick a box to agree to purchase again within 35 days or the price would revert to the previous level. I am ok with that for the time being. I usually order around that level of frequency, it has been a bit longer than that recently but I was using up my small stockpile as I was beginning to get too many pens in hand. Now I am back to 1 pen in hand, and without the 5th dose in the pens I will need to order a bit more frequently than I have been. This price drop from MMP is the equivalent of the cost of the 5th dose, if that makes sense, so I can manage to order every 35 days as it's that bit cheaper than I was paying.

Yes makes sense. Ok well I’m fine with 35 day ordering, I haven’t got a stockpile so don’t mind building a little one up. I get 10mg pens and take 40 clicks at the mo. Every 5 days. So it won’t be much different

Sorry this is a bit long. Really looking for some thoughts from long timers.

I've just been reading this thread and it's really interesting. I hope you don't mind my posting in the hope of some advice or reassurance as I'm wondering what to do. I hesitated as I wasn't ever quite in the 10 st to lose category but there's so many people with a lot of experience on this thread.
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MJ SW 18st11 March 2026
CW 15st12
HW 11st6

I spent a month on 2.5, 3 months on 5, and have been on 7.5 for a month. I've had good suppression for most of the time and have felt full when I've eaten. All good

My issue is that 7.5 doesn't seem to be making much difference. I'm still eating around 1400 calories or fewer, not snacking (except for the odd Apple or satsuma) but I'm not feeling as full as before, and recently I've been aware of some food noise coming back. I thought it would be good to stay at this level to learn to work with the MJ. However I am not really losing weight now. Up to mid August I was losing 2lb most weeks and was happy with that. For the last 3 weeks I've lost 0 to1lb a week. It feels like 7.5 isn't really doing its job. I do feel like I'm handling the lighter suppression and slightly less full feeling but the scales aren't backing me up!

I was hoping to stay on 7.5 at least as long as I was on 5 but I'm not sure now. I don't really want to go back to the early days of MJ doing all the work, huge suppression and feeling full most of the time. I feel like that won't help me in the long run.

I'm also not sure it is good to long term eat below 1400 calories a day (600 below my TDEE). So I thought I'd ask on here for some thoughts, particularly as some of you have lost so much weight and been on this for a long time.

What would you do?

@MoneyJo move up to 10mg, that's literally what it's there for, when the 7.5mg stops working. Other than the cost, is there a reason you're resisting?

Good point @Fffreeeeezing

I guess a bit is the cost but I know it's a waste of money if I pay and it's not doing much so I'm happy to pay more as needed.

The main reason is that I'm afraid of moving up too fast, getting to 15 and then that becoming less potent and having nowhere more to go. I also thought I would be fine for a few months on 7.5 and am surprised not to be.

I guess I'll move up! Thanks.

@MoneyJo You may find that 10mg works well and that's the dose that you spend a fair while on. I'm over 2 years now, and only recently moved to 12.5mg and that's only to try to do one last push to get well into the healthy zone of BMI.

How are you with exercise? That could be a way of increasing your calorie deficit without needing to reduce what you're eating.

@MoneyJo I've been on 15 for a few months now (I'm nearly 18months in) and it's still fine. Studies don't show that there is ever a drop off. I figure if it happens, retatrutide will be out by then and I would probably swap to that anyway!

Thanks @SilenceInside ans @Fffreeeeezing you've given me the reassurance I needed so on Saturday I'll go up to 10mgs.

Silence I haven't consistently kept up a better number of steps but I did go swimming three times last week and am going this afternoon. I'm trying to spend 10 mins here and there during my WFH times to up the steps. I use weights to strengthen my arms for a short time each day. So not loads of exercise but more than before. What does your exercise look like? I know you've been very successful on MJ.

So good to hear your experience Fffreeeeezing thanks.

I do a lot of walking, try to get a couple of longer walks in a week and keep my daily steps well over 10k aiming for 12k minimum which is hard as I also WFH at a desk job. I have a treadmill at home, so failing everything else, I can walk or run on that. I completed Couch to 5K a while back and keep up with running (treadmill) 3 times a week. Although school holidays have meant that's been a bit haphazard recently, so now we are in September I'm going to be getting back on track with that. I am fortunate in that exercise tends to make me not want to eat for ages afterwards so that also helps. I know that some people it has a very opposite effect though.

The bit I am crap at is weights or resistance stuff. I try to do bits and pieces when I remember, but I definitely need to do more of that!

Increasing your activity could burn 100 to 200 calories more each day, which might be enough to tip the 0-1 lbs a week into 1-2lbs.

@MoneyJoI do a lot of walking as well (granted a lot of it involuntary, the dog insists!) and aim for 10k+ a day. I also weight train 5 times a week, with a PT for 2 of those days. Does it make a difference to my weight loss? I really don't know! I do have pretty impressive muscles although I do hurt most of the time though so swings and roundabouts eh?!