Woman who dropped SIX dress sizes using skinny jabs reveals how she combats ‘food noise’ – after Mounjaro price hike makes drug unaffordable for her
A woman who lost over nine stone using skinny jabs has revealed how she maintains her weight after coming off GLP-1s – as the price of popular weight loss aid Mounjaro soars across the UK.
Baylee, from the UK, said that Mounjaro is no longer an affordable option for her, as its manufacturer announced a 170 per cent price hike, while sharing her best hack for combatting ‘food noise’ in the process.
Opening up about her weight loss journey on TikTok, Baylee (@baylsse) explained that the medication helped her drop over 9 stone, taking her from a UK size 20 to a size 8.
Now, six weeks on from taking herself off the drug, she admitted her ‘food noise’ – a preoccupation with food and eating – has returned, but that she is maintaining her weight loss through tried and tested means like a healthy workout regime and eating clean.
Like many who take the drug, Baylee – who is now 11 stone – found her appetite significantly reduced while on Mounjaro, and could scarcely manage more than a few mouthfuls of anything at meal times.
Without the hunger-curbing powers of Mounjaro, however, Baylee admitted she has to work harder to control her cravings.
‘Even when I was on Mounjaro, I still felt hunger, the hunger never disappeared,’ she said, adding that those who don’t experience any cravings are likely taking a dose that is ‘too high’.
‘When I was on Mounjaro, I could eat a very small portion and I could feel completely full up.’
Baylee, from the UK, has revealed how she now maintains her weight while combating the return of ‘food noise’ after being on Mounjaro for several months. Pictured before the weight-loss
‘I could eat a kid’s meal and would feel just as full as if I’d eaten an adult starter, main, and dessert,’ she said.
Now off the drug, she admitted she does feel ‘hungrier’ but is better able to control her appetite than before the weight loss.
‘I am to manage it. I am able to still eat smaller portions and be completely satisfied.
‘I am able to have a plate in front of me and stop when I feel full so I feel like the control is definitely there,’ she said.
Six weeks after stopping Mounjaro, she admitted she briefly considered injecting herself again ‘just to get the control back’.
She decided against the decision. ‘I don’t feel like I need it in this moment,’ she said.
Her loosened grip on appetite ‘control’ is in part the result of increased ‘food noise’.
Sharing details of her weight-loss journey on TikTok , Baylee, who uses the handle @baylsse, explained that the drug helped her shift over 9 stone, taking her from a UK size 20 to a size 8. Pictured after losing over 9 stone
Though she still believes the ‘discipline’ is there, she admitted the ‘food noise is maybe telling me to do things I shouldn’t be doing’.
‘But it’s not a case of me being greedy and eating everything in sight because that’s not happening,’ she said.
Since coming off the drug, she has gained a small amount of weight, around 9lbs, but attributes that to having started taking Sertraline for her mental health.
Sertraline, used to treat depression and anxiety, is commonly associated with weight-gain.
She believes this is the result of ‘holding a lot of fluid’, but that she has now stopped taking Sertraline after just two weeks because it made her ‘feel weird’.
Baylee said she doesn’t think the weight she has gained is from fat, adding that her muscle mass appears to have increased after starting to go to the gym more often.
Baylee insisted she is ‘not eating enough food to be gaining a substantial amount of fat,’ and that her body fat percentage hasn’t changed from six weeks ago.
She is now relying on ‘will power’ to control her appetite, and feels this has improved since before she started her weight loss journey.
‘Because I know I cannot physically gain that weight again, it’s not going to happen.’
While she had considered going back on Mounjaro if she needed it, the price increases mean that is ‘no longer an option for me’.
‘I don’t have double the amount I had before to be able to maintain my weight – I don’t have that.’
Baylee said the price is ‘no longer justifiable’ for her.
Instead, she plans to maintain her weight by going to the gym and focusing in on making ‘healthy foods’.
Baylee is one of millions around the world affected by recent price increases of Mounjaro.
Cost of the drug is set to triple in the UK after Donald Trump sparked a global drugs price war.
Manufacturer Lilly said it plans to raise the wholesale price from next month to bring it into line with ‘other developed countries’.
The move is set to push the annual cost of Mounjaro, for users who pay privately for the highest available dose, past £4,000.
Pharmacy leaders fear more firms will now be emboldened to announce their own price rises – and warned patients risk becoming ‘pawns’ in a wider dispute over the cost of medicines.
The inflation-busting increase comes after President Trump demanded US drug makers lower prices for American patients, who he said ‘subsidise the health care of foreign countries’.
In a letter to pharma firms, he said they should ‘negotiate harder with foreign freeloading nations’ and ‘increased revenues abroad must be repatriated to lower drug prices for American patients and taxpayers’.
Mr Trump has previously complained that a friend bought a ‘fat drug’ in London for a fraction of the price it cost in the US, despite being ‘the same box made in the same plant by the same company’.
He wants companies to guarantee US patients are charged the best possible price for their drugs – equal to or better than other developed countries – and told firms to make up any lost revenue from other nations.
