Lipotrim ceased trading in 2023, after more than 20 years supplied through participating pharmacies. There's no successor product, and no pharmacy can reorder it. If you were doing Lipotrim's total food replacement, the Total Plan is the closest match — four meal replacements a day delivered to your door, no pharmacy appointment required, from £1.59 a meal with free UK delivery over £65.
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Lipotrim closed in 2023. It was run by Howard Foundation Research, based in Cambridge, and had been supplied through pharmacies and GPs for over 20 years. The company said the closure followed the retirement of its directors, along with supply difficulties and the inability to find investors to relaunch the business after the pandemic, in its closure notice.
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There is no successor to Lipotrim. The programme ended when the business closed, and nobody has taken over the brand or continued the diet plan itself. If you're looking for "what replaced Lipotrim," the honest answer is that nothing did — but the type of plan you were on, a structured total food replacement, is exactly what we specialise in.
No. Lipotrim stopped manufacturing when the company closed in 2023, so participating pharmacies, including Boots branches that stocked it, ran out of supply and were unable to reorder. That's true whether you're asking in person or looking to buy online — there's no current source of genuine Lipotrim stock.
If you've found something listed as Lipotrim for sale, treat it with caution rather than assuming it's current, in-date product from the manufacturer. For a straightforward, in-date alternative, our meal replacements are made to order and delivered direct to you, with no pharmacy visit needed.
MyJurnee is free with every plan — a dietitian-led habit course and daily tools to help the weight stay off for good, in place of the weekly pharmacy check-in.
If you're choosing a new plan after Lipotrim, the biggest adjustment isn't the food — it's that nobody's weighing you each week. Lipotrim's pharmacy visits combined a weigh-in with a urine test for ketones, and for a lot of people that weekly check-in was as much a part of what worked as the sachets were. Look for a plan that replaces that structure with something you'll actually use — a tracking app, regular weigh-ins of your own, or a support group — rather than leaving you to manage it alone.
Beyond that, check the same things that mattered on Lipotrim: a genuinely complete food replacement with a full spread of vitamins and minerals, not just protein; a calorie level that suits what you're trying to achieve; and enough variety in flavours and formats that four meals a day doesn't get repetitive. UK-based despatch and clear delivery costs are worth checking too, so you're not waiting on stock from overseas.
Shake That Weight covers all of this, and if another plan brought you here, we've compared ourselves to Slim & Save, Cambridge Weight Plan, 1:1 Diet and Exante too.
Here's how Lipotrim's total food replacement programme compares with our closest equivalents. We've left Lipotrim's exact calorie figure and pharmacy pricing out of the table below — neither was published consistently enough across pharmacies to state as a single number.
| Feature | Lipotrim | Total Plan (Shake That Weight) | Everyday Plan (Shake That Weight) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Structure | Total food replacement — 3 portions/day (women), 2 larger portions/day (men), no other food | 4 meals/day, total food replacement | 2 meals/day + 1 cooked meal + snack |
| Calories | Total food replacement, under 600 kcal | 800 kcal | 1,000 kcal |
| Where you buy it | Participating pharmacies only | Online, delivered | Online, delivered |
| Supervision | Weekly in-person weigh-in and ketone test | Trackers and the free MyJurnee app | Trackers and the free MyJurnee app |
| Vitamins & minerals | Nutritionally complete | 30%+ RDA per meal, 20+ vitamins and minerals | 30%+ RDA per meal |
| Price | Set by each pharmacy | From £1.59 per meal | From £1.59 per meal |
The Total Plan is the closer match structurally — same all-in, nothing-else-to-prepare approach, just delivered rather than collected, and without the weekly appointment. The next section covers what that trade-off actually means.
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Lipotrim's total food replacement and the Total Plan are a clean structural swap. Both mean four meal replacements a day and nothing else to prepare — the difference is that ours arrives at your door rather than from a pharmacy counter, and there's no weekly appointment to work around. Calorie-wise, we sit higher: our Total Plan runs at 800 calories a day, against Lipotrim's under 600. That's a more generous allowance, and 800 calories is the figure behind NHS DiRECT-style type 2 diabetes remission protocols — a higher intake with clinical evidence behind it, not a compromise.
Lipotrim's refeed and maintenance stages, which stepped you down from total food replacement under pharmacy guidance, map loosely onto our Everyday Plan rather than matching it exactly. Everyday gives you two meal replacements, one cooked meal and a 200-calorie snack at 1,000 calories a day — a similar shape, meal replacements plus real food, but one you manage yourself rather than through a structured, supervised step-down.
The bigger change is what happens to the weekly weigh-in. Lipotrim's pharmacy visit did two things: it kept you accountable, and it checked you were in ketosis and drinking enough. We don't test your ketones or supervise you in person — we're not going to pretend an app replaces a pharmacist. What we give you instead is the free MyJurnee app alongside weight, measurement and photo trackers, plus an active Facebook support group, so you can track your own progress and get support from people doing the same thing. Whether that works as well for you as a pharmacist did is a fair question, and one only you can answer — but it's there from day one, at no extra cost.
Not sure which to pick? Build your own bundle and mix formats until you find what suits you, or get in touch before you order.
We stock over 50 products across shakes, soups, bars, meals and breakfasts — a wider range of flavours than Lipotrim's vanilla, chocolate, strawberry and chicken soup. If four meals a day felt repetitive before, that variety makes a difference.
Start with our shakes, the closest match to Lipotrim's own sachets, or spread your four meals across bars, soups and ready meals so you're not having the same thing twice in a row.
Over 20,445 Shake That Weight customers have left a review, and we're rated 4.51 out of 5 on average. Here's what some of them say — including people who switched over after their pharmacy stopped stocking Lipotrim.
"I have written a number of reviews for STW and my views are still the same. Easy to place order, good communication and quick delivery. The shakes are tasty, filling and good value and do work if you keep on the plan. Excellent service for yet another order and still my go to diet for shedding the unwanted pounds. "
"Easy to use and tasty shakes "
"The website is great and easy to use. Delivery was good and quick. The products( I am Gluten free ).So many different options to choose from. Products are full of nutrients/ vitamins that the body needs and taste lovely. I highly recommend shake the weight and it so works if using for weight loss. 5 star "
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"They arrived well packaged and on time. The bars are bigger than expected and very filling. I haven't been hungry since using them. The taste is also superior to other bars I have used in the past. I particularly like the peanut ones and the chocolate cookie ones. I have lost over 3lb this week and have been having a sensible low calorie, low carb evening meal. I'm over 68yrs and had been finding it hard to shift the weight."
"Mix well and tasty keep you feeling full for quite a while would be nice to have a raspberry one just to mix it up further."
Total for the same all-in structure as Lipotrim's total food replacement, Everyday if you want more flexibility day to day.
Mix shakes, bars, soups and ready meals, or build your own box from scratch.
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Use our weight, measurement and photo trackers, and join our Facebook support group, for support without the weekly pharmacy visit.
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