I Devoured All Of SkinnyTok's Most Viral Weight Loss Advice: Here Are The Best Tips

Then came the backlash. As thinness crept back into vogue, platforms and regulators rushed to crack down, branding anyone pursuing slimness as “disordered” and treating balance and discipline like dirty words. The result? SkinnyTok was effectively erased. Search the hashtag today and you won’t find tips or transformations—you’ll be redirected to a helpline for body image and eating disorders.

New “safety” policies banned creators and slapped warnings or strikes on even basic fitness content, claiming it encouraged “unhealthy” restriction among impressionable girls. But if you’d actually spent time on SkinnyTok, you’d know this was a false moral panic.

In reality, it was an online sisterhood: women trading practical, sustainable strategies to stay in a calorie deficit without starving, crash dieting, or swearing off entire food groups. It wasn’t about glamorizing illness—it was about sharing what actually works. And honestly? Some of the advice was refreshingly straightforward.

Here are the best SkinnyTok hacks, perspectives, and methods I’ve collected for anyone serious about reaching their body goals.

It’s Not the Food, It’s How Much You’re Eating

Every SkinnyTok creator shares the same foundation: thermodynamics. Energy can’t be created or destroyed. To lose weight, you must consume less energy (calories) than you expend. That’s it. Different creators phrase it with mantras like “act fat, get fat” or “eat small, be small.” Is it harsh? Maybe, if you find the truth inflammatory and would prefer to live in your bubble of delusion.

But this content isn’t cruelty, it’s transparency. What’s actually toxic is pretending calories don’t matter and trapping people on the endless hamster wheel of fad diets and pseudoscience. SkinnyTok isn’t some sinister restriction cult. It’s the opposite: anti-gatekeeping, pro-sustainability. 

Women who’ve struggled with overeating themselves share practical, sustainable tricks for cutting calories without starvation or gimmicks. It’s accessible, it’s doable, and it works. Making this information available for free and showing people how simple it really is is incredibly empowering. But maybe that’s why people are so threatened by this information. They don’t want empowerment or responsibility; they want excuses.

At its core is the CICO principle (calories in, calories out.) Every diet, from keto to paleo to intermittent fasting to GLP-1s, only “works” because it creates a calorie deficit. GLP-1s don’t burn fat by magic; they mute hunger signals so you eat less. SkinnyTok teaches you to do this on your own. The main tool? Portion control. If you’re eating oversized, calorie-dense meals multiple times a day, no diet is going to save you. You’re just overeating. Weight loss is about how much, not what.

Anti-diet dietitians aren’t wrong about one thing: the worst part of “diet culture” is misinformation. Why demonize rice or carbs when the truth is more straightforward? As creator Minazalie puts it: “Eat small, be small. Eat big, be big.” Her approach is flexible. Include fast food in your calorie intake if you wish, but be aware of the trade-offs. A burger and fries might leave you hungry again in an hour, while pure protein and fiber keep you full. Her hack? Order the kids’ meal.

Liv Schmidt gives comparable advice: “taste” your food instead of obsessing over finishing the plate. Share portions. Take a bite or two. Opt for the smaller size. Ditch the bottom bun. Eat half the sandwich, save the rest for later. It’s all about staying within your calorie budget in the least painful way. That’s why Schmidt doesn’t promote substituting real, delicious foods with sad diet-friendly versions—because it doesn’t hit the same, which puts you in a state of deprivation. You can indulge and enjoy your life, eat out with friends, as long as you restrain your portions.

That’s why I had to laugh reading a BBC article celebrating France’s digital minister gloating, “SkinnyTok is over,” after lobbying by European politicians. Imagine cheering censorship because Americans who are overwhelmingly overweight were sharing portion-control advice already normalized and taught from a young age in France. Patting yourself on the back for blocking common sense, such as: “don’t blow 1800 calories on a single burger; get the smaller size or eat whole foods that actually keep you full” isn't progress. For Skinnytok, there’s room for all foods, just in moderation, within reasonable portions.

Not Cute: Victim Mentality (And How It Leads to Self-Sabotage)

“Self-love,” “food freedom,” and “permission to eat the donut” are fine mantras for people who need to loosen the reins. But if your struggle looks like the opposite of ED recovery—overeating, weight blindness, food noise—what you need isn’t more “freedom.” You need accountability. That’s why I like Amanda Dobler as an accountability coach. She doesn’t coddle victim complexes or indulge learned helplessness. Her philosophy is simple: what you get out is what you put in. It’s a mindset. You can think like someone who stays stuck, or someone who gets lean.

If you’ve convinced yourself you “can’t” lose weight because of trauma, kids, busyness, age, a “slow” metabolism or thyroid issues, you’re being held back by self-limiting beliefs. That’s a fat mindset. Victim mentality sneaks in through everyday choices. Ordering the burger and fries just because your skinny friend does, assuming her results will be yours (even though you have no clue what else she eats or how active she is.) 

You blame weight on “genetics” or some vague hormone issue instead of habits. You try a diet for one week, don’t see instant results, and throw a tantrum by overeating or giving up completely because you’ve decided it “doesn’t work” before you’ve given it a real chance. Do you think that’s a skinny-girl mindset? 

Constantly blaming external circumstances, refusing to take responsibility for your appearance and fitness, and feeling entitled to results you didn’t earn? Amanda pushes clients to make better choices every single day. Small wins may feel trivial in the moment, but compounded over time, they build the body and the life you actually want. As Minazalie says, “nothing will change unless something changes.” SkinnyTok is about being honest with yourself. Are you following your plan? Are you eating less than you burn? Did you give it any time? 

Vague platitudes about how weight loss is all about “mindset” can feel meaningless and unhelpful if people don’t spell out what they mean, but this video, where Amanda Dobler details five common examples of casual sabotage, or as she calls it, “cockblocking your weight loss,” will put it into perspective for you: 

1. Unrealistic expectations: You’ve never worked out a day in your life, but suddenly you’re waking up at 6 a.m. to hit the gym every day for the next month. Spoiler: You’ll burn out, fail, and get discouraged.

2. Reward sabotage: You lose two pounds, then “celebrate” with a cookie. Net loss = gone.

3. Scale tantrums: The scale is up two pounds overnight, so you throw in the towel and binge. You’re being impatient and self-destructive. Two-pound fluctuations can be noise if they’re a result of water retention or inflammation from working out.

4. Copycat victimhood: You plan to order the salad, but your skinny friend orders a burger, so you get one too. Aka, you feel entitled to their results by virtue of ordering one meal that’s the same without knowing the rest of their lifestyle. You’re being a victim and pretending that they don’t compensate in other areas.

5. Fatalistic beliefs: Deciding you’ll “always” be big because of genetics or being “big-boned.” With self-limiting beliefs like this, who needs haters to pray for their downfall? You’re doing it yourself.

Weight loss requires maturity, patience, balance, and a solid sense of self. You need to be able to trust yourself: that you’re going to do what you say you will, that you can control yourself in the face of temptation, that so long as you stay patient and stick to your plan, weight loss will follow. It requires a little bit of faith, but on factors that should be stable: your ability to follow through and do things properly. 

And what a rewarding experience it is to come out on the other side successfully. You gain so much more than just a better figure; you gain confidence in your competency as a human being, in your strategy, grit, and determination. Commit to having faith that the results will show, refuse to be a victim, don’t submit to self-limiting beliefs, and don’t hold unrealistic expectations, and see where that gets you in a month.

Mindset Shift: From “I Can’t Eat This” to “I Don’t Eat This”

Natasha (@natasha.sahm), a former model turned content creator, shares her “model secrets” for managing weight under intense industry standards. Her mindset shift is simply to be more arrogant. She argues that when you frame food as something you “can’t have,” you’re setting yourself up for failure. You put it on a pedestal, obsess over it, and eventually cave. That’s why most diets crash and burn. SkinnyTok’s approach of eating whatever you want but in smaller portions works, she says, but there’s another way to get there faster, easier, and with less misery: switch your inner dialogue from “I cannot eat this” to “I do not eat this.”

It’s a subtle but powerful reframe. Models, Natasha explains, often carry this “arrogant” attitude toward certain foods. Pizza, burgers, and processed junk are for people who don’t care enough to look a certain way. In her world, those foods are symbolically low vibration. Now, that may sound toxic at first glance, but Natasha clarifies she’s not demonizing people who eat whatever they want in moderation. 

It’s not about judgment, it’s about using psychology as a tool. If you want to stop eating fast food, telling yourself you “can’t have it” creates a deprivation dynamic, like you’re unworthy of it. Flipping it to “I don’t eat this” puts you in control. It’s not restriction, it’s identity shifting. You’re simply a person who doesn’t eat that way. 

On an anecdotal level, this is the same mindset shift I went through when I went vegan for reasons totally unrelated to health or fitness. Before I became ideologically vegan (opposed to the use of animals for food, clothing, and other products), the idea of giving up cheese seemed impossible. But once I made the ethical connection, cheese was no longer food to me. It was something that didn’t tempt me because it was something that didn’t align with my identity anymore, nor occur as an option; it might as well have been a sheet of plastic.

Weight Loss Might Feel Exciting at First, But Then It Gets Boring; Be Okay With Boring

Sometimes the difference between deficit and maintenance is slightly less extravagant, exciting meals, fewer nights out, and sticking to water instead of fun drinks. Something SkinnyTok girls understand is that everything has calories. So, they’re probably not going out to the bars every weekend or drinking their body weight in Starbucks frappuccinos. That’s not a savvy use of calories (or nutrients.) 

As content creator Sivi puts it, “the hardest pill to swallow is that the leaner you want to get, the leaner your meals need to be.” This means you might need to reduce your consumption of pasta, not because pasta is a no-no food, but because it’s calorically dense and a serving is much smaller than you think it is. Sometimes, your meals might just be protein and fiber. If you have an extremely high-calorie meal, you might need to eat light for the next one. The reality is that compensation needs to happen somewhere. We can’t live in a magic world where we eat as much as we want and lie on the couch all day, but magically drop the fat.

“At the end of the day, you’re going to have to realize that a lot of your meals can’t be as exciting unless you have a million ingredients in the world and you have all the time in the world to make that. But that’s okay because your goal isn’t gourmet, it’s leanness,” says Sivi. Not every meal needs to look like an Instagram-worthy photo featuring all the colors of the rainbow, perfectly portioned macros, or all the toppings your heart desires. Get used to being okay with boring. If you’re okay with eating the same set of meals on a regular basis, this can significantly reduce the guesswork involved in calculating calories and achieving a calorie deficit. 

Whitney Holcombe, an author and content creator who lost 100 lbs in one year at the age of 14, likewise communicates that “sometimes weight loss is boring” as one of her top 12 harsh weight loss truths. "You’re not always going to be able to do whatever it is you want to do all of the time. You’re not always going to be able to eat whatever you want to eat all the time. Anything in life, any goal takes sacrifice, and weight loss is no different.” The hardest part, she warns, can be the very start of your weight loss journey, because you aren’t used to this new lifestyle yet. 

Fat & Don’t Want to Be? Do the Opposite of What You’ve Been Doing

Amanda Dobler says, “It isn’t genetics, it’s your choices.” If you follow the habits of skinny people over a week, it’ll become very apparent why they’re slim. They’re making a series of choices every day that keep them lean, whereas you make a series of choices every day that keep you fat. “I promise you the reason you’re fat is not because you don’t have a fat-burning pill, it’s not because your metabolism is broken, it’s not because you’re not doing whatever new workout, it’s not because you’re missing whatever food from your diet. There’s no best food for fat loss. There’s no best workout. Your metabolism is not broken. You’re just not moving.” 

If you’re feeling lost and powerless and unsure of where to start, take stock of your current habits and do the opposite. If it’s not working, it’s not serving you. Always take the easy way out? Start taking the stairs, parking further away, or making multiple trips to the car. Never get any movement in? Start walking or incorporating light workouts. Eating fast food every single day? Start cooking meals from scratch, so you can control portions and ingredients. Then, just be patient. It doesn’t happen overnight. These changes compound over time. Make the changes, do them for real, don’t lie to yourself, and check back in a month. 

Have a Plan

When a commenter asked Minazalie what she’d do if she had to start all over and had 70 pounds to lose, she responded with a detailed step-by-step plan. First, she’d download a calorie-counting app and figure out how many calories she needs to eat based on her goals and activity level (a quick Google search gets you there.) Then she’d buy a food scale and weigh everything, because accuracy matters. “Trying to lose weight without tracking calories is like trying to put IKEA furniture together without instructions.” 

From there, she’d stock up on basics like protein, veggies, and yogurt, so healthy options are always on deck, but still eat everything in moderation while tracking. For movement, she’d walk every single day, not because it’s the only way, but because it’s the most convenient and sustainable. And most importantly, she’d stay consistent: you can’t do this for three days out of the week and then complain about not seeing results. 

Consistency is the compounding factor. This isn’t a quick-fix diet; it’s a lifestyle, which is why Mina has been able to maintain her weight since giving birth. Have a plan, stick to the plan, and be patient. Don’t get cheeky and think that weekend calories somehow don’t count. These are the little details that can blow your entire deficit. Working hard four days out of the week counts for nothing if you’re in a net surplus. Speaking of surpluses, if it’s helpful for you psychologically to think of calories in weekly terms rather than daily terms (like balancing your calories out through the week through a zig-zag calorie schedule), then by all means, do that. 

Hunger Cues, Portion Control, & Finding Joy Outside of Food

Building off the previous point, you need to check in with yourself and be honest about your motivations. If you’re not hungry, you’re eating hedonically: for stimulation, entertainment, or emotional comfort. This will obviously sabotage your weight loss goals if you can’t learn to deny your base impulses. But sometimes we feel genuine hunger out of proportion to what is normal or desirable. If this is you, SkinnyTok girls suggest desensitizing yourself to hunger by practicing eating to 80% fullness rather than being stuffed (an actual eating principle common around the world, especially in Japan, where it’s called hachi hachi bu.) 

Minazalie practiced portion control by slowly reducing her portions, such as eating half a sandwich and then letting some time pass to see if she actually needed the rest of it. For portion control and eating until “satisfied,” not “full,” to work, you need to eat more slowly and mindfully so that your brain is able to process that you’ve eaten and are satisfied. 

Shoving down your meal in ten seconds flat can mean you’re eating more than you need to and not even allowing yourself to enjoy it, because you’ve bypassed your body’s fullness cues. This is something I struggle with because I grew up watching my dad scarf down all his food, and I picked up on this behavior. 

Some of us have an unhealthy dependence, an emotional reliance, or a dopamine-seeking relationship with food that has more to do with compulsion and pleasure-seeking. If you continually feed this addiction instead of taking steps to curb this behavior, your hunger can easily become dysregulated and excessive, which is why “just listen to your hunger cues” or “eat intuitively” isn’t very helpful advice for people who have a dopaminergic food addiction or a low tolerance for boredom or hunger. 

Maybe you’re genuinely disturbed by the feeling of hunger, and your body starts to panic at the slightest sensation of hunger, or you’re worried that if you don’t eat to 100% fullness, you can’t make it through to the next meal. It can help to find hobbies and enjoyable activities that don’t revolve around food. Liv Schmidt says, “Stop making food the highlight of your day,” and that’s something you’ll notice is a big difference between mid-sized or overweight people and your skinny friends. 

Skinny people don’t eat as much, they don’t think about food as much, and they aren’t distressed about food throughout the day. You know who’s at high risk for debilitating food noise? Someone whose next meal is the most interesting part of their day. If this is you, you should be concerned. You need to get curious about the world or passionate about something you can get involved with if you don’t want to be constantly chasing the high from your next meal. This goes for stress management as well. If food is how you self-soothe, try taking up meditation, going for peaceful walks, doing yoga, or maybe even going to therapy. Food is not going to fix your problems.

You Can’t Out-Train a Bad Diet: Why Walking Can Be Better Than Intense Workouts

SkinnyTok has a strong emphasis on nutritional habits. As they say, weight loss is “80% diet, 20% exercise,” but many of my favorite creators from Skinnytok do engage in regular physical activity, encouraging their followers to “eat less and move more.” When it comes to activity, walking has emerged as the clear exercise favorite. Minazalie in particular has popularized “hot girl walks,” which work perfectly in her daily routine as a stay-at-home mom. On the face of it, the information seems simple. If you eat less and move more, you’ll lose weight, and their movement of choice is gentle movement, like walking or pilates. 

Walking is a great form of steady-state cardio that regulates appetite, stabilizes blood sugar levels, improves digestion, lowers cortisol levels, and increases non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT) to help you burn calories without feeling exhausted or famished afterwards. It’s a great stress reliever and offers a lot of other benefits outside of weight loss, like lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, as well as reducing the risk of chronic diseases. 

And here’s why people love Mina: she doesn’t just say “go walk.” She tells you how far, how long, what pace, how it’s changed her body, and even her little pre-/post-walk rituals. She shows you the receipts of how walking leaned her out better than high-intensity workouts and made her actually feel good. It’s gamified fitness: easy to copy, easy to stick with, easy to see results. She’s also real about the starting point. If you’ve been a couch potato for months, you’re not suddenly going to crush 10k steps power-walking. She had to build up to that. Her rule of thumb: give it a month. After about four weeks, you’ll feel less sore, less tired, and way more capable of longer walks. Then you crank it up.

The other great part about walking? It doesn’t spike your hunger hormones the way heavy lifting or HIIT does. That’s where intense workouts get tricky. If you’re not careful, the hunger rebound can creep up and push you over your calories. Most people underestimate how much they’re eating and overestimate how much they’re burning, which is why hitting the gym five nights a week with brutal workouts isn’t automatically a recipe for fat loss.

The reality: you need to know both sides of the equation: how much you’re eating and how much you’re burning. And don’t put blind faith in smartwatch trackers. Their calorie-burning estimates are notoriously inaccurate. A better approach is to use a calorie calculator that factors in your general activity level and sets your daily calories from that baseline, rather than “earning back” every workout calorie. If you do choose to log exercise, be conservative in your estimates.

Do It Tired: Discipline, Not Motivation, Is the Key

Minazalie’s motivating mantra is “Do it tired.” Stop waiting until conditions are perfect. You don’t need to be motivated, well-rested, or dressed like a fitness influencer to go for your walk. Relying on motivation 24/7 is a design flaw. You won't feel 100% every single day. You’re not always going to want to exercise, hit your step count, or track your calories. You might even wake up one day in your luteal phase and decide you want to live carelessly, paying no mind to calories.

As long as you have a plan and your overall trend is consistent, this isn’t the end of the world. The advice to “follow your plan, not your mood” will take you far because knowing what to do is half the battle. SkinnyTok encourages you to strategize, not to rely on motivation 24/7, because you will run into days when you might not mentally be up to being in weight-loss mode. That’s okay; you can plan for this and actually incorporate days where you intentionally hit maintenance calories and avoid exercise, maybe even hit a slight surplus, so that you can get the mental reset you need to keep going. It’s all about getting back on track and the general trend, not what happens in a single day. 

Weight loss requires brutal honesty with yourself. You need to know when it’s time to stop making excuses and commit, and when the body you’re chasing just isn’t realistic for the life you want to live. A calorie deficit isn’t glamorous—it often means being a little hungry, a little uncomfortable. Not starving, but not perfectly satisfied either. Even a modest deficit of a few hundred calories will catch up with you some days. Holcombe says this is when your discipline kicks in. This is when you grow stronger. This is where you have to sacrifice what you want now for what you want later.

Choose Your Hard

You need to see weight loss through the lens of opportunity cost. Everyone talks about how hard it is to restrain yourself around food and stay active, but almost no one talks about the flip side: the difficulty of being fat. There’s no “opt-out” option where you avoid discomfort. Losing weight is hard, but so is living in a body you hate. So is avoiding mirrors and photos. So is dreading summer because shorts and bikinis feel like punishment. So is having the best moments of your life clouded by insecurity, unflattering videos, and stares.

Losing weight is hard, but so is living in a body you hate.

Stop framing weight loss as a choice between grit and comfort. There’s nothing comfortable about being fat. If anything, it’s harder, more time-consuming, and more disruptive to your life than the discipline required to change. To lose weight, you make a few more intelligent decisions at meal times each day, but when you’re fat while yearning to be thin, you feel uncomfortable 24/7.

And on the flipside, start getting embarrassed—embarrassed that you keep making the same resolution year after year, only to perpetually delay, falter, and refuse to try. It’s literally just weight loss. It’s literally just a few hundred calories fewer per day. The cake and cookies will still be there tomorrow. Stop acting like it’s rocket science or like it’s too difficult to lose ten pounds. Just do it. You’re prolonging your suffering, chipping away at your dignity, your self-esteem, and agency, all for what? A cookie? How long does that last, 15 seconds? You have to live in this body for life. Start acting like you take some pride in it.

Skinny Mindset: Skinny People See Food As Optional

Fat-loss coach Amanda Dobler says the defining difference is mindset: skinny people see food as optional. No, that doesn’t mean they’re medical marvels who don’t need food to live. It means they aren’t beholden to their environment or every passing temptation. Food showing up (being offered, gifted, or just appearing) doesn’t automatically derail them. You might feel compelled to grab the office-party donut. They see the donut as optional. You treat food with a scarcity mindset, like a dog unsure of its next meal. They treat food with deliberation: if it wasn’t planned, it doesn’t happen. No one can sabotage you but you.

A lot of people self-impose compulsive eating. They’ve conditioned themselves to believe they should eat because it’s “breakfast time,” or because they’re bored, or because they’re watching a movie. My own bad habit? Feeling like I “deserve” food after exercising, even if I’m not hungry. It becomes a compulsive self-soothing ritual, as if burning calories gave me permission to eat them right back.

Skinny people won’t choke down breakfast just because “it’s breakfast time” if they’re not hungry. They can walk into a café, see the muffin in the display case, and leave it right there. They came for coffee, not a muffin. Are you noticing the pattern? For them, food is background noise unless it’s part of an intentional plan.

As Dobler explains: “Every single day in most of our lives we are presented with the opportunity to eat food at so many different instances besides just the normal standard meal time.” Skinny people understand that just because food is presented doesn’t mean it requires action. They’re deliberate about what they eat, when they eat, and how much they eat. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. 

That also means you should be cultivating an environment that sets you up for success. As good as it is to have discipline and exercise control, your own home doesn’t need to be a psychological warzone. No one’s giving you an award for resisting the snacks in your cupboard. If it’s out of sight, it’s out of mind. So, even though there are no off-limits foods, there are highly palatable, high-calorie foods that are hard to resist and hard to eat in moderation. Take chips, for example. If you know you’re not someone who can open a bag of chips without finishing the entire bag, then why are you keeping them in the house?

Whitney Holcombe has created a game around saying “no” in order to reclaim your power and sense of agency. If being fat is a habit (always saying yes to food, opting for unhealthy options, frequenting fast food restaurants,) then so is being thin. Start saying no to everything that doesn’t align with your goals.

Find Deficit Hacks

We all (hopefully) know by now that weight loss is a simple formula: you need to eat fewer calories than you burn. But what are some painless ways we can achieve that? Here are the tips and tricks I’ve picked up from various Skinnytok creators: don’t drink your calories. Throughout the day, I’m sipping on coffee, water, or a diet soda, but you won’t catch me blowing 300 calories on anything you sip through a straw. At my size (under 5’2”), it’s just an unreasonable percentage of my calories to blow on drinks that won’t satiate me. 

If you notice that you spend a lot of your calories on drinks, you can try cutting back to fewer per day or substituting with a zero-calorie or low-calorie option. Abstaining from alcohol is generally a good idea, as it offers no nutritional value, is loaded with calories, pauses fat burning, and increases hunger/snacking impulses (which are then more likely to be stored as fat.) 

When you’re in a deficit, it leaves little room for snacking: either cut out snacks and create more substantive, indulgent meals, or eat fewer meals per day. Some people intermittently fast, others eat one meal a day (OMAD). As long as you’re meeting your nutrient needs, it really doesn’t matter. When it comes to macros, SkinnyTok is somewhat divided. Some creators, like Minazalie and Sivi, swear by eating high-protein, high-fiber meals. Some like to prioritize whole foods, while others, like Liv Schmidt, who doesn’t like to cook, prefer to eat out at restaurants and eat tiny bites of everything. 

Nutritionist Chelsea Celeste explains the rage behind protein and fiber. Protein increases metabolism, keeps you feeling fuller for longer, regulates hunger and satiety hormones, preserves lean muscle, and reduces cravings by stabilizing blood sugar. Fiber lowers caloric absorption, keeps you feeling full for longer, controls blood sugar to reduce cravings, and improves gut health. Paired together, they make for a powerhouse that will make it easier for you to eat in a calorie deficit. But here’s the catch: a lot of fitness influencers are constantly fear-mongering about how much protein we need to be consuming. We really don’t need as much as people think. The recommended daily allowance is .8 grams per kilogram of body weight or .36 grams per pound. 

This is the minimum standard to meet your nutritional needs, and you’ll need to bump it up if you’re active or trying to build muscle, but you also don’t need to stress about slamming back protein shakes or bending over backwards to get maximum protein in every single meal. Sugar Free Sorority runs a YouTube channel for women who covet model thinness, and she finds the obsessive high-protein fad perplexing. That might work for the gym shawty aesthetic, but I can promise you genuinely skinny models are not slamming protein like their life depends on it. 

Another hack promoted by Sugar Free Sorority is to “close your kitchen” at the same time each night. Pick a time that makes sense for your lifestyle, within reason, and stick to it. If you’re hungry past closing time, go to bed hungry or plan better. This helps women who find imposing rules around feeding times makes it easier to follow a deficit rather than just eating whenever they want. 

Recently, a lot of people have been turning to ChatGPT to become their personal trainer. Ask it to craft you meal plans and workouts tailored to your goals, to create diet-friendly shopping lists and meal recipes, even to be your accountability coach with daily check-ins. One girl asked for in-depth, detailed explanations of thin people’s habits. Depending on how well you’ve personalized and prompted ChatGPT, it may give you very generic answers at first, but if you ask it for more "unique" or “unconventional” responses, it can reframe how you lead your lifestyle and nudge you toward alignment with a thin girl mindset.

Raise Your Standards

If you’re sick of the cycle: gain weight, diet, lose it, feel good for a few months, then gain it back, then stop the cycle. The only way your slimmer body becomes your new normal is if you treat maintenance with the same seriousness you treated your deficit. Cutting isn’t the finish line. If you slip back into your pre-diet habits, the weight will come right back. You have to stay active. You have to keep eating in moderation. Yes, you’ll get to eat more than you could in a deficit, but probably not as much as you’d like. 

For most of us who aren’t blessed with low hunger signals, it requires constant vigilance. Take Sugar Free Sorority: thinness is part of her identity, so she runs a tight ship. Her rule? A two-pound window. “Two pounds is feedback; five pounds is an emergency.” That’s strict, yes, but it’s also the cost of never starting over. She weighs herself daily because she refuses to let the problem get big enough to require starting over. 

Once that two-pound limit is crossed, she goes into containment mode to take care of it. And if we’re being real, anything over two pounds is not just water weight or inflammation, it’s feedback that you’re going overboard. Most people will diet for a wedding or vacation, but not for their actual life. That’s the difference between treating thinness like a phase and raising your standards enough to make it permanent. Take this mindset and apply it to your own physique and lifestyle goals.

At the end of the day, SkinnyTok’s best tips weren’t about gimmicks or extremes—they were about discipline, portion control, and consistency made doable. I devoured them all so you don’t have to, and the takeaway is simple: if you want real results, it’s about stacking small choices that add up. Call it old-school, call it obvious, but it works, and that’s why these viral hacks are worth holding onto.