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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Georgia Brown

TikTok’s "Three Bite Rule" Trend Claims to Be a Mindful Eating Strategy – Here’s Why Nutritionists Warn Against It

A woman doing yoga on a green workout mat, in a sunlit studio.

It wasn’t so long ago that Ozempic felt like the quiet vice of Hollywood, reserved for stars who’d historically spent decades shrinking themselves for the camera. But in the past two years, the drug has slipped into far more ordinary spaces: whispered about at Pilates studios, speculated over in group chats, and even discussed across family dinner tables.

Diet culture never dissolved. It simmered - temporarily muffled by the rise of body‑positive influencers and the idea that perhaps, finally, our bodies could just be. But lately, the tide feels as if it’s turning again. From "what I eat in a day" calorie counts to "girl dinner" minimalism, a new wave of thin‑centric content is seeping back into our social feeds. And with it, the "three bite rule" - a viral TikTok trend that claims to be a mindful way to enjoy indulgent foods - has more than 20.5 million posts under the trend.

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