EXCLUSIVE Move over Mounjaro! Now young women are using ChatGPT to shed the pounds - as one woman reveals she lost 7kg in a month by sending AI pictures of her fridge
Young women are now turning to AI websites like ChatGPT to help them lose weight - amid concerns that being ultra-slim is 'back in fashion'.
Health experts have previously expressed concern about the return of 'heroin chic' fuelled by the Ozempic boom, as millions turn to 'skinny jabs' to achieve their dream figures - inspired by the models who dominated runways in the Noughties.
As a result, weight loss content has swept social media over the past five years, with many women now saying they've resorted to using ChatGPT to help achieve their body goals.
Cristina Gheiceanu, from Switzerland, lost 1st and 10lbs after sending a voice note to ChatGPT every morning telling the AI programme what she ate and her calorie limit.
She told her 400,000 followers on Instagram how she was able to shed the weight in just five months without using 'complicated apps'.
The content creator said: 'I just sent a voice message to ChatGPT each morning with what I ate, how many calories I wanted to eat that day - and it did all the work.
'In the beginning, I had to tell it the calories, protein, and fibre in the foods I use. Next time it remembered everything, so I was just telling to add my yogurt or my bread.
'It knew how many calories or protein is in that yogurt or bread. I kept using the same chat, so it became faster and easier every day.'
Cristina said she would ask the programme to put her daily food into a table so she could easily see what was missing from her diet.
And sometimes she would even send ChatGPT a picture of her fridge and ask for its suggestions of what she should eat.
'Honestly, it made the whole process feel easy,' Cristina added.
'No calorie counting in my head, no stress. When I hit my number I just stopped. It never felt like a diet and that's what made it work.'
Cristina's clip racked up more than two million views on Instagram and hundreds of comments from users - who had a split opinion on the use of AI.
One penned: ' When they say that AI will make humanity forget how to think, this is what they mean. Calorie counting and macro tracking is a very simple, if a little tedious, system you should be able to easily do without ChatGPT.
'The environmental cost to the planet in terms of energy expenditure and water usage that it takes for AI to do something you could do yourself is appalling, and honestly, shameful.'
Another said: 'this is a horrific use of AI, the amount of water wasted and heating generated to answer a query that could easily be solved by following a simple meal plan... please look into it before continuing to use ChatGPT in this manner.'
When Charley asked the AI website for a food plan, it told her exactly what to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner every single day with a breakdown of the calories for each meal
Cristina divided opinion on her video with some people saying that she should not be using AI and others admitting they have used it themselves to help with dieting
But others said they had been using it too, with a third writing: 'ChatGPT created a cycle syncing weekly diet for me, which has been awesome.
'It also gives me ideas on how to boost my nutrition, metabolism, and balance hormones based on foods.
A fourth commented: 'I've been using ChatGPT for my insulin resistance diet and it has been a game changer! I already lost 10 pounds and have been able to fix my insulin issues.'
But Cristina is not the only young woman who is using AI to help her reach her 'dream body' with dieting.
Charley, a Brit who is currently living in Australia, said she found a 'life hack' on how to easily get the body you want with limited thinking involved.
She calculated that she can eat 1,800 calories a day to lose weight, but said she struggled with understanding how to put meals together to help reach this target.
Charley said on TikTok: 'I'm going to ask ChatGPT to write me a weekly meal prep plan that accounts for 1,800 calories a day and see what it comes up with.'
When she asked the AI website for a food plan, it told her exactly what to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner every single day with a breakdown of the calories for each meal.
It told the travel influencer to eat a 300-calorie Greek yogurt parfait bowl for breakfast, followed by a 450-calorie chicken salad bowl for lunch and a 550-calorie dinner of grilled salmon with vegetables.
It also recommended Charley to have an apple with peanut butter for a 200-calorie snack and she even asked it to give exact measurements for each element of the meal.
The AI website told her to have a Greek yogurt bowl for breakfast,' which she described as 'very filling,' adding that she couldn't finish the meal
'It does also say on there that ChatGPT is not fully reliable but to me it looks alright so I might have to give this a go,' she added. 'I might've just found a life hack if you're a bit lazy like me.'
Eilidh Wells, from Glasgow, also had the same idea and wanted ChatGPT to write her one-day meal plan for a diet of 1,200 calories.
This is a much smaller amount to the average amount that women should be eating, which is 2,000 calories a day. On average men need 2,500 calories a day to maintain their weight, according to the NHS.
'I'm in a calorie deficit so I've asked for high protein and low carbs and it's done a pretty good job,' Eilidh said on TikTok.
The AI website told her to have a Greek yogurt bowl for breakfast,' which she described as 'very filling', adding that she couldn't eat the whole meal.
It then told her to eat grilled chicken lettuce wraps for dinner, but she felt as though the measurements were off and further limited her portion size.
She enjoyed ChatGPT's suggestion of having cottage cheese with cucumbers and said that she would continue to eat this as it was 'super filling and a really good snack'.
For dinner, it told Eilidh to make a grilled chicken salad that she described as 'samey', adding that she was 'not looking forward' to her meal.
'Everything was bland and the measurements were way off and I feel like the recipe they gave me was for two people,' she said.
Tia urged her followers on TikTok to 'sit back and watch the magic' as it quickly created a full gym routine with a breakdown of each exercise, without the help of a professional personal trainer
Laura reveals what ChatGPT thinks she would look like if she was 50 pounds lighter
'I don't know if it's because I've had more protein than usual or if the dish wasn't very appetising but I wasn't hungry for dinner and didn't actually finish them. I've giving ChatGPT's meal plan a five out of ten.'
Some are even using the website to help them come up with workout plans for them to do in the gym.
Tia Taylor, who is based between Lagos and Milan, said she was able to get 'in the best shape of her life' by using AI.
She told ChatGPT that she goes to the gym three times a week, adding that her fitness goals are to maintain her current muscle mass while continuing to build muscle 'especially in the upper body and to define my waist'.
The 28-year-old urged her followers on TikTok to 'sit back and watch the magic' as it quickly created a full gym routine with a breakdown of each exercise - without the help of a professional personal trainer.
It recommended she spend her first day focusing on her lower body and core, before moving onto cardio and waist definition on day two.
For her third day, ChatGPT said she should be doing upper body and core work including planks, push ups and dumbbell rows.
TikTok users commented on Tia's video and said she was 'so smart' for coming up with the suggestion.
Others have used the AI programme to help them envision what they would look like if they were slimmer.
Laura, from Hampshire who has already lost 70 pounds, appeared to use the website for fitness motivation as she asked it to show her an image of what she would look like if she was '50 pounds lighter'.
She said on TikTok: 'I've been down a ChatGPT rabbit hole and I've asked the bot what I'd look like if I was 50 pounds lighter. If I looked like that, I'd be pretty pleased to be fair.'
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