How to stop seeing diet and weight-loss content in your feed
To stop seeing diet and weight-loss content, unfollow or mute the accounts that post it, mark what’s suggested to you as “Not interested”, and mute or filter the words it uses on each app. Feeds take a little while to retrain, so here’s where to start on each platform, and what to do about what still slips through.
Updated November 2, 2026Whether you’re recovering from an eating disorder or just tired of being told what to eat, you get to decide what’s in your feed. None of this has to happen at once. Start with the app that bothers you most.
Start with who you follow
Your feed is built first from who you follow. Unfollow accounts that leave you comparing, counting or feeling worse, even ones you used to like. For friends and family, mute instead: they won’t be told, and you can undo it later.
Then follow a few things that have nothing to do with bodies: a hobby, artists, animals, a sport you love, cooking without the numbers. They give your feed something else to show you.
Words worth muting
Most apps let you mute or filter words. Here’s a starting list to adapt to what affects you:
- calories, macros, “what I eat in a day”
- weight loss, fat loss, “before and after”
- body check, “fitspo”, fat burning
- the names of diets and weight-loss drugs you keep seeing
Try not to search for these words to test your mutes. Searches teach your feed what you want to see.
On each app
Instagram. On a suggested post or reel, tap the three dots and choose Not interested, then the option to stop suggesting posts with certain words, and add yours. It can take up to a day to kick in, and it only affects suggested posts, not accounts you follow. If your suggestions are full of it, reset Instagram’s recommendations.
TikTok. Long-press a video and tap Not interested. In Settings and privacy, under Content preferences, you can add words to filter from your For You and Following feeds.
YouTube. Click the three dots on a video and choose Not interested, or Don’t recommend channel. If diet videos have taken over your Home page, clearing your watch history gives YouTube a fresh start: see how to reset YouTube recommendations.
X. Add the words above to Muted words, and mute or unfollow accounts. Here’s how to mute words on X.
Facebook. From the three dots on a post, hide it, or snooze or unfollow whoever posted it.
Ads follow their own rules. On most platforms you can open an ad’s menu and hide it, which tells the platform it isn’t for you.
What still gets through
- Pictures without words. A mirror photo or a “what I eat” video with no caption has nothing for a mute to match.
- New accounts. “Not interested” works one post at a time, and there’s always another.
- Comments. Diet talk turns up under posts that have nothing to do with it.
- Every app is separate, so each one needs its own setup.
You don’t have to do this alone
If what you see online is making recovery harder, or you’re worried about your eating, please reach out. A doctor, a therapist who specializes in eating disorders, or an eating-disorder organization in your country can help. A calmer feed is one part of looking after yourself, not a substitute for support.
Filter diet talk out by meaning
Remedy is a Chrome extension that filters your feeds as you scroll. Turn on its diet talk topic, or describe what you want gone in your own words, like “no before-and-after photos”, “nothing about calories or weight loss” or “no body checking”. It understands meaning, so it catches posts that never use the words you’d think to mute, and it checks comments too.
On Plus, it also checks images and video frames, which matters here, since so much of this content is pictures. Matches are blurred, then removed. It works on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Facebook, Reddit and Threads, on a computer, in Chrome, not in phone apps.
Questions
How do I stop seeing weight-loss posts on Instagram?
On a suggested post, tap the three dots, choose Not interested, then add words like “weight loss” so similar posts aren’t suggested. Accounts you follow aren’t affected, so unfollow or mute those.
Why does my feed keep showing me diet content?
Feeds learn from what you pause on, watch, search for and comment on, even when it upsets you. Scrolling past quickly and marking it Not interested teaches them the opposite.
Can I stop seeing diet content without unfollowing friends?
Yes. Muting someone hides their posts from your feed without unfollowing them, and they aren’t told.