The Air Diet: Why Eat When You Can Pretend!

Steveodds

Is this really can work? I do not think so. The better idea is to eat something really light and small - and wait until the brain will notice that it has just eaten and is not hungry anymore :)

Whoever comes up with these "diets" are a-holes. What a way to buoy poor self esteem in women. French women eat. And they eat gloriously. They just don't eat vast amounts of crap, like Americans. And that's not just the French, that's most Europeans. How about we eat better quality food, in normal quantities and go for a jog a couple times a week. Get your asses out of your cars and take a walk. Whoever advocates this stuff should get slapped.

Isn't it probably a bad idea to be constantly in the cephalic stage of digestion without progressing to any of the actual digesting phases?

I've seen some strange fad diets before, but this is pretty wild.

Of course, eating nothing will cause you to lose weight fast. Seriously, though, this practice would make the average person even MORE hungry, save the breatharians. I'm sure the success rate is pretty low.

It makes me wonder how long you're supposed to follow this diet. You wouldn't even survive past a week, I would think.

But yes, I agree with Z, above. Cut out the junk and reduce the portion sizes, and we'll all be just fine.

Spectra

My husband's friend does something similar to this...he chews food up and then spits it out. I suppose pretending to eat it is a little more glamourous. I wonder...if Madonna was seen doing it, was Tracy Anderson to blame for it? I wouldn't be surprised; that woman is such a total flake

Ali Hale

How bizarre! Why not just eat normal, healthy, tasty food? This seems like just another silly fad ... and presumably quite an expensive one if you're preparing food which you don't eat.

Where does all this craziness end, And who in their right mind would give it a go?

As for "breatharianism" I've heard of it before with Yogi's in India. I don't expect it'll catch on much here in the western world.

Jody - Fit at 52

OK, to each their own BUT I just think this is weird! If it works for you, fine but for me, not so much! Are people paying to get this advice? I bet people would!

EmpowerMePhotoGuy

These fad diets are such a terrible idea, they might work for the first week or so but after that people just loose their empowerment and motivation because the strict rules are so hard to stick with! A good diet with exercise is the best way to go

dobner

Sounds pretty goofy. At the same time, when one is on a diet, you are constantly reminded of what you are doing by the incessant hunger. That hunger could serve as a form of awareness that you have to remind yourself that you need to stop on top of your choices every minute.

I am not sure though that that is what was intended by the air diet.

Hello diet blog,
I think it's a basic french joke using the term "soupe". Meaning a soup of all the bullshit you've been served as the last diet that did work with a random star. There're other expressions like "soupe au lait" (to be milk soup = quick tempered), "soupe à la grimace" (face soupe= hostile reaction), soupe (mediocre pop music, incoherent text, bamboozling(?),...). I'm not fan of this kind of magazine. Anyway from my french point of view, I would call water-soup and air-diet any diet someone would try to sell me if unhealthy and/or too restrictive. The meaning is really obvious.
I'm scared to know that the "breatharians" exist.

Mike Howard

Evidently, the diet is named after the creators head contents. Vraiment stupide.

This "diet" has been around forever. It's called anorexia.

I keep thinking about my 11 year old cousins, eh... passing wind... and shouting "AIR COOKIES, GET 'EM WHILE THEY'RE HOT!"
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Ok, I just cannot believe there are people around who actually believe this kind of thing!!!

I'm curious...what do you do with the food you just 'didn't' est....do you place it back on plate so you feel you can eat all day, or do you place it out of sight so you can convince yourself you made a 'happy plate'?

I tried this diet, but my dog died eating the leftovers.

Some of the fad diets that people beleive in are just, well, unbeleivable. I recently took a class and we discussed fad diets. It was very interesting. Some people go to real extremes just to lose weight. They eat cotton balls, tapeworms, and all sorts of stuff. I'll stick to a regular program with real food to help out my situation.

Here's an idea. How about just surgically installing a drainage tube in your stomach, then eat all you want and go dump it before it's digested. Quick and easy purging without the tooth decay! Seriously, we need to stop with all the nutty ideas and just start using common sense and restraint. I'm one of many obese Americans, and my weight was getting dangerously out of hand (440+), but I finally decided to turn it around by getting regular exercise and eating sensibly. I'm neither starving with tiny meals nor killing myeslf on a treadmill, but I'm down 60 pounds in the past year and still going.