IVE's Gaeul and Rei Are Done With Salad Diets, Here's What They Actually Do

During a live stream from Singapore on the 9th, IVE's Gaeul and Rei got real about dieting, and their take cuts against most of what's trending online right now.

Rei went first: when you actually start managing your diet, she said, you become obsessed with foods you never even thought about before. The craving spiral is real, and both members were blunt about where that leads. "We can't do the salad-only diet anymore," they said, essentially in unison.

Their alternative isn't a hack. It's a stance. Instead of cutting rice entirely, Rei's advice was simple: "Even when you're managing your diet, make sure you still eat rice." The logic holds up, for people raised on rice-centered meals, switching cold turkey to protein plates and greens doesn't satisfy, and the hunger gap usually gets filled with bread, snacks, or late-night food. Swapping one problem for a worse one.

The approach both members described is gradual portion reduction. Start by cutting about a third of your usual rice portion. Pair it with high-protein sides, eggs, fish, tofu, chicken breast, and add volume with vegetables that take time to chew, like mushrooms and leafy greens. The goal is to stay full enough that you don't blow it by hour seven.

Gaeul had her own framing for this, which she called Gaeul-style dieting: "Shrink your stomach naturally, and a small amount will actually make you feel full." Her point wasn't that the stomach literally shrinks fast, it's more that training yourself to eat smaller portions gradually builds a new normal. Eat slowly, chew more, and your brain gets a chance to register fullness before you've already overshot it. Both body and brain stay satisfied. Less misery, more consistency.

The conversation also touched on the "natural Ozempic" diet that's been circulating online, boiled eggs with olive oil and pepper, marketed as a satiety hack. Rei acknowledged it, then immediately undercut it: "But is that really going to be enough?" Gaeul was equally skeptical, saying she doesn't like boiled eggs because they get stuck in her throat, and they taste like nothing without salt.

Fair. And they're not wrong to be skeptical. Eggs and olive oil can help with short-term fullness, but treating that combination as a drug-equivalent appetite suppressant is a stretch. Food helps. It doesn't replace medication.

What Gaeul and Rei are describing isn't a secret, it's basically the unsexy version of every sustainable diet: don't ban foods outright, control portions, adjust gradually, and find a rhythm you can actually maintain. It doesn't make for a viral moment, but it's the advice that tends to stick.