Mariah Carey is dishing out the diet tips this week to People Magazine. “My secret is bleak diets,” the singer told reporters at VH1′s Save the Music gala at Lincoln Center in New York on Thursday night, looking noticeably svelte in a figure-hugging purple gown.”I still feel like I have a way to go.”

Her daily cuisine? She said: “basically soups and fish prepared really blandly.” And Carey couples the nutrition plan with arguably the most well-traveled trainer in town.

“I have a wonderful trainer whose name is Patricia, she lives in St. Barts, poor girl,” she said. “People say, ‘Only you would fly someone from St. Barts to New York to work out.’ “

Carey added, “We do water aerobics mostly.”

Mariah isn’t feeling the pressure to be a member of the bobblehead club. “I don’t feel like you have to be a size zero. We should all just embrace who we are physically,” she said. “I’m not supposed to be a stick figure girl. It’s just not me.”  But let me ask if dressing like a 16 year old hooker is? Interesting.