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DEFINITION: v. To follow a diet with such rigor and fervor that it consumes all your energy, and throws everything, even your desserts, out of proportion. n. A person who thinks too much about what they eat.
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Disciplane
Created by: ToblerOne
Pronunciation: Dis-ci-plane
Sentence: Donna's diet exemplified her disciplane behavior. She was so crazy she wouldn't even eat a tic-tac.
Etymology: Discipline + Insane
Dietoholic
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: dy-et-o-hol-ik
Sentence: Reba was a dietoholic, she couldn't even eat a rice-cake without a bad conscience!
Etymology: diet: to loose weight by limiting consumption -holic: addicted to
Diminuendize
Created by: jimroberts
Pronunciation: di-min'yoo-en'diz
Sentence:
Etymology: From "diminuendo", a musical shrinkage most likely to occur toward the butt end of a piece.
Gobbleclobber
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: gob-uhl-klob-er
Sentence: Eve and her friends at work see desserts as an enemy to be vanquished. If someone were to dare to bring something evil into the office they will gobbleclobber it until it is no more.
Etymology: gobble (to swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp) + clobber (to defeat decisively; drub; trounce)
Unjustdessert
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: phonetic
Sentence: The chocolate eclair was begging to be eaten. Her hands hovered over it, yet she was able to resist. Unjustdessert, indeed.
Etymology:
Ultrarexia
Created by: DIKIDI
Pronunciation: UL-TRA-REX-E-A
Sentence: ULTRAREXIA HAS REDUCED HER TO A MERE SHADOW OF HERSELF.
Etymology:
Illogicalorie
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: ill-odj-ick-al-or-ee
Sentence: she knew she was being illogicalorie, but how could she be sure the 'carb-free' lunch was really 'carb-free'..it's not like she had some magic carbohydrate detector...oh god how she longed for a magic carbohydrate detector.....safer just to skip lunch
Etymology: illogical, calorie
Fleshplot
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: flesh/plot
Sentence: Behind every cobbler, cupcake, and cream puff lay a ferocious fleshplot waiting to add a few more inches to her waistline.
Etymology: flesh + plot
Dietaholic
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: dye-et-a-hol-ic
Sentence: You know that new "only white food" diet she's on? Last week she spraypainted chocolate cake white. I wonder if she is a dietaholic.
Etymology: Diet + aholic
Abstrain
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: abstrān
Sentence: Barbara*s mother is the tour guide for any guilt trip. Barb grew up hearing **Watch what you eat, you don*t want to end up like Aunt Maggie**. The fact that her aunt was adopted and has nothing to do with her genetics doesn*t seem to matter. At every meal she will abstrain from eating anything she enjoys. She has taught herself to cook poorly so that there is little chance of temptation.
Etymology: abstain (restrain oneself from doing or enjoying something) + strain (force a part of one*s body or oneself to make a strenuous or unusually great effort)
