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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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Calorfatic
Created by: Maureen
Pronunciation: cal-or-fat-ic
Sentence: She found the calorfatic diet rather restricting as even a non-fat icypole made her cringe.
Etymology: Calorie - unit of heat. Fat - oily substance found in human bodies. ic-suffix - belonging to.
Carbohydraniac
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kar bo hy dray nee ak
Sentence: Jenny had become such a carbohydraniac after all her many diets, that she avoided carbs like the plague. Over the years she had tried Dr.Atkins, Weight Watchers, South Beach, Scarsdale and every other popular diet plan. She finally developed her own program and Ms. Craig is now wealthy like those other diet's designers. It is good to find a method to lose weight...it is even better to find one that allows you to get rich by helping others lose weight!
Etymology: Carbohydrate (an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain;) & Maniac (an insane person)
Exaltarvate
Created by: kankamuso
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Every January Jane makes the resolution of dieting. She usually just exaltarvate till February 1st.
Etymology: Exalt + Starvation
Gourmation
Created by: Fenners
Pronunciation: gour - may - shun
Sentence: I have a touch of gourmation
Etymology: gourmet/gourmand + ation
Unfatuation
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: unføtʃəweɪʃən
Sentence: When it comes to dieting Harold has an unfatuation. He spends so much time trimming fat from his meat he barely has time to eat.
Etymology: un (not) + fat (a natural oily or greasy substance occurring in animal bodies) + infatuation (be inspired with an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for)
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
Obesessity
Created by: Tobester
Pronunciation: obee-sessity
Sentence: Lauren's obesessity controlled her life, up to a point where she developed a phobia for brownies
Etymology: obsessed with obesity
Consumania
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: con-syoo-main-eeya
Sentence: "Rachel gobbled it all up. She inhaled it. It was total consumania."
Etymology: consume + mania
Dietverticulitis
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: how ever you like, its a long word.
Sentence: amy's dietverticulitis was so bad she hid all the sugar packets in the office.
Etymology: from diet, diverticulitis (a disease of some form) and diverting someones attention towards destroying foods.
