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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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Hallucineat
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: hu-loos-uh-neet
Sentence: If she concentrated hard enough, Sheila could hallucineat without consuming a calorie or sacrificing flavor.
Etymology: hallucinate + eat
Deliciophobia
Created by: theshirkaholic
Pronunciation: delishafobia
Sentence: due to her constant crash dieting, abigail developed Deliciophobia, and one day had a panic attack whilst passing a patisserie.
Etymology:
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
Fatanic
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: fat-an-ic
Sentence: Myrtle's friends were concerned by her fatanicism. She spent longer reading the dietary information printed on food packaging than she did consuming the contents. Myrtle resisted their suggestions that her behaviour was fatanical - she preferred to describe it as a complumpsion.
Etymology: fat + fanatic (a person marked or motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm) / Wordplay on Satanic
Blobsessed
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: Blob-sessed
Sentence: As Jill sat staring at the delicious cake, she became blobsessed with not letting reach her mouth.
Etymology: blob, a huge mass of edipose. obsessed, focusing all your energy on one thing.
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
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)
Ultimatumeal
Created by: IanArcher
Pronunciation: ul-ti-MAY-tuhm-eel
Sentence: Once i started South Beach, I found myself vacillating between cheating and ultimatumealing.
Etymology: from "ultimatum" and "meal"
Dietiquette
Created by: whimsy
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Her daily dietiquette proceedings consisted of raving at the dessert cake as she ate her salad.
Etymology: diet + etiquette
