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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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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
Anoxtremia
Created by: weyrlady
Pronunciation: anox-trem-i-a
Sentence: In the throes of anoxtremia, she refused even the butterless popcorn.
Etymology: A combination of "anorexia" and the phrase "in extremia".
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.
Nuketritionist
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: newk trish yun ist
Sentence: her inner nuketritionist exploded every menu she dreamed up
Etymology: nutritionist, nuke
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.
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:
Grubsess
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /gr&b-'ses/
Sentence: Antonio's grubsession with his low-carb diet lead him to try to pick the bits of breadcrumb out of his mother's meatloaf.
Etymology: From grub + obsess
Dietllucinate
Created by: ahwinters
Pronunciation: die-it-loose-in-ate
Sentence: When she would dietllucinate she'd feel that sweets were out to kill her.
Etymology: Diet + Hallucinate
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
