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'This cupcake is evil! I must destroy it, before it destroys me.'

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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Diaticism

Created by: tgulden

Pronunciation: Dy/at/i/siz/um

Sentence: Her diatisicm was so great that she put all the refined sugar in the house into the fire pit.

Etymology: diet + fanaticism

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Dietaholic

ubgrud

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

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Asweetic

mrskellyscl

Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: a-swee-tic

Sentence: Marilyn was an asweetic, especially during Lent. She practiced self-denial to a fault when it came to desserts, however, she did have a weakness for pork rinds.

Etymology: ascetic: to practice self-denial and austerity, especially for spiritual self-improvement + sweet: another word for dessert

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COMMENTS:

easy to say but difficult to do! - mweinmann, 2009-08-17: 15:47:00

hyperborean Good word. Got my vote. - hyperborean, 2013-09-25: 22:46:00

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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

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Rumenate

Created by: maxxy

Pronunciation: RUE-men-ayt

Sentence: Though his stomach grumbled about it, Jim rumenated over even the smallest crumb.

Etymology: rumen (the "fermentation vat par excellence" of the digestive tract) + ruminate (to fixate on, think about)

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Paravore

Created by: chofu67

Pronunciation: pare a vore

Sentence: Her obsession with eating only from an ever diminishing selection of acceptable foods had turned Edie into a virtual paravore.

Etymology: paranoid + vore (as in omnivore, carnivore, etc.)

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Gobbleclobber

artr

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)

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Slimbalance

Created by: chris

Pronunciation: slim-bal-ans

Sentence: Jade's life was so slimbalanced that she wouldn't even lick a stamp for fear of the calories it might contain.

Etymology: slim + imbalance

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COMMENTS:

If she's slimbalanced, doesn't theat make her a slimbacil? lol. - TrJoshB, 2007-01-24: 16:53:00

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Extragastriolistism

Created by: MrBlack

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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.

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