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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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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.)
Unhappetite
Created by: egonschiela
Pronunciation: un-happy-tight
Sentence: Jenny decided that her unhappetite was almost too much to bear, but managed to resist the fresh cream slice sitting in the fridge.
Etymology: unhappy + (appe)tite
Asweetic
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
Good word. Got my vote. - hyperborean, 2013-09-25: 22:46:00
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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.
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)
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
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:
Atkinize
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: atkin - ize
Sentence: Jill would Atkinize over her diet plans to the point of messing herself up.
Etymology: Atikins + ize
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)
