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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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Dietaholic
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
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
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
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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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.
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
Anomania
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: ann-oh-may-nee-uh
Sentence: Clarence's anomania caused him to constantly ask the waitstaff at restaurants precisely how many calories were in each dish.
Etymology: anorexia + mania
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
Ghandivitis
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: gahn/dy/vih/tis
Sentence: Beacause she was such a devout follower of Mahatma Ghandi her persistent dieting for world peace resulted in her developing acute ghandivitis
Etymology: Mahatma Ghandi + gingivitis
Southbeachedwhaling
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: south/beached/whale/ing
Sentence: Sue successfully dropped 100 pounds by southbeachedwhaling, imagining each morsel of food had the potential to return her to her former hump-back proportions.
Etymology: South Beach Diet, beached whale
