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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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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)
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
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
Foodenfeeblement
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: FOOD-en-FEE-bull-ment
Sentence: Foodenfeeblement had descended on the fat fighters. They were so obsessed with their dieting, they felt consumed but it.
Etymology: food + enfeeble
Nuketritionist
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: newk trish yun ist
Sentence: her inner nuketritionist exploded every menu she dreamed up
Etymology: nutritionist, nuke
Rigormordessertis
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: rig-er-mowr-dez-ur-tiss
Sentence: I'm not going to lose a pound if rigormordessertis sets in
Etymology: rigor mortis + more dessert; it's a play on rigor mortis, which is when dead people get stiff, in that you're rigorously eating more dessert...
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
Cuisiniac
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: kweh-ZEEN-e-ak
Sentence: Marcy is a cuisiniac who is totally obsessed with nutritional values in all the foods she eats, is a dedicated calorie counter and is borderline phobic about the fat content of foods.
Etymology: Blend of 'cuisine' (food fare) and 'maniac' (A person who has an excessive enthusiasm or desire for something)
Exaltarvate
Created by: kankamuso
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Every January Jane makes the resolution of dieting. She usually just exaltarvate till February 1st.
Etymology: Exalt + Starvation
