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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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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

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Belliphobic

Created by: jrogan

Pronunciation: bel-lee-foh-bik

Sentence: Richard was so belliphobic that he couldn't even look at a dessert plate without loosing his cookies.

Etymology: belly + phobia = fear of bellies

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Bellissimo - Nosila, 2009-08-18: 01:07:00

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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".

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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

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Foodessive

Created by: lebeast

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Cupcake : "this is one foodessive broad".

Etymology: food+obsessed

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Nuketritionist

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: newk trish yun ist

Sentence: her inner nuketritionist exploded every menu she dreamed up

Etymology: nutritionist, nuke

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Fleshplot

Created by: quippingqueen

Pronunciation: flesh/plot

Sentence: Behind every cobbler, cupcake, and cream puff lay a ferocious fleshplot waiting to add a few more inches to her waistline.

Etymology: flesh + plot

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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