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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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Consumeater
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kon soom eet er
Sentence: Patty Cake, Patty Cake, baker's daughter. You learned to eat desserts, just like you oughter. When you started reading labels and measuring calories, you took all the glee out of enjoying good food naturally. Now you're on a diet, you've become a consumeater, we liked you way better when you were a diet cheater!
Etymology: Consume (to eat immoderately; serve oneself to, or consume regularly; engage fully) & Eater (someone who consumes food for nourishment)
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COMMENTS:
was she the consummate consumeater who learned to control the consumption of calories? good word - mweinmann, 2009-08-17: 15:50:00
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Blobsessed
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: Blob-sessed
Sentence: As Jill sat staring at the delicious cake, she became blobsessed with not letting reach her mouth.
Etymology: blob, a huge mass of edipose. obsessed, focusing all your energy on one thing.
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.)
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
Calorage
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation:
Sentence: woman destroys donut shop in fit of calorage
Etymology:
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.
Cupcakenbia
Created by: wisepenguin
Pronunciation: cup-cake-ken-bia
Sentence: One who may be avoiding desserts and food that affects his/her usual diet is most likely to be suffering from cupcakenbia.
Etymology: desserts such as ''cupcakes'' are no exception to one's ''phobia''
Dietoholic
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: dy-et-o-hol-ik
Sentence: Reba was a dietoholic, she couldn't even eat a rice-cake without a bad conscience!
Etymology: diet: to loose weight by limiting consumption -holic: addicted to
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
Carbobsess
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: CARB-uhb-ses
Sentence: Heather, it's only one one Pringle! Don't be carbobsessive.
Etymology: carbo(hydrate) + obsess
