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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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Rumenate
Created by: maxxy
Pronunciation: RUE-men-ayt
Sentence: Though his stomach grumbled about it, Jim rumenated over even the smallest crumb.
Etymology: rumen (the "fermentation vat par excellence" of the digestive tract) + ruminate (to fixate on, think about)
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
Disciplane
Created by: ToblerOne
Pronunciation: Dis-ci-plane
Sentence: Donna's diet exemplified her disciplane behavior. She was so crazy she wouldn't even eat a tic-tac.
Etymology: Discipline + Insane
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
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
Obseleat
Created by: verndo
Pronunciation: Ahb so lee t
Sentence: Wendy is so obsoleat with this new diet! If she isn't careful, she's gonna kill herself!
Etymology: Obsess + Eat = Obsolete (Death)
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)
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
