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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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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)
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
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''
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
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.
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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Calorobsessed
Created by: GreatRandew
Pronunciation: Cal-or-ob-SESS-ed
Sentence: She's so calorbsessed that she won't even be in the same room with a piece of cake.
Etymology: calorie + obsessed
Calorobsessed
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: Cal-or-ob-SESS-ed
Sentence: She's so calorbsessed that she won't even be in the same room with a piece of cake.
Etymology: calorie + obsessed
Thinbitious
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: thin - bish - us
Sentence: Being thinbitious, Sally would not eat any desserts, foods with too many carbs or sodium. She did not want to retain water or risk adding any pounds to her already skeletal appearance.
Etymology: thin, ambitious
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COMMENTS:
Good word. - mrskellyscl, 2009-08-17: 08:01:00
anorexcellent! - jrogan, 2009-08-17: 08:58:00
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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
