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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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Hallucineat
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: hu-loos-uh-neet
Sentence: If she concentrated hard enough, Sheila could hallucineat without consuming a calorie or sacrificing flavor.
Etymology: hallucinate + eat
Fatanic
Created by: Carla
Pronunciation: fat-an-ic
Sentence: Myrtle's friends were concerned by her fatanicism. She spent longer reading the dietary information printed on food packaging than she did consuming the contents. Myrtle resisted their suggestions that her behaviour was fatanical - she preferred to describe it as a complumpsion.
Etymology: fat + fanatic (a person marked or motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm) / Wordplay on Satanic
Nuketritionist
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: newk trish yun ist
Sentence: her inner nuketritionist exploded every menu she dreamed up
Etymology: nutritionist, nuke
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)
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
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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
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
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
Slimbalance
Created by: chris
Pronunciation: slim-bal-ans
Sentence: Jade's life was so slimbalanced that she wouldn't even lick a stamp for fear of the calories it might contain.
Etymology: slim + imbalance
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COMMENTS:
If she's slimbalanced, doesn't theat make her a slimbacil? lol. - TrJoshB, 2007-01-24: 16:53:00
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