Verboticism: Abstrain

'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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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)

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Calorage

Created by: galwaywegian

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Sentence: woman destroys donut shop in fit of calorage

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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

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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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Hyperyacking

Created by: Sed8ed

Pronunciation: hi-per-yah-king

Sentence: Mary Kate and Ashley often find themselves hyperyacking before each new audition to lose those pesky few pounds.

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Illogicalorie

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: ill-odj-ick-al-or-ee

Sentence: she knew she was being illogicalorie, but how could she be sure the 'carb-free' lunch was really 'carb-free'..it's not like she had some magic carbohydrate detector...oh god how she longed for a magic carbohydrate detector.....safer just to skip lunch

Etymology: illogical, calorie

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Abstrain

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: abstrān

Sentence: Barbara*s mother is the tour guide for any guilt trip. Barb grew up hearing **Watch what you eat, you don*t want to end up like Aunt Maggie**. The fact that her aunt was adopted and has nothing to do with her genetics doesn*t seem to matter. At every meal she will abstrain from eating anything she enjoys. She has taught herself to cook poorly so that there is little chance of temptation.

Etymology: abstain (restrain oneself from doing or enjoying something) + strain (force a part of one*s body or oneself to make a strenuous or unusually great effort)

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Exaltarvate

Created by: kankamuso

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Sentence: Every January Jane makes the resolution of dieting. She usually just exaltarvate till February 1st.

Etymology: Exalt + Starvation

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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:

mrskellyscl Good word. - mrskellyscl, 2009-08-17: 08:01:00

anorexcellent! - jrogan, 2009-08-17: 08:58:00

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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)

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