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'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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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.)

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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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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

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Debilicake

loosepiece

Created by: loosepiece

Pronunciation: deb - ILL - i - cake

Sentence: Samanthas quest to achieve the perfect weight was proving to be debilicaking. Even the smallest fairy cake took on monstrous proportions by the end of diet day 2.

Etymology: debilitate - to weaken, or encumber cake - the foodsutff designed to make you weaken. But they are evil, EVIL i tell you!

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Anoxtremia

Created by: weyrlady

Pronunciation: anox-trem-i-a

Sentence: In the throes of anoxtremia, she refused even the butterless popcorn.

Etymology: A combination of "anorexia" and the phrase "in extremia".

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Dietiquette

whimsy

Created by: whimsy

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Her daily dietiquette proceedings consisted of raving at the dessert cake as she ate her salad.

Etymology: diet + etiquette

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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)

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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.

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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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Trinime

Created by: adbern

Pronunciation: Tri-nime

Sentence: ooohhwww I want, but it's trinime

Etymology: tricky nice meal

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