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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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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.)
Abstrain
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)
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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Deliciophobia
Created by: theshirkaholic
Pronunciation: delishafobia
Sentence: due to her constant crash dieting, abigail developed Deliciophobia, and one day had a panic attack whilst passing a patisserie.
Etymology:
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
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.
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.
Trinime
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: Tri-nime
Sentence: ooohhwww I want, but it's trinime
Etymology: tricky nice meal
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
Ultrarexia
Created by: DIKIDI
Pronunciation: UL-TRA-REX-E-A
Sentence: ULTRAREXIA HAS REDUCED HER TO A MERE SHADOW OF HERSELF.
Etymology:
