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crash diet
[ krash dahy-it ]
noun
- a severe limitation of food intake or food selection intended to help someone lose a lot of weight very quickly:
A crash diet that completely eliminates some food groups is likely to do more harm than good—and unlikely to result in realistic weight loss.
verb (used without object)
- to severely limit one’s food intake or food selection in order to lose a lot of weight very quickly:
It’s better to lose weight slowly and keep it off than to crash diet and gain it all back.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of crash diet1
Example Sentences
“Do some aerobic exercise; if you’re over 40, lift weights. Keep a food diary and cut out the processed junk. Slowly changing your eating habits is far more effective than any crash diet. You don’t have to deprive yourself if you learn to make trade-offs. And on and on.”
Presley went on a crash diet, aided by injections of urine from a pregnant woman, in which he was limited to 500 calories a day of dried food.
Falling into a crash diet was really easy.
Falling into a crash diet was really easy.
Her frame is smaller and straighter than mine, genetics I can't achieve through a crash diet.
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