extreme dieting
Dangerous weight loss
Extreme dieting refers to aggressive, often unhealthy approaches to weight loss—severe calorie restriction, eliminating entire food groups, or following rigid protocols that push the body toward rapid change.
The phrase typically carries negative connotations, implying methods that prioritize quick results over sustainability or health: Her extreme dieting left her exhausted and irritable.
What counts as extreme shifts with context; a doctor might use it clinically, while diet culture debates where discipline ends and disorder begins.
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
- crashSudden violent impact
- restrictionLimit on action
- caloriesMeasures of food energy
food rules · calorie counting · deprivation · obsession · scale · goal weight · thin · before and after · hunger · stomach growling · control · purge · binge · cheat day · cleanse · detox · willpower · pounds
- risksrisk, gamble, bet, wager, chance it
- risky behaviorreckless driving, drunk driving, speeding, drug abuse, binge drinking
- eating disordersanorexia, bulimia, anorexia nervosa, binge eating, bulimia nervosa
extreme dietinglifestyle modification
Adjusting personal habits deliberately
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