dieting

dieting

1. present participle and gerund of diet

dieting (countable and uncountable, plural dietings)

1. The practice of following a diet.
   • 1850, John Epps, Homoeopathy and Its Principles Explained, page 133:

     […] they think that diet cures chronic diseases, placed under the homoeopathic physician's care, though, under their care, with all their dietings, these very diseases were so intractable.

• yo-yo dieting

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