Definition
a diet: an eating plan to limit your food and drink (often in order to lose weight)
diet Coke a fizzy drink (soda) which contains no sugar
to be on a diet: to limit your food and drink (often in order to lose weight)
- "Brian : In fact, he's recently switched to the macrobiotic diet."
- "What diet's he on now?"
- "The American diet often consists of large portions of food high in saturated fat."
- "My wife is on a diet, and since she's on a diet, I'm losing a pound every day."
- "Philip : I am indeed lucky to have met a woman who shares my love of feminist literature, my strict vegetarian diet and above all, who shares my belief in a monogamous marriage built on celibacy."
- "I'm on a diet."
- "Well I was trying "The Tissue Diet" for a while."
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