dieting
noun1
The practice of following a diet.
- They found out that dieting can harm you if you do it wrong. She advised them to talk with a doctor before doing anything too extreme.
- […] 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.1850, John Epps, Homoeopathy and Its Principles Explained, page 133:
- Derived terms
- antidieting, nondieting, undieting, yo-yo dieting