on a diet

idiom

: eating less food or only particular kinds of food in order to lose weight

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The solution to cleaning up your daily diet is not to go back on a diet. Fred Sassani, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Aug. 2024 Your first thought is to go on a diet, but as quickly as that enters your mind the ghosts of a hundred diets past return ... along with all the frustration. Fred Sassani, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Aug. 2024 This five-generation family business sustainability raises Iberian pigs free-range in Spain on a diet of wild herbs and acorns. Kaila Yu, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024 Nautiluses feed on a diet of small fish, crustaceans and carrion. Scott Travers, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for on a diet 

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