Definitions

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  • noun medicine The manipulation of insulin dosage by a diabetic person in order to effect loss of weight

Etymologies

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Blend of diabetes and bulimia.

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Examples

  • LOTHIAN: Jacqueline Walsh or J.J., had a dark secret, often called diabulimia, staying thin by skipping insulin shots to purge calories.

    CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2007 2007

  • Perhaps most mindboggling, girls with diabetes are purposely foregoing their life-saving insulin shots in order to lose weight, a practice dubbed "diabulimia".

    Trisha Gura: The Things They Eat for Love 2008

  • Then there are new hybrid conditions such as diabulimia, which Brown suffered from, in which people with Type 1 diabetes deliberately give themselves less insulin than they need so they can lose weight.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • Then there are new hybrid conditions such as diabulimia, which Brown suffered from, in which people with Type 1 diabetes deliberately give themselves less insulin than they need so they can lose weight.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • Then there are new hybrid conditions such as diabulimia, which Brown suffered from, in which people with Type 1 diabetes deliberately give themselves less insulin than they need so they can lose weight.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • I was initially looking up "diabulimia" for research/school purposes & after reading symptoms and stories I can clearly see that I have this eating disorder.

    Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes 2010

  • Desperation for thinness is a spectrum, with life-threatening diabulimia on the severe end and simple longings to be skinny at the opposite pole.

    Trisha Gura: Body Sculpting Secrets 2008

  • Arguably, diabulimia is the most dangerous "stealth" anti-caloric practice anyone can do.

    Trisha Gura: Body Sculpting Secrets 2008

  • Desperation for thinness is a spectrum, with life-threatening diabulimia on the severe end and simple longings to be skinny at the opposite pole.

    Trisha Gura: Body Sculpting Secrets 2008

  • LOTHIAN: Jacqueline Walsh, or J.J., had a dark secret, often called diabulimia.

    CNN Transcript Aug 16, 2007 2007

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