dieting
noun
- eating food in a regulated fashion to decrease, maintain, or increase body weight
Wiktionary
noun
- 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.”
verb
- present participle and gerund of diet