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You look as if you had been dieting on Gamboge and Flake White.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various

When she had been dieting for about two months she had lost a couple of stones in weight.

From The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel by Winter, John Strange

He said he felt very bad indeed, and that he had been dieting for a long time.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)