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Two weeks before the meet the lifter turns abstemious, weighing every portion and skipping the team dinners entirely.
Fitness
The monks kept an abstemious table, one bowl of barley at midday and nothing at all after the evening bell.
History
The Stoic letters recommend an abstemious life, arguing that a plain meal leaves the mind clearer than a long banquet.
Philosophy
The chef is famously abstemious at home, eating a bowl of plain rice and greens after cooking twelve-course dinners for others.
Cooking
The narrator's abstemious uncle takes one slice of bread at supper and regards a second helping as a moral failing.
Literature
The veteran center turned abstemious after thirty, cutting late dinners and sweets, and added four seasons to his career.
Basketball
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