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n.

A person who monitors another person's weight-loss program.

Most people believe that the reason they fail to achieve their health and fitness goals is a lack of willpower. What we need, we tell ourselves, is a personal trainer — then we would definitely go to the gym and give up smoking and drinking. If, like many Hollywood stars, we had a "diet cop" on hand to patrol the fridge and cook for us, then of course we would eat healthily and lose weight for good.

— Mandy Francis, "Can you kick it?," Sunday Times (London, England), August 11, 2002

Heavyweight tenor Luciano Pavarotti is treading lighter on the scales these days. The 136kg-plus star has shed about 36kg on his own "imprisonment diet" which included hiring three "diet cops" to make sure he did not sneak to the fridge during the night.

— Shane Burke, The Advertiser, June 17, 1993

Schulz, whose weight had peaked at 513 pounds, accepted O'Donnell's offer to become county budget director here, even though it meant a $10,000 pay cut. He has dropped almost 150 pounds since then — "Thanks to my wife (JoAnn), the diet cop," Schulz said.

— Rogers Worthington, "Heavyweight spars in Milwaukee," Chicago Tribune, March 6, 1988