Translation for "go on a diet" to spanish

Go on a diet

• ponerse a dieta
• hacer dieta
• ir en una dieta

Translation examples

ponerse a dieta

The damned thing needed to go on a diet.
Esa maldita cosa necesitaba ponerse a dieta.

Was it true that Americans survived on mammoth portions of fast food, only to go on a diet in TV contests?
¿Era cierto que los americanos vivían a base de porciones enormes de comida basura para luego irse a concursos de la tele a ponerse a dieta?

It was because she had to be careful of her shillings for the meter which controlled the gas-fire in her room that she was unable, so she said, to go on a diet during the winter, since one had to keep warm as well as feed one's brain.
Precisamente por querer ahorrar unos chelines para el contador de gas de la calefacción, no podía, según ella, ponerse a dieta en invierno, justo cuando había que mantener la habitación caliente además de alimentar el cerebro.