Exercising moderation and self-restraint in appetites and behavior

• temperate

  1. Of or occurring in the Temperate Zone:
  2. Characterized by moderate temperatures, weather, or climate; neither hot nor cold.
  3. Moderate in degree or quality; restrained:

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• continent

  1. One of the principal land masses of the earth, usually regarded as including Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.
  2. The mainland of Europe. Used with the.

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• abstemious

  1. Eating and drinking in moderation.
  2. Characterized by abstinence or moderation:

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Having or indicating an awareness of things as they really are

• unromantic

  1. Not romantic

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• tough-minded

  1. Facing facts and difficulties with strength and determination; realistic and resolute.

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• realistic

  1. Tending to or expressing an awareness of things as they really are:
  2. Of or relating to the representation of objects, actions, or social conditions as they actually are:

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• prosaic

  1. Consisting or characteristic of prose.
  2. Matter-of-fact; straightforward.
  3. Lacking in imagination and spirit; dull.

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• pragmatical

  1. pragmatic; practical; businesslike
  2. (law) Relating to affairs of state.
  3. Arbuthnot

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• pragmatic

  1. Dealing or concerned with facts or actual occurrences; practical.
  2. Of or relating to pragmatism.
  3. Of or relating to pragmatics.

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• practical

  1. Of, relating to, governed by, or acquired through practice or action, rather than theory or speculation:
  2. Manifested in or involving practice:
  3. Capable of or suitable to being used or put into effect; useful:

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• objective

  1. Existing independent of or external to the mind; actual or real:
  2. Based on observable phenomena; empirical:
  3. Uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices:

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• matter-of-fact

  1. Relating or adhering to facts; literal.
  2. Straightforward or unemotional:

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• hardheaded

  1. Stubborn; willful.
  2. Realistic; pragmatic.

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• hard

  1. Resistant to pressure; not readily penetrated; firm or solid:
  2. Well protected from an attack, as by aerial bombardment:
  3. Requiring great effort or endurance:

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• down-to-earth

  1. Realistic; sensible.
  2. Not pretentious or affected; straightforward.
  3. Not overly ornate; simple in style.

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Full of or marked by dignity and seriousness

• staid

  1. Characterized by sedateness and often a strait-laced sense of propriety; serious and conventional.
  2. Fixed; permanent:

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• somber

  1. Dark; gloomy:
  2. Dull or dark in color:
  3. Melancholy; dismal:

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• solemn

  1. Serious and dignified:
  2. Showing or behaving with dignified restraint or earnestness:
  3. Performed with full ceremony:

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• serious

  1. Careful in thought, full of concern, or restrained and dignified in manner; somber or grave:
  2. Requiring or carried out with careful thought or concern:
  3. Intended for sophisticated people.

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• sedate

  1. Serenely deliberate, composed, and dignified in character or manner.

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• grave

  1. An excavation for the interment of a corpse.
  2. A place of burial.
  3. Death or extinction:

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• earnest

  1. Showing or expressing sincerity or seriousness:

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Solemn

• grave

  1. An excavation for the interment of a corpse.
  2. A place of burial.
  3. Death or extinction:

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• earnest

  1. Showing or expressing sincerity or seriousness:

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• restrained

  1. Kept under control; subdued or moderate:
  2. Characterized by self-restraint; reserved:
  3. Prevented from moving; held down or secured:

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Temperate

• pacific

  1. Tending to diminish or put an end to conflict; appeasing.
  2. Of a peaceful nature; tranquil.

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• calm

  1. Nearly or completely motionless; undisturbed:
  2. Not excited or agitated; composed:
  3. An absence or cessation of motion; stillness.

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• abstemious

  1. Eating and drinking in moderation.
  2. Characterized by abstinence or moderation:

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Not drunk

• on-the-wagon

  1. (idiomatic) Abstaining from drinking any alcoholic drink, usually in the sense of having given it up (as opposed to never having partaken).
  2. By extension, maintaining a program of self-improvement or abstinence from some other undesirable habit.

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• dry

  1. Free from liquid or moisture:
  2. Having or characterized by little or no rain:
  3. Marked by the absence of natural or normal moisture:

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• steady

  1. Firm in position or place; fixed.
  2. Direct and unfaltering; sure.
  3. Free or almost free from change, variation, or fluctuation; uniform:

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• non-indulgent

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• ascetic

  1. A person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion.
  2. Relating to, characteristic of, or leading a life of self-discipline and self-denial, especially for spiritual improvement.

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• calm

  1. Nearly or completely motionless; undisturbed:
  2. Not excited or agitated; composed:
  3. An absence or cessation of motion; stillness.

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• self-possessed

  1. in full control of one's faculties, and having a firm belief in one's abilities; confident, assured and poised

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• abstaining

  1. Present participle of abstain.

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• clear-headed

  1. Alternative spelling of clearheaded.

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• sedate

  1. Serenely deliberate, composed, and dignified in character or manner.

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• serious

  1. Careful in thought, full of concern, or restrained and dignified in manner; somber or grave:
  2. Requiring or carried out with careful thought or concern:
  3. Intended for sophisticated people.

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• abstinent

  1. Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]

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