Abstemious

Definition: indulging only very moderately in something, especially food and drink

Sentence example: Buddhism preaches “the middle path”, a moderate way of living by distancing oneself from self-centredness, inculcating responsibility, and practicing abstemiousness to relieve most suffering in the world.

The Power Memory Strategy:

1. By association with abst-, i.e. abstain

2. It has the opposite meaning of hedonic (engaged in the pursuit of pleasure; sensually self-indulgent)