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The Root of Joy is Gratefulness

Set Point Explained

Adulthood

Just Stop It?

May God’s love be with you; there is nothing I can do.

Current Events

HeartBreak and Outrage

On Vulnerability

So Many Lies

False Assumption

Tool to Measure Marketing Claims about Diets and Dieting

Three Obesity Types

Another Diet Book based on Wishful Thinking - Book Review

Nevertheless ...

I am Complete.

Being Alone

An Alternative Solution to the Body-Size Problem

The Weigh In

Please Go On ...

Reflecting

Reassurance

Dwelling On It.

My Preferences Matter

Dieting is So Much Harder than it Looks.

Wishful Thinking: Erroneous Belief

Intuitive: Without Conscious Reasoning or Rational Thought

Babies Eat Intuitively

Winner of the “5 Percent Lottery of Hell”

Intuitive Eating and Weight Loss - Diet Review

Reality: a Fact, Event, or Situation as it Really Exists.

Status Update - January 2018

I Know You Love Me - Now Let Me Die.

A Lesson, Not a Life Sentence.

The Scale is an Objective and Unbiased Weight-Truth Tool.

The Consequences of Excess

Merry Christmas 2017

You Are Allowed.

Exhaustion of Old Age

Wrong Room

Unmet Expectations

Letting Go of Heavy Things

Unrealistic Expectations - False Hope Syndrome

Dreams Do NOT Always Come True

To Heal From the Past

Healthism: the modern religion

The Dilemma of Diet and Maintenance

Shooting the Messenger Does Not Solve the Problem.

For a Reason

Tiny Dishes for Petite Meals

Your Opinion

The Value of Food Photos

Why Is This Happening? - October 2017

The Secret Life of Fat - Book Review

Fat Cells are Forever

Weight Range Mantenance Plan

How Diets Work

Is BMI the same as BMR?

Food Protection

Status Update - September 2017

Summer Experiment 2017

You Don't Understand & I Can't Explain

Manipulating One's Body Size

Never Regret

Road Less Traveled

Thinking About Food

Our Weight is Regulated by Our Biological System

Calorie Restriction = Calorie Restriction.

Endurance

My Own Experience, Observations, & Research indicate …

What Size Are You REALLY?

The Angry Chef - Book Review

The Taste of Patience

Reality Bites

Current Diet Guidelines

Present, Past, Future

Is it a Plateau?

Calorie Balance

Formula for Weight-Loss Success

Dieting = Treatment of Obesity

Food is Not the Enemy

Am I Satisfied With My Appearance?

Status Update - June 2017

No One-Size-Fits-All Diet Journey

Map = Directions

Acceptance of the Past

What Do You Want?

Eat Small to BE Small

Palm of the Hand

Fasting is No Better For You Than Regular Calorie Restriction - new Scientific Study

An Acknowledgement of What IS.

And the Secret is ...

Habits

Trying Times - Words of Wisdom

Seeing Things

Binge = Response to Starvation

Happily Ever After & Neuroscience

Find a Way

Status Update - February 2017

Eating Toward Immortality

Trust Yourself - Words of Wisdom

The Hard Road

Freedom in Maintenance

I have Not Failed.

Portion Size & Measurements

Forgiveness

Opportunity - Words of Wisdom

Photo Examples of Food Experiments

About the Scales

Dressed in Overalls - Words of Wisdom

Balancing Values

Weight-Loss Alternative Facts

One More Time - Words of Wisdom

Hope = It Could Happen.

Whatever It Takes

Fat vs. the Flavor

Daily vs. Occasionally

Happy New Year 2017

Bye-Bye 2016

3 x 3

Overcoming Obstacles

Election Stress

Worry

Character

Awesome

Make American Great Again

Our Thoughts - Words of Wisdom

Downright Inspiring.

Enough is Enough

Still Moving Forward - Words of Wisdom

What is Your True Measure?

Technical Help - Seeing - Words of Wisdom

Diet Experts & My Opinion

Dieting: The Alternative

Calories vs. Money

Do It

A Fork in the Road

Courage

Emotional Eating (2)

Making an Easy job Hard

Just a Little Taste...

Begin the Task

Beauty

Train of Thought

Thirty Years

Compromise

Target Audience

Rule or Principle? - Internal vs. External Control

Permission Not Needed

10+ Years of Successfully Maintaining a Large-Weight Loss has Taught Me:

The Finish Line

Status Update - July 2016

Charts of my Maintenance of Weight-Loss - Years Four through Ten+

Charts of My Weight-Loss & First Three Years of Maintenance

Summer Past = Cultivating Refinement v. Summer Present = Culture of Vulgarity

Growing Old Gracefully

My Petite Meals

Concerned About Your Fat-Loved-One's Health?

Be Authentic?

Freedom from Binge Eating

The Hard Road

Intermittent Fasting & the Dangling Carrot - Diet Review

My Status - May 2016 Maintenance

My Name

Sometimes the Right Path is Not the Easiest One.

Making a Diet (or Way-of-Eating or Lifestyle Change) into a Religion

Reality is for People who Lack Imagination

Increased Activity

Consistent and Continual Focus

Good Food, Bad Food

Before & After Food

That Lost Weight? The Body Finds it.

Future Actions

Worried about Starvation Mode?

Only One Per Day

My Basic Long-Term Weight-Maintenance Strategy

Big Box of Patience

Habits are the Solution, Not the Problem

Butter Bob Sharing his Opinions

Every Other Day - Alternate Day Fasting

Another Fasting Experiment with ADF - JUDDD - EOD - QOD

Diet Books are Full of Lies

Emotional Eating

Body Chemicals Signal the Brain which Suppresses the Urge to Eat.

Eating Tasty Food Tickles the Brain vs Pleasure Centers.

Eating causes the Brain to Generate Feelings of Satisfaction, Comfort, and Well-being.

All Pleasurable Feelings Come from the SAME Brain Areas.

Love is an Emotion which Includes Feelings of Attraction and Affection.

Human DESIRE is the Fundamental Motivation of ALL Human Action.

Food Tastes Good

We Need Food

Food is Important to Most People.

Happy Easter - 2016

Food is More than Fuel

Eating is a Basic Human Need

Devour: to eat hungrily or very quickly

Kate Hudson Eating Food.

Two Handed, Mr. Bean

The Hunger Games of Jennifer Lawrence

Four Stages of Dieting

The Wrong Road

Me & Intermittent Fasting

Waiting to Eat

There Is Only Now.

A Contradiction in Terms

Following Instructions

Different Pages of the Same Story

Success is Never Owned

Me and You Both, Jennifer

Never Argue With Someone Who Believes Their Own Lies

Before & After Photos - Weight History

Burning Bridges

Secret Messages

Now fly.

If Ophra Can't Do it, Can it Be Done?

Maybe Fat People are NOT Doing it Wrong

Weight Loss Goals

It works for YOU, but....

Poor Victoria

The Currency of Weight is Calories

Happy Valentine's Day 2016

Many Common Phrases Just Aren't True

Why I Don't Wear Makeup

Walking Away

Inner Voice

ME Talking About ME

Eat More Food for Weight-Loss?

Dieting as Suffering

Living the Moment

Intermittent Fasting via 5-Bites

Projections about the Rate of Weight-Loss

This Is Matt

A Truth to Remember

Waiting for the Time to Eat

Travelling On

One Bite at a Time

2 Forks?

While Fasting

When Can Women Stop Trying to Look Perfect?

Why I Struggle for Weight-Loss and Maintenance of Weight-Loss

My Current Weight-Loss-in-Maintenance Diet

90 days of Intermittent Fasting

How I Spent the Holidays

Happy New Year 2016

Weight Watchers 1972 & 2016 - Diet Review

Goals

Merry Christmas

Christmas Eve 2015

Change of Plans

First Instinct

Birthday Song

Food Does Not Have A Moral Value.

Bingo !!!

YOU are Responsible for your Life.

It's a Shadow.

Experimenting with Subtraction

In The Moment

Body Weight Calculator - Timeline Projections

Time for a Break

Happy Thanksgiving 2015

Eating Patterns - Morning vs Evening

How Big Pharma Lies to Us

Status Quo

In Tune with your Body???

Health and Morality

Do Low-Calorie Sweetners Equal Weight-Gain?

Review of the Three Principle Concept - Diet Review

Chocolate

Body of Truth - Book Review

Effortless Change

When to Eat

Overweight means you live longer.

Moderation

Fasting and Hunger

Time Change

The Problem with Poodle Science

My Fantasy

My Favorite Day

Presence

The Edge

Cutting Down

You Get What You Get (and don't throw a fit)

Are You Hungry?

The Collins Family Heritage

Let Me Tell You

Helpful Fasting Information

What's the Best Diet? Healthy Eating 101

Plate Size Portion Control

Anyone Who Eats Food Will Die.

My Wish

Current Diet Experimentation

Calorie Refund

Be Kind

How Much?

How It Feels.

Then and Now

BMI Classifications and Emotional Eating

Keep Your CONCERN to Yourself

Plan vs. Reality

Ten Steps to Eating Perfectly

End of the Line

That One Person

Eat Small

Love

Calories Per Serving

Dark Chocolate Is Not Good For You And Also Sucks

What Others Think of You Doesn't Matter.

Why Are Fat People Hungry?

Does Fasting Make You Fat?

Myths vs. Facts

Can Never Get Enough

About Giving Advice to Fat People

Addiction as defined from a 3 Principles viewpoint.

Distinctive Genetic Makeup

Perfect vs. Good

Eating Boundaries - New Experiment

The Results are Not So Good

F*ck That - a guided meditation

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Crying with a Cookie in Your Hand

Ongoing Dilemma

Guide to Food Serving Size

Simple Eating Boundaries

My Choices

She Let Go

Believing Our Thoughts

After the Mood is Gone

The Absolute Weight

Learning

Your Thoughts and Feelings are Not About Anything

Trashing Outside-in Weight Standards

A New Way of Thinking

A longer life (maybe), but...

I'm Just Saying

10 Limiting Beliefs I'm Done With

The Ultimate Self-Help Book

Accountability

Self-help and Mental Techniques

DietHobby & The Three Principles

Cravings +

Scale Alternative

Goals & BubbleGum

Beliefs

Illusions

The Inside-Out Revolution - Book Review

Addicted to What...?

A Defining Moment - George Pransky

Relationships

A New Paradigm for Mental Health - Cathy Casey

Digital Scrapbooking Issue

Hope for Transcending Addiction - Mark Howard & Christine Heath

What Are the Three Principles?

Navigation Issues - 3 Principles (plus More)

A Matter of Perspective

A Potential Solution for Problem Eating?

Things You Don't Owe Anybody

No BEFORE - No AFTER - Only DURING

How to Stop Binge Eating

The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss

A Quiet Mind

Ideas, Old and New

Easter 2015

Freedom and Calorie Counting

Clean Eating

The Helium Diet

Flexibility

Hand Guide to Portion Control

Change your DEFINITION - Eliminate your PROBLEM

What Dieting/Weight-Loss/Fitness Lies Do YOU Believe?

In the Moment

The Underpants Rule - Revisited

Mind Your Own Business

Why Do Dieters Regain Their Lost Weight?

Biological Adaptations that Promote Weight Regain

How to Fix Your Body's Trouble Areas

Giving Diets the Finger

How Do YOU Measure Oatmeal or Peanut Butter?

Cooking a REALLY Tiny Meal

DIET AD BINGO

Hand Me Down Beliefs

I'm Not Going to Miss You

Correct My Mind?

Failed Diets and Current Maintenance Status

Natural Eating Perspective

Recommendation for Tiny Meal Portions - very low calorie eating

Eating Kale Doesn't Make You a Better Person.

Why?

No Facts or Evidence

Life's Story

Body Image & Function: Acceptance vs. Complacency

Shrinking Fat Cells: What Happens When Body Fat is Burned?

Crap Overload

Money We Spend

Happy New Year 2015

New Years Eve 2014

Souls Not Bodies

I Say Nay Nay - John Pinette (2004)

Weight Gain

Still Hard After Nine Years of Maintenance

Cats Bullying People

And the Truth Is ...

The First Step

Quitting Smoking is NOT Comparable to Losing Weight.

Misconceptions about Regain of Weight-Loss

Consequences

Are you a Master or a Beginner?

Dieter's Song

How Would You Change Your Body?

Opportunist

The Price Paid

INFO about disappearance of Facebook's 1400 member 5-bite Group

What Kind of Dog Are You?

We Aren't ALL the Same

My Opinion

Perspective

Thin for the Holidays?

About Self-Control and the Marshmallow test

Created by Me

Impossibly Perfect, the Tyranny of Ideal Beauty

Is it REALLY up to me?

Embracing Imperfections as a Path to Success

Loving Myself

Alice in Hungerland

A Breathing, Living, Human Body

Don't Mention It

Beauty is Subjective

Progress has an Enemy

Good Advice

Our Thoughts Create Our World.

Scrapbooking on DietHobby

You Are More

Somthing Amazing

Acceptance - AA Big Book, page 417

The Past

Older Ladies Are Divine

Sometimes - you have to push yourself.

Impossible, Risky, Pointless? ... Try it.

Use Another Road

The Dolly Diet - Diet Review

Time for a Reality Check

It's HARD

Freedom of Choice

Why do people keep believing things that are obviously untrue?

Remember ... You Asked.

Eating Disorders Revisited

Easily Lost

Long-Term Weight-Loss Almost Impossible

One per Day

Illusion or Fantasy vs. Reality

The Diet Fix, Why Diets Fail, How to Make Yours Work - Book Review

Diet Fix - Book Review

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #01: People Lack Willpower

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #02: Scales Measure Health

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #03: Dieting Must be Difficult

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #04: Do not Eat Unless You are Hungry

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #05: Forks Can Be OutRun

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #06: Cheat Days Are Wise

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #08: There is One Right Diet

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #09: Muscle Gain Outweighs Loss

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #10: Save Your Calories for Dinner

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #11: There are Bottles Full of Weight-Loss

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #12: The Last 10 lbs Are the Hardest

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #13: Our Weights Should Be Ideal

The Underpants Rule

Can't Please Everybody

Weight-Loss RESULTS

Present, Past, Future

Starving-To-Death is Unlikely

Dreams can be Fragile

Percentages of Seriously Obese women with above-normal BMIs

Personal Diet Experimentation

Efforts vs. Results

Happy Easter 2014

Delicate Dainty Meals

Calorie Denialism

Discipline

More About the Starvation Mode Myth

Weight Loss Expectations

Is Overeating and Being Fat Ever Funny? ... Watch John Pinette

How Fast...How Much...Weight Lost After Gastric Bypass?

Fighting the Urge - Book Review

Sharing the Reasons for Our Food Choices

The Issue of Healthy Eating

No Rescue Needed

The Power

The Truth Is:

Insanity

Status Update - March 2014

Questions about Health & Weight

Save Yourself

Energy In and Energy Out

Hate to Exercise?

Food Diary Benefits

No Goals?

The Habit Concept

Overruling the Body

It is STILL a Diet

Maintenance Status Report - January 2014

Health-conscious?

Would it be Easier to be Thin?

Happy New Year 2014

Normalizing Obesity

Liars

Free Speech

3500 Calories = 1 Lb ?

Fitness through Exercise

Wisdom from a Lifetime of Experiences

Choosing a Path

Expert Advice

Appealing Advice

Happy Thanksgiving 2013

Fluffy

Making Plans

Everyone isn't the Same

Real Food

The Hunger Games

MORE Healthy Eating

Healthy Eating

It's not ME, It's YOU

Happy Halloween - 2013

Photoshop Surprise

Honesty

Walking Alone

Wisdom of Age

Taking Up Space

Outdoor Activity

Imagine

Stop It

Not Everyone

Be Yourself

What about all that Blah, Blah, Blah

Health as an Obligation

Are you a Courteous, Healthy Eater?

Dressing to Please the Fat Bigots

You Can't Outrun Your Fork

A Calorie Deficit?

Exercising Patience

Designed to show a False Result? - Research Project of Gary Taubes / NUSI

Conflicting Desires

Is it the Diet, or the Person, Who Fails?

The Men Who Made Us Fat (BBC series - All Episodes 1, 2, & 3)

The Men Who Made Us Thin (BBC series - All Episodes 1, 2, 3 & 4)

It's Not Really About the Fat - Health At Any Size

Biggest Loser, an example of televised exercise fraud

When Your Past Calls.

Status Update - August 2013

Footprints

Born on the Finish Line

Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance

Commitment

Summer of 68

About Salt

All Goals Are Not Reachable For All People

Mother's Day 2013

150 Pounds

What Does the Scale Say?

Weight Range Maintenance Plan Changes Again

Weight Management - A Rubber Band

Food as Fuel?

DietHobby, my Digital Scrapbook

Calories: Males vs. Females

First, Sow the Seeds

Crabby Old Woman

The Myth of Spot Reducing

WHY Count Calories?

How Long Does Losing Weight Take?

Why Diets Fail - The Salt/Water/Waste Issue

Release the Stress

Monday After Easter 2013

Interpretating Peptides, Food Intake, and Body Weight

Perfection Is The Lowest Standard We Can Set For Ourselves

Change my LIFE?

I'll Be Happy WHEN...

What To DO?

If it Involves Eating, It's a Diet

More About Calories

Building New Habits

Breaking Bad Habits

Stop When You're Full? - Intutive Eating 3 - Diet Review

Eat When You're Hungry? - Intuitive Eating 2 - Diet Review

Does the Body Tell Us WHAT food to eat? - Intutive Eating 1 - Diet Review

How I'm Supposed to Feel

The Science of Addictive Foods

Giving Advice

Blame Butter?

Expectations

Ditching Diets - Book Review

More on Intermittent Fasting

Calorie Dectective - Lying Food Labels

Healthy Eater?

Vegetables - One chip at a time?

Diets Long-Term

What's REALLY the Problem?

No Cure

Valentine's Day 2013

Does Eating Fruit and Veggies Lower Weight?

WheatBelly - Another Review

Appreciate What You Have

Unrealistic Expectations

Research Study regarding Obesity Myths

Our Inner Dialogue

21 Days to Form a Habit?

Obesity Myth: "Slow Weight Loss is Easier to Keep Off"

SuperBowl Sunday

We Are Going to Die.

What is Hunger?

How Often Should We Eat?

Diets Work

Three Diet Myths

Foods to Avoid

Emotional Aspects of Obesity

Effort Shock

Eat Healthy or Lose Weight?

Changing is Hard

Extra Food because I Exercised

Grounded in Reality

Give it a try

Kindness

Sugared-water's Fight Against Obesity

Advertising Guidelines???

Using Reason

Fear of Fat

Weight Loss Promises

Why We Diet

Individual Rules

Boycotting Advertisers

Another Good Day

The End of 2012

Keeping the Weight Off

Thoughtful Reduction

Attitude About the Problem

Health Experts

Thoughts About Hunger

Christmas 2012

Christmas Eve 2012

What To Do?

Calories - Paleo, Low-Carb

Do Calories Matter?

Why is it so Hard to Keep Weight Off?

Two Experts at Stanford University - Dec 2012

O Christmas Tree

One-Size-Fits-All ... Not!

The Chubby Side of Normal

The Fat Trap - Follow-up

The Fat Trap

Set Point

History of the USDA Food Pyramid

Food History Timeline 1950-1980

Changes over Time

What IS a good Diet?

Seduced by Food

Having a Restaurant Dessert?

Afraid To Do Things Wrong?

In Defense of Food - Book Review

Cultural Bias

Are GMO's Frankenfoods?

Social Pressure from the High Priests of Healthy Eating

Accepting the Truth

The End of Overeating - Book Review

One can Entertain a Thought Without Accepting it.

Secrets of the Sugar Industry

Conflicting Views: Reviews of Diets and Books

The Truth

The WillPower Instinct - Book Review

Sometimes Hunger is a Lie

No S Diet vs. Intuitive Eating - Diet Review

Some Halloween Facts

Beginning the Holiday Season

Musical Lesson

Healthful Eating?

The Simple Diet - Diet Review

Working Out - No Pain, No Gain?

The Fast-5 Diet - Diet Review

More About Starvation Mode

Another Faulty Inference of Causation

A Sustainable Alternative

Do YOU Like Change? - Ask Grandma - Episode Fifty-one

What if modern Theories about Food & Digestion are Wacked.

Hold On Tight To Your Dream

The 5 Bite Diet - Diet Review

The Cookie Diet - Diet Review

Media says: For Happiness, Eat More Fruits & Veggies

The Difference Between Causation and Correlation

A New Perspective

Diet Cheat or Food Choice?

Obesity and Choice

A Reflection on Dieting Style

Outrunning the Old Overweight You

Seduction by Marketing Interests

Perfect is the Enemy of Good

What is Junk Food?

Going to the Gym

Points Worth Considering

A New Diet

What If?

Had Enough?

Perfect Health Diet - Book Review

Cutting Carbs? or Cutting Calories?

Walk a Mile in MY Shoes

Want to Know Your BMI?

Science Has Failed

The Common Ground to Success

Diet Coke

Experiment of One - Current

Is There A Right Way?

Wheat Belly - Book Review

Thinking isn't the same as Doing

Alternate Day Eating - Johnson's Up Day Down Day Diet (JUDDD) - Diet Review

Insanity?

In-Between-Meal Eating

You Can Do Hard Things

In The Future

Brain Over Binge - Book Review

Binge Avoidance + Adaptive Thermogenesis

Realities of Weight-Loss Maintenance

Twisted & Inappropriate but Funny

Running and Exercise Abuse

Eat Less Move More?

Status Update - Records: My past 8 years (August 2012)

Journaling & Keeping Records

I'm not a Guru

A little bit of nothing.

How Little It Takes

Snack Yourself Slim - Book Review

Do Diets Work?

A Fresh Start?

Food Restrictions?

Time, Patience, and Consistent Effort

Perfectionism

Making Choices

Worlds Best Diet?

Is a Calorie just a Calorie?

It has a Price.

Grandma's Missing Videos - Ask Grandma - Episode Fifty

The Point of DietHobby?

Perserverance and Real Integrity

Instinctive Resentment

Make Peace With What Is.

Here in the Land of DietHobby

The Path to Thinness and Health

Wisdom Takes Effort

Back to Work

Buttons for VidCon 2012

Buttons not Cookies - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-nine

Searching For Perfection

Patience Required - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-eight

More About Priorities

Grandma's Back !!! - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-seven

Videos are Here

Be Patient

Leave the Rest

Past Portion Control

DietHobby YouTube Channel now Operational.

Cats Save YouTube

A Message from Grandma (May 2012)

Message from YouTube Grandma

Personal Behavior Choices

Choosing a Positive Focus

Status Update: YouTube is Still Broken

DietHobby Hacked

Being More Confident - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-six

Encouragement & Support

Happy Birthday

New DietHobby Features

Moving Forward

A Suggestion

Perserverance

The Little Things

Commitment

Happy Mother's Day (2012)

Values

The Present is Here

Is Food The Problem?

Establish Your Priorities

Goals Don't Come Easy

Giving Up on Being Perfect

Change in my Weight Range Maintenance Plan

When I Feel Empty

What is a Good Guest?

R U a Good Guest? - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-five

Loving Myself

Weight-Loss in a Nutshell

What Really Counts

It's a Good Day

No Clue

Out-of-Sorts

Mini Chocolate Chip Cheesecakes Recipe

Mini Chocolate Chip Cheesecakes

I wish I knew NOW

Making Lists

Want to be Happy?

Want 2 B Happy? - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-four

Spring Cleaning?

Water is Essential (2)

Water is Essential (1)

Content Review & Directory to DietHobby

DietHobby is now Back to Normal

You're Not Ugly - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-three

HOW RUDE!!! - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-two

What Love Feels Like - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-one

Time to End Relationship? - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty

Dealing with Rage - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-nine

Managing Depression - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-eight

Overcoming Shyness - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-seven

Does She Like Me? - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-six

Does He Like Me? - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-five

What Love Means - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-four

What is Courage? - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-three

Secrets of Communication - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-two

Haters, Trolls & Bullies - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-one

Friends Feel Frustrating - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty

Accepting Changes on YouTube - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-nine

Letting The Past Go - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-eight

YouTube Grandma Christmas (2011) - Ask Grandma

The Gift of Kindness - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-seven

Friendly Flirting - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-six

Losing a Loved One - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-five

When A Friend Lies - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-four

How to Make Friends - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-three

Justin Bieber & Michael Jackson - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-two

Getting Along With Parents - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-one

Teddy Bear Tea Party - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty

How to Attract a Boy - Ask Grandma - Episode Nineteen

How to Get a Girl - Ask Grandma - Episode Eighteen

Moving On After A Breakup - Ask Grandma - Episode Seventeen

School Bullies & Mending Relationships - Ask Grandma - Episode Sixteen

Crushes & Relationship Drama - Ask Grandma - Episode Fifteen

My Mother Doesn't Love Me - Ask Grandma - Episode Fourteen

I Like My Best Friend's Boyfriend - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirteen

You Are Stronger Than You Think - Ask Grandma - Episode Twelve

Kpop Music or Rock 'n Roll - Ask Grandma - Episode Eleven

How to get Subscribers on YouTube - Ask Grandma - Episode Ten

How Much is Enough? - Ask Grandma - Episode Nine

Cosmic Panda is A Bear Too - Ask Grandma - Episode Eight

Superstars Like Cookies - Ask Grandma - Episode Seven

Want to Know A Secret? - Ask Grandma - Episode Six

Cookies for You - Ask Grandma - Episode Five

Lifetime Changes - Ask Grandma - Episode Four

How Do I Tell My Mother? - Ask Grandma - Episode Three

Love Yourself First - Ask Grandma - Episode Two

Adding New Section to DietHobby

Here to Answer Your Questions - Ask Grandma - Episode One

Happy Easter 2012

On The Right Track

Vegetables and Artificial Sweeteners

Highlighting - Extra Calories

Extra Calories

Another New Beginning

Sing Anyway

Saying Nothing

Answering - What is a Calorie?

What is a Calorle?

Study of Literature on Weight-Loss Maintenance

I Don't Feel Like It.

Bodyweight Percentages

Be Right or Be Kind?

All or Nothing

Roasted Chicken Thighs Recipe

Roasted Chicken Thighs

Managing Depression

Power of Habits

Thinking about Habits

What is Food?

Personal Worth

What is a Diet?

Cheesecake Sugar-Free Recipe

Cheesecake Sugar-Free

Mindful Eating

Mindless Eating

What is a Diet?

Bad Examples

A Person of Value

Pork Chops with Onions

Choosing Our Focus

New Stuff

Maintaining Enthusiasm

Doing Just As I Choose

Choosing My Attitude

DietHobby's One-Year Progress Report

Overcoming Perfectionism

Taking Responsibility

Cinnamon Bread Pudding Recipe

Cinnamon Bread Pudding

What Love Means

Sweets for Breakfast?

Portion Size Awareness

What Other People Do.

What I'm Reading Today

Tuna Noodle Casserole Recipe

Tuna Noodle Casserole

Low-Carb Experimentation - Diet Review

I Want It All

Sharing the Secret

The Same but Different

Fish in Foil

Power of Visualization

When you've Got to Go.

New and Unique Dieting Plans

Pleasing People

Oatmeal Banana Muffin

Vanilla Baked Apple Recipe

Vanilla Baked Apple

Expecting Perfection

Update on The No S Diet - Diet Review

Vegetable Soup

The Fat Trap

Expectations

Indecision

French Toast on a Diet

Diet French Toast

Happy New Year 2012

Pineapple Coconut Cake

Christmas Traditions

Holiday Moderation

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Accepting Responsibility

Holiday Season 2011

Intuitive Eating and the No S Diet

Meal in a Dish

And So It Goes....

Pot Roast Recipe

Pot Roast

Do Diets Work?

The Skinny One

To Be Different

Chicken Crepes Recipe

Chicken Crepes

Saturday After Thanksgiving

The Power of Momentum

Sunday Before Thanksgiving

Working Hard

Basic Diet Information from YouTube Grandma

Buddha Take

Computer Frustration

Grandma's Goulash

A Powerful Combination

Willpower

What About Dieting?

Tomorrow and Today

Oopsie Rolls

Unwecome Truths

Weight-loss and Maintenance is Hard Work

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Apple Tuna Salad

Happy Halloween

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The Donkey

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It's Fall

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Oatmeal Banana Nut Bars

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We Deserve Love

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Taco Salad

Processed Foods Are Powerful

What is Hope?

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Labor Day Weekend

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Chinese Chicken Salad

Normal

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Chocolate Cinnamon Bread Pudding

It feels hard because it IS hard.

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No Point in Dieting?

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Vinaigerette Dressing

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The Ultimate Goal

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Work, Love, Dance

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A Common Problem

Maintenance As Compared to Weight-Loss

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Three Myths

Diet Cookies for YouTube

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What One Believes

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How Often Should We Eat?

What I CAN do

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Anything is possible...but with qualifications

More About Attitude

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Fall on your face

Someday

Be Who You Are

Do it

Friends

Better than what?

Our Ideal Self

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Behavior and Results-1

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Planning-1

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Beauty is Subjective

Hope

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Blame It On The Puritans

It Isn't Easy

Tortilla Cheese Dog

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Behavior vs Results

Six Yogurt and Sides

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Love Yourself

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The Power to Change

An Individual Call

Trust

Chicken Waldorf Salad

Concepts of Intuitive Eating - Diet Review

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Words Are Labels For Concepts

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Healthy Brownies

Chili Cheese Cubes

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Over The Long Haul

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Recipes When Tracking Food

Goals Don't Come Easy.

Storing Cakes

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Nobody's Perfect

Swiss Steak or Roast - Crockpot

Calorie Accountability

39 Years Later

Tuna Salad Wrap or Sandwich

Tuna Salad

Veggie Tray

How Many Carbohydrates?

Mexican Lunch

Experimenting with Diets

Eggs Aren't Only For Easter

Eggs Benedict For One

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Poached Egg & Buttered Toast

Becoming The Person You Want To Be

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Not A Perfect World

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Asparagus with Hollandaise Sauce

Six Peanut Butter and Sides

Food Storage - A Diet Essential

Storing Pie

Starvation Mode

Mild Chili Beans

Habit vs. Willpower

Sweet & Sour Pork Chops

More About the BMI

Almond Chocolate-Chip Ricotta

Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?

Turkey Roll-ups

Food Addiction

Six Cereal, Bars, and Nuts

Hunger vs. Appetite

Storing Cookies

Peanut Butter Crunch Cookies

Giving Up Is Not An Option

More About Leftovers and Portion Control

Tuna Melt Sandwich

Conflicting Rules

Peanut Butter Toast

Everything and Nothing

Egg Bacon Veggie Scramble

Meal Frequency - How Often Should I Eat?

Six Cheese and Sides

Science Can't Prove What is True.

Diet Books and Reviews

Weight Loss Surgery - 18 Years Ago

How Many Calories Can I Eat?

Dealing with Leftovers

What About Leftovers?

Recipe Categories

Cheeseburger Pie

Ever Have One Of Those Days?

Update on Low-Carb Experiment-of-One

Life Keeps Changing

Disordered Eating

Food and Money

Value Judgment

Making Progress

Oatmeal Microwave Muffin

Chocolate Protein Cookie

Protein Cream Cupcake

Eggwhite Custard

Eggwhite Pancakes

Oatmeal Protein Pancakes

Eggwhite Mock Pancakes

Imperfect Is Good Enough - This Is Me

Every Bite Counts

Portion Control

Some Things Take Time

My own Accountability

Determination

Video Shoot

An Endless Struggle

Normal, Overweight, or Obese?

So You Want To Lose Weight?

Tracking Weight

Dedicated, not Obsessed

The Essence of Diets - Part Two

The Essence of Diets - Part One

An Individual Fit

The No S Diet - Diet & Book Review

What is the Best Way To Diet?

Online Forums - A Useful Dieting Support Tool.

Maintaining an Attitude of Gratitude

When Life Takes You In A Different Direction.

You Can Choose to Think Differently.

Recording Food Intake - Counting Calories and/or Carbs

A Peek Into My Life

Setting a Goal Weight Range

The Scale and the Big Picture

What About the Scales?

A Thousand Words AND Pictures

A DietHobby Benefit - Book and Diet Reviews

Welcome to my World

Happy Valentine's Day

Dieting as a 'means to an end'.

Imaginary Friends

Online Friends

An Experiment of One

Before Pictures

My Plan is to Say It Here

Dieting is my Hobby.

Taubes - z - Appendix - Example of a Low-Carbohydrate diet

Taubes - Chapter 19 - Following Through

Taubes - Chapter 18 - Nature of a Healthy Diet

Taubes - Chapter 17 - Meat or Plants?

Taubes - Chapter 16 - History on the Fattening Carbohydrate

Taubes - Chapter 15 - Why Diets Succeed and Fail

Taubes - Chapter 14 - Injustice Collecting

Taubes - Chapter 13 - What We Can Do

Taubes - Chapter 12 - Why I Get Fat and You Don't (or Vice Versa)

Taubes - Chapter 11 - Primer on Regulation of Fat

Taubes - Chapter 10 - History of Lipophilia

Taubes - Chapter 09 - Laws of Adiposity

Taubes - Chapter 08 - Head Cases

Taubes - Chapter 07 - Thermodynamics for Dummies, Part 2

Taubes - Chapter 06 - Thermodynamics for Dummies, Part 1

Taubes - Chapter 05 - Why Me? Why There? Why Then?

Taubes - Chapter 04 - Twenty Calories a Day

Taubes - Chapter 03 - Elusive Benefits of Exercise

Taubes - Chapter 02 - Elusive Benefits of Undereating

Taubes - Chapter 01 - Why Were They Fat?

Taubes - az - Introduction: The Original Sin

Taubes - Author's Note


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