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The Root of Joy is Gratefulness

Just Stop It?

Current Events

HeartBreak and Outrage

Three Obesity Types

I am Complete.

An Alternative Solution to the Body-Size Problem

Dieting is So Much Harder than it Looks.

Winner of the “5 Percent Lottery of Hell”

Appearances Can Be Decieving

Status Update - January 2018

I Know You Love Me - Now Let Me Die.

A Lesson, Not a Life Sentence.

You Are Allowed.

Exhaustion of Old Age

Go Take A Nap

Unrealistic Expectations - False Hope Syndrome

Dreams Do NOT Always Come True

Healthism: the modern religion

Shooting the Messenger Does Not Solve the Problem.

Why Is This Happening? - October 2017

Fat Cells are Forever

Is BMI the same as BMR?

A Plan

Status Update - September 2017

Summer Experiment 2017

You Don't Understand & I Can't Explain

Bloom and Let Bloom

Social Media Break

Just Like ME.

Our Weight is Regulated by Our Biological System

Calorie Restriction = Calorie Restriction.

Endurance

Current Diet Guidelines

Hold On

Is it a Plateau?

Dieting = Treatment of Obesity

Food is Not the Enemy

No One-Size-Fits-All Diet Journey

Map = Directions

What Do You Want?

Eat Small to BE Small

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

Binge = Response to Starvation

Happily Ever After & Neuroscience

Find a Way

Status Update - February 2017

Eating Toward Immortality

About the Scales

Balancing Values

Weight-Loss Alternative Facts

No

Fat vs. the Flavor

It Just Blooms.

Eating Behavior

Election Stress

Downright Inspiring.

Friend

Technical Help - Seeing - Words of Wisdom

Diet Experts & My Opinion

Dieting: The Alternative

I Understand

What is Normal?

Normal

The word: NO

On The Right Track

A Fork in the Road

Emotional Eating (2)

Just a Little Taste...

Permission Not Needed

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

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?

Intermittent Fasting & the Dangling Carrot - Diet Review

My Status - May 2016 Maintenance

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

Good Food, Bad Food

That Lost Weight? The Body Finds it.

A Justification (Scientific Explanation) for Every Diet.

Habits are the Solution, Not the Problem

Diet Books are Full of Lies

Emotional Eating

Eating & Emotions Need and Desire are Not All that Separate.

Eating is a Basic Human Need

Sometimes you just have to Make Your Own Road

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

Three Truths

Maybe Fat People are NOT Doing it Wrong

Weight Loss Goals

It works for YOU, but....

The Currency of Weight is Calories

Happy Valentine's Day 2016

Many Common Phrases Just Aren't True

Just One Bite

Dieting as Suffering

A Focus on Behavior

Intermittent Fasting via 5-Bites

Projections about the Rate of Weight-Loss

When Can Women Stop Trying to Look Perfect?

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

Setting Priorities...

Weight Watchers 1972 & 2016 - Diet Review

Food Does Not Have A Moral Value.

I'm Just Saying... (reminder to self)

Bingo !!!

It's a Shadow.

Experimenting with Subtraction

Review of the Three Principle Concept - Diet Review

Effortless Change

Fasting and Hunger

A Thought Pops Up

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

Let Me Tell You

Helpful Fasting Information

Just Move On

Keep Your CONCERN to Yourself

Plan vs. Reality

Ten Steps to Eating Perfectly

End of the Line

Dark Chocolate Is Not Good For You And Also Sucks

Why Are Fat People Hungry?

Does Fasting Make You Fat?

Distinctive Genetic Makeup

Simple Eating Boundaries

She Let Go

Your Thoughts and Feelings are Not About Anything

I'm Just Saying

10 Limiting Beliefs I'm Done With

Self-help and Mental Techniques

Cravings +

Goals & BubbleGum

Beliefs

The Inside-Out Revolution - Book Review

Things You Don't Owe Anybody

No BEFORE - No AFTER - Only DURING

The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss

Comparisons

Why Do Dieters Regain Their Lost Weight?

Biological Adaptations that Promote Weight Regain

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?

Body Image & Function: Acceptance vs. Complacency

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

Crap Overload

Quitting Smoking is NOT Comparable to Losing Weight.

Consequences

What Kind of Dog Are You?

Thin for the Holidays?

About Self-Control and the Marshmallow test

Is it REALLY up to me?

Embracing Imperfections as a Path to Success

Alice in Hungerland

Our Thoughts Create Our World.

Leaving Where You Are

The Dolly Diet - Diet Review

Freedom of Choice

I call it Dedication

Remember ... You Asked.

Long-Term Weight-Loss Almost Impossible

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

Diet Fix - Book Review

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

The Underpants Rule

Starving-To-Death is Unlikely

Delicate Dainty Meals

Calorie Denialism

More About the Starvation Mode Myth

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

Sharing the Reasons for Our Food Choices

No Rescue Needed

Energy In and Energy Out

Food Diary Benefits

The Habit Concept

Overruling the Body

It is STILL a Diet

Would it be Easier to be Thin?

Normalizing Obesity

Liars

Everyone isn't the Same

Real Food

The Hunger Games

MORE Healthy Eating

It's not ME, It's YOU

Honesty

What about all that Blah, Blah, Blah

Are you a Courteous, Healthy Eater?

Dressing to Please the Fat Bigots

You Can't Outrun Your Fork

A Calorie Deficit?

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

Conflicting Desires

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

Biggest Loser, an example of televised exercise fraud

Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance

About Salt

All Goals Are Not Reachable For All People

150 Pounds

What Does the Scale Say?

Weight Range Maintenance Plan Changes Again

Food as Fuel?

DietHobby, my Digital Scrapbook

The Myth of Spot Reducing

WHY Count Calories?

How Long Does Losing Weight Take?

Why Diets Fail - The Salt/Water/Waste Issue

Monday After Easter 2013

Today

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

Ditching Diets - Book Review

More on Intermittent Fasting

Healthy Eater?

Diets Long-Term

Does Eating Fruit and Veggies Lower Weight?

WheatBelly - Another Review

Appreciate What You Have

Unrealistic Expectations

Our Inner Dialogue

21 Days to Form a Habit?

We Are Going to Die.

How Often Should We Eat?

Effort Shock

Changing is Hard

Extra Food because I Exercised

Advertising Guidelines???

Fear of Fat

Why We Diet

Individual Rules

The Finish Line

Boycotting Advertisers

Another Good Day

The End of 2012

Keeping the Weight Off

Attitude About the Problem

Health Experts

What To Do?

Do Calories Matter?

Why is it so Hard to Keep Weight Off?

The Chubby Side of Normal

The Fat Trap

Set Point

Food History Timeline 1950-1980

Seduced by Food

Having a Restaurant Dessert?

Afraid To Do Things Wrong?

In Defense of Food - Book Review

Are GMO's Frankenfoods?

Social Pressure from the High Priests of Healthy Eating

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

Beginning the Holiday Season

Healthful Eating?

The Fast-5 Diet - Diet Review

More About Starvation Mode

A Sustainable Alternative

What if modern Theories about Food & Digestion are Wacked.

The 5 Bite Diet - Diet Review

The Cookie Diet - Diet Review

The Difference Between Causation and Correlation

A New Perspective

Outrunning the Old Overweight You

Perfect is the Enemy of Good

What is Junk Food?

Going to the Gym

Points Worth Considering

A New Diet

Perfect Health Diet - Book Review

Cutting Carbs? or Cutting Calories?

Walk a Mile in MY Shoes

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

In-Between-Meal Eating

You Can Do Hard Things

Binge Avoidance + Adaptive Thermogenesis

Realities of Weight-Loss Maintenance

Twisted & Inappropriate but Funny

Running and Exercise Abuse

Eat Less Move More?

Journaling & Keeping Records

Snack Yourself Slim - Book Review

Do Diets Work?

A Fresh Start?

Time, Patience, and Consistent Effort

Perfectionism

Making Choices

Is a Calorie just a Calorie?

Instinctive Resentment

Make Peace With What Is.

The Path to Thinness and Health

Back to Work

Buttons for VidCon 2012

More About Priorities

Personal Behavior Choices

Choosing a Positive Focus

Happy Birthday

Happy Mother's Day (2012)

Change in my Weight Range Maintenance Plan

Weight-Loss in a Nutshell

Making Lists

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

Vegetables and Artificial Sweeteners

Another New Beginning

All or Nothing

Personal Worth

Choosing Our Focus

New Stuff

Maintaining Enthusiasm

Doing Just As I Choose

DietHobby's One-Year Progress Report

Portion Size Awareness

Low-Carb Experimentation - Diet Review

I Want It All

The Same but Different

Power of Visualization

New and Unique Dieting Plans

Pleasing People

Vanilla Baked Apple

Expecting Perfection

Update on The No S Diet - Diet Review

The Fat Trap

Expectations

Indecision

French Toast on a Diet

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Accepting Responsibility

Holiday Season 2011

Intuitive Eating and the No S Diet

Do Diets Work?

Saturday After Thanksgiving

The Power of Momentum

Sunday Before Thanksgiving

Basic Diet Information from YouTube Grandma

Buddha Take

Computer Frustration

Willpower

Weight-loss and Maintenance is Hard Work

Hunger After Weight-Loss

Checking In

Suprising Oneself

Cranberry Breakfast Cookies

The Donkey

Does Life Get in the Way?

Goals

Scheduling

Peach Quick Bread

Burnout or Stress

Make sure it's YOUR goal.

I Think I Can

The Two Parts of Wisdom

Differences: Successful or Unsuccessful?

Pet Obesity?

We Deserve Love

Setting Goals

Frustration

Mutually Exclusive Goals

Choices and Responsibility

Simplicity

Snack Foods

Building a Habit takes Energy.

Making Decisions

Feeling Uninspired

The Endless Search for Why

No Point in Dieting?

Self-Acceptance

Weight Maintenance Challenges

Live and Learn?

Tips and Inspiration

A Change

Work, Love, Dance

At Vidcon

Going to VidCon

Courage

Dealing with Setbacks

Monday Morning

Three Myths

Think Differently

What One Believes

Awareness and Confidence

How Often Should We Eat?

What I CAN do

Habits

Greed

Our Ideal Self

Doing the Impossible

Ride Out The Wave

Behavior and Results-1

Planning-1

Judging Myself

Hope

Who We Can Be

Habits & Dieting

The Best Diet Plan

Our Expression

Being Myself

Changing Myself

Forgiveness

Love Yourself

Making Mistakes

Small Efforts - Setting Goals

Naturally Thin

Biggest Loser and Jillian Michaels - Diet Review

Behavior vs Results

Love Yourself

The Power to Change

Obession With Dieting

A New Normal

Goal Setting

Recipes When Tracking Food

Calorie Accountability

How Many Carbohydrates?

Becoming The Person You Want To Be

Berry Crepes

Not A Perfect World

Calorie Counting

Starvation Mode

More About the BMI

Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?

Food Addiction

Conflicting Rules

Meal Frequency - How Often Should I Eat?

Diet Books and Reviews

Weight Loss Surgery - 18 Years Ago

Cheeseburger Pie

Ever Have One Of Those Days?

Update on Low-Carb Experiment-of-One

Life Keeps Changing

Value Judgment

Chocolate Protein Cookie

Protein Cream Cupcake

Every Bite Counts

Some Things Take Time

An Endless Struggle

Normal, Overweight, or Obese?

Dedicated, not Obsessed

The Essence of Diets - Part Two

An Individual Fit

The No S Diet - Diet & Book Review

What is the Best Way To Diet?

Online Forums - A Useful Dieting Support Tool.

When Life Takes You In A Different Direction.

Recording Food Intake - Counting Calories and/or Carbs

What About the Scales?

Happy Valentine's Day

Imaginary Friends

Dieting is my Hobby.

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 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 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


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