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The Root of Joy is Gratefulness

Set Point Explained

HeartBreak and Outrage

Three Obesity Types

An Alternative Solution to the Body-Size Problem

Dieting is So Much Harder than it Looks.

Winner of the “5 Percent Lottery of Hell”

Intuitive Eating and Weight Loss - Diet Review

Status Update - January 2018

Unrealistic Expectations - False Hope Syndrome

Dreams Do NOT Always Come True

Healthism: the modern religion

Shooting the Messenger Does Not Solve the Problem.

Tiny Dishes for Petite Meals

Why Is This Happening? - October 2017

The Secret Life of Fat - Book Review

Fat Cells are Forever

Is BMI the same as BMR?

Status Update - September 2017

You Don't Understand & I Can't Explain

Manipulating One's Body Size

Thinking About Food

Our Weight is Regulated by Our Biological System

Calorie Restriction = Calorie Restriction.

What Size Are You REALLY?

The Angry Chef - Book Review

Is it a Plateau?

Calorie Balance

Dieting = Treatment of Obesity

Status Update - June 2017

What Do You Want?

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

Turn the Page

The Most Important Things

Your Expression

Binge = Response to Starvation

What You Want Most

Happily Ever After & Neuroscience

Status Update - February 2017

Eating Toward Immortality

Freedom in Maintenance

Portion Size & Measurements

Photo Examples of Food Experiments

Balancing Values

Weight-Loss Alternative Facts

3 x 3

Election Stress

Downright Inspiring.

Enough is Enough

Diet Experts & My Opinion

Dieting: The Alternative

A Fork in the Road

Emotional Eating (2)

Rule or Principle? - Internal vs. External Control

Growing Old Gracefully

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

Be Authentic?

Intermittent Fasting & the Dangling Carrot - Diet Review

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

Good Food, Bad Food

That Lost Weight? The Body Finds it.

Diet Books are Full of Lies

Emotional Eating

Food is Important to Most People.

Burning Bridges

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

Maybe Fat People are NOT Doing it Wrong

Weight Loss Goals

The Currency of Weight is Calories

Many Common Phrases Just Aren't True

Inner Voice

Eat More Food for Weight-Loss?

Dieting as Suffering

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

Weight Watchers 1972 & 2016 - Diet Review

Food Does Not Have A Moral Value.

Bingo !!!

It's a Shadow.

Experimenting with Subtraction

Body Weight Calculator - Timeline Projections

Eating Patterns - Morning vs Evening

Review of the Three Principle Concept - Diet Review

Body of Truth - Book Review

Effortless Change

Overweight means you live longer.

Fasting and Hunger

Let Me Tell You

Helpful Fasting Information

Anyone Who Eats Food Will Die.

Current Diet Experimentation

BMI Classifications and Emotional Eating

End of the Line

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?

About Giving Advice to Fat People

Crying with a Cookie in Your Hand

Self-help and Mental Techniques

DietHobby & The Three Principles

Cravings +

Goals & BubbleGum

The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss

Freedom and Calorie Counting

Change your DEFINITION - Eliminate your PROBLEM

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.

No Facts or Evidence

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

Crap Overload

Weight Gain

Misconceptions about Regain of Weight-Loss

Perspective

About Self-Control and the Marshmallow test

Impossibly Perfect, the Tyranny of Ideal Beauty

Is it REALLY up to me?

Embracing Imperfections as a Path to Success

Alice in Hungerland

Beauty is Subjective

Opinion vs. Fact

Acceptance - AA Big Book, page 417

The Dolly Diet - Diet Review

Time for a Reality Check

Freedom of Choice

Remember ... You Asked.

Eating Disorders Revisited

Long-Term Weight-Loss Almost Impossible

The Insane-Diet Rainbow

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

Diet Fix - Book Review

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

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

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #07: Some Foods Must be Forbidden

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

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

Weight-Loss RESULTS

Starving-To-Death is Unlikely

Percentages of Seriously Obese women with above-normal BMIs

Personal Diet Experimentation

Efforts vs. Results

Calorie Denialism

More About the Starvation Mode Myth

Weight Loss Expectations

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

The Issue of Healthy Eating

Energy In and Energy Out

No Goals?

The Habit Concept

Overruling the Body

Maintenance Status Report - January 2014

Would it be Easier to be Thin?

Normalizing Obesity

Liars

3500 Calories = 1 Lb ?

Choosing a Path

Real Food

MORE Healthy Eating

It's not ME, It's YOU

Health as an Obligation

Are you a Courteous, Healthy Eater?

Dressing to Please the Fat Bigots

You Can't Outrun Your Fork

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

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

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

Biggest Loser, an example of televised exercise fraud

Footprints

Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance

Commitment

Movie Trailer for DietHobby

About Salt

All Goals Are Not Reachable For All People

150 Pounds

What Does the Scale Say?

Weight Management - A Rubber Band

Food as Fuel?

DietHobby, my Digital Scrapbook

Calories: Males vs. Females

The Myth of Spot Reducing

WHY Count Calories?

How Long Does Losing Weight Take?

Why Diets Fail - The Salt/Water/Waste Issue

Interpretating Peptides, Food Intake, and Body Weight

Change my LIFE?

What To DO?

If it Involves Eating, It's a Diet

More About Calories

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

Blame Butter?

More on Intermittent Fasting

Calorie Dectective - Lying Food Labels

Healthy Eater?

Diets Long-Term

What's REALLY the Problem?

Does Eating Fruit and Veggies Lower Weight?

WheatBelly - Another Review

Appreciate What You Have

Unrealistic Expectations

21 Days to Form a Habit?

We Are Going to Die.

Three Diet Myths

Foods to Avoid

Emotional Aspects of Obesity

Effort Shock

Changing is Hard

Extra Food because I Exercised

Fear of Fat

Why We Diet

The End of 2012

Keeping the Weight Off

Thoughts About Hunger

Calories - Paleo, Low-Carb

Why is it so Hard to Keep Weight Off?

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

The Chubby Side of Normal

The Fat Trap

Marketing Healthy

Set Point

History of the USDA Food Pyramid

Food History Timeline 1950-1980

Seduced by Food

Afraid To Do Things Wrong?

In Defense of Food - Book Review

Are GMO's Frankenfoods?

Social Pressure from the High Priests of Healthy Eating

Accepting the Truth

The End of Overeating - Book Review

Conflicting Views: Reviews of Diets and Books

Sometimes Hunger is a Lie

Healthful Eating?

The Simple Diet - Diet Review

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

Obesity and Choice

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

Perfect Health Diet - Book Review

Cutting Carbs? or Cutting Calories?

Walk a Mile in MY Shoes

Science Has Failed

Diet Coke

Experiment of One - Current

Is There A Right Way?

Wheat Belly - Book Review

In-Between-Meal Eating

Binge Avoidance + Adaptive Thermogenesis

Realities of Weight-Loss Maintenance

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

Is a Calorie just a Calorie?

The Point of DietHobby?

Instinctive Resentment

Make Peace With What Is.

Here in the Land of DietHobby

More About Priorities

Be Patient

Past Portion Control

Choosing a Positive Focus

Change in my Weight Range Maintenance Plan

Weight-Loss in a Nutshell

No Clue

Adding New Section to DietHobby

Vegetables and Artificial Sweeteners

Study of Literature on Weight-Loss Maintenance

Managing Depression

Thinking about Habits

Mindless Eating

Bad Examples

Choosing Our Focus

Maintaining Enthusiasm

Sweets for Breakfast?

Portion Size Awareness

Low-Carb Experimentation - Diet Review

The Same but Different

Introspection

Expecting Perfection

Update on The No S Diet - Diet Review

The Fat Trap

Expectations

Holiday Moderation

Holiday Season 2011

Intuitive Eating and the No S Diet

Do Diets Work?

The Power of Momentum

Basic Diet Information from YouTube Grandma

Buddha Take

Willpower

What About Dieting?

Tomorrow and Today

Weight-loss and Maintenance is Hard Work

Busy Times

Consistency

What is Portion Control?

Burnout or Stress

Redefining Normal

We Deserve Love

Discipline or Self-Discipline

Mutually Exclusive Goals

Forget Your Diet?

Choices and Responsibility

Simplicity

Snack Foods

Binge Eating

Building a Habit takes Energy.

Making Decisions

Feeling Uninspired

What's Important?

No Point in Dieting?

Body Image

Weight Maintenance Challenges

The Ultimate Goal

Be Kind to Yourself

Is Bingeing an Eating Disorder?

A Change

Dealing with Setbacks

Establishing Habits

Regrets?

Three Myths

Diet Cookies for YouTube

There's no Generic Plan

What I CAN do

Behavior Choices

Anything is possible...but with qualifications

Dieting a 24/7 commitment

Habits

Greed

Be Who You Are

Behavior and Results-1

Planning-1

Barefoot Running

Intermitting Fasting Success

Living in the Moment

Hope

Habits & Dieting

Off-Line Data Storage

Changing Myself

Beauty

Blame It On The Puritans

Love Yourself

Making Mistakes

Serenity

Naturally Thin

Behavior vs Results

The Power to Change

An Individual Call

Concepts of Intuitive Eating - Diet Review

Goal Setting

Sugar Binges

Over The Long Haul

Recipes When Tracking Food

Goals Don't Come Easy.

Nobody's Perfect

Calorie Accountability

Experimenting with Diets

Not A Perfect World

Calorie Counting

Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?

Food Addiction

Hunger vs. Appetite

Conflicting Rules

Meal Frequency - How Often Should I Eat?

Science Can't Prove What is True.

Diet Books and Reviews

Weight Loss Surgery - 18 Years Ago

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

Portion Control

My own Accountability

Determination

An Endless Struggle

Tracking Weight

The Essence of Diets - Part Two

Online Forums - A Useful Dieting Support Tool.

Maintaining an Attitude of Gratitude

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

A Thousand Words AND Pictures

Welcome to my World

Happy Valentine's Day

Dieting as a 'means to an end'.

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 13 - What We Can Do

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 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 - Author's Note


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