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Just Stop It?
May God’s love be with you; there is nothing I can do.
Thankful
Every Day
Unattainable Goal
Hold On
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Living Life
Seemingly Hopeless Situation
So Many Lies
Contemplation
False Assumption
Tool to Measure Marketing Claims about Diets and Dieting
Personal Responsibility
Understanding Obesity
A Beautiful Soul
Walking the Tightrope
2018 - Year of the Dog
Another Diet Book based on Wishful Thinking - Book Review
Karma Called
What Goes Around Comes Around
A Returning Boomerang
Karma Defined
A Lovely Normal Old Lady
Valentine's Day 2018
Nevertheless ...
Help from Concerned Others can be very Unhelpful.
Connected
I am Complete.
Being Alone
It's a Door.
An Alternative Solution to the Body-Size Problem
I have had More than Enough
Possible, but I Don't Want To.
The Weigh In
Here is My Take on Naps.
Please Go On ...
Reflecting
Reassurance
Dwelling On It.
Living with Reality
My Preferences Matter
A Word to the Wise
Dieting is So Much Harder than it Looks.
Wishful Thinking: Erroneous Belief
Intuitive: Without Conscious Reasoning or Rational Thought
Babies Eat Intuitively
Comfort Foods
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.
Appearances Can Be Decieving
Sometimes the Truth is Painful.
Status Update - January 2018
The Desire for a Different Reality
Projection: a Blame-Shifting Tactic
Facing an Unwelcome Truth
New Year - 2018
I Know You Love Me - Now Let Me Die.
Alive and Here
It is What it is.
A Lesson, Not a Life Sentence.
The Scale is an Objective and Unbiased Weight-Truth Tool.
The Consequences of Excess
Merry Christmas 2017
We Never Grow Up.
Age 73, now going on 74
You Are Allowed.
Comfortable in Your Own Skin
Lead Me Home
Forgive Yourself
Amazing
Experimenting with Food Portion Sizes
Favorite Exercise
Exhaustion of Old Age
Enough
Wrong Room
Go Take A Nap
Nobody Likes Being Wrong.
Old Age
Inside My Comfort Zone
Comfort Zone: an Acceptable Lifestyle Choice
Good Things in Life
Continually Moving Forward
Time to Stop Fighting for a Spot
Unmet Expectations
Opinion and Thought
Thanksgiving 2017
The Illusion of Control
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
Tell Me Lies
The Dilemma of Diet and Maintenance
Dust in the Wind
Good Things
I Would Agree with you, but.....
What I Have Learned About Life.
Shooting the Messenger Does Not Solve the Problem.
For a Reason
Pets at Halloween
Expectations
Time to Eat
Tiny Dishes for Petite Meals
Create One
No Path
Your Opinion
The Value of Food Photos
Travel Conditions
It is Your Road.
Stand Alone
Why Is This Happening? - October 2017
The Secret Life of Fat - Book Review
Fat Cells are Forever
Nevertheless, She Persisted
Weight Range Mantenance Plan
How Diets Work
Body Acceptance Lesson 1
Is BMI the same as BMR?
You Can't Fix Stupid.
Happily Ever After
One Time Offer
Food Protection
Long-term Success in Maintenance
Parenting
Adapt, Reject, & Add
A Plan
How I Feel When Eating.
Positive Thinking
Status Update - September 2017
Summer Experiment 2017
You Don't Understand & I Can't Explain
Break Time Again
Sheet Caking
Story of My Life
Bloom and Let Bloom
Lovin' this Cat
Manipulating One's Body Size
Never Regret
Road Less Traveled
Walking Alone
Social Media Break
Taking a Rest
The Truth
Just Like ME.
Time Travel Dietition
Thinking About Food
In a Relationship
Best Thing About People
Time To Do Nothing
Life Is Not Fair
Patience Defined
Your Decisions
My Problems
Our Weight is Regulated by Our Biological System
Calorie Restriction = Calorie Restriction.
Endurance
My Own Experience, Observations, & Research indicate …
What Size Are You REALLY?
2017: Fourth of July
The Angry Chef - Book Review
The Taste of Patience
Reality Bites
Strong Enough
Current Diet Guidelines
Things You Want
Emotions & Behaviour
Present, Past, Future
Bad Days are Not a Sign of Weakness
Is it a Plateau?
Consistency is Not Perfection
Calorie Balance
Formula for Weight-Loss Success
Dieting = Treatment of Obesity
Forever Young
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
Before It Became a Reality
One Hundred Percent
Palm of the Hand
It's Okay
Diet and Maintenance = Years of Ongoing Hunger Games
Fasting is No Better For You Than Regular Calorie Restriction - new Scientific Study
An Acknowledgement of What IS.
Focused
Blessed
Live Your Life
Learning New Behaviors
Don't Touch My Food!
The Struggle is Real
Yes & No
Habit vs. Motivation
Goals
Dreams into Reality
Men in Power: Medical Experts Enjoying Their Practical Joke
It Keeps Coming Back
To Be Thankful
Positive & Negative
In Harmony
Happiness
The Person You Were Meant to Be
Your Destination
What Matters
Who We Can Be
Joy and Your Smile
Think Differently
The First Step
Things People Say
Emotions and Thoughts
Choosing What to See
Breaks & Maintenance
Competition
Destined or Determined?
Nothing Will Change
And the Secret is ...
Choosing a Direction
Unbecoming
Looking for a Way
Lifestyle Perfection
Not Giving Up
Being Yourself
Born to Stand Out
The Silence Within Yourself
Tranquility
Making Friends
Being Different
Turn the Page
The Most Important Things
With or Without
Finish Each Day
Virtue
Habits
Stress Relief
What is the Problem?
Letting Go
Your Expression
There is No Failure if you Learn by it.
The Future
Trying Times - Words of Wisdom
Trying Times
Wherever You Are
Seeing Things
Cats Try Again
True Love
Work, Love, Dance
Binge = Response to Starvation
What You Want Most
Someday
How to Make Me Happy
Tomorrow
Surprising Oneself
Happily Ever After & Neuroscience
Love
Luck
Find a Way
It's Okay.
Judgment or Love
My Choice
Status Update - February 2017
Eating Toward Immortality
Never Too Old
Trust Yourself - Words of Wisdom
Trust Yourself
Love All
Forgive
Inspiration
The Hard Road
Cheer Up
Be Right or Be Kind?
Freedom in Maintenance
I have Not Failed.
Portion Size & Measurements
Is It Working for YOU?
Forgiveness
Do Nothing
One True Friend
Authority
Opportunity - Words of Wisdom
Opportunity
Learning Experience
You are More
Cleverness
Photo Examples of Food Experiments
Food Deprivation
Inner Beauty
I wish I Knew Now
Dishonest Praise
About the Scales
Dressed in Overalls
Dressed in Overalls - Words of Wisdom
Getting REAL
Balancing Values
Weight-Loss Alternative Facts
What You Can't Live Without
Up To Me
Selfishness
One More Time - Words of Wisdom
One More Time
Time to Quit?
Hope = It Could Happen.
Dealing with a Donut.
Honest Diet Ads
Two Rules
No
Whatever It Takes
Fat vs. the Flavor
It Just Blooms.
Desire + Hunger
Eating Behavior
Your Body
Mindful Eating
Daily vs. Occasionally
Happy New Year 2017
Bye-Bye 2016
3 x 3
Moving Forward
Time for Tiny Meals
Overcoming Obstacles
Think Again
Myth: Food is the Solution
Communication Problem
Turn the Page or Close the Book?
Integrity
False Promises
Common Sense Missing
Election Stress
Worry
Breathing Space
I voted; I've shared my concerns; I've done all I can.
The Reverse of Positive Thinking
A Bit of Twisted Humor
Your Own Approval
Diet Rationalization
Character
Had Enough?
Awesome
Make American Great Again
In a Mood
After Careful Consideration
Staying Quiet
Standing Up to your Friends
What the World Needs
Our Thoughts
Our Thoughts - Words of Wisdom
Arguments
Downright Inspiring.
Blaming Others.
Enough is Enough
Somebody Might Be Looking
Sad but True
Truly Comfortable
What Goes Around ...
Better than What?
Not a Loser
Friend
Life
Chain of Destiny
Still Moving Forward - Words of Wisdom
Still Moving Forward
What is Your True Measure?
Weight-Loss Maintenance Truth: There is No Finish Line
The Present
Today is Not That Day.
Memory or Imagination
Technical Help - Seeing - Words of Wisdom
Seeing
Fear of Failure
This is my Life.
Diet Experts & My Opinion
Fear Nothing
It is Something to Do.
Gratitude Expressed
A New Ending
Not Required
Get Your Head Right
Confidence
I Have the Right
Dieting: The Alternative
Calories vs. Money
I Understand
What is Normal?
Normal
Our Tomorrows
The word: NO
Do It
Doing the Impossible
The World and Your Smile
Home Run
Here is the Secret
On The Right Track
Follow Your Heart
Planning
A Fork in the Road
Experience
Failing Once
Courage
One Bite at a Time
Real Integrity
Hope
Be Who You Are
You Are What You Think
I Lost It.
Low Expectations
Message to Myself
Making an Easy job Hard
Dreams & Dedication
Just a Little Taste...
A Person of Value
Food Truth
Self-Help Books
Patience Needed
The Time to Make Friends
Change Your Day
Another Chance
A Successful Outcome
Begin the Task
Good Friends
Kindness
Beauty
Train of Thought
Sacrifice
Contribution or Committment?
Thirty Years
Compromise
Get Out of the Water
Living in the Moment
Between Stimulus & Response
The Wish without The Drive
What People Think
Different Roads
A New Day
Target Audience
Selective Participation
Rule or Principle? - Internal vs. External Control
An Ottor Enjoying my Favorite Activity
Life is Good
Permission Not Needed
Who is Responsible for My Choices?
Wisdom & Age
Speaking My Truth
10+ Years of Successfully Maintaining a Large-Weight Loss has Taught Me:
Reality
Summer Diet Progress
The Truth Is:
Ongoing Status Report
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
Ever Used THIS Diet Plan?
I Love My Food - Selfie
Break Time
Summer Past = Cultivating Refinement v. Summer Present = Culture of Vulgarity
Growing Old Gracefully
Resolve the Problem: Get a Larger Pet Door.
Similar, but Different
My Petite Meals
Concerned About Your Fat-Loved-One's Health?
I Am On My Way
Find the Balance
Lily Tomlin Shines a Positive Light on Weight Gain
Ducks in a Row
Life's Truth
The Body is Not an Ornament; it's a Vehicle.
Be Authentic?
Meaningful Dialogue Ahead
Same Page
The Two Parts of Wisdom
A Long Wait.
Freedom from Binge Eating
Cats Know
How Hard?
Memorial Day 2016
Entitled: Believing Oneself to be Inherently Deserving of Privileges or Special Treatment
Persistent Efforts
Intermittent Fasting & the Dangling Carrot - Diet Review
My Status - May 2016 Maintenance
Psysiology = Biology Messing with Physics
My Name
Sometimes the Right Path is Not the Easiest One.
Turnabout is Fair Play
Making a Diet (or Way-of-Eating or Lifestyle Change) into a Religion
Reality is for People who Lack Imagination
The Solution
I Remember...
Consistent and Continual Focus
Dieting Word Game = Diet, Way-of-Eating, Lifestyle Change
Common Sense
Good Food, Bad Food
Favorite Way to Spend Time
That Lost Weight? The Body Finds it.
Today
Stop Telling Me WHAT and WHEN to Eat or Not Eat.
A Justification (Scientific Explanation) for Every Diet.
Calorie Limitations
Future Actions
Woking: to Stay on the Road and to Move Forward
Honest Medical Advice
Every Other Day - Alternate Day Fasting
Another Fasting Experiment with ADF - JUDDD - EOD - QOD
Diet Books are Full of Lies
What Road Do I Take?
The Hunger Games of Jennifer Lawrence
Four Stages of Dieting
Me & Intermittent Fasting
Waiting to Eat
A Contradiction in Terms
Following Instructions
Before & After Photos - Weight History
Sometimes you just have to Make Your Own Road
Dear Weight-loss Medical Experts:
Now fly.
Weight Loss Goals
The Currency of Weight is Calories
Underneath it All
Your Feelings
Many Common Phrases Just Aren't True
Just One Bite
Walking Away
Inner Voice
The Noise of Others' Opinions
The Next 24 Hours
Eat More Food for Weight-Loss?
Dieting as Suffering
A Focus on Behavior
Living the Moment
Intermittent Fasting via 5-Bites
Your Journey
Projections about the Rate of Weight-Loss
The Mountaintop
This Is Matt
A Truth to Remember
A New Perspective
Travelling On
Believe
Next Question....
The First Question is....
Day 1 Completed
Happy New Year 2016
Setting Priorities...
Birthday Song
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
Review of the Three Principle Concept - Diet Review
Overweight means you live longer.
Are You Hungry?
Let Me Tell You
Helpful Fasting Information
What's the Best Diet? Healthy Eating 101
Plate Size Portion Control
My Wish
Calorie Refund
Keep Your CONCERN to Yourself
End of the Line
Eat Small
Calories Per Serving
About Giving Advice to Fat People
Distinctive Genetic Makeup
Eating Boundaries - New Experiment
The Enemies of Truth
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Guide to Food Serving Size
Knowledge vs Feelings
Simple Eating Boundaries
After the Mood is Gone
Starbucks
A Potential Solution for Problem Eating?
Things You Don't Owe Anybody
The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss
Hand Guide to Portion Control
Change your DEFINITION - Eliminate your PROBLEM
Your Workout
The Underpants Rule - Revisited
Mind Your Own Business
Why Do Dieters Regain Their Lost Weight?
Biological Adaptations that Promote Weight Regain
Being Negative
How Do YOU Measure Oatmeal or Peanut Butter?
Cooking a REALLY Tiny Meal
Failed Diets and Current Maintenance Status
Hidden in Plain Sight
Recommendation for Tiny Meal Portions - very low calorie eating
Shrinking Fat Cells: What Happens When Body Fat is Burned?
Size Diversity
Money We Spend
Happy New Year 2015
New Years Eve 2014
Souls Not Bodies
Healthy Facts
Weight Gain
Still Hard After Nine Years of Maintenance
Cats Bullying People
It's in the Regrigerator
Why Dieting is Hard
When's my Break?
Skinnytown
Scrapbooking on DietHobby
You Are More
Somthing Amazing
Good News, Bad News.
Impossible, Risky, Pointless? ... Try it.
Time for a Reality Check
It's HARD
Freedom of Choice
Seeing and Doing
I call it Dedication
Why do people keep believing things that are obviously untrue?
Remember ... You Asked.
Looking at a Fat Person
Eating Disorders Revisited
Easily Lost
Long-Term Weight-Loss Almost Impossible
Perfect
A Side-effect of Change
Cut the Rope
One per Day
Memorial Day 2014
Retaining Food
The Underpants Rule
Behavior = Problem and Solution
Start Again
Can't Please Everybody
Happy Birthday, Daughter
Holding On - Letting Go
Your Perspective
There You Are
Weight-Loss RESULTS
Breathe
Reaching Your Destination
Starving-To-Death is Unlikely
Dreams can be Fragile
A Matter of Perspective
Percentages of Seriously Obese women with above-normal BMIs
Personal Diet Experimentation
Efforts vs. Results
Delicate Dainty Meals
Calorie Denialism
Can you Remember?
Discipline
Mirror Image
My cat, Layla
More About the Starvation Mode Myth
Weight Loss Expectations
The Secret of Change
Crazy Cat Lady Temptation
Anything Worth Doing
Is Overeating and Being Fat Ever Funny? ... Watch John Pinette
How Fast...How Much...Weight Lost After Gastric Bypass?
Persistence or Perfection?
Fighting the Urge - Book Review
Sharing the Reasons for Our Food Choices
You Look Good
The Issue of Healthy Eating
It Starts with a Dream
Where's the Elevator?
No Rescue Needed
Getting Along With People
The Power
Another Personal Truth:
Insanity
Status Update - March 2014
Questions about Health & Weight
Save Yourself
Energy In and Energy Out
Hate to Exercise?
Food Diary Benefits
No Goals?
That One Person
The Habit Concept
The Truth of Ageing
Being Human
Going for it
Overruling the Body
It is STILL a Diet
A Good Idea
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
Dressing to Please the Fat Bigots
You Can't Outrun Your Fork
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
All Goals Are Not Reachable For All People
What Does the Scale Say?
Weight Management - A Rubber Band
Calories: Males vs. Females
WHY Count Calories?
If it Involves Eating, It's a Diet
More on Intermittent Fasting
Unrealistic Expectations
Emotional Aspects of Obesity
Fear of Fat
Why We Diet
The End of 2012
Keeping the Weight Off
The Chubby Side of Normal
The Fat Trap - Follow-up
The Fat Trap
Set Point
Seduced by Food
The End of Overeating - Book Review
Beginning the Holiday Season
Healthful Eating?
The Simple Diet - Diet Review
More About Starvation Mode
The 5 Bite Diet - Diet Review
The Cookie Diet - Diet Review
Obesity and Choice
Outrunning the Old Overweight You
What is Junk Food?
Points Worth Considering
Walk a Mile in MY Shoes
Brain Over Binge - Book Review
Binge Avoidance + Adaptive Thermogenesis
Realities of Weight-Loss Maintenance
Running and Exercise Abuse
Eat Less Move More?
Status Update - Records: My past 8 years (August 2012)
A Fresh Start?
Is a Calorie just a Calorie?
Here in the Land of DietHobby
Sing Anyway
Bad Examples
Sweets for Breakfast?
When you've Got to Go.
New and Unique Dieting Plans
Weight-loss and Maintenance is Hard Work
Hunger After Weight-Loss
Consistency
Pet Obesity?
Mutually Exclusive Goals
Slipping in Maintenance
The Endless Search for Why
Body Image
Weight Maintenance Challenges
Kindness and Body Image
Is Bingeing an Eating Disorder?
A Common Problem
Three Myths
Intermitting Fasting Success
Habits & Dieting
Success starts with Failure
Naturally Thin
In Denial
Concepts of Intuitive Eating - Diet Review
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Calorie Accountability
How Many Carbohydrates?
Experimenting with Diets
Berry Crepes
Not A Perfect World
Food Storage - A Diet Essential
Mild Chili Beans
Sweet & Sour Pork Chops
Almond Chocolate-Chip Ricotta
Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?
Turkey Roll-ups
Food Addiction
Hunger vs. Appetite
More About Leftovers and Portion Control
Conflicting Rules
Everything and Nothing
Meal Frequency - How Often Should I Eat?
Science Can't Prove What is True.
Weight Loss Surgery - 18 Years Ago
Dealing with Leftovers
What About Leftovers?
Recipe Categories
Ever Have One Of Those Days?
Update on Low-Carb Experiment-of-One
Disordered Eating
Value Judgment
Making Progress
Oatmeal Microwave Muffin
Chocolate Protein Cookie
Protein Cream Cupcake
Eggwhite Custard
Eggwhite Pancakes
Oatmeal Protein Pancakes
Eggwhite Mock Pancakes
Every Bite Counts
Portion Control
Some Things Take Time
My own Accountability
Determination
Video Shoot
An Endless Struggle
Normal, Overweight, or Obese?
Dedicated, not Obsessed
The Essence of Diets - Part Two
The No S Diet - Diet & Book Review
My First Cooking Videos
When Life Takes You In A Different Direction.
You Can Choose to Think Differently.
Dieting as a 'means to an end'.
Before Pictures
Taubes - Chapter 19 - Following Through
Taubes - Chapter 16 - History on the Fattening Carbohydrate
Taubes - Chapter 12 - Why I Get Fat and You Don't (or Vice Versa)
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 - Chapter 01 - Why Were They Fat?
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