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The Root of Joy is Gratefulness

Set Point Explained

Just Stop It?

HeartBreak and Outrage

On Vulnerability

Three Obesity Types

What Goes Around Comes Around

A Returning Boomerang

Karma Defined

A Lovely Normal Old Lady

Help from Concerned Others can be very Unhelpful.

I am Complete.

An Alternative Solution to the Body-Size Problem

My Preferences Matter

Dieting is So Much Harder than it Looks.

Winner of the “5 Percent Lottery of Hell”

Status Update - January 2018

I Know You Love Me - Now Let Me Die.

You Are Allowed.

Comfortable in Your Own Skin

Experimenting with Food Portion Sizes

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

The Value of Food Photos

Stand Alone

Why Is This Happening? - October 2017

The Secret Life of Fat - Book Review

Fat Cells are Forever

Weight Range Mantenance Plan

Is BMI the same as BMR?

Parenting

Adapt, Reject, & Add

Status Update - September 2017

Summer Experiment 2017

You Don't Understand & I Can't Explain

Manipulating One's Body Size

Our Weight is Regulated by Our Biological System

Calorie Restriction = Calorie Restriction.

Endurance

My Own Experience, Observations, & Research indicate …

What Size Are You REALLY?

Current Diet Guidelines

Is it a Plateau?

Calorie Balance

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

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

Live Your Life

Learning New Behaviors

Binge = Response to Starvation

Happily Ever After & Neuroscience

Status Update - February 2017

Eating Toward Immortality

Portion Size & Measurements

About the Scales

Getting REAL

Balancing Values

Weight-Loss Alternative Facts

3 x 3

Think Again

Election Stress

Your Own Approval

Downright Inspiring.

Enough is Enough

Truly Comfortable

Technical Help - Seeing - Words of Wisdom

Diet Experts & My Opinion

Dieting: The Alternative

A Fork in the Road

Emotional Eating (2)

Train of Thought

Target Audience

Rule or Principle? - Internal vs. External Control

Permission Not Needed

The Finish Line

Status Update - July 2016

Break Time

Growing Old Gracefully

Resolve the Problem: Get a Larger Pet Door.

My Petite Meals

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

I Am On My Way

Intermittent Fasting & the Dangling Carrot - Diet Review

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

Common Sense

Good Food, Bad Food

That Lost Weight? The Body Finds it.

Habits are the Solution, Not the Problem

Every Other Day - Alternate Day Fasting

Another Fasting Experiment with ADF - JUDDD - EOD - QOD

Diet Books are Full of Lies

Emotional Eating

The Wrong Road

Success is Never Owned

Never Argue With Someone Who Believes Their Own Lies

Burning Bridges

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

The Currency of Weight is Calories

Many Common Phrases Just Aren't True

Walking Away

Stuck in the Middle

Inner Voice

The Noise of Others' Opinions

Dieting as Suffering

Intermittent Fasting via 5-Bites

Projections about the Rate of Weight-Loss

A Truth to Remember

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

Bingo !!!

It's a Shadow.

Experimenting with Subtraction

Body Weight Calculator - Timeline Projections

Eating Patterns - Morning vs Evening

Health and Morality

Review of the Three Principle Concept - Diet Review

Body of Truth - Book Review

Effortless Change

Veterans Day - 2015

Overweight means you live longer.

Fasting and Hunger

Cutting Down

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

The Collins Family Heritage

Let Me Tell You

Helpful Fasting Information

Anyone Who Eats Food Will Die.

Current Diet Experimentation

Brutal Diet Recommendations

BMI Classifications and Emotional Eating

Keep Your CONCERN to Yourself

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

Distinctive Genetic Makeup

Eating Boundaries - New Experiment

Simple Eating Boundaries

The Absolute Weight

Your Thoughts and Feelings are Not About Anything

10 Limiting Beliefs I'm Done With

Self-help and Mental Techniques

Cravings +

Beliefs

The Inside-Out Revolution - Book Review

Things You Don't Owe Anybody

The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss

Freedom and Calorie Counting

Change your DEFINITION - Eliminate your PROBLEM

The Underpants Rule - Revisited

Mind Your Own Business

Biological Adaptations that Promote Weight Regain

How to Fix Your Body's Trouble Areas

Hand Me Down Beliefs

Failed Diets and Current Maintenance Status

Natural Eating Perspective

Uh Oh

Why?

Self Esteem

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

Quitting Smoking is NOT Comparable to Losing Weight.

Misconceptions about Regain of Weight-Loss

How Would You Change Your Body?

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

Perspective

About Self-Control and the Marshmallow test

Created by Me

Is it REALLY up to me?

Embracing Imperfections as a Path to Success

Alice in Hungerland

Opinion vs. Fact

Skinnytown

Scrapbooking on DietHobby

Acceptance - AA Big Book, page 417

Use Another Road

The Dolly Diet - Diet Review

Time for a Reality Check

Freedom of Choice

Remember ... You Asked.

Long-Term Weight-Loss Almost Impossible

Cut the Rope

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 #04: Do not Eat Unless You are Hungry

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

The Underpants Rule

Can't Please Everybody

Starving-To-Death is Unlikely

Percentages of Seriously Obese women with above-normal BMIs

Personal Diet Experimentation

Delicate Dainty Meals

Calorie Denialism

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?

Sharing the Reasons for Our Food Choices

No Rescue Needed

Questions about Health & Weight

Energy In and Energy Out

Hate to Exercise?

Food Diary Benefits

No Goals?

Overruling the Body

It is STILL a Diet

Maintenance Status Report - January 2014

Would it be Easier to be Thin?

Normalizing Obesity

Liars

3500 Calories = 1 Lb ?

Try This Way

Choosing a Path

Everyone isn't the Same

Real Food

MORE Healthy Eating

It's not ME, It's YOU

Photoshop Surprise

Honesty

Not Everyone

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

Conflicting Desires

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

Status Update - August 2013

Learning Curve

Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance

Movie Trailer for DietHobby

About Salt

All Goals Are Not Reachable For All People

150 Pounds

What Does the Scale Say?

Weight Range Maintenance Plan Changes Again

Weight Management - A Rubber Band

Food as Fuel?

Choices Made

DietHobby, my Digital Scrapbook

Calories: Males vs. Females

The Wrong Path

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

Perfection Is The Lowest Standard We Can Set For Ourselves

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

Ditching Diets - Book Review

More on Intermittent Fasting

Calorie Dectective - Lying Food Labels

Healthy Eater?

Diets Long-Term

No Cure

WheatBelly - Another Review

Appreciate What You Have

Unrealistic Expectations

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

We Are Going to Die.

How Often Should We Eat?

Foods to Avoid

Emotional Aspects of Obesity

Effort Shock

Extra Food because I Exercised

Sugared-water's Fight Against Obesity

Why We Diet

Individual Rules

Boycotting Advertisers

The End of 2012

Keeping the Weight Off

Thoughtful Reduction

Attitude About the Problem

Health Experts

What To Do?

Calories - Paleo, Low-Carb

Do Calories Matter?

O Christmas Tree

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

The Chubby Side of Normal

The Fat Trap

Set Point

Keep On

History of the USDA Food Pyramid

Food History Timeline 1950-1980

Changes over Time

Becoming Successful

What IS a good Diet?

Seduced by Food

Having a Restaurant Dessert?

Slowing Down

Thanksgiving 2012

Following My Own Advice

In Memory of Boodie

Afraid To Do Things Wrong?

Serving Sizes

In Defense of Food - Book Review

Cultural Bias

Are GMO's Frankenfoods?

Social Pressure from the High Priests of Healthy Eating

Veteran's Day 2012

Accepting the Truth

The End of Overeating - Book Review

One can Entertain a Thought Without Accepting it.

Conflicting Views: Reviews of Diets and Books

The WillPower Instinct - Book Review

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

Media says: For Happiness, Eat More Fruits & Veggies

The Difference Between Causation and Correlation

Being Resilient

A New Perspective

Obesity and Choice

A Beautiful Woman

A Reflection on Dieting Style

Outrunning the Old Overweight You

Perfect is the Enemy of Good

What is Junk Food?

Points Worth Considering

A New Diet

What If?

Perfect Health Diet - Book Review

Cutting Carbs? or Cutting Calories?

Walk a Mile in MY Shoes

The Common Ground to Success

Diet Coke

Is There A Right Way?

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

In-Between-Meal Eating

Brain Over Binge - Book Review

Realities of Weight-Loss Maintenance

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.

Snack Yourself Slim - Book Review

Do Diets Work?

A Fresh Start?

Food Restrictions?

Perfectionism

Worlds Best Diet?

Is a Calorie just a Calorie?

The Point of DietHobby?

Perserverance and Real Integrity

Instinctive Resentment

Here in the Land of DietHobby

The Path to Thinness and Health

Back to Work

More About Priorities

Personal Behavior Choices

Choosing a Positive Focus

Status Update: YouTube is Still Broken

Encouragement & Support

Change in my Weight Range Maintenance Plan

Weight-Loss in a Nutshell

Spring Cleaning?

Content Review & Directory to DietHobby

Shrimp Avocado Salad

On The Right Track

Another New Beginning

Self-Talk

Roasted Chicken Thighs

Personal Worth

What is a Diet?

Bad Examples

Pork Chops with Onions

Me After Weight Loss

Maintaining Enthusiasm

DietHobby's One-Year Progress Report

Overcoming Perfectionism

Taking Responsibility

What Other People Do.

Low-Carb Experimentation - Diet Review

I Want It All

When you've Got to Go.

New and Unique Dieting Plans

Pleasing People

Introspection

Expecting Perfection

Standing up to your Friends

Update on The No S Diet - Diet Review

Vegetable Soup

The Fat Trap

Expectations

Indecision

Pineapple Coconut Cake

Christmas Traditions

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Holiday Season 2011

Meal in a Dish

Chicken Crepes

Sunday Before Thanksgiving

Working Hard

Grandma's Goulash

Willpower

Oopsie Rolls

Weight-loss and Maintenance is Hard Work

Positive Power

Hunger After Weight-Loss

Checking In

Cranberry Breakfast Cookies

The Donkey

Does Life Get in the Way?

Creamy Crab Salad

Burnout or Stress

Bingeing

I Think I Can

Differences: Successful or Unsuccessful?

Oatmeal Banana Nut Bars

Redefining Normal

Trust Yourself?

We Deserve Love

Taco Salad

Processed Foods Are Powerful

Frustration

Our Own Approval

Discipline or Self-Discipline

Crispy White Pizza

Slipping in Maintenance

Experiment of One

Simplicity

Chinese Chicken Salad

Normal

Snack Foods

Chocolate Cinnamon Bread Pudding

What Do you Say To Yourself?

Body Image

Weight Maintenance Challenges

The Ultimate Goal

Sorting Through Nutritional Information

Is Bingeing an Eating Disorder?

Stress

At Vidcon

Courage

Dealing with Setbacks

Establishing Habits

Regrets?

Maintenance As Compared to Weight-Loss

Monday Morning

Three Myths

Trust a Few

There's no Generic Plan

Awareness and Confidence

How Often Should We Eat?

What I CAN do

Anything is possible...but with qualifications

More About Attitude

Habits

Fall on your face

Someday

Be Who You Are

Our Ideal Self

Doing the Impossible

In Our Hands

Behavior and Results-1

Planning-1

Judging Myself

Intermitting Fasting Success

Gratitude Expressed

Guidelines for DietHobby

Lucky?

Off-Line Data Storage

The Best Diet Plan

Our Expression

Changing Myself

Gratitude

Stress Relief

Blame It On The Puritans

Inconveniences

Inspiration - Diet & Book Reviews

Forgiveness

Love Yourself

Small Efforts - Setting Goals

Loss

Serenity

Belief In Oneself

Biggest Loser and Jillian Michaels - Diet Review

Behavior vs Results

Love Yourself

Paying The Price

An Individual Call

Positive Thinking

A New Normal

Goal Setting

Healthy Brownies

Over The Long Haul

Goals Don't Come Easy.

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Nobody's Perfect

Calorie Accountability

39 Years Later

How Many Carbohydrates?

Mexican Lunch

Experimenting with Diets

Becoming The Person You Want To Be

Not A Perfect World

Six Peanut Butter and Sides

Starvation Mode

Mild Chili Beans

Sweet & Sour Pork Chops

Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?

Food Addiction

Hunger vs. Appetite

Peanut Butter Crunch Cookies

Conflicting Rules

Egg Bacon Veggie Scramble

Meal Frequency - How Often Should I Eat?

Science Can't Prove What is True.

Diet Books and Reviews

Weight Loss Surgery - 18 Years Ago

Recipe Categories

Cheeseburger Pie

Update on Low-Carb Experiment-of-One

Food and Money

Value Judgment

Eggwhite Pancakes

Oatmeal Protein Pancakes

Eggwhite Mock Pancakes

Every Bite Counts

My own Accountability

Determination

An Endless Struggle

Tracking Weight

Dedicated, not Obsessed

An Individual Fit

The No S Diet - Diet & Book Review

What is the Best Way To Diet?

Maintaining an Attitude of Gratitude

My First Cooking Videos

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

Welcome to my World

Happy Valentine's Day

An Experiment of One

Before Pictures

My Plan is to Say It Here

Taubes - Chapter 19 - Following Through

Taubes - Chapter 18 - Nature of a Healthy Diet

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 - az - Introduction: The Original Sin

Taubes - Author's Note


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