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Power of Control

The Root of Joy is Gratefulness

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

Corrupt Political Power

HeartBreak and Outrage

Tool to Measure Marketing Claims about Diets and Dieting

Personal Responsibility

Three Obesity Types

I am Complete.

An Alternative Solution to the Body-Size Problem

My Preferences Matter

A Word to the Wise

Dieting is So Much Harder than it Looks.

Intuitive: Without Conscious Reasoning or Rational Thought

Winner of the “5 Percent Lottery of Hell”

Intuitive Eating and Weight Loss - Diet Review

I Know You Love Me - Now Let Me Die.

A Lesson, Not a Life Sentence.

You Are Allowed.

Wrong Room

Letting Go of Heavy Things

Unrealistic Expectations - False Hope Syndrome

Dreams Do NOT Always Come True

Healthism: the modern religion

Shooting the Messenger Does Not Solve the Problem.

For a Reason

Tiny Dishes for Petite Meals

The Value of Food Photos

Why Is This Happening? - October 2017

Fat Cells are Forever

Body Acceptance Lesson 1

Is BMI the same as BMR?

Status Update - September 2017

Summer Experiment 2017

You Don't Understand & I Can't Explain

Manipulating One's Body Size

Road Less Traveled

Your Decisions

Our Weight is Regulated by Our Biological System

Calorie Restriction = Calorie Restriction.

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

The Person You Were Meant to Be

And the Secret is ...

Binge = Response to Starvation

Happily Ever After & Neuroscience

Find a Way

Status Update - February 2017

Eating Toward Immortality

Freedom in Maintenance

I have Not Failed.

Photo Examples of Food Experiments

About the Scales

Balancing Values

Weight-Loss Alternative Facts

3 x 3

Election Stress

Downright Inspiring.

Enough is Enough

Technical Help - Seeing - Words of Wisdom

Diet Experts & My Opinion

Dieting: The Alternative

A Fork in the Road

Emotional Eating (2)

A Person of Value

Target Audience

Rule or Principle? - Internal vs. External Control

Permission Not Needed

The Truth Is:

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

Growing Old Gracefully

My Petite Meals

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

Freedom from Binge Eating

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.

Stop Telling Me WHAT and WHEN to Eat or Not Eat.

Only One Per Day

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

Kate Hudson Eating Food.

Burning Bridges

Now fly.

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

Why I Don't Wear Makeup

Walking Away

Inner Voice

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

90 days of Intermittent Fasting

Weight Watchers 1972 & 2016 - Diet Review

First Instinct

Birthday Song

Food Does Not Have A Moral Value.

Bingo !!!

YOU are Responsible for your Life.

Body Weight Calculator - Timeline Projections

Eating Patterns - Morning vs Evening

How Big Pharma Lies to Us

Health and Morality

Do Low-Calorie Sweetners Equal Weight-Gain?

Review of the Three Principle Concept - Diet Review

Body of Truth - Book Review

Effortless Change

Fasting and Hunger

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

The Collins Family Heritage

Let Me Tell You

Helpful Fasting Information

Holiday Plans

Anyone Who Eats Food Will Die.

Current Diet Experimentation

BMI Classifications and Emotional Eating

Keep Your CONCERN to Yourself

Ten Steps to Eating Perfectly

End of the Line

That One Person

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

Crying with a Cookie in Your Hand

Ongoing Dilemma

Simple Eating Boundaries

She Let Go

Your Thoughts and Feelings are Not About Anything

Self-help and Mental Techniques

DietHobby & The Three Principles

Cravings +

Beliefs

The Inside-Out Revolution - Book Review

Digital Scrapbooking Issue

Navigation Issues - 3 Principles (plus More)

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

Taking Another Look at Traditional Psychology

Freedom and Calorie Counting

Hand Guide to Portion Control

Change your DEFINITION - Eliminate your PROBLEM

Comparisons

The Underpants Rule - Revisited

Why Do Dieters Regain Their Lost Weight?

Biological Adaptations that Promote Weight Regain

Giving Diets the Finger

Hand Me Down Beliefs

I'm Not Going to Miss You

How to End Habits and Addictions

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?

Size Diversity

Crap Overload

Cats Bullying People

Making Comparisons

Quitting Smoking is NOT Comparable to Losing Weight.

Misconceptions about Regain of Weight-Loss

Dieter's Song

What Kind of Dog Are You?

Perspective

Thin for the Holidays?

About Self-Control and the Marshmallow test

Created by Me

Is it REALLY up to me?

What You Eat

Embracing Imperfections as a Path to Success

Alice in Hungerland

Our Thoughts Create Our World.

Independence Day - 2014

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

The Dolly Diet - Diet Review

Time for a Reality Check

Freedom of Choice

Why do people keep believing things that are obviously untrue?

Remember ... You Asked.

Looking at a Fat Person

Eating Disorders Revisited

Long-Term Weight-Loss Almost Impossible

One per Day

Illusion or Fantasy vs. Reality

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 #06: Cheat Days Are Wise

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

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

The Underpants Rule

Weight-Loss RESULTS

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

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

Another Personal Truth:

Energy In and Energy Out

Food Diary Benefits

No Goals?

That One Person

The Truth of Ageing

Overruling the Body

Maintenance Status Report - January 2014

Would it be Easier to be Thin?

Liars

Free Speech

3500 Calories = 1 Lb ?

Choosing a Path

Everyone isn't the Same

Real Food

MORE Healthy Eating

It's not ME, It's YOU

Photoshop Surprise

Honesty

Imagine

Not Everyone

Health as an Obligation

Are you a Courteous, Healthy Eater?

Dressing to Please the Fat Bigots

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

Learning Curve

Born on the Finish Line

Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance

Commitment

Summer of 68

About Salt

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

The Wrong Path

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

Monday After Easter 2013

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

Giving Advice

Expectations

Ditching Diets - Book Review

More on Intermittent Fasting

Calorie Dectective - Lying Food Labels

Healthy Eater?

No Cure

Does Eating Fruit and Veggies Lower Weight?

WheatBelly - Another Review

Appreciate What You Have

Unrealistic Expectations

Research Study regarding Obesity Myths

SuperBowl Sunday

We Are Going to Die.

How Often Should We Eat?

Emotional Aspects of Obesity

Extra Food because I Exercised

Give it a try

Sugared-water's Fight Against Obesity

Advertising Guidelines???

Using Reason

Fear of Fat

Why We Diet

Boycotting Advertisers

The End of 2012

Keeping the Weight Off

Attitude About the Problem

Health Experts

Thoughts About Hunger

What To Do?

Do Calories Matter?

Why is it so Hard to Keep Weight Off?

Two Experts at Stanford University - Dec 2012

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

The Chubby Side of Normal

The Fat Trap - Follow-up

The Fat Trap

Set Point

Food History Timeline 1950-1980

Changes over Time

What IS a good Diet?

Seduced by Food

Slowing Down

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

Conflicting Views: Reviews of Diets and Books

The Truth

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

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

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?

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

The Common Ground to Success

Is There A Right Way?

Wheat Belly - Book Review

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

In-Between-Meal Eating

You Can Do Hard Things

Brain Over Binge - Book Review

Binge Avoidance + Adaptive Thermogenesis

Realities of Weight-Loss Maintenance

Twisted & Inappropriate but Funny

Running and Exercise Abuse

One of Life's Great Lessons

Eat Less Move More?

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

Journaling & Keeping Records

I'm not a Guru

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?

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

Searching For Perfection

More About Priorities

Videos are Here

Past Portion Control

Personal Behavior Choices

Choosing a Positive Focus

Weight-Loss in a Nutshell

Content Review & Directory to DietHobby

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

Adding New Section to DietHobby

Vegetables and Artificial Sweeteners

Another New Beginning

Sing Anyway

Self-Talk

I Don't Feel Like It.

Roasted Chicken Thighs

Personal Worth

Bad Examples

A Person of Value

Choosing Our Focus

New Stuff

DietHobby's One-Year Progress Report

Overcoming Perfectionism

Taking Responsibility

Sweets for Breakfast?

What I'm Reading Today

Low-Carb Experimentation - Diet Review

Sharing the Secret

Fish in Foil

Power of Visualization

When you've Got to Go.

New and Unique Dieting Plans

Pleasing People

In Detroit

Expecting Perfection

Standing up to your Friends

Update on The No S Diet - Diet Review

Vegetable Soup

The Fat Trap

Expectations

Indecision

French Toast on a Diet

Holiday Moderation

Holiday Season 2011

Intuitive Eating and the No S Diet

And So It Goes....

The Skinny One

Sunday Before Thanksgiving

Basic Diet Information from YouTube Grandma

Willpower

What About Dieting?

Unwecome Truths

Weight-loss and Maintenance is Hard Work

Apple Tuna Salad

Hunger After Weight-Loss

Does Life Get in the Way?

What is Portion Control?

It's Fall

Burnout or Stress

Bingeing

Make sure it's YOUR goal.

Differences: Successful or Unsuccessful?

Food Choices

Pet Obesity?

Trust Yourself?

Setting Goals

Frustration

Discipline or Self-Discipline

Mutually Exclusive Goals

Choices and Responsibility

Slipping in Maintenance

Experiment of One

Normal

Snack Foods

Binge Eating

Building a Habit takes Energy.

Making Decisions

What's Important?

No Point in Dieting?

Recovery

Self-Acceptance

Body Image

Weight Maintenance Challenges

Hunger, Appetite, and Cravings

The Ultimate Goal

Tips and Inspiration

Be Kind to Yourself

Sorting Through Nutritional Information

Kindness and Body Image

Is Bingeing an Eating Disorder?

A Change

Work, Love, Dance

Going to VidCon

Courage

Dealing with Setbacks

The Space Between

Regrets?

A Common Problem

Monday Morning

Three Myths

Diet Cookies for YouTube

There's no Generic Plan

What One Believes

Awareness and Confidence

What I CAN do

The person you were meant to be

More About Attitude

Dieting a 24/7 commitment

Habits

Greed

Fall on your face

Someday

Be Who You Are

Friends

Ride Out The Wave

Behavior and Results-1

Changes Happen Every Day

Judging Myself

Beauty is Subjective

Habits & Dieting

Protein Requirement

Success starts with Failure

Off-Line Data Storage

The Best Diet Plan

Changing Myself

Gratitude

Beauty

Blame It On The Puritans

Inconveniences

Inspiration - Diet & Book Reviews

Loss

Serenity

Courage To Continue

Naturally Thin

Biggest Loser and Jillian Michaels - Diet Review

In Denial

Behavior vs Results

Six Yogurt and Sides

Love Yourself

Paying The Price

An Individual Call

Concepts of Intuitive Eating - Diet Review

Obession With Dieting

Positive Thinking

Words Are Labels For Concepts

Goal Setting

Over The Long Haul

Recipes When Tracking Food

Goals Don't Come Easy.

Nobody's Perfect

Calorie Accountability

39 Years Later

How Many Carbohydrates?

Experimenting with Diets

Eggs Aren't Only For Easter

Becoming The Person You Want To Be

Not A Perfect World

Calorie Counting

Starvation Mode

Mild Chili Beans

Habit vs. Willpower

More About the BMI

Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?

Food Addiction

Hunger vs. Appetite

Everything and Nothing

Meal Frequency - How Often Should I Eat?

Science Can't Prove What is True.

Diet Books and Reviews

Weight Loss Surgery - 18 Years Ago

How Many Calories Can I Eat?

What About Leftovers?

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

Video Shoot

An Endless Struggle

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

The Scale and the Big Picture

What About the Scales?

A Thousand Words AND Pictures

Welcome to my World

Happy Valentine's Day

Online Friends

Before Pictures

My Plan is to Say It Here

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 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 03 - Elusive Benefits of Exercise

Taubes - Chapter 02 - Elusive Benefits of Undereating

Taubes - Author's Note


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