DietHobby is a place of encouragement and support.
I need encouragement and support as I make my way through Life's path.
This is why DietHobby exists. 

I share many of my thoughts and feelings here, in writing and in videos. 
My daily eating choices, and my behavior with food … is an ongoing part of my life. 
It is a thread that weaves its way throughout my life, 
and I look at dieting as one of my ongoing hobbies
.. which is simply a part of my total Lifestyle. 

My way of thinking is connected to my way of eating. 
I am the one who chooses what I think about. 
I am the one who decides where to put my focus. 
I am the one who has the power to direct my mind toward the positive. 

DietHobby is a way to help me do that. Part of helping myself is to share my thoughts with you. 
Perhaps you will find some of these writings and videos encouraging and supportive to you
as you travel, in your own individual way, down the path that Life has put before you. 
The way that I choose to eat, doesn't have to be the way you choose to eat.  
What works for me may be different than what works for you.  

But, perhaps you will find it helpful to take in my information,  
and shift it through your mind, accepting some things, rejecting other things. 
Blending some of the things you read and hear at DietHobby together with your own valuable truths 
might be exactly what you need to move you toward your own individual Life goals.  

DietHobby already has a great deal of content.  
You can find many things here in this website. … and as I live through the days and weeks,
I continue to think,  so More will be coming.   
Look around, get it know DietHobby, see if it is something that will fit into your support structure.
Take what you like, and leave the rest. 
                   

Today is my Husband's birthday, and sometimes he comes here to look at what I have written. 
Perhaps he will do that today.  Just in case, I'm leaving a message here for him. 

Everyone who comes here will have a birthday this year,
so also consider this as a birthday message to each of you.

This HOME page continues to feature my new blog articles, but it now also has a slide-show feature which directs attention to my four different video series:

• Recipes
  
• DietWisdom
  
• Words of Wisdom
  
• Grandma

The video section in the RESOURCES category also contains all of the videos of each video series.
So, there are now several convenient, but different, ways to view them.

Another new feature here at DietHobby is a thumbnail beside each video title, which adds color and interest to this site. This also makes it a little easier to find the location of a particular video.

Notice that, at present, DietHobby is advertisement-free, and clicking the pictures on the right side of the page will lead you to the corresponding section in this website. Click around the site and look at these new features. I think you'll agree with me that DietHobby is Looking Good.

I am in the process of putting 176 words of wisdom videos into the new Words of Wisdom Section.
Although these videos are already located here on DietHobby in the video section of the RESOURCES category, in order to index them on the Words of Wisdom page, each one of them must be entered as a Blog……and every blog created, automatically generates an e-mail…

So until I've finished that process, subscribers will be getting several e-mail notices of new blogs every day.  If you hate getting extra daily e-mails, unsubscribe for a month or so (until I've finished that time-consuming job), then re-subscribe.

Thanks for sharing DietHobby with me.
I hope you like these changes as much as I do.

If you are new to DietHobby, or haven't checked out the features of this website for awhile, you may find it helpful to read this recently updated article:  Content Review & Directory to DietHobby.

 
Happy Mother's Day to all of us. 

Mother's Day is a celebration that honors mothers and motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society.  Being a mother is one of the hardest jobs in the world, and there is no prerequisite, education, or training for it. Many of us were very young when we randomly became mothers, and we received on-the-job training through trial and error.

Some of us have children who have accepted the values we tried to teach them, and some of us do not, but all of us have one thing in common.  All across the board, mothers have a strong inner emotional connection with their children that lasts a lifetime.

We carry many images of our children continually within us. These images include times and events that no one else has seen or remembers, not even the children who were involved.  Inside us are memories of all the things we did, and all the things we didn't do, with Gratitude for the pleasant experiencs, and Sorrow for the unpleasant ones.

No matter what the current status of one's children is, all mothers deserve a medal, just for doing the best they could within the situations that existed over time.  So, I wish each of us a Happy Mother's Day, 2012. 

I've made changes to my Weight Range Maintenance Plan. 

Previously the top black "Unacceptable" area was 120 lbs and over, (now that "Unacceptable" area is 126 lbs and over); and the red "LoseWeight" area was 119-116, (now that "LoseWeight" area is 125-120 lbs)

When I grew near to my goal weight, I made a visual graphic of my plan to maintain my weight-loss, by creating a Weight Maintenance Chart much like the one shown above. This turned out to be a very effective way to set specific goal-weight-range numbers into my mind and heart.

I talk more how I did this, and why, in a previous article, "Setting A Goal Range". Read that article to see the original chart and the maintenance weights that I originally set for myself.

This graphic has been very helpful to me for the past six years, and I have worked very hard to stay within the maintenance weight ranges that I set for myself. However, this past two years, ... despite my very best efforts... I've spent most of the time hanging out inside the top red area and the top black area,and I've been unable to sustain much time at all inside my blue maintenance area.

So, I've finally accepted that my age and my activity level might never let me get and keepmy weight down as low as it was during my first few years of maintenance, so I've raised the top of my Maintenance Weight Range Plan by five lbs. I haven't changed the bottom ranges. These will remain the same because they are merely there as a reminder of the general weight guidelines for someone my height.

I fought against raising my weight range for a very long time,but have finally chosen to face my present reality, I haven't given up the struggle to get my weight back down to 115 or lower. I still hope that I can accomplish that. However, I'm tired of hanging out in my upper red and black areas. I am hoping that changing this graphic will give me an added mental push toward making the blue maintenance area my status quo again.

I've been very reluctant to make this change.  Not so much because of the actual 5 lbs,
but because of my fear that ... despite all my continued best efforts ... that my weight will continue to creep upward.

I've decided to face the truth, that my body isn't the same as it was 7 years ago. My maintenance weight has been about 5 lbs higher for the last few years,  so it's time to adjust my maintenance weight range to accurately reflect reality.  Although in a way doing this feels like admitting defeat,  it is actually a step toward success in my ongoing maintenance.