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The Root of Joy is Gratefulness

Current Events

HeartBreak and Outrage

Personal Responsibility

Too Much Laundry

Three Obesity Types

Help from Concerned Others can be very Unhelpful.

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”

I Know You Love Me - Now Let Me Die.

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.

The Value of Food Photos

Why Is This Happening? - October 2017

The Secret Life of Fat - Book Review

Fat Cells are Forever

Status Update - September 2017

Summer Experiment 2017

You Don't Understand & I Can't Explain

Manipulating One's Body Size

Calorie Restriction = Calorie Restriction.

What Size Are You REALLY?

Current Diet Guidelines

Is it a Plateau?

Calorie Balance

Dieting = Treatment of Obesity

Status Update - June 2017

No One-Size-Fits-All Diet Journey

Map = Directions

Eat Small to BE Small

One Hundred Percent

Palm of the Hand

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

Dreams into Reality

Binge = Response to Starvation

Happily Ever After & Neuroscience

Status Update - February 2017

Eating Toward Immortality

Never Too Old

Photo Examples of Food Experiments

About the Scales

Dressed in Overalls

Dressed in Overalls - Words of Wisdom

Balancing Values

3 x 3

Election Stress

Downright Inspiring.

Diet Experts & My Opinion

Dieting: The Alternative

What is Normal?

A Fork in the Road

One Bite at a Time

Emotional Eating (2)

Dreams & Dedication

Self-Help Books

Train of Thought

The Wish without The Drive

Target Audience

Rule or Principle? - Internal vs. External Control

Permission Not Needed

Charts of my Maintenance of Weight-Loss - Years Four through Ten+

Growing Old Gracefully

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

Freedom from Binge Eating

Intermittent Fasting & the Dangling Carrot - Diet Review

Psysiology = Biology Messing with Physics

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

I Remember...

Good Food, Bad Food

That Lost Weight? The Body Finds it.

Habits are the Solution, Not the Problem

Butter Bob Sharing his Opinions

Another Fasting Experiment with ADF - JUDDD - EOD - QOD

Diet Books are Full of Lies

Emotional Eating

Two Handed, Mr. Bean

Before & After Photos - Weight History

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

Weight Loss Goals

The Currency of Weight is Calories

Just One Bite

Walking Away

Inner Voice

The Noise of Others' Opinions

Eat More Food for Weight-Loss?

Dieting as Suffering

Intermittent Fasting via 5-Bites

Projections about the Rate of Weight-Loss

One Bite at a Time

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

Food Does Not Have A Moral Value.

I'm Just Saying... (reminder to self)

Bingo !!!

Experimenting with Subtraction

Body Weight Calculator - Timeline Projections

How Big Pharma Lies to Us

Health and Morality

Do Low-Calorie Sweetners Equal Weight-Gain?

Review of the Three Principle Concept - Diet Review

Chocolate

Body of Truth - Book Review

Effortless Change

Overweight means you live longer.

Fasting and Hunger

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

Helpful Fasting Information

Anyone Who Eats Food Will Die.

Current Diet Experimentation

BMI Classifications and Emotional Eating

Keep Your CONCERN to Yourself

End of the Line

Dark Chocolate Is Not Good For You And Also Sucks

Why Are Fat People Hungry?

Myths vs. Facts

Distinctive Genetic Makeup

Eating Boundaries - New Experiment

Crying with a Cookie in Your Hand

Your Thoughts and Feelings are Not About Anything

Self-help and Mental Techniques

DietHobby & The Three Principles

Cravings +

The Inside-Out Revolution - Book Review

Addicted to What...?

Things You Don't Owe Anybody

How to Stop Binge Eating

The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss

Taking Another Look at Traditional Psychology

Change your DEFINITION - Eliminate your PROBLEM

Why Do Dieters Regain Their Lost Weight?

Biological Adaptations that Promote Weight Regain

Giving Diets the Finger

Hand Me Down Beliefs

How to End Habits and Addictions

Failed Diets and Current Maintenance Status

Recommendation for Tiny Meal Portions - very low calorie eating

Eating Kale Doesn't Make You a Better Person.

Why?

Both Feet

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

Quitting Smoking is NOT Comparable to Losing Weight.

Misconceptions about Regain of Weight-Loss

Opportunist

What Kind of Dog Are You?

My Opinion

About Self-Control and the Marshmallow test

Created by Me

Impossibly Perfect, the Tyranny of Ideal Beauty

Is it REALLY up to me?

Paths Up the Mountain

Embracing Imperfections as a Path to Success

Alice in Hungerland

Our Thoughts Create Our World.

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

Dr Oz and Nutritional Supplements - Diet Review

Use Another Road

The Dolly Diet - Diet Review

Time for a Reality Check

Remember ... You Asked.

Eating Disorders Revisited

Long-Term Weight-Loss Almost Impossible

Perfect

A Side-effect of Change

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

Diet Fix - Book Review

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #01: People Lack Willpower

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #02: Scales Measure Health

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

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #04: Do not Eat Unless You are Hungry

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

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

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

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #08: There is One Right Diet

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

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

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #11: There are Bottles Full of Weight-Loss

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #12: The Last 10 lbs Are the Hardest

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

Weight-Loss RESULTS

Starving-To-Death is Unlikely

Dreams can be Fragile

Percentages of Seriously Obese women with above-normal BMIs

Personal Diet Experimentation

Calorie Denialism

Discipline

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?

Fighting the Urge - Book Review

The Issue of Healthy Eating

It Starts with a Dream

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?

Liars

3500 Calories = 1 Lb ?

Choosing a Path

Everyone isn't the Same

Real Food

MORE Healthy Eating

It's not ME, It's YOU

Honesty

What about all that Blah, Blah, Blah

Weight Management Success

Are you a Courteous, Healthy Eater?

Dressing to Please the Fat Bigots

You Can't Outrun Your Fork

A Calorie Deficit?

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

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

Biggest Loser, an example of televised exercise fraud

Bucking the Tide

Footprints

Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance

Movie Trailer for DietHobby

About Salt

All Goals Are Not Reachable For All People

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

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

Interpretating Peptides, Food Intake, and Body Weight

I'll Be Happy WHEN...

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

Blame Butter?

Ditching Diets - Book Review

More on Intermittent Fasting

Calorie Dectective - Lying Food Labels

Healthy Eater?

Vegetables - One chip at a time?

Diets Long-Term

No Cure

Does Eating Fruit and Veggies Lower Weight?

WheatBelly - Another Review

Appreciate What You Have

Unrealistic Expectations

Research Study regarding Obesity Myths

21 Days to Form a Habit?

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

We Are Going to Die.

How Often Should We Eat?

Emotional Aspects of Obesity

Effort Shock

Eat Healthy or Lose Weight?

Grounded in Reality

Sugared-water's Fight Against Obesity

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?

Calories - Paleo, Low-Carb

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

Marketing Healthy

Set Point

History of the USDA Food Pyramid

Food History Timeline 1950-1980

Changes over Time

Seduced by Food

Afraid To Do Things Wrong?

In Defense of Food - Book Review

Are GMO's Frankenfoods?

The End of Overeating - Book Review

Conflicting Views: Reviews of Diets and Books

Sometimes Hunger is a Lie

No S Diet vs. Intuitive Eating - Diet Review

Beginning the Holiday Season

Healthful Eating?

The Simple Diet - Diet Review

The Fast-5 Diet - Diet Review

More About Starvation Mode

Do YOU Like Change? - Ask Grandma - Episode Fifty-one

What if modern Theories about Food & Digestion are Wacked.

Hold On Tight To Your Dream

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

Obesity and Choice

A Reflection on Dieting Style

Outrunning the Old Overweight You

Seduction by Marketing Interests

Perfect is the Enemy of Good

Going to the Gym

Points Worth Considering

A New Diet

What If?

About Negative Thinking

Perfect Health Diet - Book Review

Cutting Carbs? or Cutting Calories?

Walk a Mile in MY Shoes

The Common Ground to Success

Diet Coke

Experiment of One - Current

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

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)

I'm not a Guru

Snack Yourself Slim - Book Review

Do Diets Work?

A Fresh Start?

Worlds Best Diet?

Is a Calorie just a Calorie?

Instinctive Resentment

Make Peace With What Is.

Here in the Land of DietHobby

The Path to Thinness and Health

Buttons for VidCon 2012

Buttons not Cookies - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-nine

Attitude, a small thing

Useful

Patience Required - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-eight

Grandma's Back !!! - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-seven

Leave the Rest

Past Portion Control

DietHobby YouTube Channel now Operational.

Cats Save YouTube

A Message from Grandma (May 2012)

Message from YouTube Grandma

Personal Behavior Choices

Choosing a Positive Focus

Status Update: YouTube is Still Broken

DietHobby Hacked

Being More Confident - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-six

Happy Birthday

Small Efforts

Loss

What You CAN do

Magic

Courage to Continue

Hard?

Change

Time

Moving Forward

A Suggestion

Perserverance

The Little Things

Commitment

Happy Mother's Day (2012)

The Power to Change

It Makes a Difference

Temporary or Permanent?

Goal or Wish?

Do It On Purpose

Attitude

Sing Anyway

Light Up The Sky

Values

The Present is Here

Is Food The Problem?

Establish Your Priorities

Happiness & Perfection

Goals Don't Come Easy

Giving Up on Being Perfect

Change in my Weight Range Maintenance Plan

When I Feel Empty

What is a Good Guest?

R U a Good Guest? - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-five

Loving Myself

Weight-Loss in a Nutshell

What Really Counts

It's a Good Day

No Clue

Out-of-Sorts

I wish I knew NOW

Making Lists

Want to be Happy?

Want 2 B Happy? - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-four

Water is Essential (2)

Water is Essential (1)

Content Review & Directory to DietHobby

DietHobby is now Back to Normal

You're Not Ugly - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-three

HOW RUDE!!! - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-two

What Love Feels Like - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-one

Time to End Relationship? - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty

Dealing with Rage - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-nine

Managing Depression - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-eight

Overcoming Shyness - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-seven

Does She Like Me? - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-six

Does He Like Me? - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-five

What Love Means - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-four

What is Courage? - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-three

Secrets of Communication - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-two

Haters, Trolls & Bullies - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-one

Friends Feel Frustrating - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty

Accepting Changes on YouTube - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-nine

Letting The Past Go - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-eight

YouTube Grandma Christmas (2011) - Ask Grandma

The Gift of Kindness - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-seven

Friendly Flirting - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-six

Losing a Loved One - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-five

When A Friend Lies - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-four

How to Make Friends - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-three

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

Getting Along With Parents - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-one

Shrimp Avocado Salad Recipe

Shrimp Avocado Salad

Teddy Bear Tea Party - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty

How to Attract a Boy - Ask Grandma - Episode Nineteen

How to Get a Girl - Ask Grandma - Episode Eighteen

Moving On After A Breakup - Ask Grandma - Episode Seventeen

School Bullies & Mending Relationships - Ask Grandma - Episode Sixteen

Crushes & Relationship Drama - Ask Grandma - Episode Fifteen

My Mother Doesn't Love Me - Ask Grandma - Episode Fourteen

I Like My Best Friend's Boyfriend - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirteen

You Are Stronger Than You Think - Ask Grandma - Episode Twelve

Kpop Music or Rock 'n Roll - Ask Grandma - Episode Eleven

How to get Subscribers on YouTube - Ask Grandma - Episode Ten

How Much is Enough? - Ask Grandma - Episode Nine

Cosmic Panda is A Bear Too - Ask Grandma - Episode Eight

Superstars Like Cookies - Ask Grandma - Episode Seven

Want to Know A Secret? - Ask Grandma - Episode Six

Cookies for You - Ask Grandma - Episode Five

Lifetime Changes - Ask Grandma - Episode Four

How Do I Tell My Mother? - Ask Grandma - Episode Three

Love Yourself First - Ask Grandma - Episode Two

Here to Answer Your Questions - Ask Grandma - Episode One

Happy Easter 2012

Vegetables and Artificial Sweeteners

Extra Calories

Sing Anyway

What is a Calorle?

Self-Talk

Bodyweight Percentages

All or Nothing

What is Food?

Mindless Eating

What is a Diet?

Bad Examples

Pork Chops with Onions

Me After Weight Loss

Weight Loss History

Weight Loss Wisdom

Diet Books

Maintaining Enthusiasm

DietHobby's One-Year Progress Report

Overcoming Perfectionism

Sweets for Breakfast?

Portion Size Awareness

Tuna Noodle Casserole

Low-Carb Experimentation - Diet Review

Power of Visualization

Pleasing People

Oatmeal Banana Muffin

Expecting Perfection

Update on The No S Diet - Diet Review

The Fat Trap

Expectations

Indecision

Diet French Toast

Pineapple Coconut Cake

Chocolate Chip Cookies

The Skinny One

Chicken Crepes

Chicken Rice Dinner

Basic Diet Information from YouTube Grandma

Grandma's Goulash

A Powerful Combination

Willpower

What About Dieting?

Tomorrow and Today

Unwecome Truths

Weight-loss and Maintenance is Hard Work

Repairs

Apple Tuna Salad

Hunger After Weight-Loss

Back Home Again

Cranberry Breakfast Cookies

Does Life Get in the Way?

Creamy Crab Salad

Gratitude

What is Portion Control?

Peach Quick Bread

Burnout or Stress

Self-Respect

Eggwhite Salad

Oatmeal Banana Nut Bars

Pet Obesity?

Setting Goals

Frustration

Mutually Exclusive Goals

Forget Your Diet?

Chinese Chicken Salad

Staying Open to New Information

Snack Foods

Not a Bed of Roses

Binge Eating

Building a Habit takes Energy.

Making Decisions

Chocolate Cinnamon Bread Pudding

It feels hard because it IS hard.

What Do you Say To Yourself?

Feeling Uninspired

The Endless Search for Why

What's Important?

No Point in Dieting?

Recovery

Vinaigerette Dressing

Body Image

The Ultimate Goal

Tips and Inspiration

Sorting Through Nutritional Information

Kindness and Body Image

Is Bingeing an Eating Disorder?

A Change

Stress

Work, Love, Dance

Going to VidCon

Monday Morning

Three Myths

There's no Generic Plan

What One Believes

Awareness and Confidence

How Often Should We Eat?

What I CAN do

More About Attitude

Dieting a 24/7 commitment

Habits

Someday

Be Who You Are

Barefoot Running

Hope

Protein Requirement

Off-Line Data Storage

The Best Diet Plan

Blame It On The Puritans

Making Mistakes

Loss

Serenity

Naturally Thin

Behavior vs Results

Six Yogurt and Sides

An Individual Call

Concepts of Intuitive Eating - Diet Review

New Beginings

Healthy Brownies

Sugar Binges

Storing Cakes

39 Years Later

Tuna Salad Wrap or Sandwich

Tuna Salad

Veggie Tray

How Many Carbohydrates?

Mexican Lunch

Experimenting with Diets

Berry Crepes

Calorie Counting

Asparagus with Hollandaise Sauce

Food Storage - A Diet Essential

Storing Pie

Starvation Mode

Mild Chili Beans

Sweet & Sour Pork Chops

Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?

Food Addiction

Six Cereal, Bars, and Nuts

Hunger vs. Appetite

Storing Cookies

Peanut Butter Crunch Cookies

More About Leftovers and Portion Control

Meal Frequency - How Often Should I Eat?

Diet Books and Reviews

Weight Loss Surgery - 18 Years Ago

Dealing with Leftovers

Cheeseburger Pie

Ever Have One Of Those Days?

Update on Low-Carb Experiment-of-One

Oatmeal Microwave Muffin

Chocolate Protein Cookie

Protein Cream Cupcake

Eggwhite Custard

Eggwhite Pancakes

Oatmeal Protein Pancakes

Eggwhite Mock Pancakes

My own Accountability

So You Want To Lose Weight?

The Essence of Diets - Part One

The No S Diet - Diet & Book Review

What is the Best Way To Diet?

Maintaining an Attitude of Gratitude

My First Cooking Videos

A Peek Into My Life

Setting a Goal Weight Range

The Scale and the Big Picture

What About the Scales?

Welcome to my World

Online Friends

Before Pictures

Dieting is my Hobby.

Taubes - z - Appendix - Example of a Low-Carbohydrate diet

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 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 05 - Why Me? Why There? Why Then?

Taubes - Chapter 04 - Twenty Calories a Day

Taubes - Chapter 03 - Elusive Benefits of Exercise

Taubes - Chapter 01 - Why Were They Fat?

Taubes - az - Introduction: The Original Sin

Taubes - Author's Note


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