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The Root of Joy is Gratefulness

HeartBreak and Outrage

On Vulnerability

Another Diet Book based on Wishful Thinking - Book Review

I am Complete.

Being Alone

An Alternative Solution to the Body-Size Problem

Reflecting

My Preferences Matter

Dieting is So Much Harder than it Looks.

Winner of the “5 Percent Lottery of Hell”

Intuitive Eating and Weight Loss - Diet Review

Sometimes the Truth is Painful.

Status Update - January 2018

I Know You Love Me - Now Let Me Die.

You Are Allowed.

Experimenting with Food Portion Sizes

Unrealistic Expectations - False Hope Syndrome

Healthism: the modern religion

Shooting the Messenger Does Not Solve the Problem.

Tiny Dishes for Petite Meals

The Value of Food Photos

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?

Status Update - September 2017

Summer Experiment 2017

You Don't Understand & I Can't Explain

Manipulating One's Body Size

Thinking About Food

Our Weight is Regulated by Our Biological System

Calorie Restriction = Calorie Restriction.

Endurance

What Size Are You REALLY?

The Angry Chef - Book Review

Reality Bites

Current Diet Guidelines

Things You Want

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

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

Turn the Page

Trying Times - Words of Wisdom

Cats Try Again

Binge = Response to Starvation

Happily Ever After & Neuroscience

Luck

Status Update - February 2017

Eating Toward Immortality

Trust Yourself - Words of Wisdom

Freedom in Maintenance

Portion Size & Measurements

Forgiveness

Opportunity - Words of Wisdom

Photo Examples of Food Experiments

About the Scales

Dressed in Overalls - Words of Wisdom

Getting REAL

Balancing Values

Weight-Loss Alternative Facts

One More Time - Words of Wisdom

3 x 3

Election Stress

Our Thoughts - Words of Wisdom

Downright Inspiring.

Enough is Enough

Still Moving Forward - Words of Wisdom

Technical Help - Seeing - Words of Wisdom

Diet Experts & My Opinion

Get Your Head Right

Dieting: The Alternative

Do It

A Fork in the Road

Experience

Emotional Eating (2)

Self-Help Books

Train of Thought

Get Out of the Water

Target Audience

Rule or Principle? - Internal vs. External Control

10+ Years of Successfully Maintaining a Large-Weight Loss has Taught Me:

Reality

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

Growing Old Gracefully

Resolve the Problem: Get a Larger Pet Door.

My Petite Meals

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

Life's Truth

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.

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

Reward: Something Good you Get for Something Good you've Done

Before & After Photos - Weight History

Burning Bridges

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

Walking Away

Inner Voice

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

Weight Watchers 1972 & 2016 - Diet Review

Bingo !!!

It's a Shadow.

Experimenting with Subtraction

Body Weight Calculator - Timeline Projections

Health and Morality

Review of the Three Principle Concept - Diet Review

Chocolate

Body of Truth - Book Review

Effortless Change

Veterans Day - 2015

Overweight means you live longer.

Fasting and Hunger

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

Let Me Tell You

Helpful Fasting Information

52 Signs You are a Low Carber

Anyone Who Eats Food Will Die.

My Wish

Current Diet Experimentation

BMI Classifications and Emotional Eating

Keep Your CONCERN to Yourself

Plan vs. Reality

Ten Steps to Eating Perfectly

End of the Line

Dark Chocolate Is Not Good For You And Also Sucks

Why Are Fat People Hungry?

Does Fasting Make You Fat?

Can Never Get Enough

Distinctive Genetic Makeup

Eating Boundaries - New Experiment

Crying with a Cookie in Your Hand

Ongoing Dilemma

Simple Eating Boundaries

My Choices

Your Thoughts and Feelings are Not About Anything

Dealing with Unrealistic Body Image Expectations

Self-help and Mental Techniques

DietHobby & The Three Principles

Cravings +

Goals & BubbleGum

Beliefs

The Inside-Out Revolution - Book Review

Digital Scrapbooking Issue

What Are the Three Principles?

Navigation Issues - 3 Principles (plus More)

Things You Don't Owe Anybody

No BEFORE - No AFTER - Only DURING

The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss

Change your DEFINITION - Eliminate your PROBLEM

The Underpants Rule - Revisited

Why Do Dieters Regain Their Lost Weight?

Biological Adaptations that Promote Weight Regain

Giving Diets the Finger

DIET AD BINGO

How to End Habits and Addictions

Failed Diets and Current Maintenance Status

Natural Eating Perspective

Recommendation for Tiny Meal Portions - very low calorie eating

Why?

No Facts or Evidence

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

Another Chance

Crap Overload

Cats Bullying People

Quitting Smoking is NOT Comparable to Losing Weight.

Misconceptions about Regain of Weight-Loss

How Would You Change Your Body?

The Price Paid

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

Move on

Let's Get REAL

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

Beauty is Subjective

Our Thoughts Create Our World.

Scrapbooking on DietHobby

Not One Moment Sooner

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

Use Another Road

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.

Eating Disorders Revisited

Long-Term Weight-Loss Almost Impossible

Beach Body

The Insane-Diet Rainbow

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

Diet Fix - Book Review

The Underpants Rule

Weight-Loss RESULTS

Starving-To-Death is Unlikely

Efforts vs. Results

Delicate Dainty Meals

Calorie Denialism

Discipline

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

You Look Good

The Issue of Healthy Eating

Getting Along With People

Energy In and Energy Out

Hate to Exercise?

Food Diary Benefits

No Goals?

The Habit Concept

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 ?

Choosing a Path

Everyone isn't the Same

Real Food

MORE Healthy Eating

It's not ME, It's YOU

Honesty

Not Everyone

Health as an Obligation

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

Conflicting Desires

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

The Men Who Made Us Thin (BBC series - All Episodes 1, 2, 3 & 4)

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

Summer of 68

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?

DietHobby, my Digital Scrapbook

First, Sow the Seeds

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

How I'm Supposed to Feel

The Science of Addictive Foods

Ditching Diets - Book Review

More on Intermittent Fasting

Calorie Dectective - Lying Food Labels

Healthy Eater?

Vegetables - One chip at a time?

Diets Long-Term

Valentine's Day 2013

Does Eating Fruit and Veggies Lower Weight?

WheatBelly - Another Review

Unrealistic Expectations

Research Study regarding Obesity Myths

21 Days to Form a Habit?

We Are Going to Die.

How Often Should We Eat?

Diets Work

Foods to Avoid

Effort Shock

Eat Healthy or Lose Weight?

Changing is Hard

Extra Food because I Exercised

Fear of Fat

Why We Diet

Individual Rules

Boycotting Advertisers

The End of 2012

Keeping the Weight Off

Attitude About the Problem

Health Experts

Thoughts About Hunger

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

Set Point

History of the USDA Food Pyramid

Food History Timeline 1950-1980

Changes over Time

Becoming Successful

Seduced by Food

Afraid To Do Things Wrong?

In Defense of Food - Book Review

Cultural Bias

Are GMO's Frankenfoods?

The End of Overeating - Book Review

Secrets of the Sugar Industry

Conflicting Views: Reviews of Diets and Books

The WillPower Instinct - Book Review

Sometimes Hunger is a Lie

No S Diet vs. Intuitive Eating - Diet Review

Musical Lesson

Healthful Eating?

The Simple Diet - Diet Review

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

A New Perspective

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?

Going to the Gym

Points Worth Considering

What If?

Had Enough?

Perfect Health Diet - Book Review

Cutting Carbs? or Cutting Calories?

Walk a Mile in MY Shoes

Want to Know Your BMI?

Science Has Failed

The Common Ground to Success

Experiment of One - Current

Wheat Belly - Book Review

Thinking isn't the same as Doing

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

Running and Exercise Abuse

Eat Less Move More?

Journaling & Keeping Records

I'm not a Guru

How Little It Takes

Snack Yourself Slim - Book Review

Do Diets Work?

A Fresh Start?

Food Restrictions?

Perfectionism

Making Choices

Worlds Best Diet?

Is a Calorie just a Calorie?

Perserverance and Real Integrity

Instinctive Resentment

Here in the Land of DietHobby

Wisdom Takes Effort

Searching For Perfection

More About Priorities

Videos are Here

Past Portion Control

DietHobby YouTube Channel now Operational.

Choosing a Positive Focus

Status Update: YouTube is Still Broken

DietHobby Hacked

Encouragement & Support

New DietHobby Features

Change in my Weight Range Maintenance Plan

What is a Good Guest?

Weight-Loss in a Nutshell

Mini Chocolate Chip Cheesecakes Recipe

Want to be Happy?

Content Review & Directory to DietHobby

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

Shrimp Avocado Salad Recipe

Shrimp Avocado Salad

How to Get a Girl - Ask Grandma - Episode Eighteen

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

Adding New Section to DietHobby

Vegetables and Artificial Sweeteners

Highlighting - Extra Calories

Sing Anyway

Baked Potato (White or Sweet) Recipe

Study of Literature on Weight-Loss Maintenance

I Don't Feel Like It.

Be Right or Be Kind?

All or Nothing

Roasted Chicken Thighs Recipe

Thinking about Habits

Personal Worth

What is a Diet?

Cheesecake Sugar-Free Recipe

Cheesecake Sugar-Free

Pork Chops with Onions Recipe

New Stuff

Maintaining Enthusiasm

DietHobby's One-Year Progress Report

Overcoming Perfectionism

Cinnamon Bread Pudding Recipe

Portion Size Awareness

What I'm Reading Today

Tuna Noodle Casserole Recipe

Tuna Noodle Casserole

Low-Carb Experimentation - Diet Review

Fish in Foil Recipe

Fish in Foil

Power of Visualization

Introspection

Oatmeal Banana Muffin Recipe

Oatmeal Banana Muffin

Vanilla Baked Apple Recipe

Expecting Perfection

Standing up to your Friends

Update on The No S Diet - Diet Review

Vegetable Soup Recipe

Vegetable Soup

The Fat Trap

Expectations

French Toast on a Diet

Diet French Toast

Christmas Traditions

Holiday Moderation

Holiday Season 2011

Intuitive Eating and the No S Diet

Pot Roast Recipe

Do Diets Work?

The Skinny One

Chicken Crepes Recipe

Chicken Crepes

Saturday After Thanksgiving

The Power of Momentum

Another Favorite Recipe

Chicken Rice Dinner

Sunday Before Thanksgiving

Working Hard

Basic Diet Information from YouTube Grandma

Computer Frustration

A Powerful Combination

Willpower

Tomorrow and Today

Bread Substitute - Low-Carb

Unwecome Truths

Salad for Lunch

Apple Tuna Salad

Positive Power

Hunger After Weight-Loss

Checking In

Another Smoothie Recipe

Busy Times

Breakfast Cookies

Cranberry Breakfast Cookies

Joyful

Does Life Get in the Way?

Goals

Crab Salad

Gratitude

What is Portion Control?

It's Fall

Peach Bread

Burnout or Stress

Self-Respect

Calories vs. Money

Egg-White Salad - Surprisingly good

Lacking Inspiration?

Make sure it's YOUR goal.

I Think I Can

Differences: Successful or Unsuccessful?

Food Choices

Oatmeal Banana Nut Bars

Pet Obesity?

We Deserve Love

Setting Goals

DietHobby Recipes

Taco Salad

What is Hope?

Frustration

Our Own Approval

Mutually Exclusive Goals

Labor Day Weekend

Forget Your Diet?

Choices and Responsibility

Slipping in Maintenance

Simplicity

Chinese Chicken Salad

Normal

Staying Open to New Information

Binge Eating

It feels hard because it IS hard.

What Do you Say To Yourself?

Feeling Uninspired

The Endless Search for Why

No Point in Dieting?

Recovery

Vinaigerette Dressing

Self-Acceptance

Weight Maintenance Challenges

Hunger, Appetite, and Cravings

Tips and Inspiration

Be Kind to Yourself

Sorting Through Nutritional Information

A Change

Finish each day and be done with it.

Work, Love, Dance

At Vidcon

Dealing with Setbacks

Establishing Habits

Regrets?

A Common Problem

Maintenance As Compared to Weight-Loss

Monday Morning

Three Myths

Diet Cookies for YouTube

There's no Generic Plan

Think Differently

What One Believes

What I CAN do

Behavior Choices

Dieting a 24/7 commitment

Greed

Someday

Be Who You Are

Do it

Friends

Our Ideal Self

Behavior and Results-1

Changes Happen Every Day

Judging Myself

Intermitting Fasting Success

Protein Requirement

Off-Line Data Storage

The Best Diet Plan

Changing Myself

Beauty

The Power Of Choice

It Isn't Easy

Inconveniences

Inspiration - Diet & Book Reviews

Forgiveness

Making Mistakes

Small Efforts - Setting Goals

Loss

Belief In Oneself

Biggest Loser and Jillian Michaels - Diet Review

Paying The Price

An Individual Call

Trust

New Beginings

Words Are Labels For Concepts

Goal Setting

Healthy Brownies

Sugar Binges

Goals Don't Come Easy.

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Nobody's Perfect

Swiss Steak or Roast - Crockpot

Calorie Accountability

Tuna Salad Wrap or Sandwich

Tuna Salad

Veggie Tray

How Many Carbohydrates?

Mexican Lunch

Experimenting with Diets

Eggs Aren't Only For Easter

Eggs Benedict For One

Berry Crepes

Calorie Counting

Food Storage - A Diet Essential

Starvation Mode

Habit vs. Willpower

Almond Chocolate-Chip Ricotta

Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?

Turkey Roll-ups

Food Addiction

Hunger vs. Appetite

Conflicting Rules

Everything and Nothing

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

What About Leftovers?

Update on Low-Carb Experiment-of-One

Life Keeps Changing

Disordered Eating

Food and Money

Value Judgment

Oatmeal Microwave Muffin

Chocolate Protein Cookie

Protein Cream Cupcake

Eggwhite Custard

Every Bite Counts

Portion Control

My own Accountability

So You Want To Lose Weight?

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.

My First Cooking Videos

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

Dieting as a 'means to an end'.

Imaginary Friends

Online Friends

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 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 - Chapter 01 - Why Were They Fat?

Taubes - az - Introduction: The Original Sin

Taubes - Author's Note


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