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The Root of Joy is Gratefulness
Adulthood
Just Stop It?
May God’s love be with you; there is nothing I can do.
HeartBreak and Outrage
On Vulnerability
Three Obesity Types
Karma Called
What Goes Around Comes Around
A Returning Boomerang
Karma Defined
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”
Intuitive Eating and Weight Loss - Diet Review
Reality: a Fact, Event, or Situation as it Really Exists.
Status Update - January 2018
Projection: a Blame-Shifting Tactic
I Know You Love Me - Now Let Me Die.
We Never Grow Up.
Experimenting with Food Portion Sizes
Exhaustion of Old Age
Unmet Expectations
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
Why Is This Happening? - October 2017
Fat Cells are Forever
Is BMI the same as BMR?
Happily Ever After
Status Update - September 2017
Summer Experiment 2017
You Don't Understand & I Can't Explain
Manipulating One's Body Size
Never Regret
Our Weight is Regulated by Our Biological System
Calorie Restriction = Calorie Restriction.
Endurance
What Size Are You REALLY?
The Angry Chef - Book Review
Current Diet Guidelines
Is it a Plateau?
Calorie Balance
Dieting = Treatment of Obesity
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
Men in Power: Medical Experts Enjoying Their Practical Joke
Binge = Response to Starvation
Happily Ever After & Neuroscience
Status Update - February 2017
Eating Toward Immortality
Freedom in Maintenance
Portion Size & Measurements
Photo Examples of Food Experiments
About the Scales
Balancing Values
Weight-Loss Alternative Facts
Tenacity
3 x 3
Election Stress
Character
Downright Inspiring.
Enough is Enough
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
An Ottor Enjoying my Favorite Activity
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?
Be Authentic?
Intermittent Fasting & the Dangling Carrot - Diet Review
My Status - May 2016 Maintenance
Turnabout is Fair Play
Making a Diet (or Way-of-Eating or Lifestyle Change) into a Religion
Increased Activity
Good Food, Bad Food
That Lost Weight? The Body Finds it.
Future Actions
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
Eating Tasty Food Tickles the Brain vs Pleasure Centers.
Eating causes the Brain to Generate Feelings of Satisfaction, Comfort, and Well-being.
Love is an Emotion which Includes Feelings of Attraction and Affection.
Human DESIRE is the Fundamental Motivation of ALL Human Action.
Waiting to Eat
Burning Bridges
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
Walking Away
Inner Voice
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
First Instinct
Bingo !!!
It's a Shadow.
Experimenting with Subtraction
Body Weight Calculator - Timeline Projections
Eating Patterns - Morning vs Evening
Health and Morality
Do Low-Calorie Sweetners Equal Weight-Gain?
Review of the Three Principle Concept - Diet Review
Chocolate
Effortless Change
Overweight means you live longer.
Fasting and Hunger
Let Me Tell You
Helpful Fasting Information
52 Signs You are a Low Carber
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
What Others Think of You Doesn't Matter.
Why Are Fat People Hungry?
Does Fasting Make You Fat?
Myths vs. Facts
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
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
No BEFORE - No AFTER - Only DURING
Growing Older
The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss
Freedom and Calorie Counting
Flexibility
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
Being Negative
Letting Things Go
I'm Not Going to Miss You
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?
No Facts or Evidence
Body Image & Function: Acceptance vs. Complacency
Shrinking Fat Cells: What Happens When Body Fat is Burned?
Crap Overload
Healthy Facts
Quitting Smoking is NOT Comparable to Losing Weight.
Misconceptions about Regain of Weight-Loss
What Kind of Dog Are You?
My Opinion
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
Opinion vs. Fact
Acceptance - AA Big Book, page 417
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.
Long-Term Weight-Loss Almost Impossible
Illusion or Fantasy vs. Reality
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 #06: Cheat Days Are Wise
Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #07: Some Foods Must be Forbidden
Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #11: There are Bottles Full of Weight-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
Efforts vs. Results
Delicate Dainty Meals
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
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 ?
Choosing a Path
Everyone isn't the Same
Real Food
MORE Healthy Eating
It's not ME, It's YOU
Photoshop Surprise
Honesty
Outdoor Activity
What about all that Blah, Blah, Blah
Weight Management Success
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?
It's Not Really About the Fat - Health At Any Size
Biggest Loser, an example of televised exercise fraud
Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance
Summer of 68
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?
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...
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?
Vegetables - One chip at a time?
Diets Long-Term
What's REALLY the Problem?
No Cure
Valentine's Day 2013
Does Eating Fruit and Veggies Lower Weight?
WheatBelly - Another Review
Appreciate What You Have
Unrealistic Expectations
Research Study regarding Obesity Myths
Our Inner Dialogue
Obesity Myth: "Slow Weight Loss is Easier to Keep Off"
We Are Going to Die.
What is Hunger?
How Often Should We Eat?
Foods to Avoid
Emotional Aspects of Obesity
Effort Shock
Eat Healthy or Lose Weight?
Changing is Hard
Extra Food because I Exercised
Grounded in Reality
Kindness
Sugared-water's Fight Against Obesity
Advertising Guidelines???
Fear of Fat
Why We Diet
The End of 2012
Keeping the Weight Off
Health Experts
Thoughts About Hunger
Calories - Paleo, Low-Carb
Do Calories Matter?
Why is it so Hard to Keep Weight Off?
One-Size-Fits-All ... Not!
The Chubby Side of Normal
The Fat Trap
Set Point
History of the USDA Food Pyramid
Food History Timeline 1950-1980
What IS a good Diet?
Seduced by Food
Having a Restaurant Dessert?
Afraid To Do Things Wrong?
In Defense of Food - Book Review
Cultural Bias
Are GMO's Frankenfoods?
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
Sometimes Hunger is a Lie
No S Diet vs. Intuitive Eating - Diet Review
Some Halloween Facts
Beginning the Holiday Season
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.
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
A New Perspective
Obesity and Choice
A Beautiful Woman
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
A New Diet
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
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
In The Future
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)
Journaling & Keeping Records
How Little It Takes
Snack Yourself Slim - Book Review
Do Diets Work?
A Fresh Start?
Time, Patience, and Consistent Effort
Perfectionism
Making Choices
Worlds Best Diet?
Is a Calorie just a Calorie?
It has a Price.
The Point of DietHobby?
Perserverance and Real Integrity
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
More About Priorities
Videos are Here
Be Patient
Past Portion Control
Personal Behavior Choices
Choosing a Positive Focus
DietHobby Hacked
Encouragement & Support
Change in my Weight Range Maintenance Plan
When I Feel Empty
Loving Myself
Weight-Loss in a Nutshell
Mini Chocolate Chip Cheesecakes
I wish I knew NOW
Making Lists
Spring Cleaning?
Content Review & Directory to DietHobby
How to Attract a Boy - Ask Grandma - Episode Nineteen
Sing Anyway
Study of Literature on Weight-Loss Maintenance
All or Nothing
Personal Worth
Cheesecake Sugar-Free
Mindless Eating
Bad Examples
Choosing Our Focus
Maintaining Enthusiasm
Doing Just As I Choose
Choosing My Attitude
DietHobby's One-Year Progress Report
Overcoming Perfectionism
Taking Responsibility
Portion Size Awareness
Low-Carb Experimentation - Diet Review
What is Courage?
The Same but Different
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
Expectations
Indecision
French Toast on a Diet
Diet French Toast
Christmas Traditions
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Holiday Season 2011
Intuitive Eating and the No S Diet
And So It Goes....
The Skinny One
The Power of Momentum
Working Hard
Willpower
Tomorrow and Today
Unwecome Truths
Weight-loss and Maintenance is Hard Work
Positive Power
Busy Times
Does Life Get in the Way?
Scheduling
What is Portion Control?
Peach Quick Bread
Burnout or Stress
Bingeing
Cleverness
Calories vs. Money
Committment
I Think I Can
Oatmeal Banana Nut Bars
Redefining Normal
Trust Yourself?
Setting Goals
What is Hope?
Frustration
Our Own Approval
Discipline or Self-Discipline
Forget Your Diet?
Choices and Responsibility
Experiment of One
Simplicity
Normal
Binge Eating
Making Decisions
Chocolate Cinnamon Bread Pudding
What Do you Say To Yourself?
The Endless Search for Why
No Point in Dieting?
Recovery
Body Image
Weight Maintenance Challenges
Hunger, Appetite, and Cravings
Live and Learn?
The Ultimate Goal
Be Kind to Yourself
Is Bingeing an Eating Disorder?
Finish each day and be done with it.
At Vidcon
Courage
Dealing with Setbacks
Establishing Habits
Maintenance As Compared to Weight-Loss
Our Thoughts Make Our World
Three Myths
Trust a Few
Think Differently
What One Believes
Awareness and Confidence
What I CAN do
More About Attitude
Dieting a 24/7 commitment
Habits
Greed
Fall on your face
Someday
Friends
Better than what?
Doing the Impossible
Ride Out The Wave
Behavior and Results-1
Planning-1
Barefoot Running
Judging Myself
Intermitting Fasting Success
Who We Can Be
Habits & Dieting
Protein Requirement
Lucky?
Off-Line Data Storage
Our Expression
Being Myself
Changing Myself
Beauty
The Power Of Choice
Stress Relief
Blame It On The Puritans
Tortilla Cheese Dog
Inconveniences
Inspiration - Diet & Book Reviews
Love Yourself
Loss
Serenity
Belief In Oneself
Courage To Continue
Naturally Thin
Rule or Suggestion?
Behavior vs Results
Paying The Price
The Power to Change
An Individual Call
Concepts of Intuitive Eating - Diet Review
Words Are Labels For Concepts
Goal Setting
Sugar Binges
Over The Long Haul
Recipes When Tracking Food
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Nobody's Perfect
Calorie Accountability
Tuna Salad Wrap or Sandwich
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
Habit vs. Willpower
More About the BMI
Almond Chocolate-Chip Ricotta
Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?
Food Addiction
Hunger vs. Appetite
Peanut Butter Crunch Cookies
Conflicting Rules
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?
Recipe Categories
Life Keeps Changing
Food and Money
Value Judgment
Making Progress
Eggwhite Custard
Eggwhite Mock Pancakes
Portion Control
My own Accountability
Determination
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
Maintaining an Attitude of Gratitude
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 DietHobby Benefit - Book and Diet Reviews
Welcome to my World
Happy Valentine's Day
Dieting as a 'means to an end'.
Imaginary Friends
Online Friends
My Plan is to Say It Here
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 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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