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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.

On Vulnerability

Too Much Laundry

Three Obesity Types

What Goes Around Comes Around

A Returning Boomerang

Karma Defined

I am Complete.

An Alternative Solution to the Body-Size Problem

I have had More than Enough

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

Status Update - January 2018

I Know You Love Me - Now Let Me Die.

You Are Allowed.

Amazing

Enough

Unrealistic Expectations - False Hope Syndrome

Dreams Do NOT Always Come True

Healthism: the modern religion

What I Have Learned About Life.

Shooting the Messenger Does Not Solve the Problem.

The Value of Food Photos

Why Is This Happening? - October 2017

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

Story of My Life

Manipulating One's Body Size

My Problems

Our Weight is Regulated by Our Biological System

Calorie Restriction = Calorie Restriction.

What Size Are You REALLY?

Current Diet Guidelines

Things You Want

Present, Past, Future

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

What Do You Want?

Eat Small to BE Small

It's Okay

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

To Be Thankful

Turn the Page

Binge = Response to Starvation

Happily Ever After & Neuroscience

Status Update - February 2017

Eating Toward Immortality

I have Not Failed.

Photo Examples of Food Experiments

Food Deprivation

About the Scales

Balancing Values

Weight-Loss Alternative Facts

3 x 3

Election Stress

After Careful Consideration

Staying Quiet

Arguments

Downright Inspiring.

Enough is Enough

Technical Help - Seeing - Words of Wisdom

Diet Experts & My Opinion

I Have the Right

Dieting: The Alternative

A Fork in the Road

Emotional Eating (2)

Train of Thought

Target Audience

Rule or Principle? - Internal vs. External Control

Another Chance

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

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

Good Food, Bad Food

That Lost Weight? The Body Finds it.

Tomorrow and Yesterday

Every Other Day - Alternate Day Fasting

Another Fasting Experiment with ADF - JUDDD - EOD - QOD

Diet Books are Full of Lies

Emotional Eating

Before & After Photos - Weight History

Burning Bridges

Diet Motto

Sometimes you just have to Make Your Own Road

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

A Truth to Remember

Where I Live

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

Food Does Not Have A Moral Value.

Bingo !!!

It's a Shadow.

Experimenting with Subtraction

Body Weight Calculator - Timeline Projections

Eating Patterns - Morning vs Evening

In Tune with your Body???

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

Let Me Tell You

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?

Does Fasting Make You Fat?

About Giving Advice to Fat People

Distinctive Genetic Makeup

Crying with a Cookie in Your Hand

Ongoing Dilemma

Simple Eating Boundaries

No Wrong Way

The Absolute Weight

Your Thoughts and Feelings are Not About Anything

10 Limiting Beliefs I'm Done With

Self-help and Mental Techniques

Cravings +

Goals & BubbleGum

Beliefs

The Inside-Out Revolution - Book Review

Things You Don't Owe Anybody

No BEFORE - No AFTER - Only DURING

The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss

Freedom and Calorie Counting

Change your DEFINITION - Eliminate your PROBLEM

The Underpants Rule - Revisited

Why Do Dieters Regain Their Lost Weight?

Biological Adaptations that Promote Weight Regain

DIET AD BINGO

Hand Me Down Beliefs

Failed Diets and Current Maintenance Status

Natural Eating Perspective

What You Need

Recommendation for Tiny Meal Portions - very low calorie eating

Why?

No Facts or Evidence

Body Image & Function: Acceptance vs. Complacency

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

Size Diversity

Crap Overload

Quitting Smoking is NOT Comparable to Losing Weight.

Misconceptions about Regain of Weight-Loss

What Kind of Dog Are You?

My Opinion

Perspective

10th Year Anniversary

Thin for the Holidays?

About Self-Control and the Marshmallow test

Created by Me

Is it REALLY up to me?

Hanging On

Embracing Imperfections as a Path to Success

Alice in Hungerland

Irrational Expectations (Part 1)

Good Advice

Scrapbooking on DietHobby

Sometimes - you have to push yourself.

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

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 #01: People Lack Willpower

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

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

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

Calorie Denialism

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

Sharing the Reasons for Our Food Choices

The Issue of Healthy Eating

No Rescue Needed

Status Update - March 2014

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

Free Speech

3500 Calories = 1 Lb ?

Everyone isn't the Same

Real Food

MORE Healthy Eating

It's not ME, It's YOU

Honesty

Imagine

Not Everyone

What about all that Blah, Blah, Blah

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

Born on the Finish Line

Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance

Commitment

Summer of 68

About Salt

150 Pounds

What Does the Scale Say?

Weight Management - A Rubber Band

Food as Fuel?

DietHobby, my Digital Scrapbook

Calories: Males vs. Females

First, Sow the Seeds

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

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?

Diets Long-Term

Maintaining weight-loss

What's REALLY the Problem?

No Cure

Valentine's Day 2013

Being Thankful

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?

Changing is Hard

Extra Food because I Exercised

Grounded in Reality

Fear of Fat

Why We Diet

Individual Rules

The Finish Line

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?

O Christmas Tree

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

Seduced by Food

Having a Restaurant Dessert?

Slowing Down

Afraid To Do Things Wrong?

In Defense of Food - Book Review

Cultural Bias

Are GMO's Frankenfoods?

Conflicting Views: Reviews of Diets and Books

The Truth

The WillPower Instinct - Book Review

Sometimes Hunger is a Lie

Some Halloween Facts

Healthful Eating?

The Simple Diet - Diet Review

Working Out - No Pain, No Gain?

The Fast-5 Diet - Diet Review

More About Starvation Mode

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

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?

Going to the Gym

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

Science Has Failed

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

I'm not a Guru

A little bit of nothing.

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?

It has a Price.

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

Buttons for VidCon 2012

Searching For Perfection

More About Priorities

DietHobby YouTube Channel now Operational.

Cats Save YouTube

Personal Behavior Choices

Choosing a Positive Focus

Status Update: YouTube is Still Broken

Encouragement & Support

Happy Birthday

New DietHobby Features

Happy Mother's Day (2012)

Change in my Weight Range Maintenance Plan

When I Feel Empty

Loving Myself

Weight-Loss in a Nutshell

No Clue

Out-of-Sorts

Making Lists

DietHobby is now Back to Normal

Adding New Section to DietHobby

On The Right Track

Vegetables and Artificial Sweeteners

Another New Beginning

Sing Anyway

Saying Nothing

Study of Literature on Weight-Loss Maintenance

Power of Habits

Thinking about Habits

Personal Worth

What is a Diet?

Bad Examples

New Stuff

Maintaining Enthusiasm

DietHobby's One-Year Progress Report

Overcoming Perfectionism

Sweets for Breakfast?

What Other People Do.

What I'm Reading Today

Low-Carb Experimentation - Diet Review

I Want It All

The Same but Different

When you've Got to Go.

New and Unique Dieting Plans

Pleasing People

Expecting Perfection

Update on The No S Diet - Diet Review

The Fat Trap

Expectations

Indecision

Holiday Season 2011

Intuitive Eating and the No S Diet

And So It Goes....

Do Diets Work?

The Skinny One

The Power of Momentum

Working Hard

Basic Diet Information from YouTube Grandma

A Powerful Combination

Willpower

What About Dieting?

Tomorrow and Today

Unwecome Truths

Weight-loss and Maintenance is Hard Work

Repairs

Hunger After Weight-Loss

Checking In

Busy Times

Back Home Again

Does Life Get in the Way?

Goals

Scheduling

Consistency

What is Portion Control?

Peach Bread

Burnout or Stress

Self-Respect

Bingeing

Lacking Inspiration?

Make sure it's YOUR goal.

I Think I Can

The Two Parts of Wisdom

Differences: Successful or Unsuccessful?

Food Choices

Redefining Normal

Pet Obesity?

Trust Yourself?

We Deserve Love

Setting Goals

DietHobby Recipes

Processed Foods Are Powerful

What is Hope?

Frustration

Our Own Approval

Discipline or Self-Discipline

Mutually Exclusive Goals

Forget Your Diet?

Choices and Responsibility

Experiment of One

Simplicity

Normal

Binge Eating

It feels hard because it IS hard.

Feeling Uninspired

What's Important?

No Point in Dieting?

Recovery

Body Image

Weight Maintenance Challenges

Hunger, Appetite, and Cravings

Live and Learn?

Sorting Through Nutritional Information

Kindness and Body Image

Is Bingeing an Eating Disorder?

A Change

Stress

Finish each day and be done with it.

Work, Love, Dance

At Vidcon

Going to VidCon

Courage

Dealing with Setbacks

Regrets?

A Common Problem

Maintenance As Compared to Weight-Loss

Monday Morning

Three Myths

There's no Generic Plan

Think Differently

What One Believes

Awareness and Confidence

What I CAN do

Dieting a 24/7 commitment

Habits

Fall on your face

Someday

Be Who You Are

Friends

Our Ideal Self

The Present

Ride Out The Wave

Behavior and Results-1

Planning-1

Barefoot Running

Intermitting Fasting Success

Living in the Moment

Lucky?

Off-Line Data Storage

The Best Diet Plan

Being Myself

Changing Myself

The Power Of Choice

Stress Relief

Blame It On The Puritans

It Isn't Easy

Inconveniences

Inspiration - Diet & Book Reviews

Forgiveness

Love Yourself

Making Mistakes

Small Efforts - Setting Goals

Loss

Serenity

Belief In Oneself

Courage To Continue

Naturally Thin

Behavior vs Results

Love Yourself

An Individual Call

Trust

Concepts of Intuitive Eating - Diet Review

Obession With Dieting

Positive Thinking

A New Normal

New Beginings

Goal Setting

Sugar Binges

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

Not A Perfect World

Calorie Counting

Food Storage - A Diet Essential

Starvation Mode

More About the BMI

Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?

Food Addiction

Hunger vs. Appetite

Giving Up Is Not An Option

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?

Ever Have One Of Those Days?

Update on Low-Carb Experiment-of-One

Life Keeps Changing

Food and Money

Chocolate Protein Cookie

Protein Cream Cupcake

Imperfect Is Good Enough - This Is Me

Every Bite Counts

Portion Control

Some Things Take Time

My own Accountability

An Endless Struggle

Normal, Overweight, or Obese?

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

You Can Choose to Think Differently.

Recording Food Intake - Counting Calories and/or Carbs

A Peek Into My Life

Setting a Goal Weight Range

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

An Experiment of One

Before Pictures

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 03 - Elusive Benefits of Exercise

Taubes - Chapter 02 - Elusive Benefits of Undereating

Taubes - az - Introduction: The Original Sin

Taubes - Author's Note


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