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The Root of Joy is Gratefulness

Just Stop It?

May God’s love be with you; there is nothing I can do.

Corrupt Political Power

HeartBreak and Outrage

On Vulnerability

A Beautiful Soul

Three Obesity Types

I am Complete.

An Alternative Solution to the Body-Size Problem

My Preferences Matter

Dieting is So Much Harder than it Looks.

Wishful Thinking: Erroneous Belief

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.

Time to Stop Fighting for a Spot

Unmet Expectations

The Illusion of Control

Unrealistic Expectations - False Hope Syndrome

Dreams Do NOT Always Come True

Healthism: the modern religion

Shooting the Messenger Does Not Solve the Problem.

For a Reason

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?

Status Update - September 2017

Summer Experiment 2017

You Don't Understand & I Can't Explain

Sheet Caking

Manipulating One's Body Size

Walking Alone

The Truth

Our Weight is Regulated by Our Biological System

Calorie Restriction = Calorie Restriction.

Even with Life's Imperfections, It Is Still a Beautiful World.

Endurance

What Size Are You REALLY?

The Angry Chef - Book Review

Current Diet Guidelines

Present, Past, Future

Is it a Plateau?

Calorie Balance

Formula for Weight-Loss Success

Dieting = Treatment of Obesity

Food is Not the Enemy

Am I Satisfied With My Appearance?

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

Live Your Life

Nothing Will Change

Binge = Response to Starvation

Happily Ever After & Neuroscience

Status Update - February 2017

Eating Toward Immortality

Freedom in Maintenance

Portion Size & Measurements

Dishonest Praise

About the Scales

Balancing Values

Weight-Loss Alternative Facts

Fat vs. the Flavor

3 x 3

Communication Problem

Election Stress

Downright Inspiring.

Enough is Enough

Still Moving Forward - Words of Wisdom

Still Moving Forward

Today is Not That Day.

Technical Help - Seeing - Words of Wisdom

Diet Experts & My Opinion

Get Your Head Right

Expectations

Dieting: The Alternative

A Fork in the Road

Real Integrity

Emotional Eating (2)

Begin the Task

Train of Thought

Compromise

Target Audience

Rule or Principle? - Internal vs. External Control

Permission Not Needed

Courage

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

Growing Old Gracefully

My Petite Meals

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

Be Authentic?

Freedom from Binge Eating

How Hard?

Entitled: Believing Oneself to be Inherently Deserving of Privileges or Special Treatment

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

Yeah, Ophra, Me Too.

The Hunger Games of Jennifer Lawrence

Waiting to Eat

A Contradiction in Terms

Before & After Photos - Weight History

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

Happy Valentine's Day 2016

Many Common Phrases Just Aren't True

Why I Don't Wear Makeup

Just One Bite

Walking Away

Inner Voice

ME Talking About ME

Eat More Food for Weight-Loss?

Dieting as Suffering

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

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

All the Other Days

Deep Questions

My Fantasy

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

Let Me Tell You

Helpful Fasting Information

Just Move On

Anyone Who Eats Food Will Die.

Current Diet Experimentation

The Thrill is Gone

BMI Classifications and Emotional Eating

Keep Your CONCERN to Yourself

If I had Millions of Dollars ....

Plan vs. Reality

Ten Steps to Eating Perfectly

End of the Line

Calories Per Serving

What Others Think of You Doesn't Matter.

Why Are Fat People Hungry?

Does Fasting Make You Fat?

Myths vs. Facts

Distinctive Genetic Makeup

Eating Boundaries - New Experiment

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Crying with a Cookie in Your Hand

Ongoing Dilemma

The Absolute Weight

Your Thoughts and Feelings are Not About Anything

10 Limiting Beliefs I'm Done With

Accountability

Self-help and Mental Techniques

DietHobby & The Three Principles

Cravings +

Goals & BubbleGum

Beliefs

Illusions

The Inside-Out Revolution - Book Review

Relationships

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

How to Stop Binge Eating

Exercise for Women in the 1940s

The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss

Freedom and Calorie Counting

Clean Eating

The Helium Diet

Change your DEFINITION - Eliminate your PROBLEM

Your Workout

What Dieting/Weight-Loss/Fitness Lies Do YOU Believe?

Comparisons

Why Do Dieters Regain Their Lost Weight?

Biological Adaptations that Promote Weight Regain

Giving Diets the Finger

DIET AD BINGO

I'm Not Going to Miss You

Filling that Empty Space

Failed Diets and Current Maintenance Status

An Illusion

Natural Eating Perspective

Uh Oh

Recommendation for Tiny Meal Portions - very low calorie eating

Eating Kale Doesn't Make You a Better Person.

Why?

Something to Remember

Body Image & Function: Acceptance vs. Complacency

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

Crap Overload

Money We Spend

Recent Rain

Still Hard After Nine Years of Maintenance

Quitting Smoking is NOT Comparable to Losing Weight.

Misconceptions about Regain of Weight-Loss

What Kind of Dog Are You?

Perspective

Thin for the Holidays?

About Self-Control and the Marshmallow test

Different Roads

Created by Me

Is it REALLY up to me?

Embracing Imperfections as a Path to Success

Alice in Hungerland

Irrational Expectations (Part 1)

Beauty is Subjective

Good Advice

Our Thoughts Create Our World.

Independence Day - 2014

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

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

Illusion or Fantasy vs. Reality

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 #04: Do not Eat Unless You are Hungry

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

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

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

The Underpants Rule

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

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

Insanity

Questions about Health & Weight

Energy In and Energy Out

Hate to Exercise?

Food Diary Benefits

No Goals?

The First Step

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

Real Food

The Hunger Games

MORE Healthy Eating

It's not ME, It's YOU

Photoshop Surprise

Honesty

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

Learning Curve

Footprints

Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance

Commitment

Summer of 68

Movie Trailer for DietHobby

About Salt

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

Change my LIFE?

I'll Be Happy WHEN...

What To DO?

If it Involves Eating, It's a Diet

More About Calories

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

Giving Advice

Blame Butter?

Expectations

Ditching Diets - Book Review

More on Intermittent Fasting

Calorie Dectective - Lying Food Labels

Healthy Eater?

Vegetables - One chip at a time?

Diets Long-Term

Maintaining weight-loss

The Gorilla's Not Tired.

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

21 Days to Form a Habit?

SuperBowl Sunday

We Are Going to Die.

How Often Should We Eat?

Diets Work

Three Diet Myths

Foods to Avoid

Emotional Aspects of Obesity

Effort Shock

Eat Healthy or Lose Weight?

Changing is Hard

Extra Food because I Exercised

Sugared-water's Fight Against Obesity

Advertising Guidelines???

Fear of Fat

Why We Diet

The Finish Line

Boycotting Advertisers

The End of 2012

Keeping the Weight Off

Attitude About the Problem

Health Experts

Thoughts About Hunger

Christmas Eve 2012

What To Do?

Calories - Paleo, Low-Carb

Do Calories Matter?

Why is it so Hard to Keep Weight Off?

The Chubby Side of Normal

The Fat Trap

Set Point

History of the USDA Food Pyramid

Food History Timeline 1950-1980

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 Truth

The WillPower Instinct - Book Review

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

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

Being Resilient

A New Perspective

Diet Cheat or Food Choice?

Obesity and Choice

Outrunning the Old Overweight You

Perfect is the Enemy of Good

What is Junk Food?

Going to the Gym

Points Worth Considering

A New Diet

Had Enough?

Perfect Health Diet - Book Review

Cutting Carbs? or Cutting Calories?

Walk a Mile in MY Shoes

Want to Know Your BMI?

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?

Journaling & Keeping Records

I'm not a Guru

The Child Within Us

How Little It Takes

Snack Yourself Slim - Book Review

Do Diets Work?

A Fresh Start?

Perfectionism

Making Choices

Worlds Best Diet?

Is a Calorie just a Calorie?

It has a Price.

The Point of DietHobby?

Perserverance and Real Integrity

Make Peace With What Is.

Here in the Land of DietHobby

The Path to Thinness and Health

Wisdom Takes Effort

Buttons for VidCon 2012

Searching For Perfection

Videos are Here

DietHobby YouTube Channel now Operational.

Choosing a Positive Focus

Status Update: YouTube is Still Broken

DietHobby Hacked

Encouragement & Support

Happy Birthday

New DietHobby Features

Change in my Weight Range Maintenance Plan

When I Feel Empty

Weight-Loss in a Nutshell

No Clue

Out-of-Sorts

Mini Chocolate Chip Cheesecakes

I wish I knew NOW

Content Review & Directory to DietHobby

DietHobby is now Back to Normal

Shrimp Avocado Salad

Happy Easter 2012

Vegetables and Artificial Sweeteners

Another New Beginning

I Don't Feel Like It.

Be Right or Be Kind?

All or Nothing

Power of Habits

Thinking about Habits

Personal Worth

What is a Diet?

Cheesecake Sugar-Free

Mindless Eating

Bad Examples

Pork Chops with Onions

Choosing Our Focus

Maintaining Enthusiasm

Choosing My Attitude

DietHobby's One-Year Progress Report

Overcoming Perfectionism

Cinnamon Bread Pudding

Sweets for Breakfast?

Portion Size Awareness

What I'm Reading Today

Low-Carb Experimentation - Diet Review

I Want It All

Fish in Foil

When you've Got to Go.

New and Unique Dieting Plans

Pleasing People

Introspection

Vanilla Baked Apple Recipe

Vanilla Baked Apple

Expecting Perfection

Standing up to your Friends

Update on The No S Diet - Diet Review

Vegetable Soup

The Fat Trap

Expectations

Indecision

French Toast on a Diet

Diet French Toast

Pineapple Coconut Cake

Holiday Moderation

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Holiday Season 2011

Intuitive Eating and the No S Diet

Meal in a Dish

Do Diets Work?

The Skinny One

Chicken Crepes Recipe

Chicken Crepes

Another Favorite Recipe

Sunday Before Thanksgiving

Working Hard

Basic Diet Information from YouTube Grandma

Buddha Take

Computer Frustration

Grandma's Goulash

A Powerful Combination

Willpower

What About Dieting?

Tomorrow and Today

Unwecome Truths

Weight-loss and Maintenance is Hard Work

Repairs

Happy Halloween

Positive Power

Hunger After Weight-Loss

Another Smoothie Recipe

Strawberry Banana Smoothie

Busy Times

Back Home Again

Cranberry Breakfast Cookies

Does Life Get in the Way?

Goals

Scheduling

Creamy Crab Salad

Consistency

Burnout or Stress

Cleverness

Calories vs. Money

Eggwhite Salad

Make sure it's YOUR goal.

I Think I Can

The Two Parts of Wisdom

Differences: Successful or Unsuccessful?

Oatmeal Banana Nut Bars

We Deserve Love

Setting Goals

Taco Salad

Processed Foods Are Powerful

What is Hope?

Frustration

Our Own Approval

Discipline or Self-Discipline

Mutually Exclusive Goals

Crispy White Pizza

Labor Day Weekend

Forget Your Diet?

Choices and Responsibility

Slipping in Maintenance

Experiment of One

Binge Eating

Building a Habit takes Energy.

Making Decisions

Chocolate Cinnamon Bread Pudding

What Do you Say To Yourself?

Feeling Uninspired

No Point in Dieting?

Self-Acceptance

Body Image

Weight Maintenance Challenges

Hunger, Appetite, and Cravings

Live and Learn?

The Ultimate Goal

Tips and Inspiration

Kindness and Body Image

Is Bingeing an Eating Disorder?

A Change

Stress

Finish each day and be done with it.

At Vidcon

Going to VidCon

Dealing with Setbacks

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

How Often Should We Eat?

What I CAN do

Anything is possible...but with qualifications

More About Attitude

Habits

Greed

Fall on your face

Someday

Be Who You Are

Friends

Our Ideal Self

The Present

Ride Out The Wave

Behavior and Results-1

Changes Happen Every Day

Planning-1

Barefoot Running

Judging Myself

Intermitting Fasting Success

Habits & Dieting

Protein Requirement

Guidelines for DietHobby

Lucky?

Off-Line Data Storage

The Best Diet Plan

Being Myself

Beauty

The Power Of Choice

Stress Relief

Blame It On The Puritans

It Isn't Easy

Tortilla Cheese Dog

Inconveniences

Inspiration - Diet & Book Reviews

Forgiveness

Love Yourself

Making Mistakes

Small Efforts - Setting Goals

Loss

Serenity

Belief In Oneself

Courage To Continue

Naturally Thin

Happy Mother's Day

Biggest Loser and Jillian Michaels - Diet Review

Behavior vs Results

Six Yogurt and Sides

Paying The Price

The Power to Change

An Individual Call

Chicken Waldorf Salad

Concepts of Intuitive Eating - Diet Review

A New Normal

New Beginings

Words Are Labels For Concepts

Goal Setting

Sugar Binges

Over The Long Haul

Sausage Egg Bowl

Recipes When Tracking Food

Goals Don't Come Easy.

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Nobody's Perfect

Swiss Steak or Roast - Crockpot

Calorie Accountability

39 Years Later

Tuna Salad Wrap or Sandwich

Tuna Salad

How Many Carbohydrates?

Experimenting with Diets

Scrambled Egg & Buttered Bagel

Poached Egg & Buttered Toast

Berry Crepes

Not A Perfect World

Calorie Counting

Starvation Mode

Habit vs. Willpower

Sweet & Sour Pork Chops

Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?

Food Addiction

Hunger vs. Appetite

Peanut Butter Crunch Cookies

Giving Up Is Not An Option

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

Cheeseburger Pie

Update on Low-Carb Experiment-of-One

Life Keeps Changing

Disordered Eating

Food and Money

Value Judgment

Making Progress

Protein Cream Cupcake

Eggwhite Custard

Eggwhite Pancakes

Oatmeal Protein Pancakes

Eggwhite Mock Pancakes

Imperfect Is Good Enough - This Is Me

Every Bite Counts

Portion Control

Some Things Take Time

My own Accountability

Video Shoot

An Endless Struggle

Tracking Weight

Dedicated, not Obsessed

The Essence of Diets - Part Two

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

A DietHobby Benefit - Book and Diet Reviews

Welcome to my World

Happy Valentine's Day

Dieting as a 'means to an end'.

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 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 - Chapter 01 - Why Were They Fat?

Taubes - az - Introduction: The Original Sin

Taubes - Author's Note


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