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The Root of Joy is Gratefulness
Contemplating Life
Just Stop It?
May God’s love be with you; there is nothing I can do.
HeartBreak and Outrage
On Vulnerability
Seemingly Hopeless Situation
Three Obesity Types
I am Complete.
An Alternative Solution to the Body-Size Problem
The Weigh In
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.
Lead Me Home
Experimenting with Food Portion Sizes
Exhaustion of Old Age
Unrealistic Expectations - False Hope Syndrome
Dreams Do NOT Always Come True
Healthism: the modern religion
Dust in the Wind
Shooting the Messenger Does Not Solve the Problem.
Tiny Dishes for Petite Meals
The Value of Food Photos
Fall Treats
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?
You Can't Fix Stupid.
Status Update - September 2017
Summer Experiment 2017
You Don't Understand & I Can't Explain
Sheet Caking
Manipulating One's Body Size
Road Less Traveled
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
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?
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
An Acknowledgement of What IS.
Breaks & Maintenance
Turn the Page
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
3 x 3
Overcoming Obstacles
Election Stress
After Careful Consideration
Downright Inspiring.
Sad but True
Technical Help - Seeing - Words of Wisdom
Diet Experts & My Opinion
Dieting: The Alternative
A Fork in the Road
Emotional Eating (2)
Food Truth
Train of Thought
Target Audience
Rule or Principle? - Internal vs. External Control
Permission Not Needed
The Truth Is:
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
Ever Used THIS Diet Plan?
Growing Old Gracefully
My Petite Meals
Concerned About Your Fat-Loved-One's Health?
The Body is Not an Ornament; it's a Vehicle.
Be Authentic?
Freedom from Binge Eating
Intermittent Fasting & the Dangling Carrot - Diet Review
My Status - May 2016 Maintenance
Sometimes the Right Path is Not the Easiest One.
Making a Diet (or Way-of-Eating or Lifestyle Change) into a Religion
Good Food, Bad Food
That Lost Weight? The Body Finds it.
Stop Telling Me WHAT and WHEN to Eat or Not Eat.
Habits are the Solution, Not the Problem
Butter Bob Sharing his Opinions
Every Other Day - Alternate Day Fasting
Another Fasting Experiment with ADF - JUDDD - EOD - QOD
Diet Books are Full of Lies
Emotional Eating
The Hunger Games of Jennifer Lawrence
Following Instructions
Before & After Photos - Weight History
Secret Messages
Now fly.
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
Underneath it All
Many Common Phrases Just Aren't True
Why I Don't Wear Makeup
Walking Away
Inner Voice
ME Talking About ME
Dieting as Suffering
Intermittent Fasting via 5-Bites
Projections about the Rate of Weight-Loss
A Truth to Remember
2 Forks?
While Fasting
When Can Women Stop Trying to Look Perfect?
Why I Struggle for Weight-Loss and Maintenance of Weight-Loss
90 days of Intermittent Fasting
How I Spent the Holidays
Day 1 Completed
Setting Priorities...
Weight Watchers 1972 & 2016 - Diet Review
Food Does Not Have A Moral Value.
Bingo !!!
YOU are Responsible for your Life.
It's a Shadow.
Experimenting with Subtraction
Body Weight Calculator - Timeline Projections
Eating Patterns - Morning vs Evening
How Big Pharma Lies to Us
What is the Body Positive Movement?
Health and Morality
Do Low-Calorie Sweetners Equal Weight-Gain?
Review of the Three Principle Concept - Diet Review
Chocolate
Body of Truth - Book Review
Cats & Us
Effortless Change
Veterans Day - 2015
Overweight means you live longer.
Fasting and Hunger
The Problem with Poodle Science
You Get What You Get (and don't throw a fit)
The Collins Family Heritage
Let Me Tell You
Helpful Fasting Information
52 Signs You are a Low Carber
What's the Best Diet? Healthy Eating 101
Anyone Who Eats Food Will Die.
Current Diet Experimentation
The Thrill is Gone
Starving Works
BMI Classifications and Emotional Eating
Keep Your CONCERN to Yourself
If I had Millions of Dollars ....
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
Simple Eating Boundaries
Believing Our Thoughts
After the Mood is Gone
The Absolute Weight
10 Limiting Beliefs I'm Done With
Self-help and Mental Techniques
DietHobby & The Three Principles
Cravings +
Goals & BubbleGum
Beliefs
The Inside-Out Revolution - Book Review
Addicted to What...?
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
Partnered Push-Ups
The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss
Taking Another Look at Traditional Psychology
A Quiet Mind
Easter 2015
Freedom and Calorie Counting
A Pig for Cookies
Change your DEFINITION - Eliminate your PROBLEM
What Dieting/Weight-Loss/Fitness Lies Do YOU Believe?
Comparisons
The Underpants Rule - Revisited
Why Do Dieters Regain Their Lost Weight?
Biological Adaptations that Promote Weight Regain
Giving Diets the Finger
DIET AD BINGO
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?
Body Image & Function: Acceptance vs. Complacency
Shrinking Fat Cells: What Happens When Body Fat is Burned?
Size Diversity
Crap Overload
Misconceptions about Regain of Weight-Loss
INFO about disappearance of Facebook's 1400 member 5-bite Group
What Kind of Dog Are You?
My Opinion
Perspective
10th Year Anniversary
Thin for the Holidays?
About Self-Control and the Marshmallow test
Go Left
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
Our Thoughts Create Our World.
Scrapbooking on DietHobby
Independence Day - 2014
Impossible, Risky, Pointless? ... Try it.
Dr Oz and Nutritional Supplements - Diet Review
The Dolly Diet - Diet Review
Time for a Reality Check
Freedom of Choice
I call it Dedication
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 #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
The Underpants Rule
Happy Birthday, Daughter
Weight-Loss RESULTS
Starving-To-Death is Unlikely
Dreams can be Fragile
Percentages of Seriously Obese women with above-normal BMIs
Personal Diet Experimentation
Efforts vs. Results
Delicate Dainty Meals
Calorie Denialism
My cat, Layla
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 Habit Concept
The Truth of Ageing
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 ?
Try This Way
Choosing a Path
Everyone isn't the Same
Real Food
The Hunger Games
MORE Healthy Eating
It's not ME, It's YOU
Photoshop Surprise
Honesty
Taking Up Space
Imagine
Not Everyone
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?
The Men Who Made Us Fat (BBC series - All Episodes 1, 2, & 3)
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
Born on the Finish Line
Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance
Commitment
My Baby Sister's Birthday
Summer of 68
Movie Trailer for DietHobby
About Salt
All Goals Are Not Reachable For All People
Sad Cat Diary
150 Pounds
What Does the Scale Say?
Weight Range Maintenance Plan Changes Again
Weight Management - A Rubber Band
Food as Fuel?
Choices Made
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
Monday After Easter 2013
Interpretating Peptides, Food Intake, and Body Weight
Perfection Is The Lowest Standard We Can Set For Ourselves
Change my LIFE?
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
Blame Butter?
Ditching Diets - Book Review
More on Intermittent Fasting
Calorie Dectective - Lying Food Labels
Healthy Eater?
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
21 Days to Form a Habit?
Obesity Myth: "Slow Weight Loss is Easier to Keep Off"
SuperBowl Sunday
We Are Going to Die.
What is Hunger?
How Often Should We Eat?
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
Grounded in Reality
Advertising Guidelines???
Fear of Fat
Weight Loss Promises
Searching for Your Diet
Why We Diet
Individual Rules
Boycotting Advertisers
Another Good Day
The End of 2012
Keeping the Weight Off
Thoughtful Reduction
Attitude About the Problem
Health Experts
Thoughts About Hunger
Christmas 2012
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
Set Point
History of the USDA Food Pyramid
Food History Timeline 1950-1980
Changes over Time
Becoming Successful
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
Being Resilient
A New Perspective
Outrunning the Old Overweight You
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
Science Has Failed
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
Brain Over Binge - Book Review
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
Do Diets Work?
A Fresh Start?
Food Restrictions?
Time, Patience, and Consistent Effort
Perfectionism
Worlds Best Diet?
Is a Calorie just a Calorie?
It has a Price.
Perserverance and Real Integrity
Instinctive Resentment
Make Peace With What Is.
The Path to Thinness and Health
Back to Work
Buttons not Cookies - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-nine
More About Priorities
Videos are Here
Be Patient
Status Update: YouTube is Still Broken
Happy Mother's Day (2012)
When I Feel Empty
Weight-Loss in a Nutshell
Mini Chocolate Chip Cheesecakes
Shrimp Avocado Salad
On The Right Track
Baked Potato (White or Sweet)
Study of Literature on Weight-Loss Maintenance
Roasted Chicken Thighs
Cheesecake Sugar-Free
New Stuff
Overcoming Perfectionism
Cinnamon Bread Pudding
Sweets for Breakfast?
Portion Size Awareness
Low-Carb Experimentation - Diet Review
Fish in Foil
When you've Got to Go.
Vanilla Baked Apple
Expecting Perfection
Update on The No S Diet - Diet Review
Vegetable Soup
Happy New Year 2012
Pineapple Coconut Cake
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Meal in a Dish
And So It Goes....
Pot Roast
The Skinny One
Chicken Crepes Recipe
Chicken Crepes
Basic Diet Information from YouTube Grandma
Buddha Take
Grandma's Goulash
Unwecome Truths
Weight-loss and Maintenance is Hard Work
Hunger After Weight-Loss
Checking In
Strawberry Banana Smoothie
Cranberry Breakfast Cookies
The Donkey
Joyful
Does Life Get in the Way?
Goals
Creamy Crab Salad
What is Portion Control?
It's Fall
Peach Quick Bread
Burnout or Stress
Bingeing
Eggwhite Salad
Make sure it's YOUR goal.
Oatmeal Banana Nut Bars
Redefining Normal
We Deserve Love
Setting Goals
Taco Salad
Processed Foods Are Powerful
Our Own Approval
Discipline or Self-Discipline
Mutually Exclusive Goals
Forget Your Diet?
Choices and Responsibility
Slipping in Maintenance
Experiment of One
Snack Foods
Binge Eating
Making Decisions
Chocolate Cinnamon Bread Pudding
It feels hard because it IS hard.
The Endless Search for Why
No Point in Dieting?
Vinaigerette Dressing
Weight Maintenance Challenges
Hunger, Appetite, and Cravings
The Ultimate Goal
Chocolate Milkshake
Sorting Through Nutritional Information
Kindness and Body Image
Is Bingeing an Eating Disorder?
A Change
Stress
At Vidcon
Dealing with Setbacks
A Common Problem
Maintenance As Compared to Weight-Loss
Monday Morning
Three Myths
What One Believes
Anything is possible...but with qualifications
Dieting a 24/7 commitment
Friends
Better than what?
Ride Out The Wave
In Our Hands
What We See
Planning-1
Barefoot Running
Judging Myself
Intermitting Fasting Success
Hope
Protein Requirement
Lucky?
Off-Line Data Storage
The Best Diet Plan
Our Expression
Being Myself
Tortilla Cheese Dog
Inspiration - Diet & Book Reviews
Small Efforts - Setting Goals
Serenity
Sweet Potato & Black Beans
Naturally Thin
Biggest Loser and Jillian Michaels - Diet Review
In Denial
Six Yogurt and Sides
Perseverance
Love Yourself
The Power to Change
Chicken Waldorf Salad
Concepts of Intuitive Eating - Diet Review
New Beginings
Healthy Brownies
Chili Cheese Cubes
Sugar Binges
Over The Long Haul
Sausage Egg Bowl
Recipes When Tracking Food
Goals Don't Come Easy.
Storing Cakes
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
Mexican Lunch
Experimenting with Diets
Eggs Benedict For One
Scrambled Egg & Buttered Bagel
Poached Egg & Buttered Toast
Becoming The Person You Want To Be
Berry Crepes
Asparagus with Hollandaise Sauce
Food Storage - A Diet Essential
Storing Pie
Mild Chili Beans
Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?
Food Addiction
Six Cereal, Bars, and Nuts
Hunger vs. Appetite
More About Leftovers and Portion Control
Peanut Butter Toast
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
Dealing with Leftovers
What About Leftovers?
Cheeseburger Pie
Ever Have One Of Those Days?
Update on Low-Carb Experiment-of-One
Value Judgment
Oatmeal Microwave Muffin
Eggwhite Mock Pancakes
Some Things Take Time
My own Accountability
An Endless Struggle
So You Want To Lose Weight?
Tracking Weight
Dedicated, not Obsessed
The Essence of Diets - Part Two
The Essence of Diets - Part One
The No S Diet - Diet & Book Review
Maintaining an Attitude of Gratitude
When Life Takes You In A Different Direction.
Recording Food Intake - Counting Calories and/or Carbs
A Peek Into My Life
Setting a Goal Weight Range
A DietHobby Benefit - Book and Diet Reviews
My Plan is to Say It Here
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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