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Next Step

A Single Step

Gift to Myself

Power of Control

Consistency is the Key

The Root of Joy is Gratefulness

Contemplating Life

Let It Go

Expectation and Reality

Adulthood

Just Stop It?

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

Thankful

Every Day

Unattainable Goal

Hold On

On Vulnerability

Living Life

Seemingly Hopeless Situation

So Many Lies

Contemplation

False Assumption

Tool to Measure Marketing Claims about Diets and Dieting

Personal Responsibility

Understanding Obesity

A Beautiful Soul

Walking the Tightrope

2018 - Year of the Dog

Another Diet Book based on Wishful Thinking - Book Review

Karma Called

What Goes Around Comes Around

A Returning Boomerang

Karma Defined

A Lovely Normal Old Lady

Valentine's Day 2018

Nevertheless ...

Help from Concerned Others can be very Unhelpful.

Connected

I am Complete.

Being Alone

It's a Door.

An Alternative Solution to the Body-Size Problem

I have had More than Enough

Possible, but I Don't Want To.

The Weigh In

Here is My Take on Naps.

Please Go On ...

Reflecting

Reassurance

Dwelling On It.

Living with Reality

My Preferences Matter

A Word to the Wise

Dieting is So Much Harder than it Looks.

Wishful Thinking: Erroneous Belief

Intuitive: Without Conscious Reasoning or Rational Thought

Babies Eat Intuitively

Comfort Foods

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.

Appearances Can Be Decieving

Sometimes the Truth is Painful.

Status Update - January 2018

The Desire for a Different Reality

Projection: a Blame-Shifting Tactic

Facing an Unwelcome Truth

New Year - 2018

I Know You Love Me - Now Let Me Die.

Alive and Here

It is What it is.

A Lesson, Not a Life Sentence.

The Scale is an Objective and Unbiased Weight-Truth Tool.

The Consequences of Excess

Merry Christmas 2017

We Never Grow Up.

Age 73, now going on 74

You Are Allowed.

Comfortable in Your Own Skin

Lead Me Home

Forgive Yourself

Amazing

Experimenting with Food Portion Sizes

Favorite Exercise

Exhaustion of Old Age

Enough

Wrong Room

Go Take A Nap

Nobody Likes Being Wrong.

Old Age

Inside My Comfort Zone

Comfort Zone: an Acceptable Lifestyle Choice

Good Things in Life

Continually Moving Forward

Time to Stop Fighting for a Spot

Unmet Expectations

Opinion and Thought

Thanksgiving 2017

The Illusion of Control

Letting Go of Heavy Things

Unrealistic Expectations - False Hope Syndrome

Dreams Do NOT Always Come True

To Heal From the Past

Healthism: the modern religion

Tell Me Lies

The Dilemma of Diet and Maintenance

Dust in the Wind

Good Things

I Would Agree with you, but.....

What I Have Learned About Life.

Shooting the Messenger Does Not Solve the Problem.

For a Reason

Pets at Halloween

Expectations

Time to Eat

Tiny Dishes for Petite Meals

Create One

No Path

Your Opinion

The Value of Food Photos

Travel Conditions

It is Your Road.

Stand Alone

Why Is This Happening? - October 2017

The Secret Life of Fat - Book Review

Fat Cells are Forever

Nevertheless, She Persisted

Weight Range Mantenance Plan

How Diets Work

Body Acceptance Lesson 1

Is BMI the same as BMR?

You Can't Fix Stupid.

Happily Ever After

One Time Offer

Food Protection

Long-term Success in Maintenance

Parenting

Adapt, Reject, & Add

A Plan

How I Feel When Eating.

Positive Thinking

Status Update - September 2017

Summer Experiment 2017

You Don't Understand & I Can't Explain

Break Time Again

Sheet Caking

Story of My Life

Bloom and Let Bloom

Lovin' this Cat

Manipulating One's Body Size

Never Regret

Road Less Traveled

Walking Alone

Social Media Break

Taking a Rest

The Truth

Just Like ME.

Time Travel Dietition

Thinking About Food

In a Relationship

Best Thing About People

Time To Do Nothing

Life Is Not Fair

Patience Defined

Your Decisions

My Problems

Our Weight is Regulated by Our Biological System

Calorie Restriction = Calorie Restriction.

Endurance

My Own Experience, Observations, & Research indicate …

What Size Are You REALLY?

2017: Fourth of July

The Angry Chef - Book Review

The Taste of Patience

Reality Bites

Strong Enough

Current Diet Guidelines

Things You Want

Emotions & Behaviour

Present, Past, Future

Hold On

Bad Days are Not a Sign of Weakness

Is it a Plateau?

Consistency is Not Perfection

Calorie Balance

Formula for Weight-Loss Success

Dieting = Treatment of Obesity

Forever Young

Food is Not the Enemy

Am I Satisfied With My Appearance?

Status Update - June 2017

No One-Size-Fits-All Diet Journey

Map = Directions

Acceptance of the Past

What Do You Want?

Eat Small to BE Small

Before It Became a Reality

One Hundred Percent

Palm of the Hand

It's Okay

Diet and Maintenance = Years of Ongoing Hunger Games

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

An Acknowledgement of What IS.

Focused

Blessed

Live Your Life

Learning New Behaviors

Don't Touch My Food!

The Struggle is Real

Yes & No

Habit vs. Motivation

Goals

Dreams into Reality

Men in Power: Medical Experts Enjoying Their Practical Joke

It Keeps Coming Back

To Be Thankful

Positive & Negative

In Harmony

Happiness

The Person You Were Meant to Be

Your Destination

What Matters

Who We Can Be

Joy and Your Smile

Think Differently

The First Step

Things People Say

Emotions and Thoughts

Choosing What to See

Breaks & Maintenance

Competition

Destined or Determined?

Nothing Will Change

And the Secret is ...

Choosing a Direction

Unbecoming

Looking for a Way

Lifestyle Perfection

Not Giving Up

Being Yourself

Born to Stand Out

The Silence Within Yourself

Tranquility

Making Friends

Being Different

Turn the Page

The Most Important Things

With or Without

Finish Each Day

Virtue

Habits

Stress Relief

What is the Problem?

Letting Go

Your Expression

There is No Failure if you Learn by it.

The Future

Trying Times - Words of Wisdom

Trying Times

Wherever You Are

Seeing Things

Cats Try Again

True Love

Work, Love, Dance

Binge = Response to Starvation

What You Want Most

Someday

How to Make Me Happy

Tomorrow

Surprising Oneself

Happily Ever After & Neuroscience

Love

Luck

Find a Way

It's Okay.

Judgment or Love

My Choice

Status Update - February 2017

Eating Toward Immortality

Never Too Old

Trust Yourself - Words of Wisdom

Trust Yourself

Love All

Forgive

Inspiration

The Hard Road

Cheer Up

Be Right or Be Kind?

Freedom in Maintenance

I have Not Failed.

Portion Size & Measurements

Is It Working for YOU?

Forgiveness

Do Nothing

One True Friend

Authority

Opportunity - Words of Wisdom

Opportunity

Learning Experience

You are More

Cleverness

Photo Examples of Food Experiments

Food Deprivation

Inner Beauty

I wish I Knew Now

Dishonest Praise

About the Scales

Dressed in Overalls

Dressed in Overalls - Words of Wisdom

Getting REAL

Balancing Values

Weight-Loss Alternative Facts

What You Can't Live Without

Up To Me

Selfishness

One More Time - Words of Wisdom

One More Time

Time to Quit?

Hope = It Could Happen.

Dealing with a Donut.

Honest Diet Ads

Two Rules

No

Whatever It Takes

Fat vs. the Flavor

It Just Blooms.

Desire + Hunger

Eating Behavior

Your Body

Mindful Eating

Daily vs. Occasionally

Happy New Year 2017

Bye-Bye 2016

Patience Defined

3 x 3

Moving Forward

Time for Tiny Meals

Overcoming Obstacles

Think Again

Myth: Food is the Solution

Communication Problem

Turn the Page or Close the Book?

Integrity

False Promises

Common Sense Missing

Election Stress

Worry

Breathing Space

I voted; I've shared my concerns; I've done all I can.

The Reverse of Positive Thinking

A Bit of Twisted Humor

Your Own Approval

Diet Rationalization

Character

Had Enough?

Awesome

Make American Great Again

In a Mood

After Careful Consideration

Staying Quiet

Standing Up to your Friends

What the World Needs

Our Thoughts

Our Thoughts - Words of Wisdom

Arguments

Downright Inspiring.

Blaming Others.

Enough is Enough

Somebody Might Be Looking

Sad but True

Truly Comfortable

What Goes Around ...

Better than What?

Not a Loser

Friend

Life

Chain of Destiny

Still Moving Forward - Words of Wisdom

Still Moving Forward

What is Your True Measure?

Weight-Loss Maintenance Truth: There is No Finish Line

The Present

Today is Not That Day.

Memory or Imagination

Technical Help - Seeing - Words of Wisdom

Seeing

Fear of Failure

This is my Life.

Diet Experts & My Opinion

Fear Nothing

It is Something to Do.

Gratitude Expressed

A New Ending

Not Required

Get Your Head Right

Confidence

I Have the Right

Expectations

Dieting: The Alternative

Calories vs. Money

I Understand

What is Normal?

Normal

Our Tomorrows

The word: NO

Do It

Doing the Impossible

The World and Your Smile

Home Run

Here is the Secret

On The Right Track

Follow Your Heart

Planning

A Fork in the Road

Experience

Failing Once

Courage

One Bite at a Time

Real Integrity

Hope

Be Who You Are

You Are What You Think

I Lost It.

Low Expectations

Message to Myself

Making an Easy job Hard

Dreams & Dedication

Just a Little Taste...

A Person of Value

Food Truth

Self-Help Books

Patience Needed

The Time to Make Friends

Change Your Day

Another Chance

A Successful Outcome

Begin the Task

Good Friends

Kindness

Beauty

Train of Thought

Sacrifice

Contribution or Committment?

Thirty Years

Compromise

Get Out of the Water

Living in the Moment

Between Stimulus & Response

The Wish without The Drive

What People Think

Different Roads

A New Day

Target Audience

Selective Participation

Rule or Principle? - Internal vs. External Control

An Ottor Enjoying my Favorite Activity

Life is Good

Permission Not Needed

Who is Responsible for My Choices?

Wisdom & Age

Courage

Speaking My Truth

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

Reality

Another Chance

Summer Diet Progress

The Truth Is:

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

Ever Used THIS Diet Plan?

I Love My Food - Selfie

Break Time

Summer Past = Cultivating Refinement v. Summer Present = Culture of Vulgarity

Growing Old Gracefully

Resolve the Problem: Get a Larger Pet Door.

Similar, but Different

My Petite Meals

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

I Am On My Way

Find the Balance

Lily Tomlin Shines a Positive Light on Weight Gain

Ducks in a Row

Life's Truth

The Body is Not an Ornament; it's a Vehicle.

Be Authentic?

Meaningful Dialogue Ahead

Same Page

The Two Parts of Wisdom

A Long Wait.

Freedom from Binge Eating

Cats Know

How Hard?

Memorial Day 2016

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

Persistent Efforts

The Hard Road

Intermittent Fasting & the Dangling Carrot - Diet Review

My Status - May 2016 Maintenance

Psysiology = Biology Messing with Physics

My Name

Sometimes the Right Path is Not the Easiest One.

Turnabout is Fair Play

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

Reality is for People who Lack Imagination

The Solution

I Remember...

Consistent and Continual Focus

Dieting Word Game = Diet, Way-of-Eating, Lifestyle Change

Common Sense

Good Food, Bad Food

Favorite Way to Spend Time

That Lost Weight? The Body Finds it.

Today

Stop Telling Me WHAT and WHEN to Eat or Not Eat.

A Justification (Scientific Explanation) for Every Diet.

Calorie Limitations

Future Actions

Woking: to Stay on the Road and to Move Forward

Honest Medical Advice

Every Other Day - Alternate Day Fasting

Another Fasting Experiment with ADF - JUDDD - EOD - QOD

Diet Books are Full of Lies

What Road Do I Take?

The Hunger Games of Jennifer Lawrence

Four Stages of Dieting

Me & Intermittent Fasting

Waiting to Eat

A Contradiction in Terms

Following Instructions

A Single Step

Before & After Photos - Weight History

Sometimes you just have to Make Your Own Road

Dear Weight-loss Medical Experts:

Now fly.

Weight Loss Goals

The Currency of Weight is Calories

Underneath it All

Your Feelings

Many Common Phrases Just Aren't True

Just One Bite

Walking Away

Inner Voice

The Noise of Others' Opinions

The Next 24 Hours

Eat More Food for Weight-Loss?

Dieting as Suffering

A Focus on Behavior

Living the Moment

Intermittent Fasting via 5-Bites

Your Journey

Projections about the Rate of Weight-Loss

The Mountaintop

This Is Matt

A Truth to Remember

A New Perspective

Travelling On

Believe

One Bite at a Time

Next Question....

The First Question is....

Day 1 Completed

Happy New Year 2016

Setting Priorities...

Birthday Song

In The Moment

Body Weight Calculator - Timeline Projections

Time for a Break

Happy Thanksgiving 2015

Eating Patterns - Morning vs Evening

How Big Pharma Lies to Us

Review of the Three Principle Concept - Diet Review

Overweight means you live longer.

Are You Hungry?

Let Me Tell You

Helpful Fasting Information

What's the Best Diet? Healthy Eating 101

Plate Size Portion Control

My Wish

Calorie Refund

Keep Your CONCERN to Yourself

End of the Line

Eat Small

Calories Per Serving

About Giving Advice to Fat People

Distinctive Genetic Makeup

Eating Boundaries - New Experiment

The Enemies of Truth

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Guide to Food Serving Size

Knowledge vs Feelings

Simple Eating Boundaries

After the Mood is Gone

Starbucks

A Potential Solution for Problem Eating?

Things You Don't Owe Anybody

The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss

Hand Guide to Portion Control

Change your DEFINITION - Eliminate your PROBLEM

Your Workout

The Underpants Rule - Revisited

Mind Your Own Business

Why Do Dieters Regain Their Lost Weight?

Biological Adaptations that Promote Weight Regain

Being Negative

How Do YOU Measure Oatmeal or Peanut Butter?

Cooking a REALLY Tiny Meal

Failed Diets and Current Maintenance Status

Hidden in Plain Sight

Recommendation for Tiny Meal Portions - very low calorie eating

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

Size Diversity

Money We Spend

Happy New Year 2015

New Years Eve 2014

Souls Not Bodies

Healthy Facts

Weight Gain

Still Hard After Nine Years of Maintenance

Cats Bullying People

It's in the Regrigerator

Why Dieting is Hard

Moving Forward

When's my Break?

Skinnytown

Scrapbooking on DietHobby

You Are More

Somthing Amazing

Good News, Bad News.

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

Time for a Reality Check

It's HARD

Freedom of Choice

Seeing and Doing

I call it Dedication

Why do people keep believing things that are obviously untrue?

Remember ... You Asked.

Looking at a Fat Person

Eating Disorders Revisited

Easily Lost

Long-Term Weight-Loss Almost Impossible

Perfect

A Side-effect of Change

Cut the Rope

One per Day

Memorial Day 2014

Retaining Food

The Underpants Rule

Behavior = Problem and Solution

Start Again

Can't Please Everybody

Happy Birthday, Daughter

Holding On - Letting Go

Your Perspective

There You Are

Weight-Loss RESULTS

Breathe

Present, Past, Future

Reaching Your Destination

Starving-To-Death is Unlikely

Dreams can be Fragile

A Matter of Perspective

Percentages of Seriously Obese women with above-normal BMIs

Personal Diet Experimentation

Efforts vs. Results

One More Time

Delicate Dainty Meals

Calorie Denialism

Can you Remember?

Discipline

Mirror Image

My cat, Layla

More About the Starvation Mode Myth

Weight Loss Expectations

The Secret of Change

Crazy Cat Lady Temptation

Anything Worth Doing

Is Overeating and Being Fat Ever Funny? ... Watch John Pinette

How Fast...How Much...Weight Lost After Gastric Bypass?

Persistence or Perfection?

Fighting the Urge - Book Review

Sharing the Reasons for Our Food Choices

You Look Good

The Issue of Healthy Eating

It Starts with a Dream

Where's the Elevator?

No Rescue Needed

Getting Along With People

The Power

Another Personal Truth:

The Truth Is:

Insanity

Status Update - March 2014

Questions about Health & Weight

Save Yourself

Energy In and Energy Out

Hate to Exercise?

Food Diary Benefits

No Goals?

That One Person

The Habit Concept

The First Step

The Truth of Ageing

Being Human

Going for it

Overruling the Body

It is STILL a Diet

A Good Idea

The Future

Maintenance Status Report - January 2014

Health-conscious?

Would it be Easier to be Thin?

Happy New Year 2014

Normalizing Obesity

Liars

Free Speech

3500 Calories = 1 Lb ?

Fitness through Exercise

Wisdom from a Lifetime of Experiences

Choosing a Path

Expert Advice

Appealing Advice

Happy Thanksgiving 2013

Fluffy

Making Plans

Everyone isn't the Same

Real Food

The Hunger Games

Dressing to Please the Fat Bigots

You Can't Outrun Your Fork

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

Biggest Loser, an example of televised exercise fraud

Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance

All Goals Are Not Reachable For All People

What Does the Scale Say?

Weight Management - A Rubber Band

Calories: Males vs. Females

WHY Count Calories?

If it Involves Eating, It's a Diet

More on Intermittent Fasting

Unrealistic Expectations

Emotional Aspects of Obesity

Fear of Fat

Why We Diet

The End of 2012

Keeping the Weight Off

The Chubby Side of Normal

The Fat Trap - Follow-up

The Fat Trap

Set Point

Seduced by Food

The End of Overeating - Book Review

Beginning the Holiday Season

Healthful Eating?

The Simple Diet - Diet Review

More About Starvation Mode

The 5 Bite Diet - Diet Review

The Cookie Diet - Diet Review

A New Perspective

Obesity and Choice

Outrunning the Old Overweight You

What is Junk Food?

Points Worth Considering

Walk a Mile in MY Shoes

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)

A Fresh Start?

Is a Calorie just a Calorie?

Here in the Land of DietHobby

Sing Anyway

Bad Examples

Sweets for Breakfast?

When you've Got to Go.

New and Unique Dieting Plans

The Fat Trap

Weight-loss and Maintenance is Hard Work

Hunger After Weight-Loss

Consistency

The Two Parts of Wisdom

Pet Obesity?

Mutually Exclusive Goals

Slipping in Maintenance

The Endless Search for Why

Body Image

Weight Maintenance Challenges

Kindness and Body Image

Is Bingeing an Eating Disorder?

A Common Problem

Three Myths

Intermitting Fasting Success

Habits & Dieting

Success starts with Failure

Naturally Thin

In Denial

Concepts of Intuitive Eating - Diet Review

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Calorie Accountability

How Many Carbohydrates?

Experimenting with Diets

Berry Crepes

Not A Perfect World

Food Storage - A Diet Essential

Mild Chili Beans

Sweet & Sour Pork Chops

Almond Chocolate-Chip Ricotta

Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?

Turkey Roll-ups

Food Addiction

Hunger vs. Appetite

More About Leftovers and Portion Control

Conflicting Rules

Everything and Nothing

Meal Frequency - How Often Should I Eat?

Science Can't Prove What is True.

Weight Loss Surgery - 18 Years Ago

Dealing with Leftovers

What About Leftovers?

Recipe Categories

Ever Have One Of Those Days?

Update on Low-Carb Experiment-of-One

Disordered Eating

Value Judgment

Making Progress

Oatmeal Microwave Muffin

Chocolate Protein Cookie

Protein Cream Cupcake

Eggwhite Custard

Eggwhite Pancakes

Oatmeal Protein Pancakes

Eggwhite Mock Pancakes

Every Bite Counts

Portion Control

Some Things Take Time

My own Accountability

Determination

Video Shoot

An Endless Struggle

Normal, Overweight, or Obese?

Dedicated, not Obsessed

The Essence of Diets - Part Two

The No S Diet - Diet & Book Review

My First Cooking Videos

When Life Takes You In A Different Direction.

You Can Choose to Think Differently.

Dieting as a 'means to an end'.

Before Pictures

Taubes - Chapter 19 - Following Through

Taubes - Chapter 16 - History on the Fattening Carbohydrate

Taubes - Chapter 12 - Why I Get Fat and You Don't (or Vice Versa)

Taubes - Chapter 10 - History of Lipophilia

Taubes - Chapter 09 - Laws of Adiposity

Taubes - Chapter 08 - Head Cases

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?


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