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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.

HeartBreak and Outrage

On Vulnerability

Timeout

Three Obesity Types

Another Diet Book based on Wishful Thinking - Book Review

Help from Concerned Others can be very Unhelpful.

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”

I Know You Love Me - Now Let Me Die.

You Are Allowed.

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

It is Your Road.

Why Is This Happening? - October 2017

The Secret Life of Fat - Book Review

Fat Cells are Forever

Is BMI the same as BMR?

You Don't Understand & I Can't Explain

Story of My Life

Bloom and Let Bloom

Manipulating One's Body Size

Your Decisions

Our Weight is Regulated by Our Biological System

Calorie Restriction = Calorie Restriction.

Endurance

What Size Are You REALLY?

Reality Bites

Current Diet Guidelines

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

Eat Small to BE Small

Palm of the Hand

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

Dreams into Reality

Binge = Response to Starvation

Happily Ever After & Neuroscience

Status Update - February 2017

Eating Toward Immortality

Forgive

Cheer Up

Freedom in Maintenance

Portion Size & Measurements

Dishonest Praise

About the Scales

Balancing Values

Weight-Loss Alternative Facts

Secret Eating

Daily vs. Occasionally

3 x 3

Election Stress

After Careful Consideration

Blaming Others.

Technical Help - Seeing - Words of Wisdom

Diet Experts & My Opinion

Not Required

Confidence

Dieting: The Alternative

A Fork in the Road

Emotional Eating (2)

Another Chance

Train of Thought

Target Audience

Rule or Principle? - Internal vs. External Control

Permission Not Needed

Another Chance

The Truth Is:

The Finish Line

Growing Old Gracefully

My Petite Meals

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

Be Authentic?

Intermittent Fasting & the Dangling Carrot - Diet Review

Psysiology = Biology Messing with Physics

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

Good Food, Bad Food

That Lost Weight? The Body Finds it.

Every Other Day - Alternate Day Fasting

It is NOT a One-Size-Fits-All World

Another Fasting Experiment with ADF - JUDDD - EOD - QOD

Diet Books are Full of Lies

Emotional Eating

Burning Bridges

Now fly.

If Ophra Can't Do it, Can it Be Done?

Maybe Fat People are NOT Doing it Wrong

Weight Loss Goals

It works for YOU, but....

The Currency of Weight is Calories

Why I Don't Wear Makeup

Inner Voice

The Noise of Others' Opinions

Intermittent Fasting via 5-Bites

Projections about the Rate of Weight-Loss

A Truth to Remember

While Fasting

When Can Women Stop Trying to Look Perfect?

Why I Struggle for Weight-Loss and Maintenance of Weight-Loss

Happy New Year 2016

Weight Watchers 1972 & 2016 - Diet Review

It's a Shadow.

Experimenting with Subtraction

Body Weight Calculator - Timeline Projections

Eating Patterns - Morning vs Evening

How Big Pharma Lies to Us

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

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

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

What Others Think of You Doesn't Matter.

Does Fasting Make You Fat?

Distinctive Genetic Makeup

Eating Boundaries - New Experiment

Crying with a Cookie in Your Hand

Ongoing Dilemma

Your Thoughts and Feelings are Not About Anything

Self-help and Mental Techniques

DietHobby & The Three Principles

Cravings +

Other People's Nonsense

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

Taking Another Look at Traditional Psychology

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

I'm Not Going to Miss You

Natural Eating Perspective

Recommendation for Tiny Meal Portions - very low calorie eating

Eating Kale Doesn't Make You a Better Person.

Why?

Life's Story

Both Feet

Self Esteem

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

Size Diversity

Another Chance

Happy New Year 2015

New Years Eve 2014

I Say Nay Nay - John Pinette (2004)

Misconceptions about Regain of Weight-Loss

Life Happens

About Self-Control and the Marshmallow test

Something Different

There is Always ...

One Way or Another

Sometimes it's Best to Choose A Different Way

Is it REALLY up to me?

Walk the Walk

Paths Up the Mountain

Hanging On

Loving Myself

Alice in Hungerland

A Breathing, Living, Human Body

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

Use Another Road

The Dolly Diet - Diet Review

Time for a Reality Check

Freedom of Choice

Remember ... You Asked.

Easily Lost

Long-Term Weight-Loss Almost Impossible

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #01: People Lack Willpower

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #04: Do not Eat Unless You are Hungry

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #07: Some Foods Must be Forbidden

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

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

The Underpants Rule

Happy Birthday, Daughter

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

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

Fighting the Urge - Book Review

Sharing the Reasons for Our Food Choices

No Rescue Needed

Another Personal Truth:

Energy In and Energy Out

Hate to Exercise?

Food Diary Benefits

Going for it

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

The Hunger Games

It's not ME, It's YOU

Honesty

Imagine

Not Everyone

Health as an Obligation

Are you a Courteous, Healthy Eater?

Dressing to Please the Fat Bigots

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

Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance

Self-Image

Commitment

About Salt

All Goals Are Not Reachable For All People

Mother's Day 2013

Sad Cat Diary

What Does the Scale Say?

Weight Range Maintenance Plan Changes Again

Weight Management - A Rubber Band

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

Perfection Is The Lowest Standard We Can Set For Ourselves

I'll Be Happy WHEN...

Weighing in Public

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

Blame Butter?

Ditching Diets - Book Review

More on Intermittent Fasting

Calorie Dectective - Lying Food Labels

Healthy Eater?

Vegetables - One chip at a time?

Maintaining weight-loss

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.

Hoping for a Miracle?

How Often Should We Eat?

Diets Work

Foods to Avoid

Emotional Aspects of Obesity

Eat Healthy or Lose Weight?

Fear of Fat

Why We Diet

Individual Rules

The Finish Line

Another Good Day

The End of 2012

Keeping the Weight Off

Attitude About the Problem

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

Marketing Healthy

Set Point

History of the USDA Food Pyramid

Food History Timeline 1950-1980

Seduced by Food

Afraid To Do Things Wrong?

In Defense of Food - Book Review

Cultural Bias

Are GMO's Frankenfoods?

The End of Overeating - Book Review

Secrets of the Sugar Industry

Conflicting Views: Reviews of Diets and Books

Sometimes Hunger is a Lie

Beginning the Holiday Season

Healthful Eating?

The Simple Diet - Diet Review

The Fast-5 Diet - Diet Review

More About Starvation Mode

Another Faulty Inference of Causation

A Sustainable Alternative

What if modern Theories about Food & Digestion are Wacked.

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

Diet Cheat or Food Choice?

Obesity and Choice

A Beautiful Woman

A Reflection on Dieting Style

Seduction by Marketing Interests

Perfect is the Enemy of Good

What is Junk Food?

Points Worth Considering

A New Diet

Had Enough?

Perfect Health Diet - Book Review

Cutting Carbs? or Cutting Calories?

Walk a Mile in MY Shoes

The Common Ground to Success

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

Insanity?

In-Between-Meal Eating

You Can Do Hard Things

Brain Over Binge - Book Review

Binge Avoidance + Adaptive Thermogenesis

Running and Exercise Abuse

Eat Less Move More?

Snack Yourself Slim - Book Review

A Fresh Start?

Food Restrictions?

Perfectionism

Worlds Best Diet?

Is a Calorie just a Calorie?

It has a Price.

The Point of DietHobby?

Instinctive Resentment

Make Peace With What Is.

Here in the Land of DietHobby

Wisdom Takes Effort

Back to Work

Videos are Here

Past Portion Control

DietHobby YouTube Channel now Operational.

Cats Save YouTube

A Message from Grandma (May 2012)

Message from YouTube Grandma

Personal Behavior Choices

Choosing a Positive Focus

Status Update: YouTube is Still Broken

DietHobby Hacked

Being More Confident - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-six

Encouragement & Support

New DietHobby Features

Happy Mother's Day (2012)

When I Feel Empty

What is a Good Guest?

R U a Good Guest? - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-five

What Really Counts

No Clue

Out-of-Sorts

I wish I knew NOW

Making Lists

Want to be Happy?

Want 2 B Happy? - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-four

Content Review & Directory to DietHobby

DietHobby is now Back to Normal

You're Not Ugly - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-three

HOW RUDE!!! - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-two

What Love Feels Like - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-one

Time to End Relationship? - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty

Dealing with Rage - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-nine

Managing Depression - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-eight

Overcoming Shyness - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-seven

Does She Like Me? - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-six

Does He Like Me? - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-five

What Love Means - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-four

What is Courage? - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-three

Secrets of Communication - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-two

Haters, Trolls & Bullies - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-one

Friends Feel Frustrating - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty

Accepting Changes on YouTube - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-nine

Letting The Past Go - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-eight

YouTube Grandma Christmas (2011) - Ask Grandma

The Gift of Kindness - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-seven

Friendly Flirting - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-six

Losing a Loved One - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-five

When A Friend Lies - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-four

How to Make Friends - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-three

Justin Bieber & Michael Jackson - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-two

Getting Along With Parents - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-one

Teddy Bear Tea Party - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty

How to Attract a Boy - Ask Grandma - Episode Nineteen

How to Get a Girl - Ask Grandma - Episode Eighteen

Moving On After A Breakup - Ask Grandma - Episode Seventeen

School Bullies & Mending Relationships - Ask Grandma - Episode Sixteen

Crushes & Relationship Drama - Ask Grandma - Episode Fifteen

My Mother Doesn't Love Me - Ask Grandma - Episode Fourteen

I Like My Best Friend's Boyfriend - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirteen

You Are Stronger Than You Think - Ask Grandma - Episode Twelve

Kpop Music or Rock 'n Roll - Ask Grandma - Episode Eleven

How to get Subscribers on YouTube - Ask Grandma - Episode Ten

How Much is Enough? - Ask Grandma - Episode Nine

Cosmic Panda is A Bear Too - Ask Grandma - Episode Eight

Superstars Like Cookies - Ask Grandma - Episode Seven

Want to Know A Secret? - Ask Grandma - Episode Six

Cookies for You - Ask Grandma - Episode Five

Lifetime Changes - Ask Grandma - Episode Four

How Do I Tell My Mother? - Ask Grandma - Episode Three

Love Yourself First - Ask Grandma - Episode Two

Here to Answer Your Questions - Ask Grandma - Episode One

Vegetables and Artificial Sweeteners

Another New Beginning

Study of Literature on Weight-Loss Maintenance

Be Right or Be Kind?

Personal Worth

What is a Diet?

Cheesecake Sugar-Free

Mindless Eating

Bad Examples

DietHobby's One-Year Progress Report

Overcoming Perfectionism

Sweets for Breakfast?

What Other People Do.

I Want It All

The Same but Different

New and Unique Dieting Plans

Pleasing People

Expecting Perfection

Standing up to your Friends

Update on The No S Diet - Diet Review

The Fat Trap

Expectations

Indecision

French Toast on a Diet

Diet French Toast

Holiday Moderation

Holiday Season 2011

Intuitive Eating and the No S Diet

And So It Goes....

Pot Roast

The Skinny One

To Be Different

Chicken Crepes Recipe

Chicken Crepes

The Power of Momentum

Another Favorite Recipe

Sunday Before Thanksgiving

Working Hard

Computer Frustration

Willpower

Bread Substitute - Low-Carb

Oopsie Rolls

Unwecome Truths

Weight-loss and Maintenance is Hard Work

Salad for Lunch

Positive Power

Hunger After Weight-Loss

Checking In

Another Smoothie Recipe

Busy Times

Back Home Again

Breakfast Cookies

Cranberry Breakfast Cookies

The Donkey

Does Life Get in the Way?

Scheduling

Crab Salad

Consistency

Gratitude

Peach Bread

Peach Quick Bread

Burnout or Stress

Bingeing

Egg-White Salad - Surprisingly good

Eggwhite Salad

Lacking Inspiration?

Make sure it's YOUR goal.

The Two Parts of Wisdom

Differences: Successful or Unsuccessful?

Food Choices

Redefining Normal

Trust Yourself?

We Deserve Love

Setting Goals

Frustration

Our Own Approval

Discipline or Self-Discipline

Mutually Exclusive Goals

Choices and Responsibility

Experiment of One

Simplicity

Normal

Staying Open to New Information

What's Important?

No Point in Dieting?

Body Image

Weight Maintenance Challenges

The Ultimate Goal

Tips and Inspiration

Be Kind to Yourself

Kindness and Body Image

Is Bingeing an Eating Disorder?

A Change

Stress

Work, Love, Dance

At Vidcon

Going to VidCon

Dealing with Setbacks

The Space Between

Establishing Habits

A Common Problem

Maintenance As Compared to Weight-Loss

Monday Morning

Trust a Few

There's no Generic Plan

Think Differently

What One Believes

Awareness and Confidence

How Often Should We Eat?

What I CAN do

Behavior Choices

More About Attitude

Dieting a 24/7 commitment

Greed

Fall on your face

Someday

Friends

Better than what?

Our Ideal Self

Barefoot Running

Judging Myself

Intermitting Fasting Success

Living in the Moment

Beauty is Subjective

Who We Can Be

Habits & Dieting

Protein Requirement

Lucky?

Off-Line Data Storage

The Best Diet Plan

Our Expression

Being Myself

Changing Myself

Blame It On The Puritans

Inspiration - Diet & Book Reviews

Forgiveness

Love Yourself

Making Mistakes

Loss

Serenity

Belief In Oneself

Happy Mother's Day

Biggest Loser and Jillian Michaels - Diet Review

In Denial

Rule or Suggestion?

Love Yourself

Paying The Price

An Individual Call

Concepts of Intuitive Eating - Diet Review

New Beginings

Goal Setting

Chili Cheese Cubes

Sugar Binges

Sausage Egg Bowl

Nobody's Perfect

Calorie Accountability

39 Years Later

Experimenting with Diets

Eggs Aren't Only For Easter

Becoming The Person You Want To Be

Berry Crepes

Calorie Counting

Food Storage - A Diet Essential

Starvation Mode

Sweet & Sour Pork Chops

More About the BMI

Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?

Turkey Roll-ups

Hunger vs. Appetite

Everything and Nothing

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

Update on Low-Carb Experiment-of-One

Disordered Eating

Value Judgment

Eggwhite Pancakes

Oatmeal Protein Pancakes

Eggwhite Mock Pancakes

Every Bite Counts

Portion Control

My own Accountability

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

Recording Food Intake - Counting Calories and/or Carbs

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

Imaginary Friends

Online Friends

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 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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