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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

Set Point Explained

Adulthood

Just Stop It?

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

Thankful

Every Day

Unattainable Goal

Hold On

HeartBreak and Outrage

On Vulnerability

Living Life

Timeout

Too Much Laundry

Three Obesity Types

Tough Choice

Walking the Tightrope

2018 - Year of the Dog

A Lovely Normal Old Lady

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”

Status Update - January 2018

I Know You Love Me - Now Let Me Die.

Experimenting with Food Portion Sizes

Time to Stop Fighting for a Spot

Unmet Expectations

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

Shooting the Messenger Does Not Solve the Problem.

Pets at Halloween

Tiny Dishes for Petite Meals

No Path

The Value of Food Photos

Travel Conditions

Stand Alone

Why Is This Happening? - October 2017

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

Patience Defined

Your Decisions

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?

Dealing with a Donut.

Whatever It Takes

Fat vs. the Flavor

It Just Blooms.

Desire + Hunger

Eating Behavior

Your Body

Daily vs. Occasionally

Patience Defined

Tenacity

3 x 3

Moving Forward

Time for Tiny Meals

Overcoming Obstacles

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

Emotional Eating (2)

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?

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

Intermittent Fasting & the Dangling Carrot - Diet Review

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

The Solution

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

Good Food, Bad Food

That Lost Weight? The Body Finds it.

Woking: to Stay on the Road and to Move Forward

Honest Medical Advice

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

Love is an Emotion which Includes Feelings of Attraction and Affection.

Food Tastes Good

We Need Food

Food is Important to Most People.

Food is More than Fuel

Reward: Something Good you Get for Something Good you've Done

In General ... I Tend to Agree.

Yeah, Ophra, Me Too.

Me & Intermittent Fasting

Waiting to Eat

A Contradiction in Terms

Following Instructions

Dieting Wisdom

A Single Step

Before & After Photos - Weight History

Burning Bridges

Sometimes you just have to Make Your Own Road

Dear Weight-loss Medical Experts:

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

Your Feelings

Many Common Phrases Just Aren't True

Why I Don't Wear Makeup

Just One Bite

Walking Away

Inner Voice

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

So She Did

Stubborn, yet Flexible

Spending My Time Reading Books

While Fasting

When Can Women Stop Trying to Look Perfect?

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

Next Question....

The First Question is....

This Would Not Be a Sustainable Diet for Me.

How I Spent the Holidays

How Bad Do You Want It?

Day 1 Completed

Weight Watchers 1972 & 2016 - Diet Review

Merry Christmas

Christmas Eve 2015

I'm Just Saying... (reminder to self)

Every Struggle

Bingo !!!

It's a Shadow.

Experimenting with Subtraction

Body Weight Calculator - Timeline Projections

Eating Patterns - Morning vs Evening

In Tune with your Body???

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

When to Eat

Overweight means you live longer.

Moderation

Fasting and Hunger

All the Other Days

Deep Questions

The Problem with Poodle Science

Slabs of Marble

My Fantasy

Hard Decisions

A Thought Pops Up

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

Are You Hungry?

The Collins Family Heritage

Let Me Tell You

Helpful Fasting Information

Kind or Quiet

Why Peoples Opinions of You Aren't Real

More Cats

Holiday Plans

Just Move On

Anyone Who Eats Food Will Die.

Current Diet Experimentation

The Thrill is Gone

Cat & Turtle Tag

Perspective 101

Superpower

Brutal Diet Recommendations

What Skinny Feels Like

A Simple Way to Stay Happy

Starving Works

How It Feels.

The Way We Look at Things.

Opinions & Perspectives

What to Eat?

BMI Classifications and Emotional Eating

Keep Your CONCERN to Yourself

If I had Millions of Dollars ....

Plan vs. Reality

Ten Steps to Eating Perfectly

Venus Cattrap

Kitten Copies Mama Cat

End of the Line

Love

Dark Chocolate Is Not Good For You And Also Sucks

A Second Opinion

My Purpose

Reaching Goal Weight

The Mouse Trap Diet

Does Fasting Make You Fat?

Myths vs. Facts

About Giving Advice to Fat People

Distinctive Genetic Makeup

Crying with a Cookie in Your Hand

Ongoing Dilemma

She Let Go

Your Thoughts and Feelings are Not About Anything

10 Limiting Beliefs I'm Done With

The Voice Inside

Self-help and Mental Techniques

Cravings +

Memorial Day - 2015

On Vacation

Other People's Nonsense

Goals & BubbleGum

Beliefs

Starbucks

Digital Scrapbooking Issue

Navigation Issues - 3 Principles (plus More)

A Matter of Perspective

Things You Don't Owe Anybody

No BEFORE - No AFTER - Only DURING

If you are Alive and Conscious...

Self-Talk

What is Right for YOU

Now

The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss

Taking Another Look at Traditional Psychology

Freedom and Calorie Counting

Working on Myself

Let It Go

A Pig for Cookies

Journey to Freedom

Change your DEFINITION - Eliminate your PROBLEM

The Underpants Rule - Revisited

Biological Adaptations that Promote Weight Regain

Giving Diets the Finger

Being Negative

DIET AD BINGO

The Present Moment

Failed Diets and Current Maintenance Status

Natural Eating Perspective

Be Yourself Anyway - It's a Good Thing

Recommendation for Tiny Meal Portions - very low calorie eating

Eating Kale Doesn't Make You a Better Person.

I Love My Body

Why?

Life's Story

What to Shoot For.

Both Feet

Monday Cancelled

Body Image & Function: Acceptance vs. Complacency

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

Crap Overload

Not Cats

I Say Nay Nay - John Pinette (2004)

Best Friends

Weight Gain

Quitting Smoking is NOT Comparable to Losing Weight.

Misconceptions about Regain of Weight-Loss

Are you a Master or a Beginner?

Weight-loss and Maintenance is a Journey AND . . .

What Kind of Dog Are You?

Move on

My Opinion

Perspective

The Sound of Wrong

About Self-Control and the Marshmallow test

Is it REALLY up to me?

Positivity Rules

Mathematics of Weight-Loss

Challenge Accepted

My Thoughts

Walk the Walk

Paths Up the Mountain

Hanging On

Embracing Imperfections as a Path to Success

Loving Myself

Alice in Hungerland

The Numerical Value of Your Gravitational Pull

A Breathing, Living, Human Body

Don't Mention It

Irrational Expectations (Part 1)

Beauty is Subjective

Progress has an Enemy

Good Advice

Change or Stay the Same?

A Decision to Change

Why Dieting is Hard

Moving Forward

When's my Break?

Opinion vs. Fact

Noise

Scrapbooking on DietHobby

Leaving Where You Are

Not One Moment Sooner

Acceptance - AA Big Book, page 417

Independence Day - 2014

Something You've Never Done

Can't Stop the Waves

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?

Good Things are Coming

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 #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

Happy Easter 2014

Delicate Dainty Meals

Calorie Denialism

Discipline

My cat, Layla

More About the Starvation Mode Myth

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

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

Fighting the Urge - Book Review

No Rescue Needed

Another Personal Truth:

Insanity

Questions about Health & Weight

Energy In and Energy Out

Hate to Exercise?

Food Diary Benefits

No Goals?

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

Try This Way

Choosing a Path

Real Food

MORE Healthy Eating

It's not ME, It's YOU

Honesty

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

Unique

You Can't Outrun Your Fork

A Calorie Deficit?

Exercising Patience

Designed to show a False Result? - Research Project of Gary Taubes / NUSI

Conflicting Desires

On the Right Track

Marketing Problem

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

Bucking the Tide

Slow Progress

When Your Past Calls.

Status Update - August 2013

Learning Curve

My Choice

Footprints

Born on the Finish Line

My Summer of '68 online vacation continues....

Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance

Self-Image

Commitment

My Baby Sister's Birthday

Ever try THIS diet?

Success is in my Future

Tell It Like It Is

Conflicting Desires

A Longer Life due to Healthy Living?

Hard, but Not Impossible

The Consequences of Choices

Continue On

Summer of 68

Our Power

Movie Trailer for DietHobby

About Salt

All Goals Are Not Reachable For All People

Mother's Day 2013

Sad Cat Diary

Hearing the Music

150 Pounds

What Does the Scale Say?

Be Who You Are

Weight Range Maintenance Plan Changes Again

Weight Management - A Rubber Band

Choosing

Food as Fuel?

Choices Made

Life is a Balance

My Reality

DietHobby, my Digital Scrapbook

Calories: Males vs. Females

So Often True

The Wrong Path

Body Acceptance

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

Release the Stress

Monday After Easter 2013

Perfection Is The Lowest Standard We Can Set For Ourselves

Change my LIFE?

Today

I'll Be Happy WHEN...

What To DO?

If it Involves Eating, It's a Diet

More About Calories

Building New Habits

Breaking Bad Habits

Fighting Fire with Fire

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

Blogging About Nothing

Accurate Scale Results

The Science of Addictive Foods

Giving Advice

Blame Butter?

Expectations

Following Through

Ditching Diets - Book Review

Positive Thinking

More on Intermittent Fasting

Calorie Dectective - Lying Food Labels

Healthy Eater?

Vegetables - One chip at a time?

Persistence, not Perfection.

Diets Long-Term

Maintaining weight-loss

The Gorilla's Not Tired.

What's REALLY the Problem?

No Cure

Heart and Brain

Valentine's Day 2013

Does Eating Fruit and Veggies Lower Weight?

Being Thankful

WheatBelly - Another Review

Appreciate What You Have

You Laugh Until You Cry

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.

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

Grounded in Reality

Give it a try

Kindness

Sugared-water's Fight Against Obesity

Advertising Guidelines???

Using Reason

Fear of Fat

Weight Loss Promises

Searching for Your Diet

Why We Diet

Individual Rules

The Finish Line

Remember

New Year's Resolutions - 2013

Boycotting Advertisers

Another Good Day

Happy New Year 2013

The End of 2012

Keeping the Weight Off

Thoughtful Reduction

Attitude About the Problem

Health Experts

Thoughts About Hunger

Christmas 2012

Christmas Eve 2012

The Kitten, Layla

What To Do?

Birthday

Calories - Paleo, Low-Carb

Do Calories Matter?

Why is it so Hard to Keep Weight Off?

Two Experts at Stanford University - Dec 2012

O Christmas Tree

One-Size-Fits-All ... Not!

Take what you like, and leave the rest

The Chubby Side of Normal

The Fat Trap - Follow-up

The Fat Trap

Marketing Healthy

Set Point

Keep On

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?

Thanksgiving 2012

In Memory of Boodie

Afraid To Do Things Wrong?

Serving Sizes

In Defense of Food - Book Review

Cultural Bias

Are GMO's Frankenfoods?

Social Pressure from the High Priests of Healthy Eating

Veteran's Day 2012

Accepting the Truth

The End of Overeating - Book Review

One can Entertain a Thought Without Accepting it.

Secrets of the Sugar Industry

Conflicting Views: Reviews of Diets and Books

The WillPower Instinct - Book Review

Sometimes Hunger is a Lie

Beginning the Holiday Season

Healthful Eating?

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.

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

Perfect is the Enemy of Good

What is Junk Food?

Going to the Gym

Points Worth Considering

A New Diet

Perfect Health Diet - Book Review

Cutting Carbs? or Cutting Calories?

Walk a Mile in MY Shoes

The Common Ground to Success

Diet Coke

Experiment of One - Current

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?

Perfectionism

Making Choices

Worlds Best Diet?

The Point of DietHobby?

Perserverance and Real Integrity

Instinctive Resentment

Make Peace With What Is.

Here in the Land of DietHobby

The Path to Thinness and Health

Back to Work

Buttons for VidCon 2012

More About Priorities

Videos are Here

Leave the Rest

Past Portion Control

DietHobby YouTube Channel now Operational.

Cats Save YouTube

Personal Behavior Choices

Choosing a Positive Focus

DietHobby Hacked

Encouragement & Support

New DietHobby Features

Happy Mother's Day (2012)

Change in my Weight Range Maintenance Plan

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

Loving Myself

Weight-Loss in a Nutshell

What Really Counts

It's a Good Day

No Clue

Out-of-Sorts

Mini Chocolate Chip Cheesecakes Recipe

Mini Chocolate Chip Cheesecakes

Making Lists

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

Spring Cleaning?

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

Shrimp Avocado Salad Recipe

Shrimp Avocado Salad

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

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

Adding New Section to DietHobby

Here to Answer Your Questions - Ask Grandma - Episode One

Happy Easter 2012

On The Right Track

Vegetables and Artificial Sweeteners

Highlighting - Extra Calories

Extra Calories

Another New Beginning

Sing Anyway

Saying Nothing

Answering - What is a Calorie?

What is a Calorle?

Baked Potato (White or Sweet) Recipe

Baked Potato (White or Sweet)

Study of Literature on Weight-Loss Maintenance

Self-Talk

I Don't Feel Like It.

Bodyweight Percentages

Be Right or Be Kind?

All or Nothing

Roasted Chicken Thighs Recipe

Roasted Chicken Thighs

Managing Depression

Power of Habits

Thinking about Habits

What is Food?

Personal Worth

What is a Diet?

Cheesecake Sugar-Free Recipe

Cheesecake Sugar-Free

Mindful Eating

Mindless Eating

What is a Diet?

Bad Examples

A Person of Value

Pork Chops with Onions Recipe

Pork Chops with Onions

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Me After Weight Loss

Weight Loss History

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Diet Books

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DietHobby's One-Year Progress Report

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Happy Valentine's Day

Cinnamon Bread Pudding Recipe

Cinnamon Bread Pudding

What Love Means

Sweets for Breakfast?

Portion Size Awareness

What Other People Do.

Patience Needed

What I'm Reading Today

Tuna Noodle Casserole Recipe

Tuna Noodle Casserole

Low-Carb Experimentation - Diet Review

What is Courage?

I Want It All

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The Same but Different

Fish in Foil Recipe

Fish in Foil

Power of Visualization

When you've Got to Go.

New and Unique Dieting Plans

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Oatmeal Banana Muffin Recipe

Oatmeal Banana Muffin

In Detroit

Vanilla Baked Apple Recipe

Vanilla Baked Apple

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Standing up to your Friends

Update on The No S Diet - Diet Review

Vegetable Soup Recipe

Vegetable Soup

The Fat Trap

Expectations

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French Toast on a Diet

Diet French Toast

Happy New Year 2012

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Pineapple Coconut Cake

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Chocolate Chip Cookies

Accepting Responsibility

Holiday Season 2011

Intuitive Eating and the No S Diet

You are what you think

Meal in a Dish

And So It Goes....

Pot Roast Recipe

Pot Roast

Do Diets Work?

The Skinny One

To Be Different

Chicken Crepes Recipe

Chicken Crepes

Saturday After Thanksgiving

The Power of Momentum

The Day Before Thanksgiving

Another Favorite Recipe

Chicken Rice Dinner

Sunday Before Thanksgiving

Working Hard

Basic Diet Information from YouTube Grandma

Buddha Take

Selfishness

Computer Frustration

Grandma's Goulash

A Powerful Combination

Willpower

What About Dieting?

Tomorrow and Today

Bread Substitute - Low-Carb

Oopsie Rolls

Unwecome Truths

Weight-loss and Maintenance is Hard Work

Repairs

Salad for Lunch

Apple Tuna Salad

Happy Halloween

Positive Power

Hunger After Weight-Loss

Checking In

Another Smoothie Recipe

Strawberry Banana Smoothie

Busy Times

Suprising Oneself

Back Home Again

Breakfast Cookies

Cranberry Breakfast Cookies

The Donkey

Joyful

Does Life Get in the Way?

Goals

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Crab Salad

Creamy Crab Salad

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Gratitude

What is Portion Control?

It's Fall

Peach Bread

Peach Quick Bread

Burnout or Stress

Self-Respect

Bingeing

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Calories vs. Money

Egg-White Salad - Surprisingly good

It's Monday Again

Eggwhite Salad

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Lacking Inspiration?

Make sure it's YOUR goal.

I Think I Can

The Two Parts of Wisdom

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Food Choices

Oatmeal Banana Nut Bars

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Pet Obesity?

Trust Yourself?

We Deserve Love

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DietHobby Recipes

Taco Salad

Processed Foods Are Powerful

What is Hope?

Frustration

Our Own Approval

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Mutually Exclusive Goals

Crispy White Pizza

Labor Day Weekend

Forget Your Diet?

Choices and Responsibility

Slipping in Maintenance

Experiment of One

Simplicity

Chinese Chicken Salad

Normal

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Snack Foods

Not a Bed of Roses

Binge Eating

Building a Habit takes Energy.

Making Decisions

Chocolate Cinnamon Bread Pudding

It feels hard because it IS hard.

What Do you Say To Yourself?

Feeling Uninspired

The Endless Search for Why

What's Important?

No Point in Dieting?

Recovery

Vinaigerette Dressing

Self-Acceptance

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Weight Maintenance Challenges

Hunger, Appetite, and Cravings

Live and Learn?

The Ultimate Goal

Tips and Inspiration

Be Kind to Yourself

Chocolate Milkshake

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Kindness and Body Image

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A Change

Stress

Finish each day and be done with it.

Work, Love, Dance

Wisdom with Age?

At Vidcon

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The Space Between

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Regrets?

A Common Problem

Maintenance As Compared to Weight-Loss

Our Thoughts Make Our World

Monday Morning

Three Myths

Diet Cookies for YouTube

Trust a Few

There's no Generic Plan

Think Differently

What One Believes

Real Confidence

Awareness and Confidence

How Often Should We Eat?

What I CAN do

The person you were meant to be

Behavior Choices

Anything is possible...but with qualifications

More About Attitude

Dieting a 24/7 commitment

Habits

Greed

Fall on your face

Someday

Be Who You Are

Do it

Friends

Better than what?

Our Ideal Self

The Present

Doing the Impossible

It's my choice

Ride Out The Wave

In Our Hands

Behavior and Results-2

Behavior and Results-1

What We See

Changes Happen Every Day

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Planning-1

When is it time to quit?

Barefoot Running

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Good Friends

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Beauty is Subjective

Hope

Who We Can Be

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Protein Requirement

Guidelines for DietHobby

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Success starts with Failure

It's Up To Me

Off-Line Data Storage

The Best Diet Plan

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Changing Myself

Gratitude

Beauty

The Power Of Choice

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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

Sweet Potato & Black Beans

Belief In Oneself

Courage To Continue

Hard?

Naturally Thin

Happy Mother's Day

Biggest Loser and Jillian Michaels - Diet Review

In Denial

Rule or Suggestion?

Behavior vs Results

Six Yogurt and Sides

Perseverance

Love Yourself

Paying The Price

The Power to Change

An Individual Call

Trust

Chicken Waldorf Salad

Concepts of Intuitive Eating - Diet Review

Obession With Dieting

Positive Thinking

A New Normal

New Beginings

Words Are Labels For Concepts

Goal Setting

Healthy Brownies

Chili Cheese Cubes

Sugar Binges

Over The Long Haul

Sausage Egg Bowl

Goals Don't Come Easy.

Storing Cakes

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

Veggie Tray

How Many Carbohydrates?

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

Not A Perfect World

Calorie Counting

Asparagus with Hollandaise Sauce

Food Storage - A Diet Essential

Storing Pie

Starvation Mode

Mild Chili Beans

Sweet & Sour Pork Chops

More About the BMI

Almond Chocolate-Chip Ricotta

Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?

Turkey Roll-ups

Food Addiction

Six Cereal, Bars, and Nuts

Hunger vs. Appetite

Peanut Butter Crunch Cookies

Giving Up Is Not An Option

More About Leftovers and Portion Control

Tuna Melt Sandwich

Conflicting Rules

Peanut Butter Toast

Everything and Nothing

Egg Bacon Veggie Scramble

Meal Frequency - How Often Should I Eat?

Six Cheese and Sides

Science Can't Prove What is True.

Diet Books and Reviews

Weight Loss Surgery - 18 Years Ago

How Many Calories Can I Eat?

Dealing with Leftovers

What About Leftovers?

Recipe Categories

Cheeseburger Pie

Ever Have One Of Those Days?

Update on Low-Carb Experiment-of-One

Life Keeps Changing

Disordered Eating

Food and Money

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

Normal, Overweight, or Obese?

So You Want To Lose Weight?

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

My First Cooking Videos

When Life Takes You In A Different Direction.

Recording Food Intake - Counting Calories and/or Carbs

Setting a Goal Weight Range

The Scale and the Big Picture

What About the Scales?

Welcome to my World

Happy Valentine's Day

Dieting as a 'means to an end'.

Online Friends

My Plan is to Say It Here

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 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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