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A Single Step

The Root of Joy is Gratefulness

Contemplating Life

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

Every Day

HeartBreak and Outrage

On Vulnerability

Timeout

So Many Lies

Three Obesity Types

I am Complete.

An Alternative Solution to the Body-Size Problem

My Preferences Matter

Dieting is So Much Harder than it Looks.

Winner of the “5 Percent Lottery of Hell”

Intuitive Eating and Weight Loss - Diet Review

I Know You Love Me - Now Let Me Die.

Exhaustion of Old Age

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

Why Is This Happening? - October 2017

The Secret Life of Fat - Book Review

Weight Range Mantenance Plan

Parenting

Status Update - September 2017

Summer Experiment 2017

You Don't Understand & I Can't Explain

Manipulating One's Body Size

Our Weight is Regulated by Our Biological System

Calorie Restriction = Calorie Restriction.

What Size Are You REALLY?

The Angry Chef - Book Review

Current Diet Guidelines

Hold On

Is it a Plateau?

Consistency is Not Perfection

Calorie Balance

Dieting = Treatment of Obesity

Food is Not the Enemy

Status Update - June 2017

No One-Size-Fits-All Diet Journey

Eat Small to BE Small

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

Choosing What to See

Choosing a Direction

True Love

Binge = Response to Starvation

Surprising Oneself

Happily Ever After & Neuroscience

Status Update - February 2017

Eating Toward Immortality

Freedom in Maintenance

Portion Size & Measurements

Photo Examples of Food Experiments

Food Deprivation

About the Scales

Balancing Values

Weight-Loss Alternative Facts

3 x 3

Turn the Page or Close the Book?

Common Sense Missing

Election Stress

Downright Inspiring.

Enough is Enough

Technical Help - Seeing - Words of Wisdom

Diet Experts & My Opinion

Gratitude Expressed

Dieting: The Alternative

A Fork in the Road

Emotional Eating (2)

Target Audience

Rule or Principle? - Internal vs. External Control

Permission Not Needed

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

Growing Old Gracefully

My Petite Meals

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

Be Authentic?

Intermittent Fasting & the Dangling Carrot - Diet Review

My Status - May 2016 Maintenance

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.

Another Fasting Experiment with ADF - JUDDD - EOD - QOD

Diet Books are Full of Lies

Emotional Eating

A Single Step

Before & After Photos - Weight History

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

Maybe Fat People are NOT Doing it Wrong

Weight Loss Goals

The Currency of Weight is Calories

Many Common Phrases Just Aren't True

Why I Don't Wear Makeup

Walking Away

Inner Voice

ME Talking About ME

Dieting as Suffering

Projections about the Rate of Weight-Loss

A Truth to Remember

When Can Women Stop Trying to Look Perfect?

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

The First Question is....

Weight Watchers 1972 & 2016 - Diet Review

Bingo !!!

It's a Shadow.

Body Weight Calculator - Timeline Projections

Do Low-Calorie Sweetners Equal Weight-Gain?

Review of the Three Principle Concept - Diet Review

Body of Truth - Book Review

Effortless Change

Overweight means you live longer.

Fasting and Hunger

All the Other Days

Deep Questions

My Fantasy

Hard Decisions

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

Let Me Tell You

Helpful Fasting Information

52 Signs You are a Low Carber

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

Why Are Fat People Hungry?

Does Fasting Make You Fat?

About Giving Advice to Fat People

Eating Boundaries - New Experiment

My Body = Not Your Business

Crying with a Cookie in Your Hand

Your Thoughts and Feelings are Not About Anything

Dealing with Unrealistic Body Image Expectations

10 Limiting Beliefs I'm Done With

Self-help and Mental Techniques

Cravings +

The Inside-Out Revolution - Book Review

Addicted to What...?

Things You Don't Owe Anybody

No BEFORE - No AFTER - Only DURING

The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss

Freedom and Calorie Counting

Change your DEFINITION - Eliminate your PROBLEM

The Underpants Rule - Revisited

Mind Your Own Business

Why Do Dieters Regain Their Lost Weight?

Biological Adaptations that Promote Weight Regain

Giving Diets the Finger

DIET AD BINGO

I'm Not Going to Miss You

Correct My Mind?

Failed Diets and Current Maintenance Status

Natural Eating Perspective

Eating Kale Doesn't Make You a Better Person.

Why?

No Facts or Evidence

Size Diversity

Crap Overload

Still Hard After Nine Years of Maintenance

Quitting Smoking is NOT Comparable to Losing Weight.

My Opinion

Perspective

Thin for the Holidays?

About Self-Control and the Marshmallow test

Impossibly Perfect, the Tyranny of Ideal Beauty

Embracing Imperfections as a Path to Success

Alice in Hungerland

Beauty is Subjective

It's in the Regrigerator

Scrapbooking on DietHobby

The Dolly Diet - Diet Review

Time for a Reality Check

It's HARD

Freedom of Choice

Why do people keep believing things that are obviously untrue?

Remember ... You Asked.

Long-Term Weight-Loss Almost Impossible

The Diet Fix, Why Diets Fail, How to Make Yours Work - Book Review

Diet Fix - Book Review

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #05: Forks Can Be OutRun

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #06: Cheat Days Are Wise

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #09: Muscle Gain Outweighs Loss

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #11: There are Bottles Full of Weight-Loss

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

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

Questions about Health & Weight

Energy In and Energy Out

Hate to Exercise?

Food Diary Benefits

No Goals?

Overruling the Body

It is STILL a Diet

Maintenance Status Report - January 2014

Would it be Easier to be Thin?

Liars

Choosing a Path

Everyone isn't the Same

Real Food

MORE Healthy Eating

It's not ME, It's YOU

Honesty

Imagine

What about all that Blah, Blah, Blah

Are you a Courteous, Healthy Eater?

Dressing to Please the Fat Bigots

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

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

Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance

About Salt

All Goals Are Not Reachable For All People

Mother's Day 2013

Sad Cat Diary

150 Pounds

Weight Management - A Rubber Band

Choosing

Food as Fuel?

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

Interpretating Peptides, Food Intake, and Body Weight

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

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

Ditching Diets - Book Review

More on Intermittent Fasting

Calorie Dectective - Lying Food Labels

Healthy Eater?

Diets Long-Term

No Cure

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?

We Are Going to Die.

Diets Work

Emotional Aspects of Obesity

Effort Shock

Eat Healthy or Lose Weight?

Extra Food because I Exercised

Grounded in Reality

Sugared-water's Fight Against Obesity

Advertising Guidelines???

Using Reason

Fear of Fat

Why We Diet

The Finish Line

Boycotting Advertisers

The End of 2012

Keeping the Weight Off

Attitude About the Problem

Health Experts

What To Do?

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

Are GMO's Frankenfoods?

The End of Overeating - Book Review

One can Entertain a Thought Without Accepting it.

Conflicting Views: Reviews of Diets and Books

The Truth

The WillPower Instinct - Book Review

Sometimes Hunger is a Lie

No S Diet vs. Intuitive Eating - Diet Review

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

Another Faulty Inference of Causation

A Sustainable Alternative

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

Obesity and Choice

A Reflection on Dieting Style

Outrunning the Old Overweight You

Seduction by Marketing Interests

Perfect is the Enemy of Good

What is Junk Food?

Points Worth Considering

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

Is There A Right Way?

Wheat Belly - Book Review

Alternate Day Eating - Johnson's Up Day Down Day Diet (JUDDD) - Diet Review

Insanity?

In-Between-Meal Eating

Brain Over Binge - Book Review

Binge Avoidance + Adaptive Thermogenesis

Realities of Weight-Loss Maintenance

Twisted & Inappropriate but Funny

Running and Exercise Abuse

Eat Less Move More?

Journaling & Keeping Records

How Little It Takes

Snack Yourself Slim - Book Review

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.

Grandma's Missing Videos - Ask Grandma - Episode Fifty

Instinctive Resentment

Here in the Land of DietHobby

The Path to Thinness and Health

Back to Work

More About Priorities

Videos are Here

Choosing a Positive Focus

Sing Anyway

Change in my Weight Range Maintenance Plan

Weight-Loss in a Nutshell

It's a Good Day

Making Lists

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

Shrimp Avocado Salad Recipe

Shrimp Avocado Salad

Adding New Section to DietHobby

Happy Easter 2012

Vegetables and Artificial Sweeteners

Sing Anyway

Study of Literature on Weight-Loss Maintenance

All or Nothing

Managing Depression

Power of Habits

Thinking about Habits

What is a Diet?

Mindful Eating

Mindless Eating

Bad Examples

Choosing Our Focus

Maintaining Enthusiasm

Choosing My Attitude

DietHobby's One-Year Progress Report

Cinnamon Bread Pudding

Portion Size Awareness

The Same but Different

When you've Got to Go.

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

Accepting Responsibility

Intuitive Eating and the No S Diet

The Skinny One

To Be Different

Chicken Crepes Recipe

Another Favorite Recipe

Working Hard

Basic Diet Information from YouTube Grandma

Computer Frustration

Willpower

Oopsie Rolls

Weight-loss and Maintenance is Hard Work

Repairs

Hunger After Weight-Loss

Checking In

Suprising Oneself

Cranberry Breakfast Cookies

Joyful

Does Life Get in the Way?

Goals

What is Portion Control?

Burnout or Stress

Cleverness

Egg-White Salad - Surprisingly good

Make sure it's YOUR goal.

The Two Parts of Wisdom

Redefining Normal

We Deserve Love

What is Hope?

Frustration

Mutually Exclusive Goals

Choices and Responsibility

Slipping in Maintenance

Chinese Chicken Salad

Normal

Staying Open to New Information

Snack Foods

Not a Bed of Roses

Binge Eating

Building a Habit takes Energy.

Making Decisions

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

Hunger, Appetite, and Cravings

The Ultimate Goal

Sorting Through Nutritional Information

Kindness and Body Image

Is Bingeing an Eating Disorder?

Stress

At Vidcon

Going to VidCon

Courage

Dealing with Setbacks

A Common Problem

Maintenance As Compared to Weight-Loss

Three Myths

Trust a Few

There's no Generic Plan

What I CAN do

Habits

Fall on your face

Someday

Friends

Doing the Impossible

Planning-1

Judging Myself

Beauty is Subjective

Habits & Dieting

Protein Requirement

Off-Line Data Storage

The Best Diet Plan

Gratitude

Beauty

The Power Of Choice

Stress Relief

Blame It On The Puritans

Inspiration - Diet & Book Reviews

Love Yourself

Belief In Oneself

Courage To Continue

Naturally Thin

In Denial

Love Yourself

The Power to Change

An Individual Call

A New Normal

Words Are Labels For Concepts

Recipes When Tracking Food

Nobody's Perfect

39 Years Later

Tuna Salad

How Many Carbohydrates?

Experimenting with Diets

Eggs Aren't Only For Easter

Not A Perfect World

Food Storage - A Diet Essential

More About the BMI

Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?

Food Addiction

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?

What About Leftovers?

Update on Low-Carb Experiment-of-One

Disordered Eating

Value Judgment

Making Progress

Every Bite Counts

Portion Control

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 One

An Individual Fit

The No S Diet - Diet & Book Review

Online Forums - A Useful Dieting Support Tool.

You Can Choose to Think Differently.

Recording Food Intake - Counting Calories and/or Carbs

A Peek Into My Life

Setting a Goal Weight Range

The Scale and the Big Picture

What About the Scales?

A Thousand Words AND Pictures

Welcome to my World

Happy Valentine's Day

Dieting as a 'means to an end'.

Imaginary Friends

An Experiment of One

Dieting is my Hobby.

Taubes - z - Appendix - Example of a Low-Carbohydrate diet

Taubes - Chapter 19 - Following Through

Taubes - Chapter 18 - Nature of a Healthy Diet

Taubes - Chapter 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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