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Every Day

Hold On

HeartBreak and Outrage

On Vulnerability

Three Obesity Types

Another Diet Book based on Wishful Thinking - Book Review

I am Complete.

An Alternative Solution to the Body-Size Problem

My Preferences Matter

Dieting is So Much Harder than it Looks.

Wishful Thinking: Erroneous Belief

Babies Eat Intuitively

Winner of the “5 Percent Lottery of Hell”

Intuitive Eating and Weight Loss - Diet Review

I Know You Love Me - Now Let Me Die.

Unrealistic Expectations - False Hope Syndrome

Dreams Do NOT Always Come True

Healthism: the modern religion

Shooting the Messenger Does Not Solve the Problem.

Why Is This Happening? - October 2017

Body Acceptance Lesson 1

You Can't Fix Stupid.

A Plan

Positive Thinking

Status Update - September 2017

Manipulating One's Body Size

Thinking About Food

Our Weight is Regulated by Our Biological System

Calorie Restriction = Calorie Restriction.

The Angry Chef - Book Review

Current Diet Guidelines

Is it a Plateau?

Calorie Balance

Formula for Weight-Loss Success

Dieting = Treatment of Obesity

Am I Satisfied With My Appearance?

Status Update - June 2017

No One-Size-Fits-All Diet Journey

What Do You Want?

Eat Small to BE Small

Palm of the Hand

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

Learning New Behaviors

In Harmony

Think Differently

What is the Problem?

Binge = Response to Starvation

Happily Ever After & Neuroscience

Status Update - February 2017

Eating Toward Immortality

Trust Yourself - Words of Wisdom

Trust Yourself

About the Scales

Balancing Values

Weight-Loss Alternative Facts

It Just Blooms.

Mindful Eating

3 x 3

Think Again

Election Stress

The Reverse of Positive Thinking

Awesome

Downright Inspiring.

Enough is Enough

Technical Help - Seeing - Words of Wisdom

Diet Experts & My Opinion

Dieting: The Alternative

A Fork in the Road

You Are What You Think

Emotional Eating (2)

Food Truth

Train of Thought

What People Think

Target Audience

Rule or Principle? - Internal vs. External Control

Permission Not Needed

Growing Old Gracefully

My Petite Meals

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

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

Good Food, Bad Food

That Lost Weight? The Body Finds it.

Tomorrow and Yesterday

Habits are the Solution, Not the Problem

Every Other Day - Alternate Day Fasting

Another Fasting Experiment with ADF - JUDDD - EOD - QOD

Diet Books are Full of Lies

Emotional Eating

Eating & Emotions Need and Desire are Not All that Separate.

Me & Intermittent Fasting

Dieting Wisdom

Burning Bridges

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

Inner Voice

The Next 24 Hours

Dieting as Suffering

Intermittent Fasting via 5-Bites

Projections about the Rate of Weight-Loss

2 Forks?

While Fasting

When Can Women Stop Trying to Look Perfect?

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

Food Does Not Have A Moral Value.

Bingo !!!

Experimenting with Subtraction

Health and Morality

Review of the Three Principle Concept - Diet Review

Body of Truth - Book Review

Effortless Change

Overweight means you live longer.

Fasting and Hunger

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

Let Me Tell You

Helpful Fasting Information

What's the Best Diet? Healthy Eating 101

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.

Why Are Fat People Hungry?

Does Fasting Make You Fat?

Myths vs. Facts

About Giving Advice to Fat People

Crying with a Cookie in Your Hand

Believing Our Thoughts

The Absolute Weight

Your Thoughts and Feelings are Not About Anything

Trashing Outside-in Weight Standards

A New Way of Thinking

10 Limiting Beliefs I'm Done With

Self-help and Mental Techniques

Cravings +

Beliefs

Things You Don't Owe Anybody

The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss

A Quiet Mind

Why Do Dieters Regain Their Lost Weight?

Biological Adaptations that Promote Weight Regain

Giving Diets the Finger

Natural Eating Perspective

What You Need

Eating Kale Doesn't Make You a Better Person.

Why?

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

Crap Overload

What Kind of Dog Are You?

My Opinion

About Self-Control and the Marshmallow test

Created by Me

Is it REALLY up to me?

Embracing Imperfections as a Path to Success

Our Thoughts Create Our World.

Independence Day - 2014

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?

Remember ... You Asked.

Looking at a Fat Person

Long-Term Weight-Loss Almost Impossible

Illusion or Fantasy vs. Reality

The Insane-Diet Rainbow

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

Diet Fix - Book Review

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #01: People Lack Willpower

The Underpants Rule

Dreams can be Fragile

Percentages of Seriously Obese women with above-normal BMIs

Personal Diet Experimentation

Efforts vs. Results

Delicate Dainty Meals

Calorie Denialism

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

Sharing the Reasons for Our Food Choices

No Rescue Needed

The Power

Energy In and Energy Out

Hate to Exercise?

Food Diary Benefits

No Goals?

Overruling the Body

Maintenance Status Report - January 2014

Would it be Easier to be Thin?

Normalizing Obesity

Everyone isn't the Same

Real Food

It's not ME, It's YOU

Honesty

Not Everyone

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

Born on the Finish Line

Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance

Summer of 68

About Salt

150 Pounds

What Does the Scale Say?

Weight Range Maintenance Plan Changes Again

Food as Fuel?

DietHobby, my Digital Scrapbook

Calories: Males vs. Females

Crabby Old Woman

The Myth of Spot Reducing

Why Diets Fail - The Salt/Water/Waste Issue

Today

I'll Be Happy WHEN...

If it Involves Eating, It's a Diet

Building New Habits

Breaking Bad Habits

Stop When You're Full? - Intutive Eating 3 - Diet Review

Eat When You're Hungry? - Intuitive Eating 2 - Diet Review

Does the Body Tell Us WHAT food to eat? - Intutive Eating 1 - Diet Review

How I'm Supposed to Feel

The Science of Addictive Foods

Ditching Diets - Book Review

Positive Thinking

More on Intermittent Fasting

Healthy Eater?

Does Eating Fruit and Veggies Lower Weight?

Research Study regarding Obesity Myths

Our Inner Dialogue

We Are Going to Die.

How Often Should We Eat?

Diets Work

Foods to Avoid

Emotional Aspects of Obesity

Effort Shock

Eat Healthy or Lose Weight?

Changing is Hard

Sugared-water's Fight Against Obesity

Why We Diet

Individual Rules

The Finish Line

Boycotting Advertisers

The End of 2012

Keeping the Weight Off

Attitude About the Problem

Health Experts

Thoughts About Hunger

Calories - Paleo, Low-Carb

Why is it so Hard to Keep Weight Off?

Two Experts at Stanford University - Dec 2012

O Christmas Tree

The Chubby Side of Normal

The Fat Trap - Follow-up

The Fat Trap

Set Point

Becoming Successful

What IS a good Diet?

Seduced by Food

Afraid To Do Things Wrong?

In Defense of Food - Book Review

Cultural Bias

Accepting the Truth

One can Entertain a Thought Without Accepting it.

Conflicting Views: Reviews of Diets and Books

Sometimes Hunger is a Lie

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.

Media says: For Happiness, Eat More Fruits & Veggies

The Difference Between Causation and Correlation

A New Perspective

Obesity and Choice

A Beautiful Woman

A Reflection on Dieting Style

Seduction by Marketing Interests

Perfect is the Enemy of Good

Points Worth Considering

A New Diet

What If?

About Negative Thinking

Perfect Health Diet - Book Review

Cutting Carbs? or Cutting Calories?

Walk a Mile in MY Shoes

Diet Coke

Experiment of One - Current

Thinking isn't the same as Doing

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

In-Between-Meal Eating

Binge Avoidance + Adaptive Thermogenesis

Running and Exercise Abuse

Eat Less Move More?

Journaling & Keeping Records

Do Diets Work?

A Fresh Start?

Food Restrictions?

Perfectionism

Making Choices

Is a Calorie just a Calorie?

It has a Price.

The Point of DietHobby?

Here in the Land of DietHobby

Attitude, a small thing

Useful

Searching For Perfection

Patience Required - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-eight

More About Priorities

Grandma's Back !!! - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-seven

Videos are Here

Leave the Rest

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

Happy Birthday

Small Efforts

Loss

What You CAN do

Magic

Courage to Continue

Hard?

Change

Time

New DietHobby Features

Moving Forward

A Suggestion

Perserverance

The Little Things

Commitment

The Power to Change

It Makes a Difference

Temporary or Permanent?

Goal or Wish?

Do It On Purpose

Attitude

Sing Anyway

Light Up The Sky

Values

The Present is Here

Is Food The Problem?

Establish Your Priorities

Happiness & Perfection

Goals Don't Come Easy

Giving Up on Being Perfect

Change in my Weight Range Maintenance Plan

When I Feel Empty

What is a Good Guest?

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

Loving Myself

What Really Counts

It's a Good Day

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

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

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

Adding New Section to DietHobby

Here to Answer Your Questions - Ask Grandma - Episode One

On The Right Track

Vegetables and Artificial Sweeteners

Another New Beginning

Saying Nothing

Study of Literature on Weight-Loss Maintenance

All or Nothing

Thinking about Habits

Personal Worth

What is a Diet?

Bad Examples

Choosing Our Focus

Maintaining Enthusiasm

DietHobby's One-Year Progress Report

Overcoming Perfectionism

Portion Size Awareness

Low-Carb Experimentation - Diet Review

Sharing the Secret

When you've Got to Go.

Pleasing People

Introspection

Expecting Perfection

Update on The No S Diet - Diet Review

The Fat Trap

Expectations

Indecision

French Toast on a Diet

Holiday Season 2011

Intuitive Eating and the No S Diet

You are what you think

Basic Diet Information from YouTube Grandma

Buddha Take

A Powerful Combination

Willpower

What About Dieting?

Tomorrow and Today

Unwecome Truths

Checking In

Does Life Get in the Way?

Consistency

Gratitude

Burnout or Stress

Bingeing

Calories vs. Money

Lacking Inspiration?

Make sure it's YOUR goal.

I Think I Can

The Two Parts of Wisdom

Differences: Successful or Unsuccessful?

We Deserve Love

Setting Goals

What is Hope?

Frustration

Discipline or Self-Discipline

Mutually Exclusive Goals

Forget Your Diet?

Choices and Responsibility

Slipping in Maintenance

Experiment of One

Binge Eating

Building a Habit takes Energy.

Making Decisions

It feels hard because it IS hard.

Feeling Uninspired

The Endless Search for Why

What's Important?

Body Image

Weight Maintenance Challenges

Hunger, Appetite, and Cravings

The Ultimate Goal

Sorting Through Nutritional Information

A Change

Stress

Going to VidCon

Dealing with Setbacks

Establishing Habits

Regrets?

A Common Problem

Monday Morning

Three Myths

Trust a Few

There's no Generic Plan

Think Differently

Behavior Choices

Anything is possible...but with qualifications

Habits

Be Who You Are

Doing the Impossible

Changes Happen Every Day

Judging Myself

Intermitting Fasting Success

Beauty is Subjective

Protein Requirement

Off-Line Data Storage

The Best Diet Plan

Being Myself

Changing Myself

Beauty

Stress Relief

Blame It On The Puritans

Inconveniences

Biggest Loser and Jillian Michaels - Diet Review

Behavior vs Results

Love Yourself

Concepts of Intuitive Eating - Diet Review

Positive Thinking

Words Are Labels For Concepts

Goal Setting

Sugar Binges

Recipes When Tracking Food

Nobody's Perfect

Calorie Accountability

How Many Carbohydrates?

Experimenting with Diets

Becoming The Person You Want To Be

Calorie Counting

Starvation Mode

More About the BMI

Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?

Food Addiction

Hunger vs. Appetite

Giving Up Is Not An Option

Meal Frequency - How Often Should I Eat?

Science Can't Prove What is True.

Weight Loss Surgery - 18 Years Ago

Recipe Categories

Value Judgment

Every Bite Counts

Portion Control

Some Things Take Time

My own Accountability

So You Want To Lose Weight?

Tracking Weight

Dedicated, not Obsessed

The Essence of Diets - Part Two

The Essence of Diets - Part One

The No S Diet - Diet & Book Review

What is the Best Way To Diet?

You Can Choose to Think Differently.

A Peek Into My Life

The Scale and the Big Picture

What About the Scales?

A Thousand Words AND Pictures

A DietHobby Benefit - Book and Diet Reviews

Happy Valentine's Day

Dieting as a 'means to an end'.

Imaginary Friends

An Experiment of One

Before Pictures

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 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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