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The Root of Joy is Gratefulness

Set Point Explained

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

Every Day

Hold On

HeartBreak and Outrage

On Vulnerability

Three Obesity Types

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.

Intuitive Eating and Weight Loss - Diet Review

Status Update - January 2018

I Know You Love Me - Now Let Me Die.

Unrealistic Expectations - False Hope Syndrome

Dreams Do NOT Always Come True

Healthism: the modern religion

What I Have Learned About Life.

Shooting the Messenger Does Not Solve the Problem.

Expectations

Tiny Dishes for Petite Meals

The Value of Food Photos

Why Is This Happening? - October 2017

Fat Cells are Forever

Weight Range Mantenance Plan

Is BMI the same as BMR?

Happily Ever After

Long-term Success in Maintenance

Status Update - September 2017

You Don't Understand & I Can't Explain

Break Time Again

Manipulating One's Body Size

Time To Do Nothing

Our Weight is Regulated by Our Biological System

Calorie Restriction = Calorie Restriction.

What Size Are You REALLY?

Current Diet Guidelines

Is it a Plateau?

Calorie Balance

Formula for Weight-Loss Success

Dieting = Treatment of Obesity

Forever Young

Food is Not the Enemy

Am I Satisfied With My Appearance?

No One-Size-Fits-All Diet Journey

Map = Directions

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

Binge = Response to Starvation

Happily Ever After & Neuroscience

Status Update - February 2017

Eating Toward Immortality

Freedom in Maintenance

Portion Size & Measurements

About the Scales

Balancing Values

Weight-Loss Alternative Facts

3 x 3

Myth: Food is the Solution

Election Stress

Arguments

Downright Inspiring.

Enough is Enough

Truly Comfortable

Better than What?

Diet Experts & My Opinion

Dieting: The Alternative

A Fork in the Road

Emotional Eating (2)

Beauty

Train of Thought

Target Audience

Permission Not Needed

Break Time

Growing Old Gracefully

My Petite Meals

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

Be Authentic?

A Long Wait.

Intermittent Fasting & the Dangling Carrot - Diet Review

My Status - May 2016 Maintenance

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

Common Sense

That Lost Weight? The Body Finds it.

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

A Justification (Scientific Explanation) for Every Diet.

My Basic Long-Term Weight-Maintenance Strategy

Every Other Day - Alternate Day Fasting

Another Fasting Experiment with ADF - JUDDD - EOD - QOD

Diet Books are Full of Lies

Emotional Eating

Devour: to eat hungrily or very quickly

The Hunger Games of Jennifer Lawrence

Success is Never Owned

Before & After Photos - Weight History

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

Why I Don't Wear Makeup

Walking Away

Inner Voice

ME Talking About ME

Dieting as Suffering

Intermittent Fasting via 5-Bites

Projections about the Rate of Weight-Loss

The Mountaintop

A Truth to Remember

When Can Women Stop Trying to Look Perfect?

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

Weight Watchers 1972 & 2016 - Diet Review

Goals

Every Struggle

Bingo !!!

It's a Shadow.

Body Weight Calculator - Timeline Projections

Eating Patterns - Morning vs Evening

Health and Morality

Review of the Three Principle Concept - Diet Review

Chocolate

Body of Truth - Book Review

Effortless Change

When to Eat

Overweight means you live longer.

Fasting and Hunger

The Problem with Poodle Science

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

Let Me Tell You

Helpful Fasting Information

Why Peoples Opinions of You Aren't Real

52 Signs You are a Low Carber

Anyone Who Eats Food Will Die.

My Wish

Current Diet Experimentation

Be Kind

Opinions & Perspectives

BMI Classifications and Emotional Eating

Keep Your CONCERN to Yourself

Plan vs. Reality

End of the Line

Why Are Fat People Hungry?

Does Fasting Make You Fat?

Distinctive Genetic Makeup

Crying with a Cookie in Your Hand

Simple Eating Boundaries

The Absolute Weight

Your Thoughts and Feelings are Not About Anything

10 Limiting Beliefs I'm Done With

The Ultimate Self-Help Book

Self-help and Mental Techniques

DietHobby & The Three Principles

Cravings +

The Inside-Out Revolution - Book Review

Navigation Issues - 3 Principles (plus More)

Things You Don't Owe Anybody

No BEFORE - No AFTER - Only DURING

Exercise for Women in the 1940s

The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss

Freedom and Calorie Counting

Clean Eating

The Helium Diet

Change your DEFINITION - Eliminate your PROBLEM

What Dieting/Weight-Loss/Fitness Lies Do YOU Believe?

Cat Bed

Why Do Dieters Regain Their Lost Weight?

Biological Adaptations that Promote Weight Regain

Giving Diets the Finger

DIET AD BINGO

Hand Me Down Beliefs

I'm Not Going to Miss You

Failed Diets and Current Maintenance Status

Natural Eating Perspective

Recommendation for Tiny Meal Portions - very low calorie eating

Eating Kale Doesn't Make You a Better Person.

Why?

No Facts or Evidence

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

Another Chance

Crap Overload

Money We Spend

Quitting Smoking is NOT Comparable to Losing Weight.

Reminder to Self

Feel Right or Look Right?

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

What Kind of Dog Are You?

Your Opinion

Perspective

10th Year Anniversary

About Self-Control and the Marshmallow test

Is it REALLY up to me?

Embracing Imperfections as a Path to Success

Alice in Hungerland

Our Thoughts Create Our World.

It's in the Regrigerator

Scrapbooking on DietHobby

Acceptance - AA Big Book, page 417

Independence Day - 2014

Use Another Road

The Dolly Diet - Diet Review

Time for a Reality Check

Freedom of Choice

Remember ... You Asked.

Looking at a Fat Person

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 #05: Forks Can Be OutRun

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

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

The Underpants Rule

Start Again

Can't Please Everybody

Holding On - Letting Go

Weight-Loss RESULTS

Starving-To-Death is Unlikely

Personal Diet Experimentation

Efforts vs. Results

Delicate Dainty Meals

Calorie Denialism

More About the Starvation Mode Myth

Weight Loss Expectations

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

Sharing the Reasons for Our Food Choices

The Issue of Healthy Eating

No Rescue Needed

Getting Along With People

Insanity

Status Update - March 2014

Questions about Health & Weight

Energy In and Energy Out

Hate to Exercise?

Food Diary Benefits

The Habit Concept

Being Human

Overruling the Body

It is STILL a Diet

Maintenance Status Report - January 2014

Would it be Easier to be Thin?

Normalizing Obesity

Liars

3500 Calories = 1 Lb ?

Everyone isn't the Same

Real Food

MORE Healthy Eating

It's not ME, It's YOU

Honesty

Imagine

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?

It's Not Really About the Fat - Health At Any Size

Biggest Loser, an example of televised exercise fraud

Footprints

Born on the Finish Line

Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance

Commitment

Movie Trailer for DietHobby

About Salt

All Goals Are Not Reachable For All People

150 Pounds

What Does the Scale Say?

Weight Management - A Rubber Band

DietHobby, my Digital Scrapbook

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

Change my LIFE?

I'll Be Happy WHEN...

What To DO?

If it Involves Eating, It's a Diet

More About Calories

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

More on Intermittent Fasting

Calorie Dectective - Lying Food Labels

Healthy Eater?

Vegetables - One chip at a time?

Diets Long-Term

No Cure

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"

We Are Going to Die.

Diets Work

Effort Shock

Changing is Hard

Fear of Fat

Searching for Your Diet

Why We Diet

Boycotting Advertisers

The End of 2012

Keeping the Weight Off

Thoughtful Reduction

Health Experts

Thoughts About Hunger

Calories - Paleo, Low-Carb

Do Calories Matter?

Why is it so Hard to Keep Weight Off?

O Christmas Tree

The Chubby Side of Normal

The Fat Trap - Follow-up

The Fat Trap

Set Point

What IS a good Diet?

Seduced by Food

Afraid To Do Things Wrong?

In Defense of Food - Book Review

Cultural Bias

Are GMO's Frankenfoods?

Veteran's Day 2012

The End of Overeating - Book Review

One can Entertain a Thought Without Accepting it.

The Truth

The WillPower Instinct - Book Review

Sometimes Hunger is a Lie

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

A Sustainable Alternative

What if modern Theories about Food & Digestion are Wacked.

The 5 Bite Diet - Diet Review

The Cookie Diet - Diet Review

The Difference Between Causation and Correlation

Being Resilient

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?

Going to the Gym

Points Worth Considering

A New Diet

What If?

Cutting Carbs? or Cutting Calories?

Walk a Mile in MY Shoes

Science Has Failed

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

In The Future

Brain Over Binge - Book Review

Binge Avoidance + Adaptive Thermogenesis

Realities of Weight-Loss Maintenance

Running and Exercise Abuse

Eat Less Move More?

Journaling & Keeping Records

I'm not a Guru

How Little It Takes

Snack Yourself Slim - Book Review

Do Diets Work?

A Fresh Start?

Food Restrictions?

Perfectionism

Making Choices

Worlds Best Diet?

Is a Calorie just a Calorie?

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

Wisdom Takes Effort

Searching For Perfection

Be Patient

Cats Save YouTube

Message from YouTube Grandma

Personal Behavior Choices

Choosing a Positive Focus

Status Update: YouTube is Still Broken

Happy Birthday

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

Weight-Loss in a Nutshell

Out-of-Sorts

Mini Chocolate Chip Cheesecakes

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

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

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

On The Right Track

Vegetables and Artificial Sweeteners

Another New Beginning

Sing Anyway

Baked Potato (White or Sweet)

Study of Literature on Weight-Loss Maintenance

Self-Talk

Roasted Chicken Thighs

Managing Depression

Thinking about Habits

Cheesecake Sugar-Free

Mindless Eating

Bad Examples

Choosing Our Focus

Maintaining Enthusiasm

DietHobby's One-Year Progress Report

Cinnamon Bread Pudding

Sweets for Breakfast?

Tuna Noodle Casserole

Low-Carb Experimentation - Diet Review

I Want It All

Sharing the Secret

The Same but Different

Fish in Foil

When you've Got to Go.

New and Unique Dieting Plans

Pleasing People

Oatmeal Banana Muffin

Vanilla Baked Apple

Expecting Perfection

Standing up to your Friends

Update on The No S Diet - Diet Review

Vegetable Soup

The Fat Trap

Expectations

Indecision

French Toast on a Diet

Diet French Toast

Pineapple Coconut Cake

Holiday Moderation

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Holiday Season 2011

Intuitive Eating and the No S Diet

Meal in a Dish

And So It Goes....

Pot Roast

Do Diets Work?

The Skinny One

To Be Different

Chicken Crepes Recipe

Chicken Crepes

Chicken Rice Dinner

Working Hard

Basic Diet Information from YouTube Grandma

Grandma's Goulash

Willpower

Tomorrow and Today

Oopsie Rolls

Unwecome Truths

Weight-loss and Maintenance is Hard Work

Repairs

Apple Tuna Salad

Hunger After Weight-Loss

Checking In

Strawberry Banana Smoothie

Back Home Again

Cranberry Breakfast Cookies

Does Life Get in the Way?

Goals

Scheduling

Creamy Crab Salad

Peach Quick Bread

Burnout or Stress

Bingeing

Cleverness

Calories vs. Money

It's Monday Again

Eggwhite Salad

Make sure it's YOUR goal.

I Think I Can

The Two Parts of Wisdom

Differences: Successful or Unsuccessful?

Oatmeal Banana Nut Bars

Trust Yourself?

Setting Goals

DietHobby Recipes

Taco Salad

Our Own Approval

Mutually Exclusive Goals

Crispy White Pizza

Choices and Responsibility

Slipping in Maintenance

Experiment of One

Chinese Chicken Salad

Snack Foods

Making Decisions

Chocolate Cinnamon Bread Pudding

It feels hard because it IS hard.

Feeling Uninspired

What's Important?

No Point in Dieting?

Recovery

Vinaigerette Dressing

Body Image

Weight Maintenance Challenges

Hunger, Appetite, and Cravings

Live and Learn?

Be Kind to Yourself

Chocolate Milkshake

Sorting Through Nutritional Information

Kindness and Body Image

Is Bingeing an Eating Disorder?

A Change

Stress

Work, Love, Dance

At Vidcon

Going to VidCon

Courage

Dealing with Setbacks

Establishing Habits

Regrets?

A Common Problem

Maintenance As Compared to Weight-Loss

Monday Morning

There's no Generic Plan

Awareness and Confidence

How Often Should We Eat?

What I CAN do

Anything is possible...but with qualifications

Dieting a 24/7 commitment

Habits

Fall on your face

Someday

Better than what?

Our Ideal Self

Ride Out The Wave

Behavior and Results-1

What We See

Changes Happen Every Day

Planning-1

Intermitting Fasting Success

Beauty is Subjective

Who We Can Be

Protein Requirement

Off-Line Data Storage

The Best Diet Plan

Our Expression

Gratitude

The Power Of Choice

Stress Relief

Blame It On The Puritans

Tortilla Cheese Dog

Inconveniences

Inspiration - Diet & Book Reviews

Forgiveness

Love Yourself

Making Mistakes

Small Efforts - Setting Goals

Sweet Potato & Black Beans

Belief In Oneself

Courage To Continue

Naturally Thin

Biggest Loser and Jillian Michaels - Diet Review

Behavior vs Results

Six Yogurt and Sides

Love Yourself

Paying The Price

The Power to Change

An Individual Call

Trust

Chicken Waldorf Salad

Obession With Dieting

Positive Thinking

A New Normal

Words Are Labels For Concepts

Goal Setting

Healthy Brownies

Chili Cheese Cubes

Sugar Binges

Over The Long Haul

Sausage Egg Bowl

Recipes When Tracking Food

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

Starvation Mode

Mild Chili Beans

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

Giving Up Is Not An Option

Tuna Melt Sandwich

Conflicting Rules

Peanut Butter Toast

Everything and Nothing

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?

Recipe Categories

Cheeseburger Pie

Update on Low-Carb Experiment-of-One

Life Keeps Changing

Disordered Eating

Food and Money

Value Judgment

Imperfect Is Good Enough - This Is Me

Every Bite Counts

Portion Control

My own Accountability

Determination

An Endless Struggle

Tracking Weight

Dedicated, not Obsessed

The Essence of Diets - Part Two

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

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?

Welcome to my World

Happy Valentine's Day

Dieting as a 'means to an end'.

Online 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 11 - Primer on Regulation of Fat

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 - Author's Note


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