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The Root of Joy is Gratefulness

Let It Go

Corrupt Political Power

HeartBreak and Outrage

On Vulnerability

Three Obesity Types

What Goes Around Comes Around

A Returning Boomerang

Karma Defined

I am Complete.

It's a Door.

An Alternative Solution to the Body-Size Problem

I have had More than Enough

My Preferences Matter

Dieting is So Much Harder than it Looks.

Babies Eat Intuitively

Winner of the “5 Percent Lottery of Hell”

Intuitive Eating and Weight Loss - Diet Review

New Year - 2018

I Know You Love Me - Now Let Me Die.

It is What it is.

The Consequences of Excess

You Are Allowed.

Forgive Yourself

Favorite Exercise

Unrealistic Expectations - False Hope Syndrome

Dreams Do NOT Always Come True

Healthism: the modern religion

Tell Me Lies

What I Have Learned About Life.

Shooting the Messenger Does Not Solve the Problem.

Tiny Dishes for Petite Meals

Why Is This Happening? - October 2017

The Secret Life of Fat - Book Review

Adapt, Reject, & Add

Status Update - September 2017

Summer Experiment 2017

You Don't Understand & I Can't Explain

Manipulating One's Body Size

Never Regret

Best Thing About People

Our Weight is Regulated by Our Biological System

Calorie Restriction = Calorie Restriction.

Endurance

What Size Are You REALLY?

The Angry Chef - Book Review

Present, Past, Future

Calorie Balance

Formula for Weight-Loss Success

Dieting = Treatment of Obesity

Food is Not the Enemy

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

An Acknowledgement of What IS.

To Be Thankful

What Matters

Choosing What to See

Breaks & Maintenance

And the Secret is ...

With or Without

Finish Each Day

What is the Problem?

Binge = Response to Starvation

What You Want Most

Happily Ever After & Neuroscience

Status Update - February 2017

Eating Toward Immortality

Freedom in Maintenance

Portion Size & Measurements

You are More

Photo Examples of Food Experiments

I wish I Knew Now

About the Scales

Balancing Values

Weight-Loss Alternative Facts

What You Can't Live Without

What IF ?

Whatever It Takes

Daily vs. Occasionally

3 x 3

Election Stress

Awesome

What the World Needs

Downright Inspiring.

What Goes Around ...

Better than What?

What is Your True Measure?

Seeing

Fear of Failure

Diet Experts & My Opinion

Dieting: The Alternative

What is Normal?

Our Tomorrows

A Fork in the Road

Experience

You Are What You Think

Emotional Eating (2)

What People Think

Target Audience

Rule or Principle? - Internal vs. External Control

Permission Not Needed

Reality

The Truth Is:

The Finish Line

Growing Old Gracefully

My Petite Meals

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

Be Authentic?

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

Good Food, Bad Food

That Lost Weight? The Body Finds it.

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

Habits are the Solution, Not the Problem

Diet Books are Full of Lies

What Road Do I Take?

Emotional Eating

The Hunger Games of Jennifer Lawrence

Before & After Photos - Weight History

Burning Bridges

Secret Messages

Now fly.

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

Happy Valentine's Day 2016

Many Common Phrases Just Aren't True

Why I Don't Wear Makeup

Walking Away

Inner Voice

Eat More Food for Weight-Loss?

Dieting as Suffering

Intermittent Fasting via 5-Bites

Projections about the Rate of Weight-Loss

A Truth to Remember

2 Forks?

When Can Women Stop Trying to Look Perfect?

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

90 days of Intermittent Fasting

Next Question....

The First Question is....

Merry Christmas

Christmas Eve 2015

Bingo !!!

It's a Shadow.

Experimenting with Subtraction

Body Weight Calculator - Timeline Projections

Eating Patterns - Morning vs Evening

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

Effortless Change

Overweight means you live longer.

Fasting and Hunger

My Fantasy

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

What Skinny Feels Like

How It Feels.

What to Eat?

BMI Classifications and Emotional Eating

Keep Your CONCERN to Yourself

Plan vs. Reality

End of the Line

Love

What Others Think of You Doesn't Matter.

Why Are Fat People Hungry?

Does Fasting Make You Fat?

Myths vs. Facts

Can Never Get Enough

About Giving Advice to Fat People

Eating Boundaries - New Experiment

Crying with a Cookie in Your Hand

Knowledge vs Feelings

Simple Eating Boundaries

My Choices

She Let Go

Believing Our Thoughts

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

Illusions

The Inside-Out Revolution - Book Review

Addicted to What...?

What Are the Three Principles?

A Matter of Perspective

Things You Don't Owe Anybody

What is Right for YOU

Now

The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss

Freedom and Calorie Counting

Working on Myself

Let It Go

Image Consistency

Journey to Freedom

Change your DEFINITION - Eliminate your PROBLEM

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

Mind Your Own Business

Why Do Dieters Regain Their Lost Weight?

Biological Adaptations that Promote Weight Regain

Hand Me Down Beliefs

The Present Moment

I'm Not Going to Miss You

Failed Diets and Current Maintenance Status

Natural Eating Perspective

What You Need

Eating Kale Doesn't Make You a Better Person.

Why?

No Facts or Evidence

What to Shoot For.

Body Image & Function: Acceptance vs. Complacency

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

Size Diversity

Crap Overload

Our Real Journey

Quitting Smoking is NOT Comparable to Losing Weight.

Motivation Somewhat Lacking at the moment

What Kind of Dog Are You?

How to Become What We Want to Be

My Opinion

Perspective

Thin for the Holidays?

About Self-Control and the Marshmallow test

MORE than Food?

Created by Me

Is it REALLY up to me?

What You Eat

Embracing Imperfections as a Path to Success

Alice in Hungerland

Good Advice

Our Thoughts Create Our World.

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.

Eating Disorders Revisited

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 #03: Dieting Must be Difficult

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

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #12: The Last 10 lbs Are the Hardest

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

The Underpants Rule

Your Perspective

Starving-To-Death is Unlikely

Dreams can be Fragile

Percentages of Seriously Obese women with above-normal BMIs

Personal Diet Experimentation

Efforts vs. Results

Calorie Denialism

Discipline

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

The Issue of Healthy Eating

No Rescue Needed

The Power

Questions about Health & Weight

Energy In and Energy Out

Food Diary Benefits

No Goals?

Overruling the Body

It is STILL a Diet

A Good Idea

Maintenance Status Report - January 2014

Would it be Easier to be Thin?

Normalizing Obesity

Liars

Free Speech

3500 Calories = 1 Lb ?

Appealing Advice

Everyone isn't the Same

Real Food

It's not ME, It's YOU

Honesty

Imagine

What about all that Blah, Blah, Blah

Health as an Obligation

Are you a Courteous, Healthy Eater?

Dressing to Please the Fat Bigots

A Calorie Deficit?

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

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

Status Update - August 2013

Born on the Finish Line

Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance

Commitment

Summer of 68

Our Power

About Salt

All Goals Are Not Reachable For All People

What Does the Scale Say?

Food as Fuel?

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

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

Maintaining weight-loss

What's REALLY the Problem?

No Cure

Does Eating Fruit and Veggies Lower Weight?

WheatBelly - Another Review

Appreciate What You Have

Unrealistic Expectations

Our Inner Dialogue

Obesity Myth: "Slow Weight Loss is Easier to Keep Off"

We Are Going to Die.

What is Hunger?

How Often Should We Eat?

Diets Work

What Stops Us?

Emotional Aspects of Obesity

Effort Shock

Changing is Hard

Extra Food because I Exercised

Grounded in Reality

Advertising Guidelines???

Fear of Fat

Weight Loss Promises

Searching for Your Diet

Why We Diet

Individual Rules

The End of 2012

Attitude About the Problem

Health Experts

Thoughts About Hunger

Christmas 2012

Christmas Eve 2012

What To Do?

Birthday

Calories - Paleo, Low-Carb

Do Calories Matter?

Why is it so Hard to Keep Weight Off?

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

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?

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

Musical Lesson

Healthful Eating?

The Simple Diet - Diet Review

The Fast-5 Diet - Diet Review

More About Starvation Mode

What if modern Theories about Food & Digestion are Wacked.

The 5 Bite Diet - Diet Review

Being Resilient

A New Perspective

Diet Cheat or Food Choice?

Obesity and Choice

A Beautiful Woman

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

What If?

Had Enough?

Perfect Health Diet - Book Review

Cutting Carbs? or Cutting Calories?

Walk a Mile in MY Shoes

Want to Know Your BMI?

The Common Ground to Success

Diet Coke

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

In-Between-Meal Eating

You Can Do Hard Things

Binge Avoidance + Adaptive Thermogenesis

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?

Perfectionism

Worlds Best Diet?

Is a Calorie just a Calorie?

It has a Price.

The Point of DietHobby?

Instinctive Resentment

Make Peace With What Is.

Here in the Land of DietHobby

The Path to Thinness and Health

Wisdom Takes Effort

Buttons for VidCon 2012

Searching For Perfection

More About Priorities

Leave the Rest

Message from YouTube Grandma

Personal Behavior Choices

Choosing a Positive Focus

Encouragement & Support

Happy Birthday

What You CAN do

Happy Mother's Day (2012)

When I Feel Empty

What is a Good Guest?

Weight-Loss in a Nutshell

What Really Counts

No Clue

Out-of-Sorts

Spring Cleaning?

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

What Love Means - Ask Grandma - Episode Thirty-four

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

Happy Easter 2012

On The Right Track

Vegetables and Artificial Sweeteners

Another New Beginning

Saying Nothing

Answering - What is a Calorie?

What is a Calorle?

Study of Literature on Weight-Loss Maintenance

I Don't Feel Like It.

Be Right or Be Kind?

All or Nothing

Power of Habits

Thinking about Habits

What is Food?

Personal Worth

What is a Diet?

Mindful Eating

Mindless Eating

What is a Diet?

Bad Examples

Choosing Our Focus

Maintaining Enthusiasm

Yes and No

Doing Just As I Choose

DietHobby's One-Year Progress Report

Overcoming Perfectionism

Taking Responsibility

What Love Means

Sweets for Breakfast?

Portion Size Awareness

What Other People Do.

Patience Needed

What I'm Reading Today

Low-Carb Experimentation - Diet Review

What is Courage?

The Same but Different

Power of Visualization

When you've Got to Go.

New and Unique Dieting Plans

Pleasing People

Introspection

Expecting Perfection

Standing up to your Friends

Update on The No S Diet - Diet Review

The Fat Trap

Expectations

Indecision

Accepting Responsibility

Holiday Season 2011

Intuitive Eating and the No S Diet

You are what you think

Do Diets Work?

The Skinny One

The Power of Momentum

Sunday Before Thanksgiving

Working Hard

Basic Diet Information from YouTube Grandma

Buddha Take

What About Dieting?

Tomorrow and Today

Unwecome Truths

Weight-loss and Maintenance is Hard Work

Repairs

Checking In

The Donkey

Joyful

Does Life Get in the Way?

Gratitude

What is Portion Control?

Burnout or Stress

Bingeing

Cleverness

Calories vs. Money

Committment

Make sure it's YOUR goal.

I Think I Can

The Two Parts of Wisdom

Differences: Successful or Unsuccessful?

Redefining Normal

Trust Yourself?

We Deserve Love

Setting Goals

Processed Foods Are Powerful

What is Hope?

Frustration

Our Own Approval

Discipline or Self-Discipline

Forget Your Diet?

Choices and Responsibility

Slipping in Maintenance

Experiment of One

Simplicity

Normal

Staying Open to New Information

Snack Foods

Binge Eating

Building a Habit takes Energy.

Making Decisions

What Do you Say To Yourself?

Feeling Uninspired

The Endless Search for Why

What's Important?

Self-Acceptance

Body Image

Weight Maintenance Challenges

The Ultimate Goal

Tips and Inspiration

Be Kind to Yourself

Sorting Through Nutritional Information

A Change

Stress

Finish each day and be done with it.

Going to VidCon

Dealing with Setbacks

The Space Between

Regrets?

A Common Problem

Maintenance As Compared to Weight-Loss

Monday Morning

Three Myths

Trust a Few

There's no Generic Plan

What One Believes

Awareness and Confidence

What I CAN do

Anything is possible...but with qualifications

More About Attitude

Dieting a 24/7 commitment

Habits

Greed

Fall on your face

Be Who You Are

Friends

Better than what?

Doing the Impossible

It's my choice

Ride Out The Wave

In Our Hands

Behavior and Results-1

What We See

Changes Happen Every Day

Planning-1

Barefoot Running

Judging Myself

Beauty is Subjective

Protein Requirement

The Best Diet Plan

Gratitude

Beauty

The Power Of Choice

Stress Relief

Blame It On The Puritans

Inconveniences

Inspiration - Diet & Book Reviews

Forgiveness

Love Yourself

Small Efforts - Setting Goals

Loss

Serenity

Belief In Oneself

Courage To Continue

Naturally Thin

Happy Mother's Day

Behavior vs Results

Love Yourself

The Power to Change

An Individual Call

Trust

Concepts of Intuitive Eating - Diet Review

A New Normal

Words Are Labels For Concepts

Goal Setting

Over The Long Haul

Recipes When Tracking Food

Nobody's Perfect

Calorie Accountability

39 Years Later

How Many Carbohydrates?

Experimenting with Diets

Not A Perfect World

Calorie Counting

Food Storage - A Diet Essential

Starvation Mode

Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?

Food Addiction

Six Cereal, Bars, and Nuts

Hunger vs. Appetite

Giving Up Is Not An Option

Conflicting Rules

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?

What About Leftovers?

Update on Low-Carb Experiment-of-One

Life Keeps Changing

Disordered Eating

Food and Money

Value Judgment

Making Progress

Imperfect Is Good Enough - This Is Me

Every Bite Counts

Portion Control

Some Things Take Time

Determination

An Endless Struggle

So You Want To Lose Weight?

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?

Maintaining an Attitude of Gratitude

When Life Takes You In A Different Direction.

You Can Choose to Think Differently.

Recording Food Intake - Counting Calories and/or Carbs

What About the Scales?

Happy Valentine's Day

Dieting as a 'means to an end'.

Imaginary Friends

Online Friends

An Experiment of One

Before Pictures

Dieting is my Hobby.

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 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 - az - Introduction: The Original Sin

Taubes - Author's Note


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