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The Root of Joy is Gratefulness

On Vulnerability

Three Obesity Types

I am Complete.

An Alternative Solution to the Body-Size Problem

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.

Unrealistic Expectations - False Hope Syndrome

Dreams Do NOT Always Come True

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

How Diets Work

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.

Endurance

The Angry Chef - Book Review

Current Diet Guidelines

Formula for Weight-Loss Success

Food is Not the Enemy

Am I Satisfied With My Appearance?

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

Competition

And the Secret is ...

Turn the Page

Work, Love, Dance

Binge = Response to Starvation

Happily Ever After & Neuroscience

Luck

Status Update - February 2017

Freedom in Maintenance

Portion Size & Measurements

Is It Working for YOU?

Photo Examples of Food Experiments

About the Scales

Dressed in Overalls

Dressed in Overalls - Words of Wisdom

Balancing Values

Weight-Loss Alternative Facts

Hope = It Could Happen.

Mindful Eating

Happy New Year 2017

Bye-Bye 2016

3 x 3

Election Stress

Diet Experts & My Opinion

Dieting: The Alternative

A Fork in the Road

Emotional Eating (2)

Rule or Principle? - Internal vs. External Control

Permission Not Needed

Growing Old Gracefully

My Petite Meals

Be Authentic?

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

I Remember...

That Lost Weight? The Body Finds it.

Woking: to Stay on the Road and to Move Forward

Destiny

My Basic Long-Term Weight-Maintenance Strategy

Habits are the Solution, Not the Problem

It is NOT a One-Size-Fits-All World

Diet Books are Full of Lies

Emotional Eating

The Hunger Games of Jennifer Lawrence

Shoot For the Moon

Diet Motto

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

Maybe Fat People are NOT Doing it Wrong

Weight Loss Goals

It works for YOU, but....

The Currency of Weight is Calories

Underneath it All

Your Feelings

Why I Don't Wear Makeup

Walking Away

Inner Voice

The Noise of Others' Opinions

ME Talking About ME

Intermittent Fasting via 5-Bites

Projections about the Rate of Weight-Loss

Believe

One Bite at a Time

When Can Women Stop Trying to Look Perfect?

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

Happy New Year 2016

Setting Priorities...

Weight Watchers 1972 & 2016 - Diet Review

Goals

Birthday Song

Bingo !!!

It's a Shadow.

Experimenting with Subtraction

In The Moment

Body Weight Calculator - Timeline Projections

Time for a Break

Happy Thanksgiving 2015

Eating Patterns - Morning vs Evening

It's Not a One-Size-Fits-All World

In Tune with your Body???

What is the Body Positive Movement?

Health and Morality

Review of the Three Principle Concept - Diet Review

Chocolate

Body of Truth - Book Review

Effortless Change

Fasting and Hunger

500% Done

Trick or Treat - 2015

A Weight Loss Program that Works?

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

Let Me Tell You

Helpful Fasting Information

Wrinkles

52 Signs You are a Low Carber

My Wish

Current Diet Experimentation

Starving Works

Then and Now

Keep Your CONCERN to Yourself

Plan vs. Reality

End of the Line

Eat Small

Calories Per Serving

Why Are Fat People Hungry?

Does Fasting Make You Fat?

My Body = Not Your Business

Crying with a Cookie in Your Hand

Guide to Food Serving Size

Simple Eating Boundaries

She Let Go

No Wrong Way

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

A Potential Solution for Problem Eating?

Things You Don't Owe Anybody

Growing Older

Exercise for Women in the 1940s

The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss

A Quiet Mind

Ideas, Old and New

Making Sense Out of Life

Freedom and Calorie Counting

Clean Eating

Working on Myself

The Helium Diet

Flexibility

Image Consistency

Change your DEFINITION - Eliminate your PROBLEM

Your Workout

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

In the Moment

Cat Bed

Then a Miracle Occurs

Mind Your Own Business

Why Do Dieters Regain Their Lost Weight?

Biological Adaptations that Promote Weight Regain

How to Fix Your Body's Trouble Areas

Giving Diets the Finger

How Do YOU Measure Oatmeal or Peanut Butter?

Cooking a REALLY Tiny Meal

DIET AD BINGO

Hand Me Down Beliefs

Letting Things Go

I'm Not Going to Miss You

Correct My Mind?

Filling that Empty Space

How to End Habits and Addictions

Unsupervised

Failed Diets and Current Maintenance Status

Natural Eating Perspective

What You Need

Uh Oh

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

You Are Fine

Why?

No Facts or Evidence

Something to Remember

Body Image & Function: Acceptance vs. Complacency

Self Esteem

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

Size Diversity

Another Chance

Crap Overload

Money We Spend

Happy New Year 2015

New Years Eve 2014

Our Real Journey

Recent Rain

Best Friends

Weight Gain

And the Truth Is ...

Kicking Back

The First Step

Our Minds

Making Comparisons

Quitting Smoking is NOT Comparable to Losing Weight.

Misconceptions about Regain of Weight-Loss

Consequences

Mindless Eating?

Perfect Time

How Would You Change Your Body?

Opportunist

Happy Halloween 2014

Motivation Somewhat Lacking at the moment

The Price Paid

Reminder to Self

For Success - Avoid making the Same Mistake twice

Respect Yourself

INFO about disappearance of Facebook's 1400 member 5-bite Group

Perfection

My Husband is My Hero

Feel Right or Look Right?

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

In Shape

What Kind of Dog Are You?

Move on

How to Become What We Want to Be

Let's Get REAL

Life Happens

Your Opinion

We Aren't ALL the Same

Alternatives

My Opinion

Perspective

Ever Watch the Food Channel?

Ignoring Things

The Sound of Wrong

A Sad Truth

Flaws

10th Year Anniversary

Thin for the Holidays?

A Goal Without a Plan

Acceptance

About Self-Control and the Marshmallow test

Choice

Change Direction

How to Focus

Available Transportation

Something Different

There is Always ...

One Way or Another

Sometimes it's Best to Choose A Different Way

Try Something Else

The Same Moon

Go Left

Different Roads

MORE than Food?

Created by Me

Impossibly Perfect, the Tyranny of Ideal Beauty

Is it REALLY up to me?

What You Eat

Next Exit

Embracing Imperfections as a Path to Success

Alice in Hungerland

Skinnytown

Scrapbooking on DietHobby

You Are More

Acceptance - AA Big Book, page 417

Older Ladies Are Divine

Sometimes - you have to push yourself.

Impossible, Risky, Pointless? ... Try it.

Use Another Road

The Dolly Diet - Diet Review

Time for a Reality Check

Freedom of Choice

I call it Dedication

Long-Term Weight-Loss Almost Impossible

Illusion or Fantasy vs. Reality

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

Diet Fix - Book Review

Starving-To-Death is Unlikely

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

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

Fighting the Urge - Book Review

The Issue of Healthy Eating

No Rescue Needed

Insanity

Questions about Health & Weight

Energy In and Energy Out

Food Diary Benefits

Going for it

Overruling the Body

It is STILL a Diet

Maintenance Status Report - January 2014

Health-conscious?

Would it be Easier to be Thin?

Happy New Year 2014

Normalizing Obesity

Liars

Free Speech

3500 Calories = 1 Lb ?

Fitness through Exercise

Wisdom from a Lifetime of Experiences

Expert Advice

Appealing Advice

Happy Thanksgiving 2013

Fluffy

Making Plans

Everyone isn't the Same

Real Food

The Hunger Games

MORE Healthy Eating

Healthy Eating

It's not ME, It's YOU

Happy Halloween - 2013

Photoshop Surprise

Honesty

Walking Alone

Wisdom of Age

Taking Up Space

Outdoor Activity

Imagine

Stop It

Not Everyone

Be Yourself

What about all that Blah, Blah, Blah

Weight Management Success

Key to Happiness

Dressing to Please the Fat Bigots

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

Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance

Commitment

Movie Trailer for DietHobby

Food as Fuel?

DietHobby, my Digital Scrapbook

Crabby Old Woman

The Myth of Spot Reducing

WHY Count Calories?

Why Diets Fail - The Salt/Water/Waste Issue

I'll Be Happy WHEN...

Weighing in Public

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

Diets Long-Term

No Cure

Appreciate What You Have

You Laugh Until You Cry

Unrealistic Expectations

Research Study regarding Obesity Myths

Our Inner Dialogue

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

We Are Going to Die.

Hoping for a Miracle?

What is Hunger?

How Often Should We Eat?

Diets Work

What Stops Us?

Emotional Aspects of Obesity

Effort Shock

Extra Food because I Exercised

Sugared-water's Fight Against Obesity

Searching for Your Diet

Why We Diet

Individual Rules

The Finish Line

Another Good Day

The End of 2012

Keeping the Weight Off

Attitude About the Problem

Thoughts About Hunger

What To Do?

Calories - Paleo, Low-Carb

Why is it so Hard to Keep Weight Off?

O Christmas Tree

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

The Chubby Side of Normal

The Fat Trap

Set Point

Seduced by Food

Following My Own Advice

Afraid To Do Things Wrong?

In Defense of Food - Book Review

Are GMO's Frankenfoods?

One can Entertain a Thought Without Accepting it.

Secrets of the Sugar Industry

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

Musical Lesson

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

What if modern Theories about Food & Digestion are Wacked.

Hold On Tight To Your Dream

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 Beautiful Woman

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?

About Negative Thinking

Had Enough?

Perfect Health Diet - Book Review

Cutting Carbs? or Cutting Calories?

Walk a Mile in MY Shoes

Want to Know Your BMI?

Science Has Failed

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

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

Twisted & Inappropriate but Funny

Running and Exercise Abuse

One of Life's Great Lessons

Eat Less Move More?

Status Update - Records: My past 8 years (August 2012)

Journaling & Keeping Records

I'm not a Guru

The Child Within Us

A little bit of nothing.

How Little It Takes

Snack Yourself Slim - Book Review

Do Diets Work?

A Fresh Start?

Food Restrictions?

Time, Patience, and Consistent Effort

Perfectionism

Serving Sizes Around the World

Making Choices

Worlds Best Diet?

Is a Calorie just a Calorie?

It has a Price.

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

Back to Work

Searching For Perfection

More About Priorities

Videos are Here

Be Patient

Personal Behavior Choices

Choosing a Positive Focus

Encouragement & Support

New DietHobby Features

Happy Mother's Day (2012)

Change in my Weight Range Maintenance Plan

Weight-Loss in a Nutshell

What Really Counts

Out-of-Sorts

Mini Chocolate Chip Cheesecakes Recipe

Mini Chocolate Chip Cheesecakes

Making Lists

Spring Cleaning?

Shrimp Avocado Salad Recipe

Shrimp Avocado Salad

Adding New Section to DietHobby

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

Choosing Our Focus

Me After Weight Loss

Weight Loss History

Weight Loss Wisdom

Diet Books

New Stuff

Maintaining Enthusiasm

Yes and No

Doing Just As I Choose

Choosing My Attitude

DietHobby's One-Year Progress Report

Overcoming Perfectionism

Taking Responsibility

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

Sharing the Secret

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

Pleasing People

Introspection

Oatmeal Banana Muffin Recipe

Oatmeal Banana Muffin

In Detroit

Vanilla Baked Apple Recipe

Vanilla Baked Apple

Expecting Perfection

Standing up to your Friends

Update on The No S Diet - Diet Review

Vegetable Soup Recipe

Vegetable Soup

The Fat Trap

Expectations

Indecision

Not Giving Up

French Toast on a Diet

Diet French Toast

Happy New Year 2012

A Bit of Twisted Humor

Pineapple Coconut Cake

Christmas Traditions

Holiday Moderation

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Accepting Responsibility

Holiday Season 2011

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

Bread Substitute - Low-Carb

Oopsie Rolls

Weight-loss and Maintenance is Hard Work

Repairs

Salad for Lunch

Apple Tuna Salad

Hunger After Weight-Loss

Checking In

Another Smoothie Recipe

Strawberry Banana Smoothie

Breakfast Cookies

Cranberry Breakfast Cookies

The Donkey

Does Life Get in the Way?

Goals

Crab Salad

Creamy Crab Salad

Consistency

What is Portion Control?

It's Fall

Peach Bread

Peach Quick Bread

Burnout or Stress

Self-Respect

Bingeing

Cleverness

Calories vs. Money

It's Monday Again

Committment

Lacking Inspiration?

Make sure it's YOUR goal.

I Think I Can

The Two Parts of Wisdom

Differences: Successful or Unsuccessful?

We Deserve Love

Frustration

Our Own Approval

Discipline or Self-Discipline

Choices and Responsibility

Slipping in Maintenance

Experiment of One

Simplicity

Staying Open to New Information

Binge Eating

It feels hard because it IS hard.

What Do you Say To Yourself?

Feeling Uninspired

What's Important?

Body Image

Weight Maintenance Challenges

Hunger, Appetite, and Cravings

Live and Learn?

The Ultimate Goal

Tips and Inspiration

Sorting Through Nutritional Information

Is Bingeing an Eating Disorder?

A Change

Work, Love, Dance

Going to VidCon

Dealing with Setbacks

Establishing Habits

A Common Problem

Our Thoughts Make Our World

Monday Morning

Three Myths

Trust a Few

There's no Generic Plan

What One Believes

How Often Should We Eat?

What I CAN do

More About Attitude

Habits

Greed

Someday

Be Who You Are

Friends

Our Ideal Self

Ride Out The Wave

Behavior and Results-1

Changes Happen Every Day

Planning-1

Barefoot Running

Judging Myself

Intermitting Fasting Success

Who We Can Be

Habits & Dieting

Guidelines for DietHobby

Lucky?

Off-Line Data Storage

The Best Diet Plan

Our Expression

Being Myself

Changing Myself

Stress Relief

Blame It On The Puritans

It Isn't Easy

Inconveniences

Inspiration - Diet & Book Reviews

Love Yourself

Making Mistakes

Small Efforts - Setting Goals

Loss

Serenity

Belief In Oneself

Hard?

Naturally Thin

Biggest Loser and Jillian Michaels - Diet Review

Love Yourself

Paying The Price

Trust

Concepts of Intuitive Eating - Diet Review

A New Normal

Goal Setting

Over The Long Haul

Recipes When Tracking Food

Goals Don't Come Easy.

Nobody's Perfect

Experimenting with Diets

Not A Perfect World

Calorie Counting

Starvation Mode

Habit vs. Willpower

Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?

Food Addiction

Conflicting Rules

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

Recipe Categories

Update on Low-Carb Experiment-of-One

Life Keeps Changing

Value Judgment

Every Bite Counts

Video Shoot

An Endless Struggle

So You Want To Lose Weight?

Tracking Weight

Dedicated, not Obsessed

The Essence of Diets - Part Two

An Individual Fit

Maintaining an Attitude of Gratitude

When Life Takes You In A Different Direction.

Recording Food Intake - Counting Calories and/or Carbs

What About the Scales?

A Thousand Words AND Pictures

Welcome to my World

Happy Valentine's Day

Dieting as a 'means to an end'.

An Experiment of One

My Plan is to Say It Here

Dieting is my Hobby.

Taubes - Chapter 19 - Following Through

Taubes - Chapter 15 - Why Diets Succeed and Fail

Taubes - Chapter 14 - Injustice Collecting

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 05 - Why Me? Why There? Why Then?

Taubes - Chapter 03 - Elusive Benefits of Exercise

Taubes - Chapter 02 - Elusive Benefits of Undereating

Taubes - Author's Note


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