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Next Step

A Single Step

Gift to Myself

Power of Control

The Root of Joy is Gratefulness

Contemplating Life

Let It Go

Set Point Explained

Adulthood

Just Stop It?

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

Thankful

Hold On

Corrupt Political Power

HeartBreak and Outrage

On Vulnerability

Living Life

Seemingly Hopeless Situation

So Many Lies

False Assumption

Too Much Laundry

Three Obesity Types

Tough Choice

2018 - Year of the Dog

Another Diet Book based on Wishful Thinking - Book Review

What Goes Around Comes Around

Valentine's Day 2018

Help from Concerned Others can be very Unhelpful.

I am Complete.

It's a Door.

An Alternative Solution to the Body-Size Problem

The Weigh In

Please Go On ...

My Preferences Matter

Dieting is So Much Harder than it Looks.

Wishful Thinking: Erroneous Belief

Intuitive: Without Conscious Reasoning or Rational Thought

Babies Eat Intuitively

Winner of the “5 Percent Lottery of Hell”

Intuitive Eating and Weight Loss - Diet Review

Appearances Can Be Decieving

Status Update - January 2018

New Year - 2018

I Know You Love Me - Now Let Me Die.

The Scale is an Objective and Unbiased Weight-Truth Tool.

Merry Christmas 2017

We Never Grow Up.

You Are Allowed.

Lead Me Home

Forgive Yourself

Experimenting with Food Portion Sizes

Exhaustion of Old Age

Old Age

Inside My Comfort Zone

Good Things in Life

Thanksgiving 2017

Unrealistic Expectations - False Hope Syndrome

Dreams Do NOT Always Come True

To Heal From the Past

Healthism: the modern religion

Tell Me Lies

The Dilemma of Diet and Maintenance

Dust in the Wind

Good Things

What I Have Learned About Life.

Shooting the Messenger Does Not Solve the Problem.

For a Reason

Time to Eat

Tiny Dishes for Petite Meals

The Value of Food Photos

Travel Conditions

It is Your Road.

Fall Treats

Why Is This Happening? - October 2017

The Secret Life of Fat - Book Review

Fat Cells are Forever

Weight Range Mantenance Plan

Body Acceptance Lesson 1

Is BMI the same as BMR?

You Can't Fix Stupid.

Happily Ever After

Long-term Success in Maintenance

How I Feel When Eating.

Status Update - September 2017

Summer Experiment 2017

You Don't Understand & I Can't Explain

Break Time Again

Sheet Caking

Lovin' this Cat

Manipulating One's Body Size

Road Less Traveled

Walking Alone

The Truth

Just Like ME.

Time Travel Dietition

Thinking About Food

My Problems

Our Weight is Regulated by Our Biological System

Calorie Restriction = Calorie Restriction.

Even with Life's Imperfections, It Is Still a Beautiful World.

Endurance

What Size Are You REALLY?

2017: Fourth of July

The Angry Chef - Book Review

Reality Bites

Strong Enough

Current Diet Guidelines

Bad Days are Not a Sign of Weakness

The Problem in a Nutshell

Is it a Plateau?

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

Map = Directions

What Do You Want?

Eat Small to BE Small

One Hundred Percent

Palm of the Hand

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

An Acknowledgement of What IS.

Focused

Live Your Life

Don't Touch My Food!

The Struggle is Real

Men in Power: Medical Experts Enjoying Their Practical Joke

Breaks & Maintenance

And the Secret is ...

Turn the Page

Trying Times - Words of Wisdom

Cats Try Again

Binge = Response to Starvation

How to Make Me Happy

Happily Ever After & Neuroscience

Status Update - February 2017

Eating Toward Immortality

Trust Yourself - Words of Wisdom

Freedom in Maintenance

Portion Size & Measurements

Opportunity - Words of Wisdom

Photo Examples of Food Experiments

Inner Beauty

About the Scales

Dressed in Overalls - Words of Wisdom

Balancing Values

Weight-Loss Alternative Facts

One More Time - Words of Wisdom

Dealing with a Donut.

Honest Diet Ads

Whatever It Takes

It Just Blooms.

Secret Eating

Happy New Year 2017

Bye-Bye 2016

3 x 3

Moving Forward

Time for Tiny Meals

Overcoming Obstacles

Election Stress

Worry

I voted; I've shared my concerns; I've done all I can.

Make American Great Again

After Careful Consideration

Staying Quiet

What the World Needs

Our Thoughts - Words of Wisdom

Downright Inspiring.

Enough is Enough

Sad but True

Still Moving Forward - Words of Wisdom

Today is Not That Day.

Technical Help - Seeing - Words of Wisdom

Diet Experts & My Opinion

Dieting: The Alternative

What is Normal?

A Fork in the Road

Emotional Eating (2)

Just a Little Taste...

Food Truth

Train of Thought

Compromise

Living in the Moment

Target Audience

Selective Participation

Rule or Principle? - Internal vs. External Control

Permission Not Needed

Courage

Speaking My Truth

10+ Years of Successfully Maintaining a Large-Weight Loss has Taught Me:

The Truth Is:

Ongoing Status Report

The Finish Line

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

Ever Used THIS Diet Plan?

I Love My Food - Selfie

Break Time

Summer Past = Cultivating Refinement v. Summer Present = Culture of Vulgarity

Growing Old Gracefully

Resolve the Problem: Get a Larger Pet Door.

My Petite Meals

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

I Am On My Way

Lily Tomlin Shines a Positive Light on Weight Gain

Ducks in a Row

Life's Truth

The Body is Not an Ornament; it's a Vehicle.

Be Authentic?

Meaningful Dialogue Ahead

Freedom from Binge Eating

How Hard?

Memorial Day 2016

Entitled: Believing Oneself to be Inherently Deserving of Privileges or Special Treatment

Persistent Efforts

Intermittent Fasting & the Dangling Carrot - Diet Review

My Status - May 2016 Maintenance

Psysiology = Biology Messing with Physics

Sometimes the Right Path is Not the Easiest One.

Turnabout is Fair Play

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

Reality is for People who Lack Imagination

Dieting Word Game = Diet, Way-of-Eating, Lifestyle Change

Good Food, Bad Food

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.

Big Box of Patience

Habits are the Solution, Not the Problem

Butter Bob Sharing his Opinions

Every Other Day - Alternate Day Fasting

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

Another Fasting Experiment with ADF - JUDDD - EOD - QOD

Diet Books are Full of Lies

What Road Do I Take?

Emotional Eating

Eating causes the Brain to Generate Feelings of Satisfaction, Comfort, and Well-being.

All Pleasurable Feelings Come from the SAME Brain Areas.

Love is an Emotion which Includes Feelings of Attraction and Affection.

Human DESIRE is the Fundamental Motivation of ALL Human Action.

Food Tastes Good

We Need Food

Food is Important to Most People.

Happy Easter - 2016

Food is More than Fuel

Eating is a Basic Human Need

Devour: to eat hungrily or very quickly

Kate Hudson Eating Food.

Two Handed, Mr. Bean

Reward: Something Good you Get for Something Good you've Done

In General ... I Tend to Agree.

Yeah, Ophra, Me Too.

The Hunger Games of Jennifer Lawrence

There Is Only Now.

Allergic to Food

Following Instructions

Different Pages of the Same Story

Success is Never Owned

Dieting Wisdom

Me and You Both, Jennifer

Before & After Photos - Weight History

Burning Bridges

Secret Messages

Now fly.

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

Three Truths

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

Happy Valentine's Day 2016

Many Common Phrases Just Aren't True

Why I Don't Wear Makeup

Just One Bite

Walking Away

Stuck in the Middle

Inner Voice

The Noise of Others' Opinions

ME Talking About ME

Eat More Food for Weight-Loss?

Dieting as Suffering

A Focus on Behavior

Living the Moment

Intermittent Fasting via 5-Bites

Projections about the Rate of Weight-Loss

A Truth to Remember

So She Did

Where I Live

2 Forks?

While Fasting

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....

This Would Not Be a Sustainable Diet for Me.

How I Spent the Holidays

Day 1 Completed

Happy New Year 2016

Setting Priorities...

Weight Watchers 1972 & 2016 - Diet Review

Christmas Eve 2015

Food Does Not Have A Moral Value.

Bingo !!!

YOU are Responsible for your Life.

It's a Shadow.

Experimenting with Subtraction

Body Weight Calculator - Timeline Projections

Time for a Break

Happy Thanksgiving 2015

Eating Patterns - Morning vs Evening

How Big Pharma Lies to Us

In Tune with your Body???

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

Cats & Us

Effortless Change

Veterans Day - 2015

When to Eat

Overweight means you live longer.

Moderation

Fasting and Hunger

500% Done

Trick or Treat - 2015

The Problem with Poodle Science

Cutting Down

A Weight Loss Program that Works?

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

The Collins Family Heritage

Let Me Tell You

Helpful Fasting Information

Why Peoples Opinions of You Aren't Real

Wrinkles

52 Signs You are a Low Carber

What's the Best Diet? Healthy Eating 101

Just Move On

Plate Size Portion Control

Anyone Who Eats Food Will Die.

Current Diet Experimentation

Calorie Refund

The Thrill is Gone

Cat & Turtle Tag

Perspective 101

What Skinny Feels Like

A Simple Way to Stay Happy

Starving Works

How It Feels.

The Way We Look at Things.

Opinions & Perspectives

What to Eat?

BMI Classifications and Emotional Eating

Keep Your CONCERN to Yourself

If I had Millions of Dollars ....

Plan vs. Reality

Ten Steps to Eating Perfectly

Venus Cattrap

Kitten Copies Mama Cat

End of the Line

Love

Dark Chocolate Is Not Good For You And Also Sucks

A Second Opinion

What Others Think of You Doesn't Matter.

Why Are Fat People Hungry?

Reaching Goal Weight

Does Fasting Make You Fat?

Myths vs. Facts

About Giving Advice to Fat People

Addiction as defined from a 3 Principles viewpoint.

Distinctive Genetic Makeup

Perfect vs. Good

Eating Boundaries - New Experiment

My Body = Not Your Business

F*ck That - a guided meditation

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Crying with a Cookie in Your Hand

Ongoing Dilemma

Simple Eating Boundaries

She Let Go

Believing Our Thoughts

After the Mood is Gone

The Absolute Weight

Your Thoughts and Feelings are Not About Anything

A New Way of Thinking

I'm Just Saying

10 Limiting Beliefs I'm Done With

Accountability

Self-help and Mental Techniques

DietHobby & The Three Principles

Cravings +

Memorial Day - 2015

Other People's Nonsense

Goals & BubbleGum

Beliefs

Illusions

The Inside-Out Revolution - Book Review

Addicted to What...?

A Defining Moment - George Pransky

Relationships

A New Paradigm for Mental Health - Cathy Casey

Digital Scrapbooking Issue

Hope for Transcending Addiction - Mark Howard & Christine Heath

What Are the Three Principles?

Navigation Issues - 3 Principles (plus More)

A Potential Solution for Problem Eating?

Things You Don't Owe Anybody

No BEFORE - No AFTER - Only DURING

Self-Talk

Growing Older

How to Stop Binge Eating

Exercise for Women in the 1940s

Partnered Push-Ups

What is Right for YOU

The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss

Taking Another Look at Traditional Psychology

A Quiet Mind

Easter 2015

Freedom and Calorie Counting

Let It Go

The Helium Diet

A Pig for Cookies

Image Consistency

Journey to Freedom

Hand Guide to Portion Control

Change your DEFINITION - Eliminate your PROBLEM

Your Workout

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

In the Moment

Comparisons

Cat Bed

The Underpants Rule - Revisited

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

An Illusion

Natural Eating Perspective

What You Need

Hidden in Plain Sight

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

Life's Story

What to Shoot For.

Both Feet

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

Not Cats

Recent Rain

I Say Nay Nay - John Pinette (2004)

Healthy Facts

Weight Gain

Still Hard After Nine Years of Maintenance

Cats Bullying People

And the Truth Is ...

Our Minds

Making Comparisons

Quitting Smoking is NOT Comparable to Losing Weight.

Misconceptions about Regain of Weight-Loss

Perfect Time

Are you a Master or a Beginner?

Dieter's Song

How Would You Change Your Body?

Happy Halloween 2014

The Price Paid

Reminder to Self

For Success - Avoid making the Same Mistake twice

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

Perfection

My Husband is My Hero

Feel Right or Look Right?

In Shape

What Kind of Dog Are You?

Your Opinion

Alternatives

My Opinion

Perspective

Ever Watch the Food Channel?

Ignoring Things

The Sound of Wrong

Flaws

10th Year Anniversary

Thin for the Holidays?

A Goal Without a Plan

About Self-Control and the Marshmallow test

Choice

How to Focus

Available Transportation

Something Different

There is Always ...

Sometimes it's Best to Choose A Different Way

Try Something Else

The Same Moon

Different Roads

MORE than Food?

Created by Me

Impossibly Perfect, the Tyranny of Ideal Beauty

Is it REALLY up to me?

Positivity Rules

What You Eat

Next Exit

My Thoughts

Walk the Walk

Paths Up the Mountain

Hanging On

Embracing Imperfections as a Path to Success

Loving Myself

Alice in Hungerland

A Breathing, Living, Human Body

Don't Mention It

Irrational Expectations (Part 1)

Beauty is Subjective

Good Advice

Change or Stay the Same?

A Decision to Change

Our Thoughts Create Our World.

It's in the Regrigerator

Why Dieting is Hard

Moving Forward

When's my Break?

Noise

Skinnytown

Scrapbooking on DietHobby

You Are More

Leaving Where You Are

Somthing Amazing

Not One Moment Sooner

Acceptance - AA Big Book, page 417

The Past

Good News, Bad News.

Independence Day - 2014

Something You've Never Done

Can't Stop the Waves

Older Ladies Are Divine

Sometimes - you have to push yourself.

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

Dr Oz and Nutritional Supplements - Diet Review

Use Another Road

The Dolly Diet - Diet Review

Time for a Reality Check

It's HARD

Freedom of Choice

Seeing and Doing

I call it Dedication

Why do people keep believing things that are obviously untrue?

Good Things are Coming

Remember ... You Asked.

Looking at a Fat Person

Eating Disorders Revisited

Long-Term Weight-Loss Almost Impossible

Perfect

Beach Body

Cut the Rope

One per Day

Memorial Day 2014

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

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #02: Scales Measure Health

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #03: Dieting Must be Difficult

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #04: Do not Eat Unless You are Hungry

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

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

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #07: Some Foods Must be Forbidden

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #08: There is One Right Diet

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

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

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

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

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

Retaining Food

The Underpants Rule

Behavior = Problem and Solution

Start Again

Can't Please Everybody

Happy Birthday, Daughter

Holding On - Letting Go

Your Perspective

There You Are

Weight-Loss RESULTS

Present, Past, Future

Reaching Your Destination

Starving-To-Death is Unlikely

Dreams can be Fragile

A Matter of Perspective

Percentages of Seriously Obese women with above-normal BMIs

Personal Diet Experimentation

Efforts vs. Results

One More Time

Happy Easter 2014

Delicate Dainty Meals

Calorie Denialism

Can you Remember?

Discipline

Mirror Image

My cat, Layla

More About the Starvation Mode Myth

Weight Loss Expectations

The Secret of Change

Crazy Cat Lady Temptation

Is Overeating and Being Fat Ever Funny? ... Watch John Pinette

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

Persistence or Perfection?

Fighting the Urge - Book Review

Sharing the Reasons for Our Food Choices

You Look Good

The Issue of Healthy Eating

No Rescue Needed

Getting Along With People

The Power

The Truth Is:

Insanity

Status Update - March 2014

Questions about Health & Weight

Save Yourself

Energy In and Energy Out

Hate to Exercise?

Food Diary Benefits

No Goals?

That One Person

The Habit Concept

The First Step

The Truth of Ageing

Being Human

Going for it

Overruling the Body

It is STILL a Diet

A Good Idea

The Future

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

Try This Way

Choosing a Path

Expert 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

Taking Up Space

Imagine

Stop It

Not Everyone

Be Yourself

What about all that Blah, Blah, Blah

Weight Management Success

Key to Happiness

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?

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

Bucking the Tide

Slow Progress

When Your Past Calls.

Status Update - August 2013

Learning Curve

Footprints

Born on the Finish Line

My Summer of '68 online vacation continues....

Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance

Self-Image

Commitment

My Baby Sister's Birthday

Ever try THIS diet?

Tell It Like It Is

Conflicting Desires

A Longer Life due to Healthy Living?

Hard, but Not Impossible

The Consequences of Choices

Continue On

Summer of 68

Our Power

Movie Trailer for DietHobby

About Salt

All Goals Are Not Reachable For All People

Mother's Day 2013

Sad Cat Diary

Hearing the Music

150 Pounds

What Does the Scale Say?

Be Who You Are

Weight Range Maintenance Plan Changes Again

Weight Management - A Rubber Band

Choosing

Food as Fuel?

Choices Made

My Reality

DietHobby, my Digital Scrapbook

Calories: Males vs. Females

So Often True

The Wrong Path

Body Acceptance

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

Release the Stress

Monday After Easter 2013

Interpretating Peptides, Food Intake, and Body Weight

Perfection Is The Lowest Standard We Can Set For Ourselves

Change my LIFE?

Today

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

Blogging About Nothing

The Science of Addictive Foods

Giving Advice

Blame Butter?

Expectations

Ditching Diets - Book Review

Positive Thinking

More on Intermittent Fasting

Calorie Dectective - Lying Food Labels

Healthy Eater?

Vegetables - One chip at a time?

Persistence, not Perfection.

Diets Long-Term

Maintaining weight-loss

The Gorilla's Not Tired.

What's REALLY the Problem?

No Cure

LitterBox

Valentine's Day 2013

Does Eating Fruit and Veggies Lower Weight?

Being Thankful

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"

SuperBowl Sunday

We Are Going to Die.

Hoping for a Miracle?

What is Hunger?

How Often Should We Eat?

Diets Work

Three Diet Myths

What Stops Us?

Foods to Avoid

Emotional Aspects of Obesity

Effort Shock

Eat Healthy or Lose Weight?

Changing is Hard

Extra Food because I Exercised

Grounded in Reality

Kindness

Sugared-water's Fight Against Obesity

Advertising Guidelines???

Using Reason

Fear of Fat

Weight Loss Promises

Searching for Your Diet

Why We Diet

Individual Rules

The Finish Line

Remember

New Year's Resolutions - 2013

Boycotting Advertisers

Another Good Day

Happy New Year 2013

The End of 2012

Keeping the Weight Off

Thoughtful Reduction

Attitude About the Problem

Health Experts

Thoughts About Hunger

Christmas 2012

Christmas Eve 2012

The Kitten, Layla

What To Do?

Birthday

Calories - Paleo, Low-Carb

Do Calories Matter?

Why is it so Hard to Keep Weight Off?

Two Experts at Stanford University - Dec 2012

O Christmas Tree

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

Marketing Healthy

Set Point

History of the USDA Food Pyramid

Food History Timeline 1950-1980

Changes over Time

Becoming Successful

What IS a good Diet?

Seduced by Food

Having a Restaurant Dessert?

Slowing Down

Thanksgiving 2012

Following My Own Advice

In Memory of Boodie

Afraid To Do Things Wrong?

Serving Sizes

In Defense of Food - Book Review

Cultural Bias

Are GMO's Frankenfoods?

Social Pressure from the High Priests of Healthy Eating

Veteran's Day 2012

Accepting the Truth

The End of Overeating - Book Review

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

Do YOU Like Change? - Ask Grandma - Episode Fifty-one

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.

Grandma's Missing Videos - Ask Grandma - Episode Fifty

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

Buttons for VidCon 2012

Buttons not Cookies - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-nine

Searching For Perfection

Patience Required - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-eight

More About Priorities

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

Videos are Here

Be Patient

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

New DietHobby Features

Moving Forward

Happy Mother's Day (2012)

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

Weight-Loss in a Nutshell

What Really Counts

It's a Good Day

No Clue

Out-of-Sorts

Mini Chocolate Chip Cheesecakes Recipe

Mini Chocolate Chip Cheesecakes

I wish I knew NOW

Making Lists

Want to be Happy?

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

Spring Cleaning?

Water is Essential (2)

Water is Essential (1)

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

Shrimp Avocado Salad Recipe

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

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

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

Intuitive Eating and the No S Diet

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

A Powerful Combination

Willpower

What About Dieting?

Tomorrow and Today

Bread Substitute - Low-Carb

Oopsie Rolls

Unwecome Truths

Weight-loss and Maintenance is Hard Work

Repairs

Salad for Lunch

Apple Tuna Salad

Happy Halloween

Positive Power

Hunger After Weight-Loss

Checking In

Another Smoothie Recipe

Strawberry Banana Smoothie

Busy Times

Suprising Oneself

Back Home Again

Breakfast Cookies

Cranberry Breakfast Cookies

The Donkey

Joyful

Does Life Get in the Way?

Goals

Scheduling

Crab Salad

Creamy Crab Salad

Consistency

Gratitude

What is Portion Control?

It's Fall

Peach Bread

Peach Quick Bread

Burnout or Stress

Self-Respect

Bingeing

Cleverness

Calories vs. Money

Egg-White Salad - Surprisingly good

It's Monday Again

Eggwhite Salad

Committment

Lacking Inspiration?

Make sure it's YOUR goal.

I Think I Can

The Two Parts of Wisdom

Differences: Successful or Unsuccessful?

Food Choices

Oatmeal Banana Nut Bars

Redefining Normal

Pet Obesity?

Trust Yourself?

We Deserve Love

Setting Goals

DietHobby Recipes

Taco Salad

Processed Foods Are Powerful

What is Hope?

Frustration

Our Own Approval

Discipline or Self-Discipline

Mutually Exclusive Goals

Crispy White Pizza

Labor Day Weekend

Forget Your Diet?

Choices and Responsibility

Slipping in Maintenance

Experiment of One

Simplicity

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

Chocolate Cinnamon Bread Pudding

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

Self-Acceptance

Body Image

Weight Maintenance Challenges

Hunger, Appetite, and Cravings

Live and Learn?

The Ultimate Goal

Tips and Inspiration

Be Kind to Yourself

Chocolate Milkshake

Sorting Through Nutritional Information

Kindness and Body Image

Is Bingeing an Eating Disorder?

A Change

Stress

Finish each day and be done with it.

Work, Love, Dance

Wisdom with Age?

At Vidcon

Going to VidCon

Courage

Dealing with Setbacks

The Space Between

Establishing Habits

Regrets?

A Common Problem

Maintenance As Compared to Weight-Loss

Our Thoughts Make Our World

Monday Morning

Three Myths

Diet Cookies for YouTube

Trust a Few

There's no Generic Plan

Think Differently

What One Believes

Real Confidence

Awareness and Confidence

How Often Should We Eat?

What I CAN do

The person you were meant to be

Behavior Choices

Anything is possible...but with qualifications

More About Attitude

Dieting a 24/7 commitment

Habits

Greed

Fall on your face

Someday

Be Who You Are

Do it

Friends

Better than what?

Our Ideal Self

The Present

Doing the Impossible

It's my choice

Ride Out The Wave

In Our Hands

Behavior and Results-2

Behavior and Results-1

What We See

Changes Happen Every Day

Planning-2

Planning-1

When is it time to quit?

Barefoot Running

Judging Myself

Good Friends

Intermitting Fasting Success

Living in the Moment

Gratitude Expressed

Beauty is Subjective

Hope

Who We Can Be

Habits & Dieting

Sacrifice

Protein Requirement

Guidelines for DietHobby

Lucky?

Success starts with Failure

It's Up To Me

Off-Line Data Storage

The Best Diet Plan

Our Expression

Being Myself

Changing Myself

Gratitude

Beauty

The Power Of Choice

Stress Relief

Blame It On The Puritans

It Isn't Easy

Tortilla Cheese Dog

Inconveniences

Inspiration - Diet & Book Reviews

Forgiveness

Love Yourself

Making Mistakes

Small Efforts - Setting Goals

Loss

Serenity

Sweet Potato & Black Beans

Belief In Oneself

Courage To Continue

Hard?

Naturally Thin

Happy Mother's Day

Biggest Loser and Jillian Michaels - Diet Review

In Denial

Rule or Suggestion?

Behavior vs Results

Six Yogurt and Sides

Perseverance

Love Yourself

Paying The Price

The Power to Change

An Individual Call

Trust

Chicken Waldorf Salad

Concepts of Intuitive Eating - Diet Review

Obession With Dieting

Positive Thinking

A New Normal

New Beginings

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 Aren't Only For Easter

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

Six Peanut Butter and Sides

Food Storage - A Diet Essential

Storing Pie

Starvation Mode

Mild Chili Beans

Habit vs. Willpower

Sweet & Sour Pork Chops

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

Storing Cookies

Peanut Butter Crunch Cookies

Giving Up Is Not An Option

More About Leftovers and Portion Control

Tuna Melt Sandwich

Conflicting Rules

Peanut Butter Toast

Everything and Nothing

Egg Bacon Veggie Scramble

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?

Dealing with Leftovers

What About Leftovers?

Recipe Categories

Cheeseburger Pie

Ever Have One Of Those Days?

Update on Low-Carb Experiment-of-One

Life Keeps Changing

Disordered Eating

Food and Money

Value Judgment

Making Progress

Oatmeal Microwave Muffin

Protein Cream Cupcake

Eggwhite Custard

Eggwhite Pancakes

Oatmeal Protein Pancakes

Eggwhite Mock Pancakes

Imperfect Is Good Enough - This Is Me

Every Bite Counts

Portion Control

Some Things Take Time

My own Accountability

Determination

Video Shoot

An Endless Struggle

Normal, Overweight, or Obese?

So You Want To Lose Weight?

Tracking Weight

Dedicated, not Obsessed

The Essence of Diets - Part Two

The Essence of Diets - Part One

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

My First Cooking Videos

When Life Takes You In A Different Direction.

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

A DietHobby Benefit - Book and Diet Reviews

Welcome to my World

Happy Valentine's Day

Dieting as a 'means to an end'.

Imaginary Friends

Online Friends

An Experiment of One

Before Pictures

My Plan is to Say It Here

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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