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The Root of Joy is Gratefulness

HeartBreak and Outrage

On Vulnerability

Three Obesity Types

I am Complete.

An Alternative Solution to the Body-Size Problem

My Preferences Matter

Dieting is So Much Harder than it Looks.

Winner of the “5 Percent Lottery of Hell”

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

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

Fat Cells are Forever

Weight Range Mantenance Plan

Is BMI the same as BMR?

Status Update - September 2017

Summer Experiment 2017

You Don't Understand & I Can't Explain

Manipulating One's Body Size

Thinking About Food

Our Weight is Regulated by Our Biological System

Calorie Restriction = Calorie Restriction.

What Size Are You REALLY?

The Angry Chef - Book Review

Current Diet Guidelines

Is it a Plateau?

Calorie Balance

Dieting = Treatment of Obesity

Food is Not the Enemy

No One-Size-Fits-All Diet Journey

Map = Directions

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.

And the Secret is ...

Trying Times - Words of Wisdom

Binge = Response to Starvation

Happily Ever After & Neuroscience

Eating Toward Immortality

Trust Yourself - Words of Wisdom

Freedom in Maintenance

Opportunity - Words of Wisdom

Dressed in Overalls - Words of Wisdom

Balancing Values

Weight-Loss Alternative Facts

One More Time - Words of Wisdom

3 x 3

Election Stress

Our Thoughts - Words of Wisdom

Downright Inspiring.

Still Moving Forward - Words of Wisdom

Diet Experts & My Opinion

Dieting: The Alternative

A Fork in the Road

Emotional Eating (2)

Beauty

Rule or Principle? - Internal vs. External Control

Permission Not Needed

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

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

Growing Old Gracefully

My Petite Meals

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

My Status - May 2016 Maintenance

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

Good Food, Bad Food

That Lost Weight? The Body Finds it.

Every Other Day - Alternate Day Fasting

Another Fasting Experiment with ADF - JUDDD - EOD - QOD

Diet Books are Full of Lies

Emotional Eating

Before & After Photos - Weight History

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

Walking Away

Eat More Food for Weight-Loss?

Dieting as Suffering

Intermittent Fasting via 5-Bites

Projections about the Rate of Weight-Loss

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

Bingo !!!

Experimenting with Subtraction

Body Weight Calculator - Timeline Projections

Health and Morality

Do Low-Calorie Sweetners Equal Weight-Gain?

Review of the Three Principle Concept - Diet Review

Body of Truth - Book Review

Effortless Change

Overweight means you live longer.

Fasting and Hunger

Let Me Tell You

Helpful Fasting Information

Anyone Who Eats Food Will Die.

BMI Classifications and Emotional Eating

Keep Your CONCERN to Yourself

End of the Line

Dark Chocolate Is Not Good For You And Also Sucks

Why Are Fat People Hungry?

Myths vs. Facts

About Giving Advice to Fat People

Crying with a Cookie in Your Hand

Simple Eating Boundaries

After the Mood is Gone

Self-help and Mental Techniques

DietHobby & The Three Principles

Cravings +

Goals & BubbleGum

Beliefs

The Inside-Out Revolution - Book Review

Things You Don't Owe Anybody

The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss

Freedom and Calorie Counting

Change your DEFINITION - Eliminate your PROBLEM

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

The Underpants Rule - Revisited

Why Do Dieters Regain Their Lost Weight?

Biological Adaptations that Promote Weight Regain

Giving Diets the Finger

DIET AD BINGO

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.

Body Image & Function: Acceptance vs. Complacency

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

Crap Overload

Quitting Smoking is NOT Comparable to Losing Weight.

Misconceptions about Regain of Weight-Loss

Are you a Master or a Beginner?

What Kind of Dog Are You?

Perspective

Thin for the Holidays?

About Self-Control and the Marshmallow test

Created by Me

Is it REALLY up to me?

Embracing Imperfections as a Path to Success

Alice in Hungerland

Don't Mention It

Beauty is Subjective

Progress has an Enemy

Acceptance - AA Big Book, page 417

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?

Eating Disorders Revisited

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

Diet Fix - Dieting Myth #01: People Lack Willpower

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

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

The Underpants Rule

Percentages of Seriously Obese women with above-normal BMIs

Personal Diet Experimentation

Delicate Dainty Meals

Calorie Denialism

More About the Starvation Mode Myth

Weight Loss Expectations

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

Fighting the Urge - Book Review

No Rescue Needed

Energy In and Energy Out

Hate to Exercise?

Food Diary Benefits

Overruling the Body

It is STILL a Diet

Maintenance Status Report - January 2014

Would it be Easier to be Thin?

Normalizing Obesity

Liars

Real Food

It's not ME, It's YOU

Honesty

What about all that Blah, Blah, Blah

Are you a Courteous, Healthy Eater?

Dressing to Please the Fat Bigots

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

Conflicting Desires

Is it the Diet, or the Person, Who Fails?

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

Biggest Loser, an example of televised exercise fraud

Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance

About Salt

All Goals Are Not Reachable For All People

150 Pounds

Weight Range Maintenance Plan Changes Again

Weight Management - A Rubber Band

Food as Fuel?

DietHobby, my Digital Scrapbook

Calories: Males vs. Females

The Myth of Spot Reducing

WHY Count Calories?

How Long Does Losing Weight Take?

Why Diets Fail - The Salt/Water/Waste Issue

Interpretating Peptides, Food Intake, and Body Weight

Perfection Is The Lowest Standard We Can Set For Ourselves

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

Ditching Diets - Book Review

More on Intermittent Fasting

Calorie Dectective - Lying Food Labels

Healthy Eater?

Diets Long-Term

What's REALLY the Problem?

No Cure

WheatBelly - Another Review

Appreciate What You Have

Unrealistic Expectations

Research Study regarding Obesity Myths

21 Days to Form a Habit?

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

SuperBowl Sunday

We Are Going to Die.

Foods to Avoid

Emotional Aspects of Obesity

Effort Shock

Eat Healthy or Lose Weight?

Changing is Hard

Grounded in Reality

Fear of Fat

Why We Diet

The End of 2012

Keeping the Weight Off

Attitude About the Problem

Health Experts

Thoughts About Hunger

What To Do?

Do Calories Matter?

Why is it so Hard to Keep Weight Off?

The Chubby Side of Normal

The Fat Trap - Follow-up

The Fat Trap

Set Point

History of the USDA Food Pyramid

What IS a good Diet?

Seduced by Food

Afraid To Do Things Wrong?

In Defense of Food - Book Review

Are GMO's Frankenfoods?

The End of Overeating - Book Review

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

Musical Lesson

Healthful Eating?

The Simple Diet - Diet Review

The Fast-5 Diet - Diet Review

More About Starvation Mode

The 5 Bite Diet - Diet Review

The Cookie Diet - Diet Review

Media says: For Happiness, Eat More Fruits & Veggies

A New Perspective

Obesity and Choice

Outrunning the Old Overweight You

Seduction by Marketing Interests

What is Junk Food?

Points Worth Considering

Cutting Carbs? or Cutting Calories?

Walk a Mile in MY Shoes

Want to Know Your BMI?

Science Has Failed

Experiment of One - Current

Is There A Right Way?

Wheat Belly - Book Review

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

In-Between-Meal Eating

Brain Over Binge - Book Review

Binge Avoidance + Adaptive Thermogenesis

Realities of Weight-Loss Maintenance

Running and Exercise Abuse

Eat Less Move More?

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

Journaling & Keeping Records

I'm not a Guru

A little bit of nothing.

How Little It Takes

Snack Yourself Slim - Book Review

Do Diets Work?

A Fresh Start?

Time, Patience, and Consistent Effort

Worlds Best Diet?

Is a Calorie just a Calorie?

It has a Price.

The Point of DietHobby?

Make Peace With What Is.

Here in the Land of DietHobby

The Path to Thinness and Health

Wisdom Takes Effort

Searching For Perfection

More About Priorities

Be Patient

DietHobby YouTube Channel now Operational.

Choosing a Positive Focus

Encouragement & Support

New DietHobby Features

Happy Mother's Day (2012)

Change in my Weight Range Maintenance Plan

What is a Good Guest?

It's a Good Day

No Clue

Want to be Happy?

Content Review & Directory to DietHobby

Vegetables and Artificial Sweeteners

Another New Beginning

Sing Anyway

Study of Literature on Weight-Loss Maintenance

Personal Worth

Bad Examples

New Stuff

Maintaining Enthusiasm

Choosing My Attitude

DietHobby's One-Year Progress Report

What I'm Reading Today

Low-Carb Experimentation - Diet Review

I Want It All

When you've Got to Go.

Pleasing People

Expecting Perfection

Update on The No S Diet - Diet Review

The Fat Trap

Expectations

Indecision

Holiday Season 2011

Intuitive Eating and the No S Diet

And So It Goes....

Do Diets Work?

The Skinny One

To Be Different

Chicken Crepes Recipe

Sunday Before Thanksgiving

Basic Diet Information from YouTube Grandma

Buddha Take

Willpower

What About Dieting?

Tomorrow and Today

Unwecome Truths

Weight-loss and Maintenance is Hard Work

Hunger After Weight-Loss

Checking In

Does Life Get in the Way?

Scheduling

Gratitude

It's Fall

Burnout or Stress

Self-Respect

Bingeing

Eggwhite Salad

Make sure it's YOUR goal.

The Two Parts of Wisdom

Differences: Successful or Unsuccessful?

Redefining Normal

We Deserve Love

Processed Foods Are Powerful

Choices and Responsibility

Slipping in Maintenance

Experiment of One

Simplicity

Normal

Building a Habit takes Energy.

What's Important?

Body Image

Weight Maintenance Challenges

The Ultimate Goal

Sorting Through Nutritional Information

Is Bingeing an Eating Disorder?

Work, Love, Dance

Dealing with Setbacks

The Space Between

A Common Problem

Maintenance As Compared to Weight-Loss

Monday Morning

There's no Generic Plan

What One Believes

Awareness and Confidence

How Often Should We Eat?

What I CAN do

Anything is possible...but with qualifications

Habits

Greed

Someday

Our Ideal Self

Planning-1

Barefoot Running

Judging Myself

Intermitting Fasting Success

Living in the Moment

Beauty is Subjective

Who We Can Be

Protein Requirement

Off-Line Data Storage

Beauty

Stress Relief

Blame It On The Puritans

Tortilla Cheese Dog

Inconveniences

Love Yourself

Naturally Thin

Chicken Waldorf Salad

Concepts of Intuitive Eating - Diet Review

Obession With Dieting

A New Normal

New Beginings

Goal Setting

Chili Cheese Cubes

Recipes When Tracking Food

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Nobody's Perfect

39 Years Later

Tuna Salad Wrap or Sandwich

Tuna Salad

How Many Carbohydrates?

Experimenting with Diets

Eggs Aren't Only For Easter

Not A Perfect World

Food Storage - A Diet Essential

Habit vs. Willpower

Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?

Food Addiction

Conflicting Rules

Meal Frequency - How Often Should I Eat?

Science Can't Prove What is True.

Diet Books and Reviews

Weight Loss Surgery - 18 Years Ago

How Many Calories Can I Eat?

Cheeseburger Pie

Life Keeps Changing

Food and Money

Value Judgment

Portion Control

My own Accountability

Determination

Video Shoot

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?

Online Forums - A Useful Dieting Support Tool.

Maintaining an Attitude of Gratitude

Recording Food Intake - Counting Calories and/or Carbs

Setting a Goal Weight Range

The Scale and the Big Picture

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

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 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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