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The Root of Joy is Gratefulness

Set Point Explained

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

HeartBreak and Outrage

Too Much Laundry

Three Obesity Types

2018 - Year of the Dog

I am Complete.

An Alternative Solution to the Body-Size Problem

Please Go On ...

Dieting is So Much Harder than it Looks.

Winner of the “5 Percent Lottery of Hell”

Status Update - January 2018

I Know You Love Me - Now Let Me Die.

The Consequences of Excess

Merry Christmas 2017

Experimenting with Food Portion Sizes

Unrealistic Expectations - False Hope Syndrome

Healthism: the modern religion

What I Have Learned About Life.

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

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

Our Weight is Regulated by Our Biological System

Calorie Restriction = Calorie Restriction.

Endurance

What Size Are You REALLY?

The Angry Chef - Book Review

Current Diet Guidelines

Is it a Plateau?

Calorie Balance

Dieting = Treatment of Obesity

Status Update - June 2017

Map = Directions

Eat Small to BE Small

Palm of the Hand

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

Turn the Page

Trying Times - Words of Wisdom

Binge = Response to Starvation

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

About the Scales

Dressed in Overalls - Words of Wisdom

Balancing Values

Weight-Loss Alternative Facts

One More Time - Words of Wisdom

3 x 3

Time for Tiny Meals

Integrity

Election Stress

Our Thoughts - Words of Wisdom

Downright Inspiring.

Enough is Enough

Still Moving Forward - Words of Wisdom

Technical Help - Seeing - Words of Wisdom

Diet Experts & My Opinion

Fear Nothing

Dieting: The Alternative

A Fork in the Road

Emotional Eating (2)

Begin the Task

Train of Thought

Target Audience

Rule or Principle? - Internal vs. External Control

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?

Growing Old Gracefully

My Petite Meals

Freedom from Binge Eating

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.

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

Good Food, Bad Food

That Lost Weight? The Body Finds it.

Habits are the Solution, Not the Problem

Every Other Day - Alternate Day Fasting

Another Fasting Experiment with ADF - JUDDD - EOD - QOD

Diet Books are Full of Lies

What Road Do I Take?

Emotional Eating

Yeah, Ophra, Me Too.

Before & After Photos - Weight History

Burning Bridges

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

Three Truths

Weight Loss Goals

The Currency of Weight is Calories

Many Common Phrases Just Aren't True

Walking Away

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

How I Spent the Holidays

Weight Watchers 1972 & 2016 - Diet Review

Merry Christmas

Christmas Eve 2015

Bingo !!!

YOU are Responsible for your Life.

It's a Shadow.

Experimenting with Subtraction

Body Weight Calculator - Timeline Projections

Eating Patterns - Morning vs Evening

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

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

Let Me Tell You

Helpful Fasting Information

52 Signs You are a Low Carber

Anyone Who Eats Food Will Die.

Current Diet Experimentation

The Thrill is Gone

BMI Classifications and Emotional Eating

Keep Your CONCERN to Yourself

End of the Line

Dark Chocolate Is Not Good For You And Also Sucks

What Others Think of You Doesn't Matter.

Why Are Fat People Hungry?

Does Fasting Make You Fat?

Distinctive Genetic Makeup

Eating Boundaries - New Experiment

Simple Eating Boundaries

She Let Go

Your Thoughts and Feelings are Not About Anything

A longer life (maybe), but...

The Voice Inside

Self-help and Mental Techniques

DietHobby & The Three Principles

Cravings +

Goals & BubbleGum

Beliefs

The Inside-Out Revolution - Book Review

Digital Scrapbooking Issue

Hope for Transcending Addiction - Mark Howard & Christine Heath

What Are the Three Principles?

Navigation Issues - 3 Principles (plus More)

Things You Don't Owe Anybody

The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss

A Quiet Mind

The Underpants Rule - Revisited

Why Do Dieters Regain Their Lost Weight?

Biological Adaptations that Promote Weight Regain

Giving Diets the Finger

I'm Not Going to Miss You

How to End Habits and Addictions

Failed Diets and Current Maintenance Status

Natural Eating Perspective

Recommendation for Tiny Meal Portions - very low calorie eating

No Facts or Evidence

Body Image & Function: Acceptance vs. Complacency

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

Crap Overload

Not Cats

Still Hard After Nine Years of Maintenance

Cats Bullying People

Quitting Smoking is NOT Comparable to Losing Weight.

Misconceptions about Regain of Weight-Loss

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

Perspective

Thin for the Holidays?

About Self-Control and the Marshmallow test

Created by Me

Is it REALLY up to me?

My Thoughts

Embracing Imperfections as a Path to Success

Scrapbooking on DietHobby

Acceptance - AA Big Book, page 417

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

Use Another Road

The Dolly Diet - Diet Review

Time for a Reality Check

It's HARD

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

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

The Underpants Rule

Happy Birthday, Daughter

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

Weight Loss Expectations

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

Fighting the Urge - Book Review

Sharing the Reasons for Our Food Choices

No Rescue Needed

The Power

Energy In and Energy Out

Hate to Exercise?

Food Diary Benefits

The Habit Concept

Overruling the Body

It is STILL a Diet

Maintenance Status Report - January 2014

Would it be Easier to be Thin?

Normalizing Obesity

Liars

Fitness through Exercise

Choosing a Path

Everyone isn't the Same

Real Food

Honesty

Taking Up Space

Not Everyone

Are you a Courteous, Healthy Eater?

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?

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

Status Update - August 2013

Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance

Summer of 68

About Salt

Weight Range Maintenance Plan Changes Again

Weight Management - A Rubber Band

Food as Fuel?

DietHobby, my Digital Scrapbook

Calories: Males vs. Females

First, Sow the Seeds

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

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

The Science of Addictive Foods

Following Through

Ditching Diets - Book Review

More on Intermittent Fasting

Calorie Dectective - Lying Food Labels

What's REALLY the Problem?

No Cure

WheatBelly - Another Review

Appreciate What You Have

Unrealistic Expectations

Research Study regarding Obesity Myths

Our Inner Dialogue

21 Days to Form a Habit?

SuperBowl Sunday

We Are Going to Die.

How Often Should We Eat?

Three Diet Myths

Foods to Avoid

Emotional Aspects of Obesity

Eat Healthy or Lose Weight?

Extra Food because I Exercised

Fear of Fat

Why We Diet

Boycotting Advertisers

The End of 2012

Keeping the Weight Off

Attitude About the Problem

Christmas 2012

Christmas Eve 2012

What To Do?

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

The Chubby Side of Normal

The Fat Trap - Follow-up

The Fat Trap

Set Point

Food History Timeline 1950-1980

Becoming Successful

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 WillPower Instinct - Book Review

Sometimes Hunger is a Lie

No S Diet vs. Intuitive Eating - Diet Review

Beginning the Holiday Season

Healthful Eating?

The Simple Diet - Diet Review

The Fast-5 Diet - Diet Review

More About Starvation Mode

A Sustainable Alternative

What if modern Theories about Food & Digestion are Wacked.

The 5 Bite Diet - Diet Review

The Cookie Diet - Diet Review

Media says: For Happiness, Eat More Fruits & Veggies

The Difference Between Causation and Correlation

Being Resilient

A New Perspective

Obesity and Choice

A Reflection on Dieting Style

Outrunning the Old Overweight You

Seduction by Marketing Interests

Perfect is the Enemy of Good

What is Junk Food?

Points Worth Considering

What If?

Perfect Health Diet - Book Review

Cutting Carbs? or Cutting Calories?

Want to Know Your BMI?

The Common Ground to Success

Diet Coke

Experiment of One - Current

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

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

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?

Perserverance and Real Integrity

Instinctive Resentment

Make Peace With What Is.

Here in the Land of DietHobby

Wisdom Takes Effort

Back to Work

More About Priorities

Videos are Here

Be Patient

Past Portion Control

DietHobby YouTube Channel now Operational.

Encouragement & Support

New DietHobby Features

Happy Mother's Day (2012)

Change in my Weight Range Maintenance Plan

What is a Good Guest?

Weight-Loss in a Nutshell

Mini Chocolate Chip Cheesecakes Recipe

Want to be Happy?

Spring Cleaning?

Content Review & Directory to DietHobby

You're Not Ugly - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-three

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

YouTube Grandma Christmas (2011) - Ask Grandma

How to Make Friends - Ask Grandma - Episode Twenty-three

Shrimp Avocado Salad Recipe

Shrimp Avocado Salad

How Do I Tell My Mother? - Ask Grandma - Episode Three

Adding New Section to DietHobby

Vegetables and Artificial Sweeteners

Highlighting - Extra Calories

Baked Potato (White or Sweet) Recipe

Study of Literature on Weight-Loss Maintenance

Self-Talk

I Don't Feel Like It.

Be Right or Be Kind?

All or Nothing

Roasted Chicken Thighs Recipe

Power of Habits

Thinking about Habits

What is a Diet?

Cheesecake Sugar-Free Recipe

Pork Chops with Onions Recipe

Choosing Our Focus

New Stuff

DietHobby's One-Year Progress Report

Cinnamon Bread Pudding Recipe

Sweets for Breakfast?

Tuna Noodle Casserole Recipe

Tuna Noodle Casserole

Low-Carb Experimentation - Diet Review

I Want It All

Fish in Foil Recipe

Fish in Foil

When you've Got to Go.

Pleasing People

Introspection

Oatmeal Banana Muffin Recipe

Vanilla Baked Apple Recipe

Expecting Perfection

Standing up to your Friends

Update on The No S Diet - Diet Review

Vegetable Soup Recipe

Vegetable Soup

The Fat Trap

Indecision

French Toast on a Diet

Pineapple Coconut Cake

Christmas Traditions

Holiday Moderation

Holiday Season 2011

Pot Roast Recipe

Do Diets Work?

Chicken Crepes Recipe

Chicken Crepes

Saturday After Thanksgiving

Another Favorite Recipe

Chicken Rice Dinner

Sunday Before Thanksgiving

Basic Diet Information from YouTube Grandma

Computer Frustration

Grandma's Goulash

A Powerful Combination

Willpower

What About Dieting?

Bread Substitute - Low-Carb

Unwecome Truths

Repairs

Salad for Lunch

Apple Tuna Salad

Positive Power

Hunger After Weight-Loss

Checking In

Another Smoothie Recipe

Busy Times

Back Home Again

Breakfast Cookies

Joyful

Does Life Get in the Way?

Crab Salad

Creamy Crab Salad

Gratitude

What is Portion Control?

Peach Bread

Peach Quick Bread

Self-Respect

Egg-White Salad - Surprisingly good

Eggwhite Salad

Committment

Lacking Inspiration?

Differences: Successful or Unsuccessful?

Food Choices

Pet Obesity?

We Deserve Love

DietHobby Recipes

Taco Salad

What is Hope?

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

Normal

Staying Open to New Information

Snack Foods

Building a Habit takes Energy.

It feels hard because it IS hard.

What Do you Say To Yourself?

The Endless Search for Why

Recovery

Self-Acceptance

Body Image

Weight Maintenance Challenges

Hunger, Appetite, and Cravings

Tips and Inspiration

Be Kind to Yourself

Sorting Through Nutritional Information

Is Bingeing an Eating Disorder?

Stress

Work, Love, Dance

Dealing with Setbacks

Establishing Habits

Regrets?

Three Myths

Diet Cookies for YouTube

There's no Generic Plan

What One Believes

Real Confidence

Awareness and Confidence

How Often Should We Eat?

What I CAN do

Dieting a 24/7 commitment

Habits

Greed

Fall on your face

Ride Out The Wave

Behavior and Results-1

Changes Happen Every Day

Barefoot Running

Intermitting Fasting Success

Beauty is Subjective

Protein Requirement

Success starts with Failure

Off-Line Data Storage

Our Expression

Being Myself

Changing Myself

Blame It On The Puritans

It Isn't Easy

Tortilla Cheese Dog

Inconveniences

Inspiration - Diet & Book Reviews

Loss

Sweet Potato & Black Beans

Belief In Oneself

Courage To Continue

Naturally Thin

Happy Mother's Day

Biggest Loser and Jillian Michaels - Diet Review

Rule or Suggestion?

Paying The Price

An Individual Call

Trust

Concepts of Intuitive Eating - Diet Review

Positive Thinking

New Beginings

Goal Setting

Chili Cheese Cubes

Sugar Binges

Sausage Egg Bowl

Recipes When Tracking Food

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Calorie Accountability

Tuna Salad Wrap or Sandwich

Veggie Tray

How Many Carbohydrates?

Mexican Lunch

Experimenting with Diets

Eggs Aren't Only For Easter

Eggs Benedict For One

Not A Perfect World

Food Storage - A Diet Essential

Starvation Mode

Mild Chili Beans

Sweet & Sour Pork Chops

Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?

Food Addiction

Hunger vs. Appetite

Conflicting Rules

Everything and Nothing

Egg Bacon Veggie Scramble

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?

Recipe Categories

Cheeseburger Pie

Update on Low-Carb Experiment-of-One

Value Judgment

Every Bite Counts

Portion Control

My own Accountability

Video Shoot

So You Want To Lose Weight?

Tracking Weight

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.

My First Cooking Videos

When Life Takes You In A Different Direction.

Recording Food Intake - Counting Calories and/or Carbs

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

Imaginary Friends

My Plan is to Say It Here

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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