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The Root of Joy is Gratefulness

Adulthood

Just Stop It?

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

HeartBreak and Outrage

On Vulnerability

Living Life

So Many Lies

Contemplation

Tool to Measure Marketing Claims about Diets and Dieting

Three Obesity Types

Walking the Tightrope

2018 - Year of the Dog

Help from Concerned Others can be very Unhelpful.

Connected

I am Complete.

Being Alone

An Alternative Solution to the Body-Size Problem

I have had More than Enough

Please Go On ...

Reflecting

Reassurance

My Preferences Matter

Dieting is So Much Harder than it Looks.

Winner of the “5 Percent Lottery of Hell”

Reality: a Fact, Event, or Situation as it Really Exists.

Status Update - January 2018

The Desire for a Different Reality

Projection: a Blame-Shifting Tactic

Facing an Unwelcome Truth

I Know You Love Me - Now Let Me Die.

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

You Are Allowed.

Comfortable in Your Own Skin

Go Take A Nap

Comfort Zone: an Acceptable Lifestyle Choice

Good Things in Life

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

The Value of Food Photos

Fall Treats

Why Is This Happening? - October 2017

Fat Cells are Forever

Weight Range Mantenance Plan

Is BMI the same as BMR?

You Can't Fix Stupid.

Food Protection

Positive Thinking

Status Update - September 2017

Summer Experiment 2017

You Don't Understand & I Can't Explain

Lovin' this Cat

Manipulating One's Body Size

Thinking About Food

In a Relationship

Best Thing About People

Your Decisions

Our Weight is Regulated by Our Biological System

Calorie Restriction = Calorie Restriction.

Endurance

What Size Are You REALLY?

Current Diet Guidelines

Hold On

Is it a Plateau?

Calorie Balance

Dieting = Treatment of Obesity

Status Update - June 2017

No One-Size-Fits-All Diet Journey

What Do You Want?

Eat Small to BE Small

Palm of the Hand

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

Potato

Focused

Breaks & Maintenance

And the Secret is ...

Lifestyle Perfection

Turn the Page

Trying Times - Words of Wisdom

True Love

Binge = Response to Starvation

Happily Ever After & Neuroscience

Status Update - February 2017

Eating Toward Immortality

Trust Yourself - Words of Wisdom

Trust Yourself

Freedom in Maintenance

Portion Size & Measurements

Do Nothing

One True Friend

Opportunity - Words of Wisdom

You are More

Photo Examples of Food Experiments

Food Deprivation

About the Scales

Dressed in Overalls - Words of Wisdom

Getting REAL

Balancing Values

Weight-Loss Alternative Facts

One More Time - Words of Wisdom

One More Time

3 x 3

Time for Tiny Meals

Think Again

Common Sense Missing

Election Stress

Breathing Space

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

Awesome

In a Mood

After Careful Consideration

Standing Up to your Friends

What the World Needs

Our Thoughts - Words of Wisdom

Enough is Enough

Still Moving Forward - Words of Wisdom

Technical Help - Seeing - Words of Wisdom

Diet Experts & My Opinion

Dieting: The Alternative

I Understand

One Bite at a Time

Hope

Emotional Eating (2)

Train of Thought

Living in the Moment

The Wish without The Drive

Rule or Principle? - Internal vs. External Control

Summer Diet Progress

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

Similar, but Different

My Petite Meals

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

Find the Balance

Ducks in a Row

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

Be Authentic?

A Long Wait.

Cats Know

Persistent Efforts

Intermittent Fasting & the Dangling Carrot - Diet Review

My Status - May 2016 Maintenance

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

Increased Activity

I Remember...

Common Sense

Good Food, Bad Food

Before & After Food

That Lost Weight? The Body Finds it.

Today

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

Emotional Eating

Eating & Emotions Need and Desire are Not All that Separate.

Food is More than Fuel

In General ... I Tend to Agree.

Me & Intermittent Fasting

Allergic to Food

Before & After Photos - Weight History

Secret Messages

Diet Motto

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

Three Truths

Maybe Fat People are NOT Doing it Wrong

Weight Loss Goals

Poor Victoria

The Currency of Weight is Calories

Many Common Phrases Just Aren't True

Why I Don't Wear Makeup

Walking Away

Inner Voice

Eat More Food for Weight-Loss?

Dieting as Suffering

Intermittent Fasting via 5-Bites

Projections about the Rate of Weight-Loss

A New Perspective

While Fasting

When Can Women Stop Trying to Look Perfect?

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

This Would Not Be a Sustainable Diet for Me.

How Bad Do You Want It?

Weight Watchers 1972 & 2016 - Diet Review

First Instinct

Bingo !!!

It's a Shadow.

Experimenting with Subtraction

In The Moment

Body Weight Calculator - Timeline Projections

Time for a Break

Eating Patterns - Morning vs Evening

Status Quo

What is the Body Positive Movement?

Review of the Three Principle Concept - Diet Review

Body of Truth - Book Review

Cats & Us

Effortless Change

When to Eat

Overweight means you live longer.

Fasting and Hunger

500% Done

Time Change

The Problem with Poodle Science

My Fantasy

My Favorite Day

Cutting Down

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

Let Me Tell You

Helpful Fasting Information

More Cats

Holiday Plans

Anyone Who Eats Food Will Die.

Current Diet Experimentation

The Thrill is Gone

How Much?

Cat & Turtle Tag

What Skinny Feels Like

Starving Works

How It Feels.

BMI Classifications and Emotional Eating

Keep Your CONCERN to Yourself

If I had Millions of Dollars ....

Ten Steps to Eating Perfectly

Venus Cattrap

Kitten Copies Mama Cat

End of the Line

Love

A Second Opinion

Why Are Fat People Hungry?

Reaching Goal Weight

The Mouse Trap Diet

Does Fasting Make You Fat?

About Giving Advice to Fat People

Distinctive Genetic Makeup

My Body = Not Your Business

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Crying with a Cookie in Your Hand

She Let Go

Your Thoughts and Feelings are Not About Anything

A New Way of Thinking

A longer life (maybe), but...

Accountability

Self-help and Mental Techniques

Cravings +

Other People's Nonsense

Goals & BubbleGum

Beliefs

The Inside-Out Revolution - Book Review

A Defining Moment - George Pransky

Relationships

Digital Scrapbooking Issue

Navigation Issues - 3 Principles (plus More)

Things You Don't Owe Anybody

No BEFORE - No AFTER - Only DURING

Self-Talk

Partnered Push-Ups

The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss

Freedom and Calorie Counting

Change your DEFINITION - Eliminate your PROBLEM

Comparisons

Then a Miracle Occurs

Mind Your Own Business

Why Do Dieters Regain Their Lost Weight?

Biological Adaptations that Promote Weight Regain

Correct My Mind?

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.

Why?

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.

Mindless Eating?

Are you a Master or a Beginner?

Motivation Somewhat Lacking at the moment

For Success - Avoid making the Same Mistake twice

In Shape

What Kind of Dog Are You?

Perspective

Thin for the Holidays?

About Self-Control and the Marshmallow test

MORE than Food?

Created by Me

Is it REALLY up to me?

Embracing Imperfections as a Path to Success

Alice in Hungerland

Beauty is Subjective

You Are More

Acceptance - AA Big Book, page 417

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

Use Another Road

The Dolly Diet - Diet Review

Time for a Reality Check

Freedom of Choice

Good Things are Coming

Remember ... You Asked.

Eating Disorders Revisited

Long-Term Weight-Loss Almost Impossible

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 #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 #10: Save Your Calories for Dinner

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

The Underpants Rule

Starving-To-Death is Unlikely

Dreams can be Fragile

Percentages of Seriously Obese women with above-normal BMIs

Personal Diet Experimentation

Efforts vs. Results

One More Time

Delicate Dainty Meals

Calorie Denialism

More About the Starvation Mode Myth

Weight Loss Expectations

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

Persistence or Perfection?

Fighting the Urge - Book Review

The Issue of Healthy Eating

No Rescue Needed

Another Personal Truth:

Insanity

Energy In and Energy Out

Food Diary Benefits

The Truth of Ageing

Overruling the Body

It is STILL a Diet

Maintenance Status Report - January 2014

Would it be Easier to be Thin?

Liars

3500 Calories = 1 Lb ?

Choosing a Path

Everyone isn't the Same

Real Food

MORE Healthy Eating

It's not ME, It's YOU

Honesty

Imagine

What about all that Blah, Blah, Blah

Weight Management Success

Health as an Obligation

Are you a Courteous, Healthy Eater?

Dressing to Please the Fat Bigots

You Can't Outrun Your Fork

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

Conflicting Desires

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

Biggest Loser, an example of televised exercise fraud

Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance

Commitment

Movie Trailer for DietHobby

About Salt

150 Pounds

What Does the Scale Say?

Weight Management - A Rubber Band

DietHobby, my Digital Scrapbook

Calories: Males vs. Females

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

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

Blame Butter?

Ditching Diets - Book Review

More on Intermittent Fasting

Calorie Dectective - Lying Food Labels

Healthy Eater?

Persistence, not Perfection.

Diets Long-Term

What's REALLY the Problem?

No Cure

Does Eating Fruit and Veggies Lower Weight?

WheatBelly - Another Review

Appreciate What You Have

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"

We Are Going to Die.

How Often Should We Eat?

Foods to Avoid

Effort Shock

Eat Healthy or Lose Weight?

Extra Food because I Exercised

Grounded in Reality

Advertising Guidelines???

Fear of Fat

Weight Loss Promises

Why We Diet

Boycotting Advertisers

The End of 2012

Attitude About the Problem

Health Experts

Thoughts About Hunger

What To Do?

Calories - Paleo, Low-Carb

Why is it so Hard to Keep Weight Off?

The Chubby Side of Normal

The Fat Trap

Marketing Healthy

Set Point

History of the USDA Food Pyramid

Food History Timeline 1950-1980

What IS a good Diet?

Seduced by Food

Afraid To Do Things Wrong?

In Defense of Food - Book Review

Cultural Bias

Are GMO's Frankenfoods?

The End of Overeating - Book Review

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

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

A New Perspective

Diet Cheat or Food Choice?

Obesity and Choice

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

What If?

Had Enough?

Perfect Health Diet - Book Review

Cutting Carbs? or Cutting Calories?

Walk a Mile in MY Shoes

Diet Coke

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

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?

Snack Yourself Slim - Book Review

Do Diets Work?

A Fresh Start?

Time, Patience, and Consistent Effort

Perfectionism

Worlds Best Diet?

Is a Calorie just a Calorie?

Instinctive Resentment

Make Peace With What Is.

Back to Work

More About Priorities

Choosing a Positive Focus

Being More Confident - Ask Grandma - Episode Forty-six

Encouragement & Support

Change in my Weight Range Maintenance Plan

Weight-Loss in a Nutshell

No Clue

Out-of-Sorts

I wish I knew NOW

Spring Cleaning?

Vegetables and Artificial Sweeteners

Another New Beginning

Sing Anyway

Study of Literature on Weight-Loss Maintenance

I Don't Feel Like It.

Personal Worth

What is a Diet?

Bad Examples

Choosing Our Focus

Maintaining Enthusiasm

Choosing My Attitude

DietHobby's One-Year Progress Report

Overcoming Perfectionism

Sweets for Breakfast?

Portion Size Awareness

What I'm Reading Today

Low-Carb Experimentation - Diet Review

What is Courage?

The Same but Different

Power of Visualization

New and Unique Dieting Plans

Pleasing People

Introspection

Expecting Perfection

Standing up to your Friends

Update on The No S Diet - Diet Review

The Fat Trap

Expectations

Indecision

Holiday Moderation

Holiday Season 2011

Do Diets Work?

The Skinny One

Chicken Crepes Recipe

Working Hard

Basic Diet Information from YouTube Grandma

Buddha Take

Willpower

What About Dieting?

Hunger After Weight-Loss

Checking In

Goals

Scheduling

What is Portion Control?

Burnout or Stress

Bingeing

Calories vs. Money

Differences: Successful or Unsuccessful?

Food Choices

Redefining Normal

We Deserve Love

Frustration

Our Own Approval

Choices and Responsibility

Slipping in Maintenance

Experiment of One

Simplicity

Snack Foods

It feels hard because it IS hard.

Feeling Uninspired

What's Important?

Body Image

Weight Maintenance Challenges

Hunger, Appetite, and Cravings

The Ultimate Goal

Tips and Inspiration

Be Kind to Yourself

Sorting Through Nutritional Information

Kindness and Body Image

Is Bingeing an Eating Disorder?

A Change

Stress

Finish each day and be done with it.

At Vidcon

Going to VidCon

The Space Between

Establishing Habits

Three Myths

There's no Generic Plan

How Often Should We Eat?

What I CAN do

More About Attitude

Habits

Greed

Fall on your face

Be Who You Are

Friends

Our Ideal Self

Doing the Impossible

What We See

Changes Happen Every Day

Planning-1

Barefoot Running

Judging Myself

Intermitting Fasting Success

Hope

Who We Can Be

Protein Requirement

Success starts with Failure

The Best Diet Plan

Being Myself

Beauty

Blame It On The Puritans

Inconveniences

Love Yourself

Making Mistakes

Small Efforts - Setting Goals

Loss

Serenity

Belief In Oneself

Naturally Thin

Biggest Loser and Jillian Michaels - Diet Review

Behavior vs Results

The Power to Change

An Individual Call

Concepts of Intuitive Eating - Diet Review

New Beginings

Sugar Binges

Recipes When Tracking Food

Calorie Accountability

How Many Carbohydrates?

Experimenting with Diets

Eggs Aren't Only For Easter

Becoming The Person You Want To Be

Not A Perfect World

Calorie Counting

Food Storage - A Diet Essential

Starvation Mode

Habit vs. Willpower

More About the BMI

Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?

Food Addiction

Hunger vs. Appetite

More About Leftovers and Portion Control

Meal Frequency - How Often Should I Eat?

Science Can't Prove What is True.

Weight Loss Surgery - 18 Years Ago

What About Leftovers?

Update on Low-Carb Experiment-of-One

Life Keeps Changing

Disordered Eating

Food and Money

Value Judgment

Chocolate Protein Cookie

Protein Cream Cupcake

Eggwhite Pancakes

Every Bite Counts

Portion Control

My own Accountability

Determination

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

Online Forums - A Useful Dieting Support Tool.

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

A Thousand Words AND Pictures

Welcome to my World

Happy Valentine's Day

Dieting as a 'means to an end'.

Online Friends

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 12 - Why I Get Fat and You Don't (or Vice Versa)

Taubes - Chapter 11 - Primer on Regulation of Fat

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 - az - Introduction: The Original Sin

Taubes - Author's Note


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