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Power of Control

The Root of Joy is Gratefulness

Set Point Explained

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

Corrupt Political Power

HeartBreak and Outrage

Too Much Laundry

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.

You Are Allowed.

Unrealistic Expectations - False Hope Syndrome

Dreams Do NOT Always Come True

Healthism: the modern religion

Shooting the Messenger Does Not Solve the Problem.

Pets at Halloween

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

Bloom and Let Bloom

Manipulating One's Body Size

Road Less Traveled

Our Weight is Regulated by Our Biological System

Calorie Restriction = Calorie Restriction.

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

Endurance

Current Diet Guidelines

Is it a Plateau?

Calorie Balance

Dieting = Treatment of Obesity

Am I Satisfied With My Appearance?

Eat Small to BE Small

Palm of the Hand

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

Men in Power: Medical Experts Enjoying Their Practical Joke

Turn the Page

The Future

Binge = Response to Starvation

Happily Ever After & Neuroscience

Status Update - February 2017

Freedom in Maintenance

Portion Size & Measurements

About the Scales

Balancing Values

Weight-Loss Alternative Facts

It Just Blooms.

3 x 3

Common Sense Missing

Election Stress

The Reverse of Positive Thinking

Blaming Others.

Enough is Enough

Weight-Loss Maintenance Truth: There is No Finish Line

Technical Help - Seeing - Words of Wisdom

Dieting: The Alternative

Follow Your Heart

A Fork in the Road

Emotional Eating (2)

Low Expectations

Dreams & Dedication

Ongoing Status Report

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

Freedom from Binge Eating

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

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

Common Sense

Good Food, Bad Food

That Lost Weight? The Body Finds it.

Habits are the Solution, Not the Problem

Diet Books are Full of Lies

Emotional Eating

Before & After Photos - Weight History

Burning Bridges

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

Weight Loss Goals

The Currency of Weight is Calories

Happy Valentine's Day 2016

Many Common Phrases Just Aren't True

Walking Away

Inner Voice

Dieting as Suffering

Intermittent Fasting via 5-Bites

Projections about the Rate of Weight-Loss

A Truth to Remember

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

Body Weight Calculator - Timeline Projections

Eating Patterns - Morning vs Evening

In Tune with your Body???

Health and Morality

Do Low-Calorie Sweetners Equal Weight-Gain?

Review of the Three Principle Concept - Diet Review

Chocolate

Effortless Change

Overweight means you live longer.

Fasting and Hunger

Trick or Treat - 2015

Let Me Tell You

Helpful Fasting Information

Anyone Who Eats Food Will Die.

Current Diet Experimentation

Superpower

Keep Your CONCERN to Yourself

Ten Steps to Eating Perfectly

End of the Line

Dark Chocolate Is Not Good For You And Also Sucks

Why Are Fat People Hungry?

Does Fasting Make You Fat?

Eating Boundaries - New Experiment

Crying with a Cookie in Your Hand

Simple Eating Boundaries

Self-help and Mental Techniques

Cravings +

Beliefs

Things You Don't Owe Anybody

Self-Talk

Growing Older

Partnered Push-Ups

The Real Deal on Maintenance After a Large Weight-Loss

A Quiet Mind

Freedom and Calorie Counting

Journey to Freedom

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

Cat Bed

The Underpants Rule - Revisited

Why Do Dieters Regain Their Lost Weight?

Biological Adaptations that Promote Weight Regain

DIET AD BINGO

Letting Things Go

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?

Size Diversity

Crap Overload

Still Hard After Nine Years of Maintenance

Quitting Smoking is NOT Comparable to Losing Weight.

Misconceptions about Regain of Weight-Loss

Consequences

Happy Halloween 2014

What Kind of Dog Are You?

About Self-Control and the Marshmallow test

Is it REALLY up to me?

Positivity Rules

Next Exit

Embracing Imperfections as a Path to Success

Beauty is Subjective

Noise

Skinnytown

You Are More

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

Use Another Road

The Dolly Diet - Diet Review

Time for a Reality Check

It's HARD

Freedom of Choice

Seeing and Doing

Why do people keep believing things that are obviously untrue?

Good Things are Coming

Remember ... You Asked.

Eating Disorders Revisited

Easily Lost

Long-Term Weight-Loss Almost Impossible

Perfect

Beach Body

A Side-effect of Change

Cut the Rope

One per Day

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 #04: Do not Eat Unless You are Hungry

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

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

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

Behavior = Problem and Solution

Start Again

Can't Please Everybody

Holding On - Letting Go

Your Perspective

There You Are

Breathe

Present, Past, Future

Reaching Your Destination

Dreams can be Fragile

A Matter of Perspective

Percentages of Seriously Obese women with above-normal BMIs

One More Time

Happy Easter 2014

Delicate Dainty Meals

Calorie Denialism

Can you Remember?

Discipline

More About the Starvation Mode Myth

Weight Loss Expectations

The Secret of Change

Anything Worth Doing

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

It Starts with a Dream

Where's the Elevator?

No Rescue Needed

Getting Along With People

The Power

Save Yourself

Energy In and Energy Out

Hate to Exercise?

Food Diary Benefits

That One Person

The Habit Concept

Being Human

Overruling the Body

It is STILL a Diet

A Good Idea

Maintenance Status Report - January 2014

Would it be Easier to be Thin?

Liars

Free Speech

3500 Calories = 1 Lb ?

Choosing a Path

Appealing Advice

Real Food

MORE Healthy Eating

It's not ME, It's YOU

Happy Halloween - 2013

Photoshop Surprise

Honesty

Walking Alone

Wisdom of Age

Imagine

Not Everyone

Be Yourself

What about all that Blah, Blah, Blah

Key to Happiness

Health as an Obligation

Are you a Courteous, Healthy Eater?

Dressing to Please the Fat Bigots

Unique

A Calorie Deficit?

Exercising Patience

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

Conflicting Desires

On the Right Track

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

The Men Who Made Us Fat (BBC series - All Episodes 1, 2, & 3)

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

Biggest Loser, an example of televised exercise fraud

Slow Progress

When Your Past Calls.

My Choice

Footprints

Running DOWN the UP Escalator - Weight Loss & Maintenance

Commitment

Success is in my Future

Conflicting Desires

Hard, but Not Impossible

The Consequences of Choices

Continue On

Our Power

Movie Trailer for DietHobby

About Salt

All Goals Are Not Reachable For All People

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

Life is a Balance

My Reality

DietHobby, my Digital Scrapbook

Calories: Males vs. Females

So Often True

The Wrong Path

Body Acceptance

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

Release the Stress

Perfection Is The Lowest Standard We Can Set For Ourselves

Change my LIFE?

Today

I'll Be Happy WHEN...

What To DO?

If it Involves Eating, It's a Diet

More About Calories

Breaking Bad Habits

Fighting Fire with Fire

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

Accurate Scale Results

The Science of Addictive Foods

Giving Advice

Blame Butter?

Expectations

Following Through

Ditching Diets - Book Review

Positive Thinking

More on Intermittent Fasting

Calorie Dectective - Lying Food Labels

Persistence, not Perfection.

Diets Long-Term

Maintaining weight-loss

The Gorilla's Not Tired.

No Cure

Heart and Brain

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"

We Are Going to Die.

Hoping for a Miracle?

What Stops Us?

Foods to Avoid

Emotional Aspects of Obesity

Eat Healthy or Lose Weight?

Changing is Hard

Extra Food because I Exercised

Grounded in Reality

Give it a try

Kindness

Sugared-water's Fight Against Obesity

Advertising Guidelines???

Fear of Fat

Searching for Your Diet

Why We Diet

Individual Rules

The Finish Line

Remember

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

Calories - Paleo, Low-Carb

Do Calories Matter?

Why is it so Hard to Keep Weight Off?

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

Take what you like, and leave the rest

The Chubby Side of Normal

The Fat Trap

Set Point

Keep On

History of the USDA Food Pyramid

Becoming Successful

What IS a good Diet?

Seduced by Food

Having a Restaurant Dessert?

In Memory of Boodie

Afraid To Do Things Wrong?

In Defense of Food - Book Review

Cultural Bias

Are GMO's Frankenfoods?

Social Pressure from the High Priests of Healthy Eating

Accepting the Truth

The End of Overeating - Book Review

One can Entertain a Thought Without Accepting it.

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

More About Starvation Mode

Another Faulty Inference of Causation

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

Diet Cheat or Food Choice?

Obesity and Choice

A Reflection on Dieting Style

Outrunning the Old Overweight You

Perfect is the Enemy of Good

What is Junk Food?

Going to the Gym

Points Worth Considering

A New Diet

About Negative Thinking

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

Thinking isn't the same as Doing

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

In-Between-Meal Eating

In The Future

Brain Over Binge - Book Review

Binge Avoidance + Adaptive Thermogenesis

Realities of Weight-Loss Maintenance

Running and Exercise Abuse

Eat Less Move More?

Journaling & Keeping Records

I'm not a Guru

The Child Within Us

A little bit of nothing.

Snack Yourself Slim - Book Review

Food Restrictions?

Time, Patience, and Consistent Effort

Perfectionism

Worlds Best Diet?

Is a Calorie just a Calorie?

It has a Price.

Perserverance and Real Integrity

Instinctive Resentment

Make Peace With What Is.

Here in the Land of DietHobby

The Path to Thinness and Health

Back to Work

Searching For Perfection

More About Priorities

Be Patient

Leave the Rest

Past Portion Control

Personal Behavior Choices

Choosing a Positive Focus

Status Update: YouTube is Still Broken

Encouragement & Support

The Power to Change

Change in my Weight Range Maintenance Plan

When I Feel Empty

What is a Good Guest?

Loving Myself

Weight-Loss in a Nutshell

No Clue

Out-of-Sorts

Spring Cleaning?

DietHobby is now Back to Normal

Happy Easter 2012

Vegetables and Artificial Sweeteners

Sing Anyway

Study of Literature on Weight-Loss Maintenance

Self-Talk

All or Nothing

Managing Depression

Power of Habits

Thinking about Habits

Personal Worth

Choosing Our Focus

New Stuff

Maintaining Enthusiasm

Choosing My Attitude

DietHobby's One-Year Progress Report

Overcoming Perfectionism

Taking Responsibility

Sweets for Breakfast?

What Other People Do.

What I'm Reading Today

Low-Carb Experimentation - Diet Review

The Same but Different

Power of Visualization

When you've Got to Go.

New and Unique Dieting Plans

Pleasing People

Introspection

Expecting Perfection

Update on The No S Diet - Diet Review

The Fat Trap

Expectations

Indecision

Accepting Responsibility

Holiday Season 2011

Intuitive Eating and the No S Diet

And So It Goes....

Do Diets Work?

Chicken Crepes Recipe

The Power of Momentum

Working Hard

Basic Diet Information from YouTube Grandma

Buddha Take

A Powerful Combination

Willpower

What About Dieting?

Tomorrow and Today

Unwecome Truths

Weight-loss and Maintenance is Hard Work

Repairs

Happy Halloween

Positive Power

Checking In

Busy Times

The Donkey

Joyful

Does Life Get in the Way?

Goals

Scheduling

Consistency

Gratitude

It's Fall

Burnout or Stress

Self-Respect

Bingeing

Cleverness

Committment

I Think I Can

Redefining Normal

Setting Goals

Processed Foods Are Powerful

Frustration

Discipline or Self-Discipline

Forget Your Diet?

Choices and Responsibility

Experiment of One

Simplicity

Staying Open to New Information

Not a Bed of Roses

Binge Eating

Building a Habit takes Energy.

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?

Weight Maintenance Challenges

Hunger, Appetite, and Cravings

Live and Learn?

The Ultimate Goal

Be Kind to Yourself

Sorting Through Nutritional Information

Kindness and Body Image

Is Bingeing an Eating Disorder?

A Change

Stress

Work, Love, Dance

At Vidcon

Going to VidCon

Dealing with Setbacks

Regrets?

A Common Problem

Maintenance As Compared to Weight-Loss

Monday Morning

Three Myths

Diet Cookies for YouTube

Trust a Few

What One Believes

Awareness and Confidence

How Often Should We Eat?

Behavior Choices

More About Attitude

Habits

Greed

Someday

Our Ideal Self

The Present

In Our Hands

What We See

Changes Happen Every Day

Planning-1

Barefoot Running

Judging Myself

Intermitting Fasting Success

Living in the Moment

Beauty is Subjective

Hope

Who We Can Be

Habits & Dieting

Protein Requirement

Lucky?

It's Up To Me

Off-Line Data Storage

Being Myself

Changing Myself

Gratitude

The Power Of Choice

Blame It On The Puritans

It Isn't Easy

Inspiration - Diet & Book Reviews

Forgiveness

Love Yourself

Small Efforts - Setting Goals

Serenity

Belief In Oneself

Courage To Continue

Naturally Thin

Biggest Loser and Jillian Michaels - Diet Review

Love Yourself

The Power to Change

An Individual Call

Trust

Concepts of Intuitive Eating - Diet Review

Obession With Dieting

Positive Thinking

A New Normal

Words Are Labels For Concepts

Goal Setting

Sugar Binges

Over The Long Haul

Recipes When Tracking Food

Goals Don't Come Easy.

Nobody's Perfect

Calorie Accountability

39 Years Later

How Many Carbohydrates?

Experimenting with Diets

Not A Perfect World

Calorie Counting

Starvation Mode

Habit vs. Willpower

Body Mass Index: What about the BMI?

Food Addiction

Hunger vs. Appetite

Giving Up Is Not An Option

Conflicting Rules

Everything and Nothing

Meal Frequency - How Often Should I Eat?

Science Can't Prove What is True.

Weight Loss Surgery - 18 Years Ago

How Many Calories Can I Eat?

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

Imperfect Is Good Enough - This Is Me

Portion Control

My own Accountability

An Endless Struggle

Tracking Weight

Dedicated, not Obsessed

An Individual Fit

The No S Diet - Diet & Book Review

Online Forums - A Useful Dieting Support Tool.

Maintaining an Attitude of Gratitude

When Life Takes You In A Different Direction.

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

Welcome to my World

Happy Valentine's Day

Dieting as a 'means to an end'.

Before Pictures

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 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 05 - Why Me? Why There? Why Then?

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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