losing weight

YOU’RE SWEET ENOUGH

/ janpriddyoregon / 6 Comments

I enjoy reels of people on their weight-loss journeys. I read one yesterday morning: “Eat less sugar, you’re already sweet enough.”

The best part of this organic gluten-free, nut-free vegan chocolate cake was baking it for someone I love. It tasted great—don’t get me wrong—but making it was the greater fun for me. (It’s only 6 inches across with vegan “buttercream,” fresh blackberries, and sliced figs for decoration with blackberry jam between the layers.) I do love chocolate, but my mom always made me a lemon meringue pie for my birthday because I like pie better than cake. I often do that even now, though lately I make myself a lemon angel pie—whipped Chantilly cream over lemon curd, in a meringue shell. It’s worth the trouble.

Fat doesn’t need much in the way of calories to sustain itself—it’s a storehouse, not active tissue. Muscle, organs, and fluids in your body do need energy to survive. A person fifty pounds overweight can eat exactly what another person with the same body but fifty pounds lighter eats and neither will drop an ounce. They are both eating for the same core. It’s why an overweight person can eat a perfectly reasonable diet but not lose a pound.

Taking that weight off is really, really hard for most people. There’s a good reason for that.

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