
There are hardly days, weeks if anything, to begin the traditional summer uncovering that discovers the culinary excesses we have committed during the year. Now that I am immersed in the ‘bikini operation’, I can not help but remember the anecdote that an acquaintance commented during the course of a meeting of friends, in which, of course, there was no lack of food.
Gathered around a tray of appetizing sweets, this person did not have the slightest qualms about putting up to three pieces full of chocolote in his mouth. The last one was ingested accompanied by the following sentence: “and I eat this one because I have the fat gene”.
My voracious curiosity, which is heightened when it comes to food, forced me to ask him what he was talking about. What was my surprise when he explained that it is, neither more nor less, the diagnosis he received in a slimming therapy in which he participated, during a stay in London.
The fat gene
She says that after long hours of sessions, with projection included of films and photographs explaining the disadvantages of being fat, as well as the multiple benefits of wearing a size 40 and how good it is to be comfortable with oneself, the expert asked if there was still anyone among those present who, after a succulent meal, She would be willing to eat a chocolate brownie. Those who, like her, answered affirmatively were diagnosed as having the ‘fat gene’, which is the same as saying that those extra kilos have no solution, even if you assume the strictest of slimming diets.
Learning that you are part of the 10% of the population with the fat gene, according to the latest studies, can be dramatic for many people who rely on their willpower to look like at some point in their lives. What would happen if someone in our childhood told us that, no matter how hard we try, we will not stand out in anything we set out to do? Simply that the world would lose a lot of talent.
It is true that we cannot, and should not, ignore our limitations and defects, because we run the risk of falsifying reality, but we also have an obligation to ourselves, to our desires and desires.
Life gives us the possibility to fulfill our dreams. It is about wanting and many doses of optimism, and, above all, to prevent the dreaded ‘fat gene’ from preventing us from being as we wish. My answer is clear: I would eat a chocolate brownie after a succulent meal.