10 Lies You Will Tell Yourself When You Quit Carbs

6. It's Not Weird To Be Turned On By Great British Bake Off

Sure, maybe some people- people who don't care about their bodies they way you care about yours- are watching The Great British Bake Off for recipe ideas. Well, good for them. And maybe that's why the show was created- to be enjoyed by people who like baked goods. But who cares what the original intentions were? Barthes tells us the author is dead and when he says author, he's definitely including BBC producers. You can read into Bake Off whatever you want to read into Bake Off, including that it is a genuinely erotic show. People who don't see that are probably too distracted by all the muffins they're eating! You're not salivating while you watch because you actually want to eat any of these terrible baked goods. It's just that there is something inherently sexy about dripping chocolate! You don't want to consume that souffle, you just want to watch it rise. Totally normal fetish! Anyone who says that you're obsessed with the show because you're desperately craving refined sugar is just being narrow-minded. Sounds like they're the ones obsessed with carbs, not you.