About Katie

I was just wondering how much you ate in a day or at least how many times you eat? I’m recently begining to discover the negative effects of the SAD (standard american diet), and have looked to other countries like Japan and France for dieting/healthful tips. I’m not looking for weight loss, but rather a healthy lifestyle that will increase my metabolism and keep me healthy. I’ve seen that everyone recomends protein for a faster metabolism, but these countries primarily eat carbohydrates. This may be out of your league but any suggestions? Thanks! :]

Hey Katie! I just stumbled upon your blog from foodgawker, and I was suprised and so excited to see the numerous recipes that do not involve milk!! I’m milk-protein allergic, so no ‘real’ ice cream, chocolate, butter, any of that stuff and it’s great to see so many recipes that have easy substitutions, and look fabulous on here! I cannot wait to start trying some of these that I’ve already book-marked! Thanks so much!!!!

Hey Katie! Your blog is amazing! I didn’t realize there was so many different ways to expiriment healthily with sweets. Anyways, I was wondering if you knew by any chance if it was the calories that counted or the macronutrients? Kind of a dieting question, but I’m trying to find the answer.
Thanks,
Mary

Hey Katie!
I have been stumbling upon your posts on foodgawker a ton recently and I really like your healthy recipes since I am quite a chocoholic myself! and a HUGE foodie. I am not a vegan, a slight vegetarian maybe…but mainly I just eat really healthy! I really enjoy your pancake recipes and the tofu fudge brownies!! I have become obsessed with them! The more I try your recipes the more I have been experimenting in healthifing my own recipes 🙂 Haha sorry I have no real questions for you, just wanted to say hello!
Corinne

Wow! You are so inspirational! I have been trying to gain weight too, and I am on a gluten-free and dairy-free diet now because I am intolerant to them. Thank you so much for your vegan recipes! Many of which are gluten-free too!

Hello CCK!
I just wanted to say (type..?) THANK YOU for inspiring me to start my own blog. Your blog and a few others have allowed me to see how fun it is to create recipes and share with others! So, thank you SO MUCH AGAIN, and may you continue baking/ raring up new recipes for the future. 😛 -Alex

Your recipes are the bomb, katie 🙂 I was reading your “about me” and I feel almost as if we’re the same person. I’m not vegan, but I was vegetarian for a year then brought lean meats back into my diet in hopes of adding protein to help me gain muscle. I’m a runner as well, and about your size (except 5’11”). However, I plan on going back to being vegetarian soon because I don’t necessarily need meat in my diet. I’m majoring in journalism, and LOVE LOVE LOVE to cook. The happiest moments are seeing the enjoyment people get out of my cooking. I adore it. So thank you for showing me these healthy recipes, because I always feel like I should be eating healthier, especially with sweets. Have a good 4th!

Katie,
Thank you so much for posting these awesome recipes. I am the wife of a chiropractor and have four kids. They (and myself) LOVE desserts and I feel so much more comfortable letting them eat them when I know it isn’t poisoning them. I am able to take things to parties and people can’t believe that these awesome recipes fall right in line with my wellness focused lifestyle. I also like the freedom of being able to eat chocolate and really enjoy it. Thanks for posting!!!

how do you stay motivated to run every day? I’m just coming back from a long running hiatus, and I want to start running half-marathons! I read in one of your posts that you run 6-8 miles a day; I want to run that far too, several times a week. I would love any tips you have!

I LOVE your blog!

My question is, how do you manage to find the time to eat 6 meals a day! I work full time I can just can’t manage to fit cooking 3 meals a day in! Any tips?

Hi Kaite-
It’s always cool to find someone who shares the same name, and to find someone who shares the same interests; so finding 2 in one is a huge bonus!

I absolutely love your blog! Especially the gaining weight while still eating really healthy- for people healthy eating is associated with weight loss; and weight gain means eating an entire gallon of ice cream by yourself in one sitting!

I loved your story about the Wilbur thing too. I have actually sworn off pig products for 7 years now because of that exact same reason!

Even though I’m not a vegan, I still adore everything you post about. It’s refreshing.

Sorry this wasn’t a question!

Have a good day (:

Katie – first off, you’re awesome 🙂 my husband and I (along with our 11 month old son, although not necessarily his choice lol) recently went vegan for ethical and physical and health reasons, we watched Food, Inc. and that was that lol but I have such a sweet tooth and knowing that I’d have to give up my ice creams and cheesecakes and well just junk in general, wellllll it kinda made me sad LOL which is probably sad but it’s honest 🙂 Finding your blog has allowed me to enjoy sweets and have desserts again so THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I made the original single lady cupcakes as a test for my baby’s 1st birthday party and they were a hit soooo I have found his 1 year old cupcake to let him make a mess 🙂 Just wanted to let you know I appreciate all that you’ve done and documented and shared!! 🙂

Hi Katie,

LOVE your blog, and I really love your recipes! I’m on the Raw Bar/Baby/Ball recipe kick right now, and so are my kids. We are loving making many home made type Lara Bars and playing around with them. Here is my problem, maybe you have some ideas… They will be returning to school in September, and they LOVE these bars. Our school does not allow nuts or seeds (in theory, but I’m going to find out if there are ANY that we can use). So, how can I make a date bar with high protein without using Nuts and Seeds? Do you have any ideas? My only ideas is to use Soy Butter that is the School Safe Peanut Butter, maybe Dry Milk Powder, maybe oats? Can you use quinoa raw? I’d prefer to make a bunch at once and keep them in the fridge. I know beans are high protein, but go rancid fast too… Anyways, just curious if you had some good ideas so I can get on testing for our school snacks.

Did you graduate from college?

As a fellow “skinny girl” i know where you are coming from. I love to run, but only do about 3 miles a day. I get SO tired of people assuming I dont eat or I am vegan. I DO eat, and I eat local, organic happily raised and humanely slaughtered meat. I don’t know where I am going with this, just know you are not alone!

hi Katie! just wanted to say that in many ways, you’re sorta my new role model 😛 i can really relate to your story of how you turned vegan, actually it’s like literally the same as mine with the ages and all haha! although i can’t really say i’m as healthy as you are yet, but i’m getting there :)hope you’ve had an awesome week, lots of hugs! /Lovisa, the swedish teenage vegan 😉 and oh ps, be glad you have the body you have, you only get one 😉

L-O-V-E – The BEST dip EVER. Thank You!

I came across your blog as I was browsing love from the oven and I am very excited to try your recipes. Both of my children are allergic to milk, soy, eggs (and peanuts, tree nuts, seafood!) so it has been quite a challenge finding baked goods for birthdays and holidays. They look great and am looking forward to sampling the yummy goodies. Thank you 🙂

At the age of two, my daughter began to realize we were eating animals. By four she was avoiding meat, and before six she declared herself a vegetarian. We’ve respected her choice and worked with her to teach her how to combine foods to make complete proteins and eat a healthy meat-free diet. While the rest of our family does still eat meat a few times a week, having a vegetarian in the house has made all of us healthier. A friend recommended your blog to me, and I’m eager to try the recipes for my vegetarian (who is now 12) and for all of us!

I saw your blog mentioned on another blog about healthy recipes. When I saw “ChocolateCovered-Katie” I thought, “NO Way!!” That could be me. Then I looked at the blog and I see, well, not exactly me, but fun and tasty looking recipes etc.
Sadly, this Katie doesn’t have the genetics nor metabolism you have (I’ve seen my familys’ photos, and I’m fighting the big-ness factor!, all grand parents, aunts, cousins …)
I’m trying to come to terms with my body, but, even after all my years (you could be my daughter) I haven’t. But I do enjoy healthy eating, and I Dark Chocolate is one of my favs!!,
So, to Chocolate-Covered-Katies: To Life!

Loved the “cookie dough” recipe! Best part, my kids and hubby loved it too!!! Love your blog!

Hi There,

I don’t know exactly how I landed here the first time (about a week ago).
But I love your blog, your vibe and I keep coming back!

This website is wonderful and I can’t wait to try out some of your recipes.

Thank you so much for sharing your goodness and for being around!

Dana

Dear Katie,

How interesting to see what you’re up to. You are even more beautiful then in Shanghai. So exciting about your blog. Tell your Mom and Dad and sister “Hello” from me.

Lou Ruch (Hall)

hi cc katie!

i just discovered your website last night and i can’t stop reading it – all the recipes look amazing! you are a girl after my own heart – i LOVE desserts, but i am a healthy eater too, so i always am looking to tweak dessert recipes to make them healthy(er). 🙂 and like you, i don’t think it’s dessert unless there’s chocolate in it!!! i’m so glad i found this! also, i am thin too and can relate to your story (i’m not vegan but i only eat clean animal products from small local farms). anyway, you are a beautiful woman and i look forward to trying your recipes!!! thanks!

I just wanted to say how much I am enjoying your website. I am brand new at whole foods plant based eating (at 59!) and I am a sweet lover, so finding you was a very “sweet” moment. I haven’t even tried any of your recipes (yet), but I have so much fun just looking at them. You are precious and you make me laugh. Thanks for what you are doing!!

Hi Katie,
I was so excited to see your blog. I’m gluten & dairy free because of allergy & meat free because, well, you understand. I also strive to keep the refined sugars out of my diet as well. When I saw all your recipes I wanted to start trying them out right now!! Thanks for posting and keep up the great work!!
Pamela

I just want to say i am sooo very thrilled that someone out there has a similar story as me! I have been very skinny all my life and still am, but my eating habbits were not so good. At least when it came to desserts and especially chocolate. I sometimes would consume large amounts of sugary stuff to the poing where i would feel very sick after. I still struggle with this at times, but i am trying very hard to change that. And i am so excited that there is a way i can eat desserts and still be healthy. I know that it is not enough to just be vegan or vegetarian, ( like i am) there is more to it than just that! Thank u sooo much for the fantastic recipes and the encouragement! I hope this changes alot of ppls lives and helps many out…which i sure it will!

Hi Katie! I found your blog when one of your recipes was shared on one of my friend’s FB page. My best friend and I can’t wait to try some of your recipes- we’re making one today-keep em coming!!

I adore your blog!!! You are talented and inspiring!

Hey Katie!

I can’t tell you how impressed I am with your site! I found you because someone pinned your chocolaty pancakes on pinterest and they looked irresistible. I’m trying to cut way back on sugar and am gluten-free so anyone who takes the time to work with recipes that are adapted for peeps with allergies is terrific in my book. Have you ever heard of the Institute of Integrative Nutrition? I went there to become a certified health coach last year, and there’s so much in your site that aligns with their mission. Anyway, as I’m website building myself, I have been spending a LOT of time looking for inspiration. Thanks!

-Lydia

do you sell a cookbook with all your wonderful recipes? I’m so excited to have found you 🙂

Hey I just came across your blog and am sooo glad I found it. My name is Katie too! I wish I was as skinny as you I don’t know how you do it by eating 6 meals a day. I am struggling with an eating disorder and when I saw these recipies that were so low in calories and fat and saw you and how skinny you are and you ate them I feel like I could enjoy them too and not feel bad. They look absolutley delicious and I can’t wait to try them. Knowing they are so healthy for me will allow me to eat food now that actually tastes good without the feeling bad about it afterward. Thanks so much for creating this site 😀 keep the recipies comin!!

I have a couple of things to say. First of all….I was reading the comments above and I just realized that I know Cindy Carter in real life!!!!! I can tell because she used the word precious. How many Cindy Carters can be in the world throwing precious around. Cool!!! I’ll have to ask her.

Secondly, I teach fitness, yoga, and am a personal trainer. I have a tip. If you stop running (or at least, a lot less)..and start lifting weights, it’ll be easier to add some weight and curves.

Gaaah! You’re so wonderful! I completely relate to being ridiculously skinny, uncomfortable comments from strangers and friends for that matter. I too have quested to gain weight, for me this was through ceasing to be vegetarian and although I’m at a weight I am more happy with now I don’t want to eat meat and I know that wheat and dairy are very bad for mt body. I’ve always considered chocolate and exception to any diet for health or weight and believed in having the best of both worlds!
I’m very grateful for your recipes!
Thank you!

Oh thank you so much Katie! My vegetarian deit is getting me pretty skinny. I understand your thoughts. This helps me and my family. Thanks a lot! <3 You always smiling makes me smile! 😀 Thanks again Katie! You are such an amazing person!
Your blogger,
-izabela*

Love your story! Reminds me of my daughter. She found out at six about the reality of animals, and she stopped eating meat (including fish) ever since. It’s nearly been a year, so I really don’t think she’s going back. People are sometimes concerned about her because she’s a child and so thin, but she has always been a slow and somewhat finicky eater, and although she refuses lots of veggies (as do many kids), she’ll happily eat a mixed green salad, beans, nuts, fruit and whole grains. Honestly, I think we are so used to seeing people overweight that our view has become distorted. After having kids, I got up to 199 lbs, and I’m now down to 115 lbs, and my extended fam is starting to tell me I look too skinny when for my height, I am still on the high end of the scale! I definitely eat! Anyway, thanks for your blog, and I love your outlook on chocolate! 😀

I am not a cook by any means but have tried cooking healthy without sweets for so long and slip up DAILY this website made me so happy THANK YOU!! My question is I tried Trader Joe’s to buy ww pastry flour and sucanat and they didn’t have any. Can you give any advice on where I might find this or brands to buy?! Also I typically use Soy milk but would almond or coconut milk work also?
THanks for your help!

Oh my goodness you’re amazing!! (And oober pretty) lol just wanted to say thanks! You’re pretty much going to be why my goal from vegitarian to vegan by the new years will be possible! Plus all things my husband will actually enjoy. Keep it up! XOXO

Hi katie! I just wanted to drop in and say I am super happy I found your blog 🙂 I love eating healthy, and nutrition/fitness and just food in general lol! And when I can combine some of my favorite desserts, with healthier choices, that just makes it all the better:) Im with you on the skinny thing, Im very tall at around 5’9 and just naturally lean. So i guess i dont necessarily have to worry about healthy desserts, but the healthier it is, the more i feel free to eat! thank you so much for all your posts, i look forward to trying out more of your recipes 🙂

I am so glad I found your blog!! I rarely try new *healthy* desserts because they are usually just awful.. can’t wait to try yours!!! Thanks for all your hard work! Now, if you can just get them in print! :O)

Hi Katie,
I recently switched my family over to a vegan diet and your website has truly been a lifesaver! But believe it or not the transition has actually been the hardest on me. Can you tell me where you find vegan chocolate? I feel like even the dark chocolate products I encounter all have milk products in them. Thanks so much!

Christina

Hi, Katie! Thanks so much for all of your recipes! I love trying new healthy recipes (especially ones involving chocolate and cookies!), and my son loves to help me out in the kitchen as well. We both enjoyed making these…I plan on browsing your site some more and featuring more of your recipes on my blog in the future. You rock! 🙂

Hello Katie! I am also a runner and a vegan (love your recipes and blog!). Most days, (especially during the summer) I wake up and run, then I eat breakfast. I noticed you said you eat a pre-run breakfast. This sounds like a very good idea but I’m wondering how long you wait or kill time so that your pre-run breakfast doesn’t make you sick on your run. Does a smaller amount of food cut your waiting time? I’m interested to see what works for other runners, like yourself!

Wow! How happy am I to find you through Skinnytaste. My little Wilson who is 4 years old has had serious food allergies his whole life. He spent a full year with head to toe eczema (it even covered his eyelids) from food allergies. We finally have it figured out and his skin is gorgeous. He’s allergic to dairy, egg, wheat, corn, fish, shellfish and all nuts. Desserts are tricky for us and he’s been stuck with a square of Lindt chocolate while other kids at parties, or wherever, are eating chocolate cake. Thank you!

I just found your website and my kids, both teenagers, begged me to make some of the recipes. We can’t wait! Thank you so much!!!

Katie, I just had to thank you for this blog! I am a wife and mother and have now been able to sneak your little fudgies into my 11 year olds mouth. I call them brownie balls and he eats them up instead of other unhealthy things. I still haven’t told him they are healthy. I think I’ll wait a few months until all the desserts are incorporated to healthy and then tell him 🙂 It seems the word “healthy” is a turn off for him (and my husband sometimes) and many times I eat raw while making the “regular american dinner” for them. Thank you for offering recipes that even people uninterested in eating healthy will eat 🙂

I’m in love with your website!! Thank you!!

Hi Katie! I’m so glad I found your site. I followed a link during my first-ever exploration of Pinterest, and found you! Our family has a tangled web of food intolerances. Last year, several of us got tired of the limits of our food world and fell off the band-wagon, ending up feeling as sick and sluggish as we used to. With the start of the new year, we’re all headed back in the right direction, making healthier choices. Most of your recipes fit what we need already, without a lot of substitutions and tinkering. It’s inspiring to have new things to try that won’t make us sick. I already tried your Banana Bread in a Bowl for breakfast yesterday, and it was so good. It was a refreshing change of pace from my same-old breakfast, and it kept me full for several hours. It was so nice to have a different “taste” that wasn’t a health compromise! I truly appreciate your view that life is too precious to spend it eating gross food, just because it’s good for you, and that healthy food can be delicious and fun! I love your message of doing what is healthy and right and best for you personally, not worrying about how other people think you should live or look. Focusing on health and wellness, instead of obsessing over scale numbers or pants sizes, is a sure recipe for sanity and a more joyful life. Thank you Katie! 😀

Hi!

I’ve come across your blog SO many times on foodgawker (obsessed with that website), and it’s because I love all of the recipes you post! I have an enormous sweet tooth and I just want to make all of your recipes! I wanted to try staying off desserts for a month, but it’s really hard, and why deprive myself from what I love most? So thanks for your healthy desserts!! 🙂

Giorgia

You are so pretty and skinny! I really wish I had your body! I had high metabolism and was very skinny like you. But in high school after constantly eating unhealthy I gained so much weight and now trying to become vegan. But I thought that eating healthy was so gross so I failed many times. But somehow I found your website and I am really happy now to eat because there are people like you who make such yummy yet healthy foods! Thank you for all your work I love eating now.

Hello Katie,

I was recently introduced to a wonderful creation of yours that my co-worker make into a B-day cake for me, Chocoholic Cupcakes. Simply devine! I am an older woman of 60 that my Dr. introduced me to a book called “Dr. Gundry’s Diet Evolution”. This supreme heart specialist had an unhealthy diet, needed to loose 70 lbs. and he did so as he experimented with diet, genes, longevity with heart health in mind. This book has set me on a path of total revamped awareness of how I SEE food, how food works in our bodies, how our eating habits can bring us to an early grave or a long life of disability and pain. Fun huh? BUT, as with your recipes, I have discovered an amazing NEW plethora of food combinations for a long, healthy life. ANYWAY, what was missing I FOUND in your recipes. Healthy, fun, tasteful, guiltless desserts! Yea! So, much thanks for your ability to transform the insulin unhealthy desserts into heavenly delights!!
A new fan,
Donna J.

THANK YOU! I have struggled with gaining weight my whole life and was even threatened to have my sports scholarship cut if I didn’t make a certain weight. After stuffing my face with everything in sight for a year and gaining the freshmen 10 lbs, I lost almost twenty within weeks of living back with my parents and eating healthier. Doctors ran every test possible. I was diagnosed with IBS (and depression bc I was always tired) and took meds for a week before I decided there had to be a more natural way to control my digestive issues. I have been dairy free for 6 years now but there was still something that was upsetting my stomach and my sleep. I was negative for Celiac but taking wheat out of my diet seemed to help tremendously. I’ve tried going Vegan countless times and always go back because I get lazy. I do buy organic and wheat free mostly. Your blog has shown me that my sweet tooth does not need to make me feel tired all day long but have trouble falling asleep every night. I can’t wait to try ALL of these recipes and know that these will help me to finally stick to the Vegan lifestyle. Thank you so much for your dedication to your blog I truly enjoy every part of it. You are a beautiful role model!

ugh, I wish you were my best friend! That way I could listen to your hilarious ramblings while indulging in all of your original, irresistable concoctions. Your blog is so uplifting and fun. I love everything you write about and stand for, it’s so practical and relatable! Keep it up, I hope you land a show on Food Network! 😀

Ran across your website through Pinterest – can’t wait to try your Frapuccino recipe with a few tweeks! I am glad you are trying to help educate folks that eating healthy isn’t about eating cardboard and always doing without. I too, was super thin growing up (98lbs – 5ft 8″). I just had a lightning fast metabolism….that continued through 3 pregnancies (I knew I was pregnant when the scales tipped 100lbs!). Since I turned 40 or so my metabolism has slowed some and at 49 I weigh 150 lbs (more than I did 9 mos pregnant!). I am eating healthier as I have gotten older and because of sodium/bp issues with my husband I make most things from scratch. My daughter (23 yrs old) gets the “anorexia” comments and such as she is tall and thin like I was. We were just blessed with skinny genes! I look forward to trying more of your recipes. Keep up the good work – I live in the Colorado mountains at 8,000ft so I will need to adjust recipes for high altitude but I haven’t found it to be much of a problem yet. Hugs to you!!!

I just wanted to say how amazing your blog is! I came across it a few weeks ago and ever since i’ve been hooked. I too, am obsessed with chocolate as well as finding new ways to incorporate healthy foods into my diet. I have already made a few of your desserts and they are SO GOOD. I had never heard of using tofu in dessert recipes and I am surprised at how delicious they turn out. I love how your recipes involve real ingredients, are healthy, and yet so flavorful. Thank you for sharing your love of food (more importantly chocolate) with the rest of us, it is truly inspiring!

I found your website through my favorite site/blog skinnytaste.com. Thak you for being a dream come trye!! I have been loking for good, and good for you desserts. I must say I now have two favorite sites/blogs. Thank you and looking forward to more great recipes.

Hey! I love your blog and have made some recipes- I especially love the ive cream! Anyways I’m lactose intolerant and am very interested in becoming vegetarian. However, (I’m a teen) my family doesn’t agree with that. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks!!!

Hi Katie, I am relatively new to your blog and so far I love it! Your chocolate cookie dough dip is amazing! I like that you have single serving recipes, too.
I can relate to some of the things you said in this post. Like you, I was born with a good metabolism and have been thin my whole life. I also make an effort to eat healthy food and stay active, but I don’t obsess over every little thing I eat. People are always telling me that I either need to eat more or eat something unhealthy. I really don’t feel that I need to justify my eating habits to other people as long as I am happy and healthy.

I’ve always had a definite lack of curves, too. In fact, I was more of a straight line down instead of a “figure 8!”
I’ve never tried gaining weight, but have been told I “could use ten more pounds.”
However, being a Vegetarian and focused on a healthy diet, I always believed that if I ate healthy, my weight would be what it should be. So I stopped thinking about it, stopped counting calories, stopped analyzing every micro nutrient that came into my mouth and learned to ENJOY food! 🙂

And, well…I had a baby eight months ago and now I have more curves, lol! ^_^

Hi Katie!
I’m very grateful for your blog! I have had daily nausea for the past 4 years with no answers from docs. Well I finally took a food intolerance test and it’s the gluten/dairy/eggs/sugar cane that I need to stay away for a year. It’s still a mourning process for me to accept since I love cheese so much lol but I deff am excited to be trying out all your recipes!!
Has anyone tried all of them before and told you? That’s my goal! Start from the beginning and work my way thru. 🙂

Maybe if you stopped running so much you would gain weight. Or you could like eat tons of peanut butter.
Your body appears to be at an unhealthy weight.

Hi Katie,
I stumbled across your blog when searching for Larabar recipes. I ran out tonight to my local health food store to stock up on dates and almonds. I am BEYOND excited to make the bars tomorrow for my family.

Just as an FYI, I was never a curvy girl either. I was an avid runner (I put more miles on my sneakers than my car) and always weighed the same no matter what I ate and then I married my best friend and we began our family two years later. I can tell you that after thirteen years of marriage and four children I now have curves. ;0) So, you may have curves in your future…

Keep on posting those awesome recipes and inspiring other cooks to dare to be different.

Are you going to write a cookbook? If you do, please include nutritional info for people on Weight Watchers. Great recipes!

Hello. I just wanted to say I am really enjoying your site. I am a wife, mother and grandmother. I became a vegetarian this past summer but was having a hard time creating new, delicious recipes and especially healthy desserts. I recently found out I am pre-diabetic. I became vegetarian because I had high cholesterol and didn’t like the medications that were damaging my liver. Now I feel better and am eating more happily even without chicken, beef or pork, which i rarely consumed. Thank you so much for making the site for those of us who need creative help in making dinner and dessert!

Hi Katie,
I just love your blog. I want to marry it, really. There’s nothing I have seen that I wouldn’t love. So I made so many of your simple recipes and they’re BETTER than the “real thing.” Being a very health-consious 22 year old college student, people never believe me when I say healthy can be sooo delicious! I love that your recipes are often no added sugar and substitutions, nutrition facts, variations, etc. are endless.

I really love that you also eat a high calorie diet. I exercise a lot and so I eat so much, yet weigh under 100 lbs! Totally underweight and should add some pounds for my health, as I am now trying to do. So it makes me feel a lot better about it knowing that it’s healthy and normal to actually try to gain weight on a healthy diet instead of losing it or maintaining a certain weight.

How do you recommend one healthfully tries to gain weight with whole, natural foods? Any tips? I want to add muscle and good fat and make sure my body has what it needs to be strong and well. I just am a little afraid to dive right into the jar of peanut butter or carton of ice cream, you know? So your blog has helped me add more fats and yummy desserts, but I would love more suggestions for eating without feeling too full, yet slowly gaining good weight eating only healthy stuff.

Thank you for doing this blog. It’s amazing.

Kaitlin

Ok. this is not funny. When I read ‘Chocolate covered katie’…the last thing that comes to my mind is a food blog! A name like that elicits all manner of imagery

Hi Katie. I absolutely love your peach breakfast bake recipe. I am ten and I am a vegetarian too. I can’t wait to try your other recipes.

😉 :-),
eilean m.
(p.s.- your peach breakfast bake tastes awesome when you add mangoes.)

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I had always been overweight topping out at 315 and a size 26 (and I’m only 5’6). I finally started making changes and competed my change with gastric bypass. I’m now 130lbs and a size 0!! I work out regularly and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Because of the life changes and hard work, I kind of felt “desserts” were no longer an option and I MISSED THEM (Bariatric patients should FIERCELY monitor sugar and protein intake)!!! My boyfriend made me your cookie dough recipe and it’s been LOVE ever since! Every recipe you have is amazing, educational, fun and most of all… DELICIOUS! I tell anyone and everyone who will listen about your site and recipes!!
Thank you soooo much for making my inner fat kid extremely happy again!!!