Her thing was chocolate fondant. That of his grandmother. Well buttered, with strong chocolate, three egg yolks, forty minutes in the oven at 180 degrees. “To be deprived of dessert is to be deprived of childhood,” says Anna Roy on the second page of her shocking book “Énorme”, which appears this Wednesday, January 8, from Larousse editions (192 p., 19.99 euros) . However, it is this merciless diet that the thirty-year-old has stuck to from March 2022. On the advice of her friend Agathe Lecaron, the presenter of “La Maison des Maternelles”, she stopped sugar, and that helped her. “saved his life”.
You know Anna Roy’s face having already seen it on television, on France 5, where she listens to and advises women on the show “les Maternelles”. He’s not quite the same anymore. At nearly 130 kg two years ago, this midwife came close to morbid obesity. “I was dead alive,” she tells us when we meet her, this December morning, in a café in the Marais in Paris (4th arrondissement). These days, the midwife is learning to live again. It’s freezing cold outside and she appears under her sweater and coat in a long low-cut dress. The obvious: she lost weight. Lots of weight. She can’t get used to it: “I have to get used to my new self. »And order an infusion. Sugar free.