Heart and Hunger, There's no divide.

After more than a year of trying to lose the 10 pounds I had gained from having my thyroid removed (the gland the controls one's entire metabolic function), I have finally succeeded in the last month where I had failed over the course of the entire year.  Oftentimes when trying to lose weight, the hardest element to overcome is the continual sensation of hunger that gnaws at your insides.    Add love to the mix, however, then this gnawing sensation becomes something you can't fill- it's a perpetual space of wanting, nervousness, and oddly enough, consumption, that makes it easy, simply, to have a complete aversion to food.   Margaret Atwood once wrote a book about a woman's physical and emotional consumption wrought on by her protagonist's love for a man, and I thought it was such a Victorian perspective when I had read her novel years ago.   But now,  I understand....

If you are overcome by this gnawing sense inside your body (I know, it doesn't sound like a state that one would consciously want to be in), I suggest a lovely bottle of red wine to sate the appetite and placate the heart.  My recent encounter with a 2009 vintage of Cellier des Dauphins Cote du Rhone proved to be the perfect accompaniment to an anxious heart.