This is interesting! I *started* the bulk of my baking while losing weight, as a way to improve the quality of food we ate. Previously I baked the occasional box dessert and white bread in the bread maker, but now I do everything by hand and from scratch, from freshly milled whole grain flours. I focus on nutrient dense, high fiber bread and reworkings of traditional desserts with the same great taste but much healthier, whole ingredients.
BECAUSE I love them and want us all to be healthy I have taught myself how to make the health food I love from stores at home, with a better price, better taste, and all my love poured into it. They love breads, so I am satisfying their tooth for that in the most beneficial way possible.
It hasn't been too hard to control my consumption of the vast majority of what I bake, as it is more filling with the whole grain flour and agave nectar (which doesn't spike my blood sugar or cravings like cane sugar), and since I log and calculate the calories of what I am making, the accountability of seeing it on the screen limits my consumption handily.
It works for me, anyway! They WILL eat baked goods, and so it is up to me to maximize the nutrition they are consuming with them. The only item I bake as a giveaway or gift is my (sinful but still healthy) spice bread, and I only bake that because it is from starter I have to constantly feed, so every ten days we have a batch. But I usually just take my piece or two, log it, give my family their servings and then take it into church, work with husband, bible studies, or anywhere else I can share it, so it will not be such a temptation.
This works great for me, anyway, and I get great satisfaction out of fermenting, kneading, rising, and then baking our delicious daily bread. I am becoming an amazing baker while working with health-improving ingredients that many other bakers shy away from, because they can be difficult to use without white flour. So perfecting my sprouted seed breads and kamut sandwich loaves? Of that, I am proud! It's my healthy new challenge and not negatively impacting my weight