Scandalous Observation (with a novel...sorry if TMI)
nikoba
Posts: 291 Member
A little back story...I'm an emotional eater and I'm currently trying to tackle that. About 2 years ago I was successfully losing weight with lchf and at a certain point, decided to try dating. I inadvertently became involved with an alcoholic and ended things once the red flags became obvious. Once I pulled away, he became verbally abusive and harassed me often via text/email. (actually still continues to here and there)
Over the past year+ while dealing with him, I ballooned back up to my starting weight of nearly 240lbs....my way of coping with it was to eat any/everything and hermit myself inside my apt. Needless to say, I have been completely turned off to the idea of men/dating/intimacy.
Starting this past February, I got myself back on track with eating and being good to myself. I'm down to 212. I got pretty lazy in April and saw a 5lb creep, so I'm tackling that with buckling down on the food, but upping the physical activity. I've been walking more & faster, as well as incorporating hand weights and exercise bands.
This week I have noticed that my libido has SKYROCKETED...like to the point it's distracting throughout the day. I'm just wondering if it's the added exercise to my day or if this is just part of dropping weight and getting healthier? Anyone else have similar experience?
Over the past year+ while dealing with him, I ballooned back up to my starting weight of nearly 240lbs....my way of coping with it was to eat any/everything and hermit myself inside my apt. Needless to say, I have been completely turned off to the idea of men/dating/intimacy.
Starting this past February, I got myself back on track with eating and being good to myself. I'm down to 212. I got pretty lazy in April and saw a 5lb creep, so I'm tackling that with buckling down on the food, but upping the physical activity. I've been walking more & faster, as well as incorporating hand weights and exercise bands.
This week I have noticed that my libido has SKYROCKETED...like to the point it's distracting throughout the day. I'm just wondering if it's the added exercise to my day or if this is just part of dropping weight and getting healthier? Anyone else have similar experience?
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I noticed my libido increased around this time last year, but I didn't accociate it with anything. It was fairly non-existant for a very long time so it was noticable to me that things had suddenly 'woken up'.
This was before I started LCHF and before I started excercising. I had already lost a chunk of weight though, so maybe that was the factor?
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Spring fever.4
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Exercise, especially strength training, boosts testosterone, it's physiological...find some batteries, or a nice boy, or girl, whatever makes you happy!7
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I'm just wondering if it's the added exercise to my day or if this is just part of dropping weight and getting healthier? Anyone else have similar experience?
I think it's all of the above. you've probably experienced a confidence boost from the loss of weight, and the exercise. You've probably experienced a shift of hormones that has a positive effect on libido. You're mental health has probably experienced a boost from the exercise. So many things! Particularly for women, desire and sex and interest in sex is related to so many emotional, situational, and hormonal things that it can be difficult to nail down what's changed but work it girl. Get at it!
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Healthy fat intake is key...healthy fat helps regulate hormones in the body including those related to libido. Same thing happened to me a few months into easing my way into LC. I pity those who fear healthy fat or actively work to eliminate it from their way of eating.3
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At 55 I'm worse now than when I was 30. My husband is scared of me lol4
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Mine has every good reason to fear me...! I'm 60 - 5 years older than he, but dayum, he lookin' so sexy no he lost the weight!!
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Well hello there, ladies!
What's going on in THIS thread?2 -
SEX.
There, I said it.4 -
It's them ice cubes @AlexandraCarlyle snacks on.1
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I love to get my teeth into something hard.
(I said that out loud.... didn't I.....? )1 -
Uh, who needs to be watched?AlexandraCarlyle wrote: »I love to get my teeth into something hard.
(I said that out loud.... didn't I.....? )0 -
Why does it seem no one really means it anymore when they say Bite Me?3
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I mean it.
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It's just crazy how it strongly it came on out of nowhere. Or maybe it's crazy how deeply I pushed it down and non existent it became for so long. Either way, it's hard getting work done...and if I was a man, I'd never be able to stand up and leave my desk...so hopefully it settles down a little bit
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When we feel good, we look better. And when we look and feel good, bits we had forgotten 'existed' - or could come to the fore - elbow their way through to demand some air-time, if not centre stage....
It's an entitlement, and one we should give voice to.
Why should it be just guys for whom it's ok to get urges?
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Uh, who needs to be watched?AlexandraCarlyle wrote: »I love to get my teeth into something hard.
(I said that out loud.... didn't I.....? )
You're my voyeur! I thought I'd seen you some place! Like, a Police line-up.....0 -
You appear to have problems with food, and he appears to have problems with alcohol. He should not be verbally abusive, I agree, but I hope he gets back on a healthy track just like you have.0
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AlexandraCarlyle wrote: »Why should it be just guys for whom it's ok to get urges?
I hope mine doesn't settle down any time soon!
To clarify...when I said it's a good thing I'm not a man, I meant I'd be walking around looking like this all day
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I hope that's not offensive...40 Year Old Virgin was a great movie!0
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It's just crazy how it strongly it came on out of nowhere. Or maybe it's crazy how deeply I pushed it down and non existent it became for so long. Either way, it's hard getting work done...and if I was a man, I'd never be able to stand up and leave my desk...so hopefully it settles down a little bit
One of the advantages of being self-employed and working from home, it's no big deal to take a break in the middle of the day for some ahem, private time...
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Butler! Hand me my coat and panties! This party's getting rude!2
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I am practically compelled to recall Aubrey Beardsley's ribald illustrations for Aristophanes' Lysistrata, in which the women of Athens go on an, er, intimate activities strike until their idiot husbands mend their belligerent ways.
I won't post the artwork here, but suffice it to say that Beadsley's depiction of what the miserable Greek men were reduced to is some of the great humor of the Victorian era.
(Warning - Do not click below under any circumstances.)
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I have a huge volume of "The Complete Works of Aubrey Beardsley" who in my opinion was one of the greatest and most talented illustrators of our times. His drawings in "The Rape of the Lock" (I would hasten to add that 'rape' in this context means theft or malicious removal) had me mesmerised at school, and I treasured that schoolbook. I think (*gasp!!*) I might even have kept the schoolbook, as opposed to returning it at the end of term!
The Complete Works has those illustrations. I am not in the slightest bit shocked by them.
*Swoon*.0
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