In "Sans Rendez-vous", sex therapist and psychoanalyst Catherine Blanc responds to Carmen, a listener who has lost her libido since following a diet.

For the specialist, it is possible that the energy that the latter puts to respect her diet takes precedence over the rest, in particular her libido.  

>> As we know, food plays an essential role in daily health.

But can a sudden change in the latter have an effect on libido?

In any case, this is what Carmen notes.

This listener started a diet a few weeks ago and saw her desire skyrocket.

In "Sans Rendez-vous", the sexologist and psychoanalyst Catherine Blanc explains that the two things are well linked.

For the specialist, it is possible that the energy that Carmen puts to respect her diet takes precedence over the rest, in particular her libido. 

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Carmen's question 

I have been on a diet for a few weeks now and realize that since then I literally have no libido.

Could it be related? 

Catherine Blanc's response

We must first take stock of food: when we eat, we take micronutrients that are involved in the production of neurotransmitters, especially dopamine.

And as long as we are a little lacking in the diet, as in the case of a diet, we will perhaps have more difficulty in producing our hormones which are at the origin of the desire sexual.

Concretely, there will be an energy saving. 

But there is also a psychological side to take into account.

Insofar as the food drive is constrained by the diet, there is a back-pedaling on everything that is drive, as if there was a confusion between food gluttony and sexual gluttony.

Obeying the obligatory food frustration of a diet, sexuality is therefore lacking. 

Is Carmen too focused on her diet to the point of forgetting about sexuality? 

Diet is mastery.

But this behavior is regularly shaken up by cravings for cakes, chocolate, sugar ... But repressing them requires a lot of energy, perhaps even to the point of pushing everything else by the wayside. 

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Is it possible to lose weight without dieting and having fun?

Is it possible to transfer this sweet drive to a sexual drive? 

It would be a very good idea in the sense that, anyway, we would be making hormones.

However, we cannot reduce sexuality to a filling in the absence of food gluttony.

Is Carmen's case worrying?

Once the diet is over will the libido come back? 

There is no fear in having a loss of libido, it happens to everyone.

Once she has lost weight, she will feel good about herself and it can revive her desire, unless she is severely deficient.

This is also where you have to be vigilant about the type of diet you are doing, because not all are necessarily respectful of the body.