6 Reasons why weight loss will improve your sex life

Be more attractive in the eyes of other people

The most obvious way overweight influences your sex life is the lack of sexual appeal in the eyes of other people. Yes, the fashion for a healthy slim body really makes us feel keen interest in those members of the opposite sex, who don't suffer from overweighti. Sometimes, a man even likes plump women, but under the influence of public opinion he chooses a slender woman as a sexual partner. Or a woman may have no objections to some extra pounds in a man she likes, but if all her friends are crazy about athletic build, she may want to keep up with the others and repel his advances.

Thus, fat people really have some difficulties in making new acquaintances and building relationships with the opposite sex and, as a consequence, their sex life suffers, too. And even if you are married or have a regular partner, how can you be sure that he or she doesn't dream (in secret) about some changes in your appearance? Well, if you're sexually attractive to other people, your partner is likely to try hard to satisfy you in bed – otherwise competitors will try to take the place and your partner knows this.

So, it doesn't matter if you're alone or have a partner – shedding pounds can brighten your sex life since you'll attract more people competing for the privilege.

Be more attractive in your own eyes

Few years ago a major study was conducted by "Reader's Digest" which showed that 46% of Americans believe that sexual life depends on appearance. Perhaps, the respondents were wrong in their opinions, but the fact is important – most of us do believe that attractive appearance and slim body as a part of it play a key role in sexual life. That is, other people may consider us quite attractive despite of the extra weight, but we are not ready to believe this.

To a large extent this psychological problem is typical for the fairer sex since sexual function in women is somewhat more dependent on emotional factors. Under the influence of the public mood many plump women suffer from disgust for their own bodies and low self-esteem. Surely, such feelings prevent emancipation in bed and become an obstacle to sexual intimacy with a partner. The complexes about your own body can lead to anorgasmia or frigidity!

In males sexual function has more of physiological nature, so they're less dependent on psychological state. Still, many men also suffer from lack of confidence in their own sexual attractiveness because of the extra pounds. As a result, they also may have problems in bed – with erection or inability to satisfy the partner.

Very often losing weight helps to rebuild self-confidence, to loosen up and to get pleasure from sex instead of being nervous about how you looknaked.

Help your hormonal system, and it will help you

Sexual desire in both women and men depends on the level of testosterone. The lower level of testosterone leads to decreased sexual desire. It was proved that fat cells (mainly in the abdominal cavity) produce a protein called leptin, which promotes the synthesis of estrogen. Estrogen is the antagonist of testosterone and the increase of its level causes decrease in testosterone production and thus decrease in sexual desire.

Besides, since overweight affects the production of sex hormones and their quantitative ratio, this has a bad influence on the qualitative and quantitative indicators of male sperm. It's a good reason for men to think about their sexual health – do you really want to come to erectile dysfunction or to problems with the reproductive system?

So, fat people can suffer from low sex drive and other dysfunctions related to the hormonal system. And losing weight helps to restore normal level of testosterone resulting in more intense sexual life.

Improve the blood supply for better potency and sensuality

A lot of men with extra pounds consume too much fat (including animal fats) and suffer from lack of vitamins. Overweight leads to imbalance of carbohydrate metabolism and other metabolic pathologies. This results in vascular diseases like atherosclerosis, varicose veins, thrombosis. Fat and cholesterol are deposited on the walls of blood vessels and there they form atherosclerosis plaques. Plaques reduce the vessel lumen and can close it completely, leading to myocardial infarction. In addition, high cholesterol level causes blood thickening and poor blood supply to the tissues up to oxygen deprivation of the brain.

What does this have to do with sexuality? A lot, really. Atherosclerosis can develop very quickly gradually affecting the arteries which supply the penis with blood. Poor blood supply makes it difficult to fill the cavernous bodies of the penis – and erection directly depends on this. Thus, you can get erectile dysfunction just allowing the excess weight to affect your cardiovascular system. And although women are less prone to atherosclerosis, their vessels also suffer from extra body fat, which affects the blood supply of the erogenous zones.

Weight loss and healthy diet will improve the condition of blood vessels and increase the blood flow into the sexual organs and erogenous zones so that your sex life will become faultless.

Make more sex positions available

Even if you're not going to learn all the crazy positions described in Kama Sutra, extra pounds can significantly emasculate your sex life making many sex positions unavailable. And it's not about how you look in a position (although some fat people just feel embarrassed to show themselves in an unfavorable position). In fact, the fat on the body, especially in the abdomen and hips area, really prevents taking some positions and performing a proper sexual intercourse.

Besides, obese people experience excessive load on their locomotor system, especially knees, hip joints and spinal discs, so it's really hard for them to be active in bed. The more extra pounds you get, the less diverse becomes your sex life.

Shedding pounds is your way back to an active sex play, a variety of positions, long sexual intercourse and other pleasures of hot sex.

Protect your health and maybe life, too

According to a study conducted by French scientists, people suffering from overweight are more likely to face problems related to disregard of contraception than people with normal weight. 10,000 men and women aged 19-69 years were involved in the study including 411 women and 350 men suffering from obesity.

As the researchers found, fat women have sex 30% less often than women with normal weight. In addition, they turn to the Internet in search for a sexual partner three times more often and watch porn twice as much compared to slim females. Moreover, while fat women are less sexually active, the risk of unplanned pregnancy and abortion among them is four times higher. This can be explained by the fact that women suffering from overweight take measures to protect themselves against unwanted pregnancy 70% less often. Experts believe that the lack of confidence makes obese women to take the risk not insisting on use of condoms.

If you believe the French experts, weight loss encourages attitude of care towards your health and this is true for both sexes. You can feel more confident to convince a partner that you deserve safe sex – for protecting yourself from STIs and crisis pregnancy.

Sources:
http://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/features/sex-and-weight
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/first-ever-global-diet-poll-of-16000-people-reveals-worldwide-weight-struggle-81128997.html
http://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c2573