Using diet (calorie restriction etc.) to achieve nofap

Hi all,

A decrease in sexual drive is a known side effect of fasting. A calorie rich diet increases sexual drive, especially if it is high in high-glycemic index food like sugar, honey, dried fruits, chocolate etc.
Men were not meant to eat sugars all year long. In the past, during the winter, food was scarce, men got lean and engaged less frequently in sexual activities (as is evident from ancient writings).
Keeping a diet low in calories, low in high-glycemic index foods and high in nutrients supporting the nervous system (meat, green leaves etc.), would help in stopping porn use.

Marion

 

It wouldn't be good. High index glycemic foods increase sexual desire. The raw vegan diet is low in B vitamins and minerals.

 

There may be other factors that influence the effect of calorie restriction on the sexual drive:
1. Sleep: If one sleeps less together with lowering calories, the effect may be to increase the sexual drive. In spring for example people lower their calorie intake and have increased sexual drive at the same time. If you sleep more (or rest more during the night if you can't sleep), and lower the calories, the effect could very well be to decrease the sexual drive (similarly to hibernation which lowers sexual activity in seasonal animals).
2. Weight status: If you are overweight, the calorie restriction could have a temporarily effect of increasing sexual drive, until you achieve normal weight. When you approach underweight territory the sexual drive would begin to get lower under the effect of calorie restriction.
3. Starving puts the brain into survival mode and it speeds reproduction efforts, increases sexual drive. Slow calorie restriction (happening during many months) would not signal as a survival risk.

It is true that women are more susceptible to the effect of calories on sexuality. Men may be more susceptible to the effect of stress. But than, men would need a diet that is conductive to good sleep, less stress.
In populations living on calorie restricted diets (third world countries, concentration camps) sexual addictions do not seem to be much of a problem.

 

If it works for you in the long term, good for you. But, many people can follow the vegan style diet only for some months before they begin to go sleepless and get tired from the overdrive caused by too many carbs .
Sugar causes a dopamine release in the brain similar to the drugs and fapping. Raw food juices probably act similarly. So, you are replacing one dopamine booster with another. The brain will continue to be overworked.
You seem to have cut out grains. The increased food diversity you are experiencing may be rather due to that,than the meat,because gluten,found in many grains, is addictive.
Vegan would work better in hot countries and during the hot season.

 

Some good knowledge on the issue must also have the monasteries. Their members aim to limit sexual desire. According to historian Caroline Bynum, “Many patristic [early Christian, from c. AD 100 to either AD 451 or to the 8-th century] writers associated food with lust and urged abstinence as a method of curbing sexual desire. John Cassian, writing for monks in the early fifth century, said: ‘It is impossible to extinguish the fires of concupiscence (strong sexual desire) without restraining the desires of the stomach.”

Herbert Shelton, noted in one of his books about fasting:

"Carrington found that all the fasters he questioned said that sexual intercourse during a prolonged fast
becomes a practical impossibility "after the first few days." As he points out this "impotency" is merely a
temporary suspension of the sexual function, for "the function returns, in its full vigor and force, together
with hunger." He points out that this lack of sexual vigor is almost invariably present, irrespective of the
vigor of the faster, which may be increased, but that sexual vigor returns together with hunger and before
any food has been ingested. It is true, as he points out, that many cases of impotency of years' standing,
and female sterility, are frequently remedied by fasting."

 

Shelton also noticed exceptions to the rule:

"Reduced or absent sexual desire and relative sterility form the rule in fasting men and women, but this is
by no means an invariable rule. Mr. Johnson, whose fast will be mentioned later, was neither impotent nor
sterile during a forty days' fast I supervised for him. One of my women patients was annoyed as much by
sexual desire while fasting as while eating. Another was so annoyed by such desire, we were forced to
break the fast. Desire ceased after eating was resumed."