The Orgasm Diet
Go from 'whoa' to 'O' in four easy steps!
Author Kathy Lette feasts on fish oil and dark choccie to speed up her journey to O-Town.
The female orgasm is more of a mystery than the continued career succuss of George. W. Bush. One of the greatest differences between the sexes is that men always seem to be in mood. For women, however, mojo is a more complicated issue.
Research revealed that 30 per cent of Australians have low libidos, and men seem to be confused about female sexual dysfunction. How can a women lose her orgasm? What is it? An odd sock?
Author Marrena Lindberg offers a natural solution. She’s written the Orgasm Diet, which promises to give “all women the ability to have orgasms in two weeks, even if they have never had one before." Plus, even if you’re lucky enough to reach an orgasm regularly, the book promises to make the experience bigger and better.
Always greedy for more of anything, I agree to stick to the diet for three weeks. (Any diet which counsels you to devour a couple of squares of dark chocolate every day is Ok by me!) The book recommends starting the day with plenty of protein, or “eggs, eggs, eggs” – Lindberg’s brekkie options include cottage cheese with berries, frittatas and French toast – and rounding it off with a piece of fruit or some fresh juice. Sounds good.
The fish oil supplements were harder to swallow. The dose the book recommends means eight tablets a day. ( The fish oil is suppose to release dopamine, the feel good chemical associated with the emotion of anticipation and desire. But by week two, the only thing I was anticipating was giving up taking so many bloody tablets!
The third element of the diet is cut down on carbs. Apparently too much starch stimulates serotonin – this is also a feel good brain chemical, but in excess, it makes you too hyper to surrender to a sexy mood because you’re thinking about the things you have to do. (Men, take note: Serotonin or not, women think of many things while having sex, including, “My pudenda could be awarded national park status. Must book in for a wax”.
Step four is to increase your testosterone. What this means is replacing carbs with lots of non- starchy fruit and veg, plus protein at every meal. I was also told to give up coffee. Giving up carbs was OK, but coffee? My temper would percolate.
Still, keen to improve the new and Improved Libidinous Me, I stuck to the rest of the diet as best I could for three weeks.
With growing excitement, I waited for the wake-up call to my hormones. When that Big O came, I felt sure I would cry out with such big intense ecstasy that my neighbours would be confused whether it was an orgasm or demonic possession.
So what happened? Did the Bermuda Triangle let me know it’s postcode?
Yes! Yes! Yessss!!! But was it to do with the diet? Or was it the fact that eating less sugar and exercising daily means losing weight? And if you feel better about your body, you’re more inclined to show it off naked. The more confident you are, the more relaxed you are and – hormonal Houston! – we have lift off!
