Cerulean
Silver Member
Before I kick off, I think I'd like this thread to be a place where we list dramatic physical changes both positive and negative for people who have abstained for more than 12 weeks.
Hello everyone, well - lets put it this way - I abstained for just over 200 days, I've been on RtM for 8 weeks.
My hair type is officially 'lots of hair but very fine' so I have a lot of follicles but the hair growing out of them is surprisingly fine. We do have female alopecia in my family on one side and stress related alopecia at that.
I have been losing hair in handfuls to the extent that I have to brush my coat down every day when I get home. At first I was happy enough about it, but now it is really noticeable around my hairline. True enough I have plenty of new baby hair coming through so I can see and hope that this is a temporary problem, but it is noticeable and friends have said (without prompting from me) that they have noticed that my hair is thinning - I can no longer wear my hair up (my default style) as I don't have enough hair to grip the style to and the hairline looks dreadful.
I have also not had a period since the beginning of June. My LLCs first reaction is to tell me that people become a lot more fertile on LL and am I sure I'm not pregnant? Well unless LL is capable of producing immaculate conceptions I'm thinking that that's not a possibility. It's terribly unnerving - I am back to a relatively moderate (for me) BMI of 26 - but...well...I know I'm single and all that, but I'm 33 and one of my secret motivations for doing LL was so that I could get myself into a place where I could see myself maybe meeting a chap and having kids some day in the not too distant future. What if my vanity has scuppered my chances of that happening? I only recently found out that the women in my family have never given birth past my age and that most of them had hysterectomies or went into menopause at round about my age.
And of course this all may seem irrelevant for a single woman, but I have totally lost my libido - I thought that it would come back when I ate - but it's gone (seriously, this is a big thing for me) I can't even look at men. LL has turned me into a NUN!
Of course it's great that I'm now a moderately healthy BMI and that I can fit into smaller clothes - but...my sexuality and my glorious mane of hair were two huge parts of my life - and they're not here right now.
By the way - this is not a whinge about LL - it works and it works well if you stick to it and work with it - but some of the side effects are a tad alarming - and so - maybe it would be helpful if everyone who's gone past 100 days to list the weird things that have changed just so we have a place to refer to for what's 'normal'
Hello everyone, well - lets put it this way - I abstained for just over 200 days, I've been on RtM for 8 weeks.
My hair type is officially 'lots of hair but very fine' so I have a lot of follicles but the hair growing out of them is surprisingly fine. We do have female alopecia in my family on one side and stress related alopecia at that.
I have been losing hair in handfuls to the extent that I have to brush my coat down every day when I get home. At first I was happy enough about it, but now it is really noticeable around my hairline. True enough I have plenty of new baby hair coming through so I can see and hope that this is a temporary problem, but it is noticeable and friends have said (without prompting from me) that they have noticed that my hair is thinning - I can no longer wear my hair up (my default style) as I don't have enough hair to grip the style to and the hairline looks dreadful.
I have also not had a period since the beginning of June. My LLCs first reaction is to tell me that people become a lot more fertile on LL and am I sure I'm not pregnant? Well unless LL is capable of producing immaculate conceptions I'm thinking that that's not a possibility. It's terribly unnerving - I am back to a relatively moderate (for me) BMI of 26 - but...well...I know I'm single and all that, but I'm 33 and one of my secret motivations for doing LL was so that I could get myself into a place where I could see myself maybe meeting a chap and having kids some day in the not too distant future. What if my vanity has scuppered my chances of that happening? I only recently found out that the women in my family have never given birth past my age and that most of them had hysterectomies or went into menopause at round about my age.
And of course this all may seem irrelevant for a single woman, but I have totally lost my libido - I thought that it would come back when I ate - but it's gone (seriously, this is a big thing for me) I can't even look at men. LL has turned me into a NUN!
Of course it's great that I'm now a moderately healthy BMI and that I can fit into smaller clothes - but...my sexuality and my glorious mane of hair were two huge parts of my life - and they're not here right now.
By the way - this is not a whinge about LL - it works and it works well if you stick to it and work with it - but some of the side effects are a tad alarming - and so - maybe it would be helpful if everyone who's gone past 100 days to list the weird things that have changed just so we have a place to refer to for what's 'normal'