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Are you expecting a less-than-lusty libido?

Here are some ways to boost your sex drive:

(1) Get active

Releasing feel-good endorphins through exercise can help put you in the mood. The extra flexibility and muscle endurance that results from a regular fitness routine is an added bonus in the bedroom. I prefer those exercises or activities that can be easily built into part of daily life. Take for example; I stay in a high-rise apartment on the 12th floor. Because my working hours are very long, during week days I don't have much time to exercise, which is a problem, most of us face after we leave school. To keep fit, I climb up and down stairs everyday when I leave my place to work and do the same on returning to apartment after work. The beauty of this, I don't need to purposely allot a time for this irrespectively of how busy I can be at times, I don't need to be in any special attire and I can do this whether it rains, shines or snows.

Another exercise you can consider is cycling if you can cycle and your work place and favorite grocery stores is within cycling distance. This can also be easily built into your routine without making too much adjustment in your life style and you can also do your part in helping to cut down carbon emissions. Isn't this cool?

The main point here is to choose an activity that is sustainable and does not cause too much adjustment to your routine so that there is less chance that you may stop half way later for whatever reasons. To me, quitting is very demoralizing. I hope you won't get into such state!

(2) Read steamy novels to loosen you up

Try anything with romance to get the imagination flowing. If you don't have the time and patience in reading novels, watching romantic or love movies are perfectly OK and will be ideal if you can watch with her at whatever place you feel most relaxing.

(3) Tank-up in zinc-rich foods

Zinc is linked to sex hormone levels and can be found in strawberries, raspberries, beans, nuts and of course, oysters. Oh! I love oysters. I like to eat them raw without adding anything on them to "damage" their natural flavor.

(4) Drop a few kilos

Too much body weight can lower self-esteem and lead to conditions that dampen sex drive and performance. Body fat can also bind to sex hormones, and clogged arteries can reduce blood flow where it counts and increases the risk of erectile dysfunction. The way here is to eat right. It can be deliciously painless to eat a low-fat diet packed with fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat dairy products.

(a) Eat healthy fat

Cook with olive oil and canola oil and snack on nuts. Nuts such as cashews, macadamia nuts, Brazil nuts, almonds, pecans and walnuts have fiber and other nutrients that interfere with the absorption of fat. They are satisfying, make you feel fuller longer. Also good is lean protein such as beans, fish, chicken and lean cuts of beef. Look, are you sacrificing a lot in your eating when you follow this suggested diet?

(5) Relax

Stress kills sex drive. A common problem facing especially middle age men who is getting a lot of stress from work. Doing anything you enjoy in your free time is always relaxing. It can be going for leisure trips if you enjoy traveling or it can be as simple as just lying down on bed or watching comedies to laugh out loud in order to release some stress.

(6) Quit smoking

According to Panayiotis M Zavos, director of the Andrology Institute of America and professor of reproductive physiology and andrology at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, he and his fellow researchers have found that men's smoking had a significant and negative effect on the ability to conceive. They also found out that smoking significantly diminished a man's sexual desire and satisfaction - even for young men in their 20s and 30s. The smokers reported having sex less than 6 times a month, whereas non-smoking men were having sex nearly twice as often. Other experts agree that smoking can impair sexual performance. "Smoking causes damage to the smooth muscle inside the penis that interferes with erectile functioning," says Richard Milsen, co-author of The Sexual Male and a urologist for more than 30 years in Woodbury, N.J. "So if men can't perform as well, it would make sense that their libidos would suffer."