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Yes you can!!

 

Day 94!

 

Day 17

 

Checking in Saiyans!

Day 401 free of MO and day 10 free of porn. I return to double digits of freedom.

For today's topic of discussion, I would like to bring back our attention to rest and recovery.

Hindsight has finally reached me, after 4 very difficult and challenging weeks. I'm realizing to what extent I was not taking care of my self. Yes, I was practicing my regular morning and night meditation..but this was not enough. The damage I was doing, from both physical and emotional stress, was building up. This lead to a relapse of porn substitute and half a porn video, 10 days ago.

I've noticed that even my workouts were a recipe for heightened cortisol release. For those who don't know, cortisol is known as your stress hormone. When you have heightened levels, you are prone to anxiety, fatigue, muscle soreness , disturbed sleep, amongst a few other things. Disturbed sleep makes the situation worse, as you are just increasing your cortisol and exhausting yourself further, also heightening of all of the above symptoms. This happened to me, and it took a stupidly done workout yesterday to make everything click. I was noticing as the weeks would go on, basic tasks were becoming challenging and were making me ridiculously stressed and anxious , sore and fatigued. It was also a mini-lapse with regards to my burnout and PAWs symptoms. My workouts were no longer supporting my recovery, they became too taxing on the CNS(central nervous system for short). In fact, so much so that I started going backwards. In my experience higher reps are not friendly for someone who is going through withdrawal, nor is HIIT cardio, its best to approach a low intensity, lower repetitions and steady pace cardio approach, to support normalizing your cortisol levels and supporting your recovery.

Understand that there are many other variables that will increase your stress, the days where you are experiencing very many urges, your mind is at war throughout the day. It takes energy to deflect your urges and not give in. On those days, rest and recovery is even more crucial. Health cultivation is a key factor, one that I neglected, in moving forward with your journey and supporting victory over addiction and victory over whatever your day to day struggle is.

My next course of action will be to take 1-2 weeks off from workouts, i'll stick to stretching and walking. First week mostly off, as I want to do undo the damage that I have caused. After the two weeks elapse, I will decrease reps and remove certain exercises.

Stay Strong!

@MJ93 congrats on making it to Elite Warrior!

@sickandiseased123 congrats on making it to Oozaru!

 

day 96 check in, 4 days till ss3.

 

Thanks, buddy

 

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Day 95!

 

Checking in Saiyans!

Day 402 free of MO and day 11 free of porn.

Taking the day off completely yesterday was helpful, my body definitely hurts less today. Although, I cannot expect one day to repair the damage. Magnesium supplement has also been very helpful, in toning down the overwhelm and cortisol. I'll see how beneficial it is on a more longterm basis and follow up with that. Another day of rest is before me.

Stay strong and rest well!

@Nen congrats on Oozaru! I have a question for you, from your posts it seems you workout quite a bit. Do you take any supplements to assist? If you could share, I would be greatly appreciative.

 

Day 11
- I got complemented at a party yesterday for losing weight. I've just been maintaining my nofap habit of of doing cardio everyday and added the weightlifting to it to go Plus Ultra.
- I also got complimented a few days earlier for having good manners. On nofap streak, I tend to look people in the eyes and genuinely smile at them. I get that's why.

As the slogan says, Nofap allows us to Get a grip on life.

 

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