THE SUPER SAIYAN CHALLENGE! What is your Power Level?! (RANKS ARE BACK, GET YOURS NOW!

1 day free of PMO.
I was out socializing with friends yesterday and that really helped my mood.
@DRAGON_ congratulations on ascending brother! Also thanks to you and @Redemptionisrequired for your support towards me.

 

Day 7.

 

Day 347

 

Day 6

 

Day 63 check in.
Still going ok, spent the day out and with my wife.
Some nagging headache and neck pain, not sure if this has anything to do with rebooting / paws but it does add to the overall anger / anxiety.

All in all, managed to stay off the poison for another day.
Stay strong everyone, one day at a time!

 

Checking in Saiyan's!

22 day's Free of PMO.

Keep training!

@DRAGON_ Well done brother!

@Against_the_demon_in_myself Of course brother, we're in this together.

@kingdawoo Try to change the perspective brother and say, I was clean 16 days, let's get back up and continue with further momentum. Keep the clean day ratio higher.

 

Day 10

 

I'm on 17 days now, and have had urge to relapse thoughts the past couple of days. I've been through this before and failed many times, and each failure I think I picked up on something that made me relapse. And how to course correct. A major perspective change for me was if all you change about yourself is nofap and you don't change the rest of your life, then you're just going to keep relapsing. A couple days ago when I started to have urges again I decided to clean my messy room that I avoided for months. I don't have everything cleaned up yet, but everything around my bed is tidy, and it was quite a lot of dirt. Well after cleaning that the urges were gone for a good while. I believe for at least myself that I go to pmo to avoid problems so that I can forget about them. There's something that's bothering me, I go to pmo and then I feel a temporary relief. It's illogical but it works for the reptilian part of our brain. Looking at that mess everyday doesn't make me feel good about myself, and it's like a marker of how I'm doing psychologically. If I can't even clean up this small mess, then I am telling myself that I'm really incompetent. And that goes for the rest of the mess in my life. I think by and large we go to pmo for stress relief, and because we don't see a way forward with our problems in how to solve them. A big mistake I made when starting nofap a few years ago was that I made it this basically all or nothing solution to my problems. And it's just a helping hand really. Doing nofap for the first couple of weeks gives me a boost in energy and clarity of mind so that I can focus on things I need to do. And I also got trapped in thinking I had to do everything all at once. Become gigachad in under a year, hit the gym 2 hours a day, radically changed diet, no screen time, no video games and all that. All of that is good, but it matters where you come at it from. Taking it one step at a time a not pressuring yourself has gotten me the most progress. Not that it's an excuse for inaction, but as a caution against overdoing it. I don't know if that will help you or not, it's just my experience so far.

 

Day 116!

 

I have been trying on my own with some minor success but havent been engaging on here. I'm back here after a relapse. Day 1 check in, hope I can finally beat my record.

 

If you can make a girl cry like that then you're da man. I'd really like to have a girlfriend but realistically I don't think I'm at the level where girls want me. I'm not in good enough shape and I still live with my parents. They're pretty big turn offs I think. And I can be using my time better to develop myself, rather than play video games and watch YouTube.

One of the biggest reasons I've relapsed in the past I think is lack of goals and motivation. Well getting a girlfriend can be a goal. Underneath that there would be subgoals like getting in shape, developing other personal skills like my career, my hobbies and interests. Taking action above all is probably the cure to pmo addiction. Relapsing to me means lack of motivation to live a vital and interesting life. That is also the kind of a life a man lives that women are not attracted to because you're showing an image of yourself being incompetent.

 

Day 393!

 

Day 0.

 

Day 348

 

2 days free of PMO.
Socialized yesterday as well which is good.
I felt a bit lonely at night but didn't turn on any screen. I played some guitar to express myself instead and went to bed.
I have been a bit stressed with the advance of AI technology and the impact it's going to have, It is already changing my profession a lot.
@Lexro84 as a senior dev, are you following these advancements? How are you responding to the change?