starting the battle

Glad to hear that neb1000, and welcome to the NoFap community! Everyday is a battle, and I hope that you complete your journey successfully! I would recommend to participate often here in the community and get as much information as you can about NoFap.
Best regards and stay strong!

 

I'm new here as well and am looking to kick my porn and masturbation addiction. It's been such a struggle and I've finally decided to do something about it.

 

I was on a 90 day goal back in November.. I made it to 50 days,
Longer than I have ever gone before.. Then two weeks after
that I relapsed again.. I am back on track for a 90 day to
complete - in "hard mode" on April 11.. This time I will be
blogging to hopefully be successful this time

 

Welcome to NoFap.

A few things that I've implemented since joining this site are:

1) Set my homepage to http://www.nofap.org/forum/forum.php
2) I'm keeping my door open at all times to make it hard to PMO. I live with two female roommates.
3) Bookmarked http://emergency.nofap.org - it works best if you don't keep hitting refresh but take what you need from it and move on.
4) I'm taking cold showers.
5) I did some research on http://www.yourbrainonporn.com and watched the Ted talks videos there.
6) I'm reading/posting as much as I can on this forum.
7) I'm keeping a daily journal and created a counter to track my progress.
8) I wear a rubber band on my wrist that I snap whenever I have a sexual thought or become aroused.
9) I flex all of my muscles rhythmically whenever I feel like I'm going to get an erection to direct blood flow away from it.
10) I've watched "Sacred Sexuality" videos on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/user/SacredS...sort=da&view=0

For brand new members I recommend doing these three things:

1. Create a journal and post in it everyday, especially when you get urges. Just writing down that I have an urge helps to alleviate it.

2. Set a goal and create a PMO counter to track your progress. Copy and paste it in to your signature. (You can edit your signature in your account settings.)

3. Read and respond to other peoples journals. This will help to make you realize that you are not alone and give you hope and ideas on how to further develop in your recovery.

If you do these three things you'll be off to a great start.

Best of luck.

- vM

 

Ooops! Kinda saw it coming, maybe not.. June 3, 2015 round midnight - relapse after 73 days.. Darn.
Was 81.3% there just 17 days short of my 90 day goal.. I had a feeling something like this would happen,
that's life.. Ok not going to let it get me down. I'm going again for 90 days - hard mode this time no edging.
That was not the case this past time.. I going with God's help for 90 days - to 9/3/15 hard mode.. Dusting
myself off and getting back on track..

 

Looks like this lat relapse opened the door to another.. just about an hour ago relapsed.. Told myself you're
going to have to reset, but body was too strong.. praying for success this time - back on track 90 days reboot
in hard mode..

 

This time I probably could have controlled it but was weak - or just
rebellious maybe, just was not feeling like resisting the urge, the psychological
pain of "saying no" to the body - and wanted to leave the unrelaxed state.. I
always need to remind myself before, of how I will feel afterward - defeated..
Not a good feeling.. I have faith that I will make the 90 day reboot as
I am on the heels of the 73 day time span of no pmo I know it can be done.. My
prayer is that starting from right now the goal of the 90 day reboot will be successful.
Father I ask you now in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord that I will be successful
this day going forward in the goal of doing a 90 day reboot. Amen. June 19, 2015,
2 Tamuz, 5775.

 

Ok.. Minor Setback - Dust myself off pick up - start again..
Let's do it this time - 90 Days no pmo..

 

You got it man! Congratulations on making it to 87 days still! That's incredible!

 

Early Saturday morning, blew it again!.. 6/27/15.. Starting again.
Let's do it this time - 90 days Hard mode.. With God's help I will
be able to do this.. Not going to let it get me down.. It's a tough
battle but one worth fighting - and winning!

 

Amen!