Nearly made a year!

This is an awesome thread! I did a year when I was 19, I'd never felt better in my life. Since then, I fell back into old habits. But I'm back, and it's already starting to feel like old times again. Congratulations!!

 

At this point, I hardly remember the withdrawals themselves (as the severe ones didn't last for too long) but I have slight memories of the severest ones coming forth and back for the first 5-6 weeks or so, especially the first 2-3 weeks. The hardest part to overcome was the first month (or five weeks) as I didn't need much to get triggered and when I did, my legs and arms started to tremble a bit, followed by some light sweating. When I started to meditate a little every day, I got better control of it for sure. After I got past 90-100 days, things went pretty much on autopilot and I didn't feel much of withdrawal at all.
You got to keep these two things in mind when it comes to PMO-withdrawal:
1. The longer you have been watching porn and masturbated (and the more extreme the content you have consumed), the longer time will a reboot and fading of withdrawal symptoms take. Things like your current physical health, diet and medications do also play a part in it.
The reason for why my withdrawal symptoms faded quite fast and that my reboot has gone so well might be due to the fact that I was: a moderate user for many years (not escalating too much), in good physical health when stopping, taking no medications and had a good diet. I had also been free from pornography for over a year before starting the NoFap-journey.

2. If you don't have any specific interests, hobbies or activities to replace PMO with as you stop it, you will of course feel a big void in your life that is ont replaced by something. That void/gap of meaningful activities in your life will of course make you flatlining and have a prolonged period of withdrawal symptoms than you would if your life would be filled with interesting activities.

 

Although my goal is to meet a girlfriend (and hopefully future wife) during the next year, I got to look at that project/process as "The icing of the cake" and not "The cake itself", meaning that if my life is already great as it is (even without a girlfriend), finding a woman will not become my top priority as I have plenty of meaningful activities on the side. It will become that little extra thing that makes your life even greater but simultaneously, I won't need her around me in order to feel happy and fulfilled.
That mindset will decrease the sense of neediness even more and you will have much more fun when talking to different women as you have pretty much freed yourself of the outcome which makes a big difference in your conversations.
You also have to establish a mindset of abundance and not scarcity. As soon as you have that mindset going, you will feel more inclined to go and grab whatever comes to you and if it doesn't, you will try again and again until it comes to you.

 

could give you a thousand likes for this post!! nice!

 

congratulations！It is so encouraging to read.

 

Inspirational stuff! The girls will come eventually, don't worry about it.

 

In your opinion if we are still getting wet dreams after 100 days no pm are we doing something wrong? I've been free from masturbation and porn but I still get a wet dream at least once a week. I'm unsure on what I'm doing or what I should change

 

https://www.nofap.com/forum/index.php?threads/6-years-clean-rebooting-as-the-best-remedy.135983/
Check this thread it has good information about wet dreams and other pmo related stuff

 

Can you explain the thing with the foreskin? What is it good for?

 

Hello I'm new to this nofap journey, What is this pied thing? alot of guys here talk about it in this forum.

 

Hey man may i ask u how much time did u take since starting nofap before reaching this streak?

 

hey man! thanks for your post! I am curious...what were your habits and interests?

 

Yes, thanks a lot i guess i would end up relapsing to be honest :/

 

My habits at the time were simply the following:

-Exercising almost daily.
-Reading something every day.
-Learning something new every day.
-Eating at least 8-9 fruits/vegetables every day (many days, I ate more than that).
-Sticking to a diet with no meat or dairy in it (not even eggs). I only ate (and still eat) meat once in a while and then, that's not even a large amount.
-Being outdoors and experience nature every day.

My interests were (and still are): running (training for the marathon), cooking, reading, traveling, aviation, nature and just being outdoors enjoying the present moment and experiencing the nature and its forces.