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The Tony Soprano Challenge: 1 month of NoFap + Cold Showers

Discussion in 'Rebooting - Porn Addiction Recovery' started by takethecharge, Jan 2, 2014.

  1. Ibrahim Haidar

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    Just had my cold shower an hour ago. Hoped in the shower thinking its gonna be a gooood time. My head could take the cold today, shower lasted around 7 minutes, feeling refreshed and re-energized. As far as making nofap harder, I think its the other way around. Testosterone may be increasing but my libido surely is decreasing
     
  2. Ah ah ah, it helps me recover my energy when I relapse but at the same time it can disminish arousal. It has a few hours effect.

    It is really good for the skin and hair also. I know someone around 60 who has been taking cold showers all her life, she looks really young. It's impressive.
     
  3. aron

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    I have been taking cold showers for 3 years now. When I started, I took it as a 7-day challenge. I would do it daily for 7 days and afterwards decide if I would continue or not. In the beginning it was simply awful, but after 7 days I started to actually "feel" the advantages on myself, the increased energy, the "I'm ready to take any mother f*** head on" attitude after finishing. I knew that I was doing something that few men have the courage to do and it made me feel that I have accomplished something significant: I had overcome myself, even if it was in a small aspect.
     
  4. Ibrahim Haidar

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  5. takethecharge

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    That's really impressive.

    I've been slacking off today in the afternoon, got too lazy and started dwelling on the whole women arousing men mechanism. Feeling rather unmotivated right now, but it's the evening Cold Shower time. So I'm going right now and I know that I'll be in a different state just 5-10 minutes from now.
     
  6. Ibrahim Haidar

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    Just got out of my cold shower myself. Got a phone call from a friend of mine as soon as i turned the water off, he was high with the guys and he asked me for pizza huts number, so i froze half to death while turning my laptop on and looking for it. Today was the least lazy day for coldies for me. feeling refreshed, went out for the first time in a while.
     
  7. takethecharge

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    I hope you guys are persisting with this brilliant way of killing one ugly bird with two rough stones.

    I'm not stopping although today I must admit I had the moments of weakness - I stood in my shower for a bit too long before taking on that stream of cold water and I started to consider a warmer shower. I set the faucet to the middle, got wet and then turned it to the right. On one hand, that's kind of like cheating, but on the other hand, I find this to be a very effective way to actually take a cold shower when you are experiencing inner resistance.
    I took my second shower after a bike ride, not in the evening. Both first and second showers were 3 min tops.

    Tomorrow I'll make it to 7 days!
     
  8. HugeManatees

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    Count me in absolutely! Im 2 days non PMO now and I just joined but im getting serious, I'll be adding meditation and yoga daily as well as modifying my diet. I want the energy boost to mainly go towards learning and creating, rather than hard workouts. Would this be natural?
     
  9. Ibrahim Haidar

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    Yea why wouldn't it? as long as its your heart's desire then go for it! :D
     
  10. takethecharge

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    Today I failed to take my cold shower in the morning. I slept in and failed to do my Morning Ritual too. Then after some hours, I PMOed.

    So technically, I've failed the Challenge.
    Practically, I've failed but got back immediately on my feet (literally) and I'm going to continue on this Challenge.

    Self-Discipline plays a major role in taking those showers and staying clean (which begins with keeping your mind clear and dismissing all the triggers along the way).

    Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7wQSFSDR_4

    Taking the cold one in about 15 minutes. Taking it tomorrow morning too.
     
  11. Ibrahim Haidar

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    Eliott Hulse! :D Great man. I still haven't taken my cold one, im gonna take it directly before bed. Had a hectic day with 2 exams & revising for tomorrow's exam, I didnt have time to do most of the things on my to-do list for the day and im so tired i feel im gonna just crash. Stay clean.
     
  12. HugeManatees

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    Took my first coldie 10 minutes ago. Throughout the shower I used music to time myself. I find that instrumental jazz/hip hop is my favorite shower music. Listening to MF Doom made me actually feel silly about the whole thing. Afterwards of course raisin penis and i felt i had to pee but didn't suceed. Warming up afterwards was actually a better experience than usual since my house temp was warmer than the shower. Definitely feeling AWAKE. I will be cleaning and meditating for the rest of my time today. I invited other close friends to do this challenge with me, until someone else is a partner I will check progress here
     
  13. Ibrahim Haidar

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    All my friends except 1 girl friend consider me crazy so far so im checking here all month I guess :p even if someone did participate i'd still post here. Its almost 12pm here today and I wanted to take a shower as soon as i woke up but I can my finger and im waiting for it to stop bleeding XD.
     
  14. Ibrahim Haidar

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    had my cold one almost an hour ago. Was acting bitchy before getting in the shower and postponing but got my balls together and went for the dive.
     
  15. Ibrahim Haidar

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    Relapsed around an hour ago. But dont count me out of the challenge yet. I had my cold one today though that didnt help tht much :/ This is IT!
     
  16. Petrassi

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    Ok, am doing this TOTALLY. I need to grab life by the balls, I've been doing yoga and meditation every morning for the last week, and I'm telling you guys, that ALONE has been changing me a lot! Eliminating 75% of the stress and anxiety i've had MY WHOLE LIFE. And meditation in particular giving me the best self control i've ever had (HIGHLY recommended for fapstronauts). Now I started NoFap yesterday, been psyched for the possible effects this could have for me. Was looking forward to being a fully "charged" man. Then I see this, cold showers combined with the NoFap. This is the final step, kick start the day, charge your battery for the day (not in that way obviously) and live the life you KNOW you want to live but are too lazy or tired to do anything about.

    But OP omitted the meditation, bad move, meditation is key seriously. Meditating has changed my life around (for the better ofc) in the last month, i've been doing roughly 20 minutes, 10 in morning and evening daily so far, but ramping it up to 30 sounds perfect to me. Also forgot to mention the No Junk food, trans fats, fast food etc. part. It's hardly the challenge if you take out half! The half-assed Tony Soprano Challenge (The title is stupid lets be honest) is not the Tony Soprano Challenge :p Anyways ya, starting tomorrow i'm hitting the full challenge, I hope to inform ye of my progress in a while of success and not collapse! Good luck to ye fellow challenge takers!
     
  17. Freshh

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    Hey guys, I used to dread Cold Showers, pretty much have for the entirety of my life, however I forced myself to take cold showers from 2014 onwards after reading up on the numerous benefits it can offer. At first I STRUGGLED so hard, could only last about 10 seconds before literally dying. The next two days I started off on hot water, and every 30 seconds I would cool the water down a notch, until eventually by about 2 minutes in I was on full blast cold. For the past 3 days I just jumped in under the shower head, pumped the full blast cold water and took it like a man. Seriously, its not that bad, just make sure you get your head/hair wet first, then progress to the rest of your body. I take the cold showers twice a day, 5-6 minutes each and I haven't felt BETTER! Stay strong brothers, I know you can do it!
     
  18. Ibrahim Haidar

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    Yo, count me out of the challenge. unfortunately im having a hemorrhoid issue so the cold showers are making it worse :/ Stay strong brothers!
     
  19. Petrassi

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    You can count me in btw, currently finishing up day 2 of the challenge!
     
  20. Petrassi

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    On day 4 of this, the full challenge that I described above. Really testing my willpower now. Is anyone else still doing this?
     

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