Do a lot of guys on this return to old behaviours?

I returned to old behaviours today, where I basically spent the entire day in bed PMO binging. I thought I was away from that sort of behaviour.

I just feel so down about this, and I feel like I will always eventually return to PMO.

 

See I agree with what your saying. But on another post you said the only way to cure PIED is going full monk mode? So that means if you do end up relapsing or even worse binging then there is no hope of curing PIED?

The way I see it is I rarely PMO these days. I used to binge heavily for years. These days I rarely ever PMO. But the worrying thing is if I am not perfect then I will never cure PIED?

 

I agree with you.

But a lot of guys seem to think your back to square one if you relapse or even worse binge?

 

Thanks man.

The only reason I actually ever relapse usually is because of hangovers from alcohol. If it's not a bad hangover sometimes I don't even relapse at all. If it is a bad hangover I will usually relapse. The worse the hangover the worse the binge on PMO. That's usually how it seems to work.

I have issues with alcohol. I stay off it for weeks sometimes. But usually when I do drink I get drunk ye know.

I usually mark down on a calendar my progress and streaks of no PMO. So I did have a few relapses over the last couple of weeks, but they were minor relapses, masturbating to a few images for like 5 minutes. I hadn't binged in over 2 weeks. But then with how hungover I was yesterday this did lead me to go on a binge where I heavily PMOed all day.

 

Weed also makes me relapse, and this is why I stopped smoking weed. I don't relapse on porn when I am drunk, but I do when I am hungover, especially if it is a bad hangover. Like I said the worse the hangover the worse the relapse/binge.

I sent you a private message btw.

 

Yeah the alcohol is definitely causing me to relapse on PMO.

Something a lot of people in the world are unaware of is weight loss and maintaining weight loss actually has very little to do with exercise. If you want to get muscular and physically fit then yes you'd need to exercise. But weight loss mainly comes from your diet and how frequently your eating. Weight loss and more importantly maintaining weight loss is more to do with having low insulin levels and fixing your metabolic rate and hormones. For instance someone could lose weight by dieting, starving them self basically, and doing a lot of exercise. But the issue with this is the person will probably still have a thing called insulin residence. They also won't of fixed their metabolism, but in fact will have made it worse. So their body will do everything in it's power to get back to what it perceives as it's normal weight, raising insulin and also hunger hormones like ghrelin. This is why the majority of people who lose a lot of weight dieting and exercising usually always put all the weight back on and more. The reason this happens is they didn't fix their insulin residence, they actually made their metabolism worse, and they increased hunger hormones. I mean what hope does someone have of maintaining the weight they lost if that is happening in their body?

The best ways to maintain weight loss long term is doing things like intermittent fasting or the ketogenic diet, or even better a combination of the two.

Intermittent fasting is hands down the most thing that will lower insulin levels. I do intermittent fasting and a low carb diet. I made a mistake when I started intermittent fasting, I jumped in to doing very difficult fasts too quickly and was very hungry. If you do decide to try it then do it in such a gradual way that you're not hungry.

I am now at the stage most days I only eat one meal a day and I'm not hungry. This is when you know it is really working, you stop feeling hungry. This is when you have become fat adapted and your body uses it's stored energy, which is body fat as it's number one fuel source. So it is burning body fat for energy. When you eat all the time you will have high insulin levels and your body will always be burning glucose for energy and can't access any of it's stored energy, body fat.

If you do decide to try intermittent fasting do it in such a slow and gradual way you don't feel hungry doing it. I made a mistake a while ago when I first started it and jumped in to more difficult fasts too quickly. You shouldn't feel that hungry when your doing intermittent fasting, and you should get to a stage you rarely ever feel hungry. This is because your body will actually be eating it's own body fat for energy, and it will be higher in hormones like leptin which suppress appetite. Because remember everyone's appetite is completely controlled by their hormones. You basically teach, train and condition your body to regularly be higher in hunger hormones or appetite suppressing hormones.

Also if you do try intermittent fasting don't fit your life to fit the fasting, fit the fasting to fit your life. So if one day you are going out with friends or something and it's too difficult to do your usual intermittent fasting pattern then don't do it that day.

I used to be obese over a year ago before I started intermittent fasting. I am now slim and the weight has stayed off.

Here is some good youtubers who have a lot of videos on intermittent fasting and the science of how weight loss actually works.

https://www.youtube.com/user/drericberg123
https://www.youtube.com/user/drekberg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZP1pu-K5ln7GQfv4oQQ00Q

Also look up someone called doctor Jason Fung.

This is only if you're interested though.

 

Can you please take a look at another post I made?

https://forum.nofap.com/index.php?threads/this-is-how-i-track-my-streaks-and-relapses.259013/