New to this whole thing but huge changes right away

So I'm in my 50s now and am blown away by this process. Started young by digging through dumpsters behind bookstores and convenient stores as a kid and finding playboys/oui/penthouse mags. Did pretty well with girls in college and after but still pmo'd on occasion. Even a few times here and there when I had a live-in girlfriend, but that was rare.

Several years ago (2005), I got a job that required immediate travel to other countries with little to no notice, sometimes for weeks, sometimes for months. That pretty much killed my chances to start any kind of relationship.

Got into pmo more and more often but then I spent a year deployed to afghanistan in the army. I wasn't in a good place there or when I got back (four guys from my unit have committed suicide since we got back). Fell deeper and deeper into a depression and hating people, drinking 11-12 drinks a night and staying in bed sometimes days in a row. Got into the habit for the past 3 years of pmo 2-3 times every single day sometimes spending 4-5 hours browsing porn sites and getting deeper into fetishes I never even considered before. The only days I didn't drink myself to the point of not remembering going to bed were when I stayed in bed 2-3-4-5 days straight (other than fapping).

My life for the past year or so has been pretty much a fog. ZERO motivation to do anything. No dishes, clothes and gear all over my house, no social stuff other than my neighbors on some weekends.

I knew I had to get out of this thing if I was going to survive it so I started eating healthy and going to the gym 4 days a week. In 9 mos I lost 45 pounds and was going out to the coffee shop most days but still had no motivation. Several yrs of not paying taxes. No dating. Running out of money. Didn't care.

Then 15 days ago, I decided to try this nofap thing.

WOW!

Within 3 days, I had cleaned up my kitchen for the first time in months. By 5 days, I straightened up all the piles of shit all over my downstairs. I started looking for a job and started organizing several years of tax statements. Wrote 3 different resumes and applied to a few jobs. My motivation is completely different than it was before. Also, I find I'm not stealing glances at every cute girl that walks into the room.

I really don't have any urges to look at p really but I've had a few flashbacks cross my mind on occasion. Had a kind of flatline I guess until days 13, 14, and 15 (today). It was quite distracting. Partially due to justifying it and partly because I really wanted to see what would happen, I MOd today. No P, no imagery, no fantasy. Just physical. It doesn't appear to have set me back in any noticeable way but I'm gonna hold off on doing that for at least 16 days this time and try to add at least a day or 3 more each time and see how that works out.

I realize I have other issues to deal with that underly all this but this no-pmo thing has made it possible for me to start turning my life around. I just wish I would have done this years ago.