100 Days Without P or M - The Ultra Marathon (Started on May 15, 2020)

Hey guys,
I'm officially out. MO'd at around 1am. Woke up with strong urges. Should've tried the cold shower thing! Glad it wasn't a porn relapse, but masturbation isn't good either. Will start another challenge right away.

 

Day 48...

 

That's sad to hear.
Keep fighting!

 

Sorry about your reset Juha. Congratulations on 37 full days of nofap though, it's a commendable achievement. Get right back up and fight on!

To all you runners still in the race, you're doing great! Just want you to know I'm checking in regularly to cheer you on. It's good to read about your ups and downs as you can post them. Keep going and stay strong!!

 

Day 39. Almost fell today. But I made it...

 

Great job fighting! Many more such battles need to be fought in this life time war, for better.

 

Happy to complete 38 days!

I am feeling great at the moment! I was asked for updates on a long pending issue, multiple times. I made some progress on it, finally. Such haunting issue once resolved, really reduces the burden off from the shoulder. This was some dopamine releasing stuff.

 

Great work on 38 days everyone!!! Also great job to everyone who has joined the challenge! Progress is progress and as long as we continue building on it, we're moving in the right direction!

Side note: can't tell you how many times a cold shower has saved me! Besides that, it's shockingly refreshing too

 

Happy Evening
Day 17/100 and going
Awesome.....

 

62 my friends, halfway not so distant

 

That's the point though. A cold shower is a discipline. It's a way of strengthening yourself by deliberately taking your focus away from the cozy, convenient comforts of life and giving yourself a bit of a jolt (albeit in a natural and healthy way). It's an ego-buster. Rather than going through life constantly indulging the part of yourself that wants what it wants right now, you're using this discipline of a cold shower to train yourself to expect to not be comfortable. Every day you're deliberately going through something that is by its nature the very antithesis of the desire of the weak/over-indulgent part of your mind. And that's what we're up to with nofap, we're in a struggle with that part of our mind, we're trying to wrestle that part of ourselves into submission so that we're in control of our lives. Cold showers are one of the ways we can actively train ourselves to be stronger against the whims of the ego.

It's a powerful tool in cultivating self-control and it isn't as hard to do as you might think. Give it a try. Get used to doing something the ego hates. Besides building strength against the ego, it also has some health benefits and makes you feel super-confident about what you can accomplish because you know most other people aren't doing it and you know that you're no longer a slave to the weak part of your mind.

 

I live in tropical climate, and I agree that cold shower is refreshing, though it should not be bone-chilling. Taking bath with warm or hot water is mostly, not required in a tropical climate, unless it is winter.

When the cold water hits your back or head, the body suddenly responds by little bit of shivering, may be that's what is refreshing. The main idea is that, it's a sudden transition and a different response is expected from this sudden touch of the cold water. This transition overrides the other things such as an arousal and lingering sexual thoughts. I might be wrong but this is how, I think, it works.

 

Day 37 guys

 

Happy Evening
Day 18/100
Awesome @ Jefe Rojo

 

Day 49...

 

40% done.
This means we're getting there.
Keep strong my friends.