The Lord of the Rings Challenge

Day 7

One successful week of NoFap! I’m so grateful I found this thread, I don’t think I would have managed such a strong start to 2021 without the encouragement and vulnerability on this thread.

Keep up the fantastic work everyone, not much longer until I reach the Shire, here’s to the next week free from PMO!

 

How it happened,what were the triggers,what have you learned to prevent it happening in the future?

 

Could you be more detailed?

 

1 Day complete. I need to stick to the guidelines of cold showers, meditation and more sleep more often

 

Hey man,any thought of sex is a thought of lust which robs you of your power and health. The only God approved use of reproductive drive is to have children with your wife not for the lustful pleasure,only the pleasure which comes from thought of creating new life by mutual agreement and love between husband and wife is a real life and soul enhancing pleasure which eliminates original sin from newborns and makes them not a side effects of lustful pleasure but really,wanted,planned and expected creations of their parents.

 

Checking in !
'Tips' followed :
1)Meditate-done
2)Stay accountable daily-done
3)Take cold showers-done
4)Follow a trigger prevention plan-done
5)Get occupied.Work on your hobbies and dreams-done
6)Take cold shower-done
7)Practice physical exercise-done
8)Eat healthy-done
9)Sleep well-done
10)NA-done
11)AEFF-noticed that looks at some people are causing some sort of the aggressive reaction sort of readiness to fight, feels like there is something instinctive in you which you didn't realize was there until it showed itself
12)Pray god-done and one more time awaits

 

Here you go @BrotherHal, courtesy of brothers @OttarrTheVendelCrow and @fromsheeptowolf

 

Please remember the grace we are bound to share with others @Slider8. Sex is not inherently bad, God created sex! He created it within the container of marriage, meaning @americanbison is fulfilling God’s desire for shared and increasing intimacy with his wife.

Proverbs 5: 15-19
Song of Songs 7: 6-12

 

Day 3

Some things I've done today/tips followed:
- Meditated (or at least did my best to do so) for 3 minutes. I'm a beginner
- 25 pushups
- cold shower
- prayer
- conscious effort to limit social media- it's been effective so far

Starting next week I'm going to get back into my health/fitness/workout routines that have served me so well in the past: semi-keto, one meal a day, lifting. Something for cardio, too.

 

Day 4,

Good day and ran 4 miles this afternoon. Planning to stay active the rest of the evening.

Thanks again for all of your encouragement and motivating stories. It keeps me moving forward!

 

Please share your Journey with us !!!

 

Day 0

I have not relapsed in nearly 5 days, but I have MO'd three times and I peeked at porn around midnight last night. Did not MO to it as I was able to talk myself out of it, but I reset anyway because peeking never leads anywhere good.

Best,
Mathman1994

 

Day 173

You are back ..thats what require to win this battle

 

Relapsed.
Day 0
2021 Global Counter: 6/7
I am so angry that I relapsed. Why, why? For nothing, for nothing, for the vanishg moment, for the emptiness of the pleasure, so, for absolutely nothing, what I built doing that? Nothing. What I achieved doing that? Only hell. So what should do I? Rage.
I am in complete anger with pornography and masturbation, you don't imagine how. If I was siniging Ninghtfall, I would not be too different from Feanor. I am in serious rage.

 

Checking in for day 7.
'Tips'+ followed:
1)Meditate- undone
2)Stay accountable daily-done
3)Study about reboot-done
4)Take a cold shower- undone
5)Follow a trigger prevention plan-done
6)Get occupied. Work on your hobbies and dreams-done
7)Practice physical exercise- done
8)Eat healthy- undone
9)Sleep well-done
10)NA-done
11) Read a book
Another day at work.

 

Day 133.

May you all find the light!

 

17 days

 

Day 8 complete! Blessed Carlo Acutis, pray for us!

I must agree with our brother Hal on this one. Sex is inherently good; in fact, it is one of the greatest and most powerful goods God created, which is why it has such far-reaching and devastating consequences when perverted to evil. Now, it is very possible to have lustful thoughts directed toward one's wife or husband, and these should be avoided, but at the same time, pleasure is not strictly equated with lust. It is also true that a loving, intimate relationship should always be open to the possibility of children, just as God our Father and Creator is Himself fruitful. However, "lust" and "procreation" are not the only two potential "outcomes" of the sexual union between spouses.

 

Reading your post is like reading straight out of the catechism. 100% agree.

 

Check-in.
Heavy urges but managed to kick them out. I'm fighting. Sticking to the system for now and focusing on consistently implementing good habits.