I broke my 14 day streak and fasted instead.

Are you sure about that?

What are your goals? Your big goals, for your life? Is it to blow tonnes of time and energy on pornography? Is it to totally distort your view of sex and intimacy? If so, by all means binge PMO to your heart's content. Just don't be surprised if your content vanishes after months and then years of such practice.

Also, do not turn this into a false dichotomy. It is perfectly possible to stack other things like fasting on top of NoFap. It is extremely common—from what I've seen here on the forum—for people to workout, meditate, study, improve diet and work on their fears while on their NoFap journey. NoFap is not a blocker that prevents you doing any other positive changes in your life, quite the opposite, it tends to enable these things. This is what is known as a keystone habit.

Fasting can be good to tap into, but I don't think you can deploy it to the frequency you can with NoFap. NoFap can be applied 24/7 for as long as you want. A continuous effect. Fasting must be deployed periodically. Trust me, I've been very poor and unable to eat for long periods of time in my younger years, you do not want to be thin and malnourished. It wreaks HAVOC on your health for many, many years to come. Particularly your bones. A 48, 60 or 72 hour fast every couple months is probably the sweet spot. Do you only want to have benefits every couple of months, or all the time?

Regarding NoFap doing nothing for you besides making you "creep up" on girls, I think you should consider a few things. First, how long of a NoFap streak are we talking here? You need to give this process the time it needs to really make the changes to your brain. Consider the recommended reboot time of 90 days—a 14 day streak is less than 16% of the way through that process. Second, you can be passive about your NoFap journey or active. Passive NoFap is just "don't fap and see what happens." Active is "I'm going to deliberately maximise what I'm getting out of this period of change."

That means digging into your own thoughts and behaviours. Noticing how you act, for instance the "creeping up" that you mentioned. You should dig deeper into that, rather than dismissing it as something unwanted. Why are you doing that? Is it really NoFap that's the problem? Or is NoFap shining a light on how your mind is currently wired and showing you something that you can work on?

Anyway, I'm just sharing my perspective. You seem like someone with a lot of determination and willpower (not everyone can do a multi-day fast like you did), it would be a shame to see your efforts not applied to their fullest possible advantage. I really think you should reconsider. Peace.

 

What's your longest nofap streak been?

 

I'm not sure either, but I like your idea of trying to do both. It sounds kinda awesome, and might bring about some pretty good results

I'm rooting for you, my friend