Accountability for All

I lost my shit on the holidays, but I won't quit. I'm eager to read Never Finished by David Goggings, because it's about winning the war within.

Anyways, happy New Year everybody.

 

I might be posting here a lot, hope you don't get sick of me lol.

Forgive me, it's 5am here and I've made a few intro posts, so I'll link to the more detailed one here:

https://forum.nofap.com/index.php?t...it-masturbation-for-good.341252/#post-3487590

I'm new to the site but not to trying to control these urges. Basically for a combo of reasons I need to eliminate porn and masturbation entirely and forever (orgasm through sex is still okay). My personal goal is 1 full year of no P or M but the intention is to go for the rest of my life. I'll post here as well as my journal thread as I struggle throughout the year. I'm so determined to make this the year I reach 365 days though.

 

Checkin' Happy New Year guys!

 

Day 1
I will be happy making is through today.
Nofap is no joke.

 

Day 98

cool the sleeping pill,,,worked I think. Slept well. Was up so late for new years tho. I like early sleep heh

 

Happy new years everyone - its 2023.

So it begins, the great battle of our time. Porn shall fall!

 

Checkin'

 

Day 99

happy new years

How does one have better dreams anyways? I was overheated a bit last night and that’s not great for me

 

Day 2
Making it through.

 

Happy new year !

 

I hope you guys had an amazing New Year.

I'm setting up my goals for 2023 and quitting porn is one of them. I'll tackle self-care (diet, exercise, sleep, hydration), as well as my dating life and the strategies to deal with urges and stuff.

By the way, @ZenYogi how do you deal with sexual jokes? Because in my case, my coworkers talk about sex and do dirty jokes all the time.

 

Checkin'

 

Day 99

seguoi day 99. I’m tired as eff. Time to revamp the schedule to make mma the only thing I do that day

until I get more stamina or something

because I’m legit tired from the training today

 

Checking in.

Found a big list of reasons I shouldn't look at porn that I wrote from early last year. Thought I'd share how it affects the brain negatively gathered from different research papers:
o Interferes with working memory capacity (detrimental to memory performance)
o Causes dysfunction in brain circuitry in frontostriatal network (related to inappropriate behavioral choices like drug seeking)
o Porn addicts have abnormal functioning in the anterior orbitofrontal cortex during reward anticipation compared to non-addicts
o Porn addicts show significant fractional anisotropy (FA) reduction in the superior corona radiata tract, the internal capsule tract, cerebellar tracts and occipital gyrus white matter.
o Porn addiction shows similar brain patterns to OCD as well as other addictions

 

Day 3

 

Checkin'

 

Day 100

never give up. That’s the motto

yep

what now?

today I’ll see if I can find a local dentist through my insurance

Denta quest I think it is

needs get my teeth cleaned.

 

Day 0
Looking forward to joining you all on this journey

 

Day 0
While im not new to nofap this is my first time entering a community and this sort of accountability group seems exactly like what i need, i have managed to pull streaks of 6 to 10 days regularly since around 2-3 months ago but i really want to reach the over 90 and more importantly forever, its a long road but i really wish i can get there some day.