Need guidance. Relapsed after 50 day streak for 22 days. How long for recovery?

First of all welcome and glad to see you've already given it a fair try. I have to say though I think the "how long" question, which of course a lot of people ask is the wrong one.

Let me ask you this: How long did you binge for before the 50 day streak? If if was longer than 22 days, and you noticed improvement toward the end of that streak then it's not unreasonable you'll see it again. But I think you need to figure out how to prevent the relapse this time around, or else you'll be back in the same situation again. Being curious is of course not a reason, curiosity is a natural human quality but you want to figure out what made you act out.

What you did mention is primarily physical stuff, working out and sleep. Are you doing anything as far as feeding your mind? Lets do the math. If you spent 3 hours a day binging over the 22 days, that's 66 hours. Put 66 hours or 3 hours a day into self improvement in the next 22 days then, or more. If you workout an hour a day that's still 2 hours a day for other things.

You're asking about the results, I'm suggesting you worry about how to get there - or how much work rather than how long.

 

In a way it's kind of like gambling, to look at it in terms of numbers. We can imagine a gambling addict has been good for a while, save up their money and was living decently but just one night at the casino can blow all that savings away. So we can look at not just how to save money, so to speak, but make money through different things that help us be healthier. Some things are hard but there's good payoff down the line, PMO is easy but the payoff is literally only a few seconds - and we actually feel horrible as well as have the biological and mental consequences so it's good to keep that in mind.

Edit: But even if you lose all that money gambling the person probably did learn a lot along the way, the same is true with rebooting.