Sleep Advice

Hello, I don't start threads often, but I want to start a discussion on sleep. How the heck do you know you're getting enough of it? And how do you fix THAT series of habits? (much less the habits that lead to PMO)

Let me start with a little background. It used to be hard to admit, but I've been addicted to porn for many years. Probably 15 years if not more. Anyway! I have recently left the 1-3 day streak cycle and I am now hitting 8-12 day streaks with no PMO which is amazing. I'm glad. It will only improve from here. I'm also seeing small benefits in other areas of my life which is encouraging too.

With that said, this slight improvement has given me the mental room to look for other bad habits that I want to get rid of also. However, I know the key is to not think of things in a solely negative way, but in a positive one too. Perhaps I should phrase it like this instead: "I want to encourage good habits in my life".

So, as far as sleep goes; I am a night owl. I have been for a long time. I feel wide awake at night, but I feel groggy all the way until about noon most mornings. Surely this can't be normal! Further, if this is similar to men being oblivious about porn use, if low sleep IS normal then I don't want to be normal anymore haha. I know it sounds bad, but I probably sleep anywhere from 4-6hrs of sleep each night. I occassionally sleep more, but that is usually on the weekends where I binge sleep and get caught up haha. I know this is terrible and I could be doing so many more positive things with my weekend than that.

Its 11:30pm, monday night, and I don't feel like sleeping, but I will try to right now. I can still get about 7 good hours of sleep if I try now. Sleep is what I'll do. Thanks for reading and let me know your thoughts.

 

I tried my best to get more sleep during the week! Now its Thanksgiving and so I just went out to eat with a friend. Now I will go to sleep at right about midnight. I know that any later gets into the danger zone.

 

Good advice! Thanks!

 

I will improve in this area!! I already noticed that on longer streaks it is easier to wake up.

 

Wow! I bet you're right. I slept probably 9 hours since I didn't have work today and I feel good. But it was not exactly regular sleep.

It was about 12:30-9:30am. On a normal day I would get up for work about 6:30am or so, so I will push for more regularity. It might feel weird at first! But I will try. Does anyone drink coffee in the mornings? I try to stay away from it, but occassionally I drink green tea.

 

Very cool. I hadn't heard about that, but I agree green tea is better than coffee. Sometime I have those cold coffee frappe's, but I try to drink the tea more often. It has antioxidants which is halthy for you too.

I try not to be too obsessed with health, just to live my life. But I am excited that not fapping, sleeping better, and possibly just drinking more water can drastically improve my health! Thanks! Tonight I'll try to go to sleep at 10? ... I'll try. Even though I'm on vacation until monday lol. That sounds so early, but we'll see.

 

I have always had low blood pressure (good), but its starting to creep up since I was smoking cigs (quit that though after probably 3 months, bc it was dumb). The Japanese water therapy says it can help BP, so I may adopt water drinking in the mornings too!

I want to put a water purification system in under my sink. I think that would be amazing.