The Lord of the Rings Challenge

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Paul S. said:
Day 57. II.

Oh no. :( I am close to relapse. I would like to turn on p so much that my body is physically trembling a bit.

57 days hardmode.
Helpers:
- No coffee.
- Going to sleep on time.
- No news sites.
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It aint worth it - go for a walk and get fresh air asap:) that helps me at least. All urges comes to an end usually within 15-60minutes. Regroup when you are outside on how to tackle the rest of the day
 
Day 57. III.

Reread this from couple of years ago. I like determination and stuff. I am not sure I have this determination to "try my max" anymore. Life is a real complicated right now, hey.

A bit has changed I see. I am tempted every night before going to sleep but not that strongly. Maybe because I am often tired. I just drift to sleep even if I am tempted.

Paul S. said:
Was very bad today again. Almost relapsed... But again... Wrote my accountability buddy and went for a very long walk. Walk made me very tired, but my mind is still restless. No sexual fantasies, just restless... At the moment I am tempted to stress-eat. I don't know what is happening to me. Maybe the brains are trying to get some dopamines at any cost...

My mind is trying to send me on guilt trips. Because sometimes trying to avoid relapse, I avoid my responsibilities or sleep. I just can't stay near computer or in bed when I am tempted to relapse. But I am trying to not pay attention. I deserve to be free. 6.5 years trying. Even if I don't deserve to be free yet, I should try my max.

I am not sure my eyes are on the road anymore. I am sinking to my mind. Yes, I am feeling tense and I want to satisfy something. I write "something", because I don't know what it is. Is it a craving? Hm.... Not sure... If yes, at the moment it's very subtle and dispersed through all my body.

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57 days hardmode.
Helpers:
- No coffee.
- Going to sleep on time.
- No news sites.
 
Day 2 - An infructuous day with my work. I must hurry up. My main and almost unique objectives are it and battle PMO. Today I deal easily with temptations, but my hand went instinctively to pose over that zone. More control is need, because it could start a snowfall.

PATH: 74 +
- I usually suffer urges the 1st, 7th, 10th and 20th days. Beware these days. Also 30th and 60th, but in other forms.
- Pray with devotion.
- Good hygiene and good habits are a must.
- Minimum usage of phone.
- Evade any lustful though, especially the memories and the fantasies.
- Flee from anything that coul (surely it will do) slippery slope into relapsing. Run away as fast and hard as you can. Make no concessions.
- Improve relationships. Do not pass alone much time.
- Forget about women and girlfriends. Rationalize your situation. Be mature and ready to make sacrifices. It's not your moment yet. First you must be man, and you become dominating yourself.
- Don't let the stress control you.
- There is a time to work, and another to relax. Everything has its moment, specially to start and to finish.
- Get to your bed in time. Control and improve your circadian rhythm.
- Don't think too much about your parts, even physically.
- Get your hands away from your parts.
- Don't enter your bedroom or in your bed with the phone, and don't leave it at a hand.
- Don't stay in the toilet more time that the necessary.
- Don't drink too much alcohol.
- There are some people (and conversations) you must evade, they don't help you to recover from PMO.
- Private DNS active: adult-filter-dns.cleanbrowsing.org
- I recommend the book «Your brain on porn». It has easily and free access in the web.
 
Day 6 - today was very interesting, I was presented a trial and passed. In my line of work I'm often in hotel rooms, and because of the lax morals where I live there are call girls whose cards are sometimes put under furniture and beds, the cursed things are a flashbang for ones like us. But know that I barely flinched after noticing it I was able to ignore the image enough to grab crush and rip the dang thing to pieces.

It's such a small thing but still even the ring was tempting tiny by comparison.

I hope this shred of victory can inspire you folks as well the battle is not over!
 
Paul S. said:
Day 57. III.

Reread this from couple of years ago. I like determination and stuff. I am not sure I have this determination to "try my max" anymore. Life is a real complicated right now, hey.

A bit has changed I see. I am tempted every night before going to sleep but not that strongly. Maybe because I am often tired. I just drift to sleep even if I am tempted.



57 days hardmode.
Helpers:
- No coffee.
- Going to sleep on time.
- No news sites.
Click to expand...
I don't know to much about your personal life but I do understand the feeling of have your mind invaded by thoughts and images especially when all you want to do is sleep and not let it bother you. Part of what helps is thinking more of those who support you, thinking of friends and family. Thinking of their joy and happiness in knowing you are a strong person for dealing with this burden, even if they might never know of it. Keep strong man, you're almost 2 months in and you'll reach the mountain in no time!
 
Day 42

I've been starting to feel really restless and like I need to get some kinda routine going again and recharge myself. I think I've done enough research on cancer treatment to get the ball rolling now so maybe I should just go home soon... It's up to my mom to actually pull the trigger, but I'm not confident she will. I've found what to me looks like a very promising vein of research, but the treatment seems hard to find and it's confusing.

I feel like something isn't sitting well with me, but I don't know what it is. Maybe I just wish things were different, maybe that's all it is.
 
lost30sguy2025 said:
I don't know to much about your personal life but I do understand the feeling of have your mind invaded by thoughts and images especially when all you want to do is sleep and not let it bother you. Part of what helps is thinking more of those who support you, thinking of friends and family. Thinking of their joy and happiness in knowing you are a strong person for dealing with this burden, even if they might never know of it. Keep strong man, you're almost 2 months in and you'll reach the mountain in no time!
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Thanks, bro! It will take a long time to destroy this ring, but we'll do it.

Good luck, man! I like your motivation. Are you first time in this challenge?
 
Day 3 - Day of work, but it's far from being done. I'm late. Maybe I should reduce time from other obligations... I don't know. At least no pression from PMO happened today.

PATH: 74 +
- I usually suffer urges the 1st, 7th, 10th and 20th days. Beware these days. Also 30th and 60th, but in other forms.
- Pray with devotion.
- Good hygiene and good habits are a must.
- Minimum usage of phone.
- Evade any lustful though, especially the memories and the fantasies.
- Flee from anything that coul (surely it will do) slippery slope into relapsing. Run away as fast and hard as you can. Make no concessions.
- Improve relationships. Do not pass alone much time.
- Forget about women and girlfriends. Rationalize your situation. Be mature and ready to make sacrifices. It's not your moment yet. First you must be man, and you become dominating yourself.
- Don't let the stress control you.
- There is a time to work, and another to relax. Everything has its moment, specially to start and to finish.
- Get to your bed in time. Control and improve your circadian rhythm.
- Don't think too much about your parts, even physically.
- Get your hands away from your parts.
- Don't enter your bedroom or in your bed with the phone, and don't leave it at a hand.
- Don't stay in the toilet more time that the necessary.
- Don't drink too much alcohol.
- There are some people (and conversations) you must evade, they don't help you to recover from PMO.
- Private DNS active: adult-filter-dns.cleanbrowsing.org
- I recommend the book «Your brain on porn». It has easily and free access in the web.
 
Paul S. said:
Thanks, bro! It will take a long time to destroy this ring, but we'll do it.

Good luck, man! I like your motivation. Are you first time in this challenge?
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First time on the site/forum/challenge, but not first time trying to drop the ring. Glad to be here in hopes to give someone some extra booster of motivation. We all need it! We're all on this journey.
 
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