does checking girls out affect the rebooting process?

Generally speaking as long as it's not an artificial woman, you're good. Buuuut give it a couple of weeks and good luck being aroused lol.

 

No, checking out girls is natural. It will help strengthen the pathways that reward stimulation from authentic woman.

 

Unfortunately the answer is no. You'll always have your sex drive, and you just have to resist. Do whatever you can when urges come up. When you feel yourself looking at pics, talk to your parents, go for a loooooong walk, call your grandparents. Do something just to keep you occupied until those urges go away.

 

Didn't know it helps strengthen the pathways ... interesting .

 

True .

 

I use to think checking out real girls is fine. Everyone said it was ok. It was natural. Just embrace it. But what I've learned from my own experience was it's not ok if your doing it constantly esp in a creepy kinda way. It overstimulates your brain and throws you off from being in control which inevitably leads to a relapse.

 

It's normal for me I guess. Almost got this chick yesterday night all over me and I still didn't relapse. If the sight of a female figure should be a reason to prompt relapse then you need to eliminate that low threshold you currently have by adding willpower to the equation until your reboot process starts having effect.

 

I like to see promiscuous sex as nothing more than a passing orgasm. I'm not an old man and I'll be having loads of it after I gave my mind the proper reset it deserves from years of porn abuse. Best of luck to you brother!

 

I don't have a clear idea about checking girls affecting rebooting process but in you case through your this post it seems it acts like a trigger. You have to transform this as because you can't get shifted whrere there is no girl, when you are checking girls try to avoid the erotic thoughts. We are bound to check girls at some point but have to control erotic thoughts then and there. Another thing when you are rebooting after sometime your sex drive may go high or crazy try to diversify by occupying your mind to something else. Right now when you see some girls don't get too much stressed out on the sex drive thing, control it.

Lastly it may seem offtopic but if you haven't started exercise start it, it helps. Exercise means not hitting the gym and flood the floor of the gym with your sweat, start with morning exercise, running or jogging, etc then gradually increase. I want to mean start with something small then gradually increase it. Hope I am able to hep you.

 

Yes. Once you have come out of your porn-induced coma, you will not only check out girls but do something about it. This is the way of the healthy libido.

 

If you are serious about this, there is something called sublimation. Eros is sublimated into art. All great art is the sublimation of eros.

 

Ok didn't know about your bodybuilding part or powerlifting part, but its good to know about it. On the anxiety part I agree with you, I suffered from anxiety, depression and fear been to medical help. Its frustating this anxiety often cover our success be it with NoFap journey anything else but we have to overcome it. You mentioned about your previous relationships so you don't have to worry, believe me you are at a better stage. Don't fuss about it it gets you nowhere as for me it worked that way. Still trying on my anxiety and fear part, on the anxiety part achieved something still its an ongoing process if you find any solution or any type of ways to reduce this it will be of great help. For now try to diversify this trigger part.