A Progressive Challenge-A different kind of challenge- all levels

Helping you guys to help yourselves helps me and it's important to me to try. Thanks for noticing. Please don't feel shy about helping me keep up with everyone.
Thank you!!!

 

Beautiful post.

 

Hey guy. We all know how you feel. Exactly. Over and over. But remember that you had a short streak but it was a streak. Focus on the streaks, not the relapses. Every single day you don't do it is a great day. String streaks together and try not to let a relapse turn into a binge of many times. Don't give yourself permission for that. the more streaks you string together, the longer they will get. Strategy needs to be realistic for the person.

 

My man, Rathi!! I was worried about you this time. But you did it another day. Now the 7 day mark is In view and you are getting stronger each day against our common enemy. Get outside today. Go out to eat or to the park. While you. Are out, think about one new thing you'd like to do or try and work out in your mind how you'd like to start. Replace the urges of the old you with the clean, positive urges of the new you. Instead of the new you feeling hopeless and guilty, force the old you to be smaller and no longer your master. Reaching day 6 was very hard for you but you did reach it. Now you know it's not impossible. It will get easier at some point, I promise. You can help that along by focusing on things NOT related to your addiction. You can start a private conversation with me at any time if you want to talk this out some more. I can't always get to you quickly, especially if there is a big time difference between our locations but I'll do my best.

 

MarinoBigFan1984

Progress! Congratulations on Day 7!!!!! A whole week under the belt means that 2 weeks is a realistic possibility. If you already did one week then one more is doable. This week, start one new habit not related to nofap that you've been thinking about starting for a long time. Put your energy toward that. Maybe start going to a gym. The only problem with that aside from logistics or cost is if you're triggered by guys.

The next bit is NOT directed at Marino but for all guys in this thread:

Everyone here needs to understand that guy triggered relapses can even happen to straight guys who have a heavy P habit. There have been multiple reports on this website of that and it has to do with the brain's desperate hunt for dopamine. Don't judge our fellow strugglers.

Marino--Thank you for allowing me to use this reply to help others understand something that they might be worried about but afraid to say. I am in no way implying that you have a guy trigger.

 

Amazing!! You did it because you were determined. Please look at my replies to Rathi and Marino from today for week 2 planning.

 

Wow. You are getting to a point where failure is getting further behind you

 

Note to all in our thread:

Hi, men. Today marks 7-day victories for three of the manly men in this challenge thread. I'm going to be dancing in the clouds today for them because I personally understand how much this means to them.

Please take the time to scroll up a little and reply personally to each of them (Rathi, never2old and Marino). Give them encouragement and commit to helping them get through this.

Please also take the time to reply to clevernametaken (above) and lend him your strength and friendship. The men in this challenge are stronger when they are engaged in strengthening their fellow men. Focus energy away from your problems. That helps YOU. You will be more likely to succeed in your struggle if you support someone else. Everyone in this thread, including me, has social issues of some type (even if you haven't admitted it yet), usually anxiety, so start doing something about yours by connecting with these men. We're in this boat together. I love you guys.

 

Whoa. Excellent idea!