What's up gents!? I have officially hit 30 days of no PMO (31 as of this writing). My challenge is actually simply no P & M (O being allowed during sex) but I still managed to make it with no PMO for the past 30 days. A big thing that helped me was to simply check nofap and post in my journal thread pretty much on a daily basis. What also really helps is to look at "success stories" so I know that it's possible and people are overcoming it everyday. Dealing with urges at night was tough in the beginning so I had to simply learn how to accept the fact that my mind was going to fantasize a lot and that I wasn't going to get a great night's sleep for a while. (I still have trouble sleeping). I had some very intense visualization sessions but I'm not too upset about that. One must conquer one thing at a time. Overcoming PMO is one thing. Overcoming compulsive sexual fantasies is another. Ideally, in the future I will have a bit more control over the fantasizing. For example, I'd like to simply be able to minimize the time spent doing so. I'd like to fall asleep thinking about my goals and other positive things, not just sexual imagery. It seems like a waste to only think about that. Another big thing is patience and self-love. It just helps that whenever you feel lonely, dark, bored, horny, depressed or anything; to just feel some self-love for yourself. We often engage in PMO out of self-hatred or negative feelings towards oneself. It's a form of escapism. This month I dove pretty deep into introspection and realized I carry a lot of anger, resent and self-pity. No wonder, I resorted to so much PMO in the past. SELF LOVE is key! I recommend the book "Love yourself like your life depends on it". 60 more days to go to complete the challenge! Wish me luck!
Excelent but try to quit from fantazise because it delay some of the benefits nofap can give you due to the fact that it overstimulate your brain,phisical benefits will be gained but not neurological like dopamine neurotransmiters that ate burned due to overstimulation by masturbation,i once reach the 30 days streak of pmo but didn't quit fantazy and i didn't feel all the benefits that most of Fapstronaut say one get in one month,when i investigate more my mistake was fantasy,now i've improved in a 90% that habit and going on to my 90 days good luck
Thanks for the inspiring post. It's been my goal to hit 30 days for a long time but it's feeling increasingly impossible.
Awesome job buddy, keep up the good work! I’ll be sure to check that book out too, thanks for the heads up!