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

Welcome Pedro!

 

Higher than you thought, right? Welcome to the thread.

 

Behind you all the way bud

 

6/7.

Actually don’t really care about the upcoming milestone. I am glad, but that’s because I feel really good, not just because of the streak. I feel really calm, really peaceful. Discovered a great artist today, and his music makes me so calm and relaxed. Music can do amazing things.

 

Checking in for this week. I am progressing quite well towards 60 days. Have some urges now and then, but nothing serious.

 

Which artist bud?

 

Hi. Today has been a great day, I can prove that by saying that I am exhausted! I've been out of the house for most of my day and kept busy. Small urges happened and yet I ignored them. So I will be setting another goal for tomorrow And it is another small step to reaching 7 days.

5/6

 

Great, happy to hear that!

 

And failure.

0/1

 

Back to day 1! I might start adopting @Single Change Palm's strategy with the shower, then the walk, then NoFap. It sounds like a good idea. Thank you! The 3 second technique is still working really well for me, haven't actually fantasized about a girl from my school in around a month, which was really my main goal going into this. I'm not living by myself, in fact my parents and I are staying with some family friends because we lost our house in a fire, so I can't really do the cold showers yet, but I'll try splashing my face with cold water as the first res

 

It's okay man, happens to the best of us. Try to reflect on what your trigger was, and how bad you felt after you relapsed. Focus on those, and use them next time to predict and prevent triggers. Best of luck! Stay strong.

 

Just woke up and I'm super horny right now (day 10)
I didn't get any urge to watch porn or to masturbate yet but I started to fantasize dirty things 'bout my crush which doesn't make it any easier
(and I also hate myself for seeing her that way)
I guess it's the time for me to get out of the bed, make myself a coffee and take a shower or something..

Sorry for the rush, good morning everyone!

 

Before I say this, I'm in no way saying fantasizing dirty things about your crush is a good thing
BUT
in my opinion the fact that you're feeling urges towards a real human being who you have emotional as well as physical attraction to instead of feeling urges towards PMO means you're well on your way to getting over PMO in general. The way I see it, fantasizing about your crush means that your brain has realized that PMO is wrong and is no longer an option, so now it has moved onto lustful thoughts about real people. I'm guessing that, after a while longer, your brain will realize having lustful thoughts about real people is wrong and no longer an option, and therefore seek a real, loving relationship where you can not just have sex, but make love, with a person.
So of course, don't exactly give yourself a pat on the back and keep thinking about her that way, refrain from thinking about her that way at all. Just know, you're doing well. Keep working hard!

 

33/60 and having thoughts about my ex. We are spending all day together today and tomorrow. Going to a gig she paid for when we were together. Need to be a gentlemen and enjoy the gig and see her as a friend and nothing more

 

Yeah, that might very well be weird, but the more you put into it the stronger you'll come out and the better friends (assuming she's a cool person who you wanna be friends with) you two will be! You got this, man. Just be yourself.

 

Myself.

 

1/3. I feel good. Quite frankly, I cannot imagine myself getting back to the old habbits. Especially that DerNeuMan's poll really got me. I feel I need to spend some time alone, just with my thoughts, which I haven´t done maybe for years. When I was alone, even for a while, porn was always my first choice. Now there´s some energy in me to do something else. Great feeling.

 

I was thinking more about all the opportunities that I missed when we were friends than about anything 'sexual' related to her,
all the things that I could say or do but I didn't because I was way too scared of losing her, things that maybe could lead us to something 'special' , something that is more than 'just friends' , but I screwed everything up thanks to my porn addiction back then (She knew that I was in love with her and we were really close friends but, because my confidence was so low I got friendzoned really fast).
We are still 'friends' but unfortunately there are some things that I can't change anymore.
I wish that I could go back in time to fix everything I did wrong, I loved her so much!

Sorry if my grammar is bad once again