Self-Mastery May 2017. Time to be PMO-Free in May, official monthly commitment thread.

You are more than welcome and best of luck getting through May with no PMO.... we all deserve to have a real life without toxic P in our lifes...
if I can help you in any way let me know ....

 

Three weeks in! No matter where you're at, ten more days is a nice goal, so keep striving forward and make it happen!

 

4) Depression: Depression happens when your mind realizes that you are dealing with a problem that has no possible soloution. Each time you masturbate or watch porn you are signaling your brain to get depressed as you are telling it that there is no hope for recovery from those habits

 

Great! My longest NoFap record was precisely 45 days during February and March this year, I can tell you I felt full and confident thanks to it. Too bad I relapsed. Wish you the best from Spain. Vamos!!

 

I started on 14th May after doing so well and lasting 12 days, I'm on my 7th day now and I am pleased I have reached this far again lets keep it up guys!

P.s anyone get mad urges to fap after eating sugary things like chocolate or desert? I do so I will be sure to cut this out of my life for time being.

Cheers

 

A bit late to the May challenge but I'm totally committed to jumping on the wagon now rather than starting the reboot in June. Every minute counts! Shooting for 90 days, so it looks like August 19th, 2017 will be victory day.

I think my biggest challenge will be the residual effect. I'm currently seeing a couple of girls regularly. We're hooking up and open about the fact that we aren't mutually exclusive. But every time I have sex with one, I'm always craving PMO the next day. To be totally honest, I don't really see much long term potential in either one of the girls but the hooking up has just become a regular thing. Going to consider the purpose of these relationships a little more thoroughly... Hmmm fuck it. On second thought they probably need to go. Just resolving feelings of discomfort through sex, which is kind of counterproductive to this whole Reboot thing. Time to set up a couple of coffee chats...

Second challenge will be sleeping and drinking habits. Have a few stressful projects coming up at work over the next couple of months, so am a little concerned that I'll be abusing my sleeping patterns and overcompensating for the hard work by partying harder during the weekends. Bad sleep is a notoriously deadly PMO trigger for me, as I imagine it is for some of you. My hope is to minimize this sleep upset as much as possible by exercising harder after work, and by cutting out drinking/partying nights during the Reboot period. I occasionally give up drinking for a month as a sort of cleanse, so doing it now to help with the Reboot shouldn't be a problem.

Any tips or advice on dealing with mediocre "fuck-buddy" types of relationships or bad sleeping patterns? Thanks in advance.

Good luck mates, will see you on the other side of May.

 

Great idea! Will keep a much stricter eye on sugar intake over the Reboot period as well.

 

Started this challenge on the 1st of May. Unfortunately i failed on day 14. But i picked myself up and started again and am now on day 7. Urges are becoming stronger but the downer that I felt the day after day 14 was the worst I have ever felt and never want to feel like that again. This is my strongest motivation to rid porn from my life once and for all!!

 

Only 10 days left! Stay strong my friends! We can do it!

 

Day six completed. Some urges and thoughts.

 

I am gonna try post daily again. Im s till going strong but I need to take extra care as these waters may be a bit rough.

 

Well I was stupid enough to relapse another time yeterday. Third time this month. Feelings of loneliness and general sadness -- I can live with them, but it can become hard to resist the urges. I should have gone outside to take a walk when they popped up, but it already was 9pm. Anyway, next time this happens I will do it.

 

33 days, it have been hard, but we have to fight every day. God bless Us, i pray for all of you.

 

I also like the Accountability this shared forum with All of us working towards a common goal gives me.

Temptations will always be there but at least now I have a team I have to a account to.

"Individually we are a drop, but together, we are an ocean."

 

Continuing to evolve daily. We never stop learning about ourselves and our emotions and motivations. We never stand still, so keep growing. Keep moving forward. Peace brothers and sisters.

 

Just getting through the next day. Really testing as I decided I want to see a therapist but in order to click their website I had to switch off child filters on my internet. Seeing how easy I can do this has almost got me to relapse. Have had my wife change password after switching filters back on. Hopefully talk to someone in person soon as well as everyone here. Time to watch dr who to take my mind off things

 

Day seven completed. Some thoughts and urges.

 

Ready to go again with a new sense of commitment and energy and focus. Most of all self discipline, though. Using some new strategies to get me through. More regular awards for doing well (such as each day, week etc. away from PMO) such as non PMO things like positive self talk and encouragement (Pats on the back) , little bowls of ice cream haha. Just knowing there is an award like that at the end of the day for abstaining makes it a lot easier, helps me get through it... Terry crews videos help a lot btw! He has a youtube channel very effective. Also, I installed a porn and other negative sites blocker, which is nice! Although it tried to block NoFap! had to change that haha. Just look up free porn blocker online and something should come up. Plenty of extensions for chrome. Alright well thanks nofap for letting me express myself here, giving me this place and opportunity. 90 days is the goal but taking it one little goal at a time, such as each day, each week. It makes it feel more real and possible, while still keeping the 90 day goal in mind. I'm really doing this! You gotta claim it! You can do it Fapstronauts.

 

The self expression is good, highly therapeutic; I recommend it to anyone who may read this that is feeling apprehensive about posting. It may make you feel a little raw at first but you'll get through it! Make sure you talk to to others too, do your best... Talk to a real therapist too if you need too.... I see one for unrelated to porn reasons.Don't be afraid to ask for help, it can change your life sometimes. Do do do, take action. Love you all and I wish you all the best