SR 100+ days, question about women attraction.

Hey there, fellas.

I've been on SR for 117 days now, and I started to notice women's attraction from day 104. Funny enough, I was reading so much about that infamous phenomenon that when I hit the 90-day mark, I was very disappointed when nothing really happened. So, I just said to myself - okay, maybe I just need more time to recover. During those days, I had a very odd sleep pattern, where I'd go to sleep early with no problem, then wake up around 4 o'clock. After being awake for 2 hours, I'd go back to sleep for another 2. It was okay, but I felt that I didn't have enough good sleep with that awakening up in the morning.

In any case, around day 104, I started to feel weirdly very horny. It was weird because I felt heat, surging through my body like I was in the middle of a campfire. Like I was some sort of magical fiery demon. It was a very pleasant sort of heat (and I actually felt very warm, especially in the palms area) mixed with horniness. I knew, subconsciously, that I needed to maintain that sort of heat like a good-burning stove at an equal temperature level and not to overcook myself. Also, my sleep became uninterrupted. At this time, I started to feel attraction towards girls that I saw in the street, and I began to catch those infamous "nofap glances" from them. Some women from the local market even started to give me their products for free (like I bought pomegranates from one lady, and she just gave me one as a gift). Funny enough, those glances were mainly from mature women, whereas younger ones were more stiff and shy. Maybe my energy was on a different level; I don't know.
Anyway, I enjoyed staring at women as openly as I liked, but within a week, I felt really exhausted of this attention and tired of the "heated" state, and this feeling started to fade. In a matter of days, these feelings faded, alongside female attraction. And my sleep returned to interrupted again. Also, my energy subcontiosly flattened also. This has lasted for almost a week now, and I wonder - what is this? Is this a small flatline, or is my body reconfiguring itself? Does anyone have a similar experience?

 

Thanks, bro, i appreciate this.

Believe it or not, but i started not with desicion to end pmo. In fact, i watched huberman's podcast about intermitten fasting and it's benefits and decided to do it. And when i started IF, basically instantly i became less horny. So much at the point to not feeling it at all.
I was always fighting to fap urges, my whole life, but always loose. I didn't discover nofap untill recently, just knew it was deeply wrong to do it.
So, when i lost desire to pmo on IF it gave me time to reflect on those urges.
And what i realize, to my suprize that my whole life(and many people here too) i was doing it wrongly.

Because my internal logic was basically:
i enjoy touching my pp - > society says that is healty and ok - > there are pleny pron out there - > why not do it?
Underlying though was that that just my lifestyle, like drinking coffee or doing exercises in the morning.
But what changed my perspective(and after i read yourbrainonporn book) , was clear undestanding that it was not an lifestyle - it was addiction.
Because, well, look. What defines addiction?
It's when you have unresistable and uncontrollable thoughts to abtaing something.
Let's say you like carrots. Are you addicted to them? No. Why? Because even you enjoyed them, you don't have urges to keep box of carrots in your house all the time and being extremly anxious when you don't have them.

And the next bit of logic is: let's say that someone came to you house with a gun a forced you to take heroin multiple times so you will become addicted and then left - would you not do anything in your power to stop being addicted? Even if it means to go through horrible and painful bodily withdrawals?(by the way they are really painful). Of course you would, no matter the cost - that is, if you have atleast more that two braincells.

And funny thing is, neurophysiologically PMO addiction have the same mechanism as literally any other drug addiction, including heroin.

So, when i went on intermitten fasting and after i read that your brain on porn book and felt urges - i saw them different. Not as thing i need to indulge, but as full-blown heroin addiction. And you know how i went through 90 days?
Almost 0 urges. None. Battles in my mind was bacisally going like this
my brain - i want to pmo.
Me - not allowed.
Brain - but it feel that if i not do that, that something horrible might happened.
Me - if you feel bad without it, then you are addicted.
Brain - i don't care, i wan't it.
Me- yea, me neither, buddy. That activity is now not allowed and you can cry about as much as you like. I will not allow my brain to be addicted to a freaking heroin.
Brain - yea, maybe you right...

I still though experienced widthrawal sympoms like headaches, bad sleep, tinnitus etc. But it was fightable.

So, my advise basically is - clear you mind first by changing perspective so that you will view it as pure evil, which it actually is. Because, well...who wants to live will evils demons inside them? No one.

 

Read my response to Chialevy67. It can be relatively easy.