What do you do with the extra time?

I think I can say that if you have a blog and are on NoFap you are one of those guys who are more sensitive / obsessive or perhaps more aware of the porn use than 'the other guys'. Face it: we are the very very small minority of porn users who are aware of this and actively working on this. So give yourself a pad on your pack for it

Anyhow, it also means that you probably were one of those guys who were more hardcore / active on the PMO activity than 'normal'. I can say I was one of those guys: I know friends telling me that they watch porn once or twice a week... I was stunned to hear that they could willingly not watch porn for 2-3 days just because they didn't wanted to!!!
Since porn became more and more available to me since 2003/2004 I cannot remember not watching almost every single day. The last few years I watched porn multiple times a day in the weekends. Sometimes even up to 8 times in a single weekend when I was sitting home alone. Thinking back of those days it were really empty, dull and depressing weekends where I felt like an addicted zombie without being aware that it was caused by the excessive use of porn! I thought it was 'just me'...

To come to the point:
I did some calculations: one 'sitting' took me about 20-30 min. So on average I think I would PMO 10 times a week. So that comes to 3 to 5 hours of spare time a WEEK I wasted on desensitizing my brain and killing my attraction to real women. And this is excluding the lethargic hours watching tv or 'hanging on the Internet' afterwards.

So please share: How many hours did you gain since you stopped the PMO habit? And what are you doing to fill that empty space?

What I do since I stopped PMO:
- Meditate more often (almost daily)
- Take more time to cook food
- Play guitar
- Visit more friends
- Started taking a walk: really refresing...always thought only old people liked doing it
- Read a book / study
- ...

 

You did not? So how many hours did you spend per week on:
- Clicking around the internet thinking if you should watch (another) porn video
- Going through all different Tube sites and browsing through the vids
- Watching a few, open multiple tabs
- Edge for a while till the job is done

Don't tell me you didn't at least waste about 15-30 min each time and watch it several times a week. When you have a full time job and don't live with you parents, free time is, even for a single, quite scarce. Do the math and you'll be amazed how much time has freed up by now.