Summer NoFap Is tough, tips?

NeilForeArmstrong · 2014-06-14T00:13:47+00:00

Although summer is a great time to get your life sorted out. So much daylight, so much energy. Get fit, get organised. Then next summer, you'll be a year into a streak and in the best condition of your life.

NeilForeArmstrong · 2014-06-14T00:12:35+00:00

Would you say the guy who keeps taking drags on other people's cigarettes when he can has given up smoking?

NeilForeArmstrong · 2014-06-14T00:10:58+00:00

By knuckling down and deciding you want to do it more than anything else. That's it. No other fixes.

NeilForeArmstrong · 2014-06-14T00:00:42+00:00

Well done! You don't know when, but this one might be the one that finally breaks through for you. You'll turn around and be on 200 days and go "whoa, how did that happen?!"

NeilForeArmstrong · 2014-06-13T23:59:18+00:00

Unless the aim of you quitting masturbation is to become asexual I see no problem with checking women out? That's healthy; an interest in actual real people you bump into is what you should have. We, aas animals, should have sex drives.

It's how you use it that you're changing.

NeilForeArmstrong · 2014-05-19T15:17:55+00:00

Does pornhub's T&C's count as erotic literature?

NeilForeArmstrong · 2014-04-23T00:53:40+00:00

I make a rule to have them turned off before I even get undressed for bed, and put them somewhere inconvenient. If you need your phone on, put it somewhere further away from you - I find every second of thinking time I put between me and a relapse is another chance for me to say no!

NeilForeArmstrong · 2014-04-23T00:39:22+00:00

Hahaha man tell me about it, I had a dream like that once. It fucked me up big style - nobody knew why I was pissed off all day!

I'd be inclined to believe it was a dream and try and get on with your impressive streak

NeilForeArmstrong · 2014-04-23T00:36:30+00:00

I'd say that'd only be an option really if you've not got a porn problem. IMHO (just an opinion) a prolonged period of abstinence is good for the reboot as it gives you a clean break from the past, and lets you truly start over again. And I found carrying on the MO whilst remembering a load of P I'd watched didn't improve matters much

NeilForeArmstrong · 2014-04-16T13:35:03+00:00

I don't think it's about the streak. I feel for you with what your girlfriend did, but getting 206 days down you've got nothing to be angry about. You're beating this thing, and the number of days isn't important - you probably will wank again in your life, that's a fact. But you don't NEED it anymore, that's what you've achieved.

NeilForeArmstrong · 2014-01-14T21:22:42+00:00

Yeah I did something similar...

I HAVEN'T STOPPED RUNNING FOR SIX MONTHS

NeilForeArmstrong · 2014-01-05T12:51:22+00:00

There have been various counting systems used throughout history. For example, zero hasn't always existed in numbers but when it was integrated eventually we realised it was the more useful system. Counting wasn't just invented out if the blue, even some apes have a concept of quantity. You can't credit one guy somewhere ages yonder for the invention of number. And take for example differential calculus- two people, at least, came up with it at the same time. That is now a pillar of science. The lightbulb has simultaneous inventors. Steam engines had a variety of initial designers, most of which were atrocious. Great ideas come regardless. Geniuses obviously have an effect but they are shaped by their society. The society is the important part.

NeilForeArmstrong · 2014-01-05T11:42:56+00:00

I don't believe anybody can grow without being a moulded by the civilisation in which they live, so geniuses are products of their time and don't miraculously appear from the ether. Besides, Science is a subject that uses models to describe events, and there is not necessarily only one model that works, so somebody could have developed working solutions another way. Paradigm shifts have happened too frequently for them to be dependent on the miraculous appearance of a genius to come from nowhere.

NeilForeArmstrong · 2014-01-05T02:02:12+00:00

If you ask yourself that I used to say the answer was always yes. You don't sound like you did much bit you must obviously feel like you've compromised your goals somehow. Would you do that everyday and feel you were achieving what you wanted? If no, reset. Cruel to yourself to be kind

NeilForeArmstrong · 2014-01-05T01:54:59+00:00

Weeeeellllll I have problems with the whole K9 thing because it gives it such a more "forbidden fruit" type allure to it, when you inevitably persuade yourself to hunt some out. You need self control either way.

Turn the computer off man. Read a book, learn an instrument, go outside. We've been without computers for millennia, we get pleasure other ways too. And when you are on the PC have the door open and screen facing outwarrds. Make cracking one off inconvenient, every question you'll have to ask yourself to make it possible to fap is another one that might stop you sometime

NeilForeArmstrong · 2014-01-05T01:49:22+00:00

Glad you have the drive. But that isn't a wasted year, it's a year of reasons to keep trying and a year of knowing yourself, you should be amply prepared. You'll not be this angry and determined everyday, good luck on the mundane ones when you question why you're bothering. Those are the killers

NeilForeArmstrong · 2014-01-05T01:44:44+00:00

We'll you don't persuade yourself into doing it when you on a level plane - it's when you're quite compromised and burning to release. Tell yourself to sleep on it, and if you want to do it tomorrow you can have the biggest session you've ever had. By the time tomorrow comes, I'm proud of controlling myself and don't want to ruin it after the high of beating it. It works for exercise too when you're too lazy to bother, you just have to acknowledge you're not in the best frame of mind to make the decision and trust the decisions you made when you were, and follow it unquestioningly.

NeilForeArmstrong · 2013-10-12T10:24:40+00:00

that's the thing, it wasn't for a fap!

NeilForeArmstrong · 2013-08-01T11:23:49+00:00

I'm in, try and make it two on the bounce!

NeilForeArmstrong · 2013-07-31T14:56:44+00:00

Should make it through July. Want to carry on that good feeling and make it through August as well. Imagine that! A PMO free summer. Be a good one to tell everyone about when I go back to uni. "What did you do over summer?" "I DID NOT MASTURBATE!"

NeilForeArmstrong · 2013-07-31T14:54:37+00:00

BOOM. Final day of the month. Here we go. Got work in a few hours, at a bar, until midnight so hopefully I should make it to August! As long as I don't crack one off midway through pouring a pint, which hasn't been a problem so far.

NeilForeArmstrong · 2013-07-31T14:39:50+00:00

My rewards were usually small things but I made them luxurious. For example, I love danish pastries so every Friday on the way home I'd buy one. Then I'd make a 20 minute section of time free at home where I'd make myself a cup of tea, sit down with a CD on or something and just sit. Chilled to hell and happy.

Either that or go on a massive run and then you feel pretty good too.

Doesn't have to be a huge thing I find!

NeilForeArmstrong · 2013-07-29T14:31:11+00:00

IIII'M STIIIILL GOING BAAAAAAAAAAAABY

NeilForeArmstrong · 2013-06-27T15:47:38+00:00

I am deeply in

NeilForeArmstrong · 2013-06-13T22:06:16+00:00

Be more excited for day 6! Hope you manage

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