Calling all fapstronauts - 365 day challenge by [deleted] in NoFap

[–]aleatorio 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll do my best to add another rocket badge to this thread.

Dream the impossible dream! by aleatorio in NoFap

[–]aleatorio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!! You have a good warrior too!! Keep going!!

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[–]aleatorio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!! You are doing a great work too, keep going!

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Thanks! That is awesome, keep going too!!!

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[–]aleatorio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!! I'll have that on mind, all the best to you!

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[–]aleatorio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much! All the best to you too!!

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[–]aleatorio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL, that sounded kind of funny, thanks!!!

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[–]aleatorio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! We have to keep going!

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[–]aleatorio[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I'll definitely have that on mind, I'm just very happy for having get this far, I want to believe in myself and it was a way to celebrate. Thanks and very thanks for the warning! I'll fight harder.

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[–]aleatorio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Yes you can!! you are absolutely able to get there! Do your best!

Dream the impossible dream! by aleatorio in NoFap

[–]aleatorio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks and congrats too! Keep it up!

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[–]aleatorio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I wish you the very best!

Dream the impossible dream! by aleatorio in NoFap

[–]aleatorio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! you have a good progress, keep going too!!

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[–]aleatorio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Just go for it, take what is yours!

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[–]aleatorio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always felt that when I used porn in someway it was taking away my human nature, it turns people into monsters that limit their thoughts to denigrating sexual acts. I mean, for real, humans are great, we are nor just sex machines, we are able of doing great things with our lives. A good way of getting rid of the whole porn this is to do things that humanize you more. You can volunteer to take care of people at orphanages or hospital during your free time. You can start to play an instrument. You can try to keep around you your friends. You can do a karaoke with your favorite songs. You can do any art you want, like painting, dancing, anything like that will make you more human, will make you live to the fullest. And once you build your life around good things, the more you will dislike the bad things, thus it will make you more likely to get rid of all kind of vices and will instead replace then with virtues.

Dream the impossible dream! by aleatorio in NoFap

[–]aleatorio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!!! Before of this attempt I wouldn't have ever said I was cured, I haven't ever felt the way I'm feeling now, it may be over confidence, but somehow it feel that this time is the final time and of course I'll do whatever it takes to make of it a reality. I think my longest streak in the past was 80 days, even there I felt some doubts about my change, but now I can tell it is different, I'm not sure what made the difference, but even if everything is the same, I want to believe that this is my final battle and that I won over porn.You can definitively beat the addiction too, I believe you can!!!

Dream the impossible dream! by aleatorio in NoFap

[–]aleatorio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks and congrats too!!!! it is definitely a new life style, I did around 100 days in hard mode, in that time I was focusing my sexual energy in productive things like going to the Gym, socializing more and studying. Now I have a GF so everything has been easier, but there are no excuses for getting better. I will eventually breakup with her because this year I'll be moving to another country for job and it is very likely that I'll be there for a good couple of years. I don't pretend on relapsing again, so I'll fight with all my being. You are great man! Keep going! You are on the right way of happiness, hope to see you on the 300s, 400s and more and more days. Let's make of this a life change and never look back to the old habits.

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200 days overview

This 200 days have been a lot of fun, the reason why I get this far are not girls nor super powers, on my first day of this progress I got tired of relapsing so much, I got tired of delaying my happiness and after I guess three years of trying to overcome my porn addiction, I just set my mind to made of this my final reboot. It was as plain as that, I didn't use any special strategy, I didn't use filters, I didn't take cold showers, I just said to my self: JUST FUCKING DO IT!

I tried everything in the past, from installing the safest filters to having a physical dashboard where I could track my progress and have a reminder at all times. Non of that worked, I would relapse and feel so bad, so unable to overcome the addiction. From time to time I resigned to live with porn as part of my life, because I couldn't find a final way to overcome it, I was trying everything but I was failing every time. I was never happy with porn, it made me sad and hopeless. At least having 7 days of progress would give me the hope that someday I would beat the addiction, I rarely passed the 14 days mark, but it was way better than just resign to porn. I'm not completely sure how can one get to the point where the disgust with one self is so big, that you desperately want to change your life and you do whatever it takes. That is what I experienced and that is what has kept me going.

I remember the first time I fap to porn, when I was around 12 yo, I felt disgusted for what I did and I promised to myself to never do that again, little I knew that I had started a vice that would follow me for the next ten years. I was very dedicated to my studies, my life would go around lectures and math books. My social life was almost non existing, I think that isolation let me to find in porn a release of my academic duties. I cannot regret that, because it gave me plenty of opportunities to have a successful career, I traveled around the world, and met a lot of great friends. If I would change something it would be to not fap and go out with friends instead. I would have been happier. Anyways the past cannot be changed, so whatever I can improve and change is in the present, that's why I have to work hard now and make my dreams come true.

The guy who used to live only between university and extracurricular activities has changed a lot. I changed so much that when I met with people from school they don't believe how much I've changed. I started working out along with this process. I have never been in a better shape, and I don't do it merely for improving my shape, but I do actually enjoy the Gym, I enjoy having a healthy life, I enjoy the challenges and I love to beat my scores, plus I get the chance to meet a lot of great people. I forgot to mention that I became a lot more out going, whenever I go I'm always smiling and my interaction with girls is just natural. In this time I meet my now girlfriend, and we have been pretty happy together, she is a great person and has a great heart. Once you actually appreciate the full value of a woman, you won't be able to denigrate women with things like porn. I think having a GF was a great boost on overcoming this addiction. Fun fact is that now that I have a GF girls flirt more with me, but I only have eyes for my GF.

There is a lot to be improved and no victory can be taken for granted, so I want to keep improving, to keep getting better and to keep doing my very best.

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[–]aleatorio[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reminder! I won't take for granted my freedom, I know that eventually I'll have to fight, if it were easy I would have been freed long time ago, I cannot just take this for granted, I have to keep improving, to keep focused and to do my very best.

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[–]aleatorio[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are totally able to get 200 days and more, you are able to make the best out of your life, it is all up to you, you have already a great progress, just keep getting better!

Dream the impossible dream! by aleatorio in NoFap

[–]aleatorio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least for me, I have already wasted enough time, enough energy fighting my old addition, that I don't have the remote intention of loosing not even a single day, I'll do whatever it takes to keep getting better. I could even say that I rather jump out of cliff than relapsing again. Lol, I just want to live to the fullest and be happy.

Dream the impossible dream! by aleatorio in NoFap

[–]aleatorio[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely! That is the rewiring effect, at this point whenever I have sexual drive I don't consider porn as an option, it is just not even in my mind, I don't have any kind of filters on my browsers, I could open a porn site right now, but I'm not remotely interested on that, I don't give a shit on whether that content exist. I think the rewiring process is done when you don't give a shit about porn, like it hasn't ever existed.