My Year of NoFap 5/25/16 to Now; Tips, Statistics
#My Year in Review
What a year it has been. It all started on July 24, 2015. What a time it was to discover a sub like this. But realizing is only a fifth of the battle yet to come. There are many obstacles that come in the way from just seeing a hot girl on the street or viewing pornography images. Damn you sexualized world!
##What Helped
Luckily, there are ways I have combated such urges from time to time.
- Cold showers - help in the moment be damned if you keep thinking about it throughout the day. It is like blowing out a trick candle. Sooner or later it will ignite.
- Meditation - Freakin' amazing to calm down an otherwise hectic day. I don't do this often but it does wonder even for 10 minutes. This is like putting water on the trick candle. Clear the mind of all unrighteous thoughts (lol).
- Workouts - Keeps me preoccupied. I try to avoid this the day before work since that is a workout in itself moving and lifting heavy objects all day. Another destresser that works but you really has to stick with it to establish it as a pure habit. I really need to get back into this.
- Cutting off all internet - did this just last week. I hardly touched it aside from scheduling, checking emails, and doing college work. I would recommend this above all else first since it is eminently easy to get distracted or triggered. Best to establish a habit of working out and meditation while you are not checking Footspace and Snapgossip.
I rewarded myself with temporary solace with some online activities once I hit 7 days but I think I'll retreat back into my turtle shell after this.
Without further ado, some stats during my year. Includes edging.
#Fun Stats
My Stats: May 25, 2016, to May 29, 2017
Total relapses: 65
Longest streak: 72 days
Shortest: 0 days
Average: 5.67 days
Current 5-day moving average (MA): 5.2 days
Top 5 longest streaks
- June 11, 2016, 72 days, 5D MA 17.4
- Jan 28, 2017, 21 days, 5D MA 7.6
- March 27, 2017, 19 days,
##Aggregate streaks
I think the hardest part of this journey is getting over the 7-day hump.
According to NF Companion,
- 99.12% of people have a streak within 150 days.
- 73.37% have a streak ≤ 10 days.
- Nearly 57.06% are ≤ 5 days.
- You are in the top 1% after 120 days.
The journey has been hard but it has put some prespective by looking back at my year. Many things, such a stressors, viewing sexualized content, TV, procrestinating, et. al, should be reduced or mitigated until you can get past the first week. Then you'll be in the top 30%! Life does get richer the higher you go.
Posted May 30, 2017, 9:22 PM UTC
omg, im the penny. I used to be the one who couldn't last 2 days
Wow incredible progress!
zero to hero;)
Couldn't have done it without this wonderful community. I regret lurking instead of making an account sooner to ask questions
Really? you couldn't last 2 days?.... u r at 140 now. How? What did you do right? Are you active on this sub throughout?
Yeah. I found this subreddit in August, edged the first day of a challenge. Relapsed plenty of times and binged everytime I relapsed. I somehow got myself onto a 4 week streak in December. A break came along and the free time killed me. I relapsed and felt like shit for the first time, before I would just feel slightly guilty but nothing as painful as this. I kept having 1 week streaks and relapsing untill Jan 10th, were I had a competition and decided that if I have a few days of a streak it would benefit me for the event. That was my motivating factor. After the event I still kept going and around day 50 I almost relapsed to porn. I was peeking alot day 49-50. I MO' but didn't fantasize or watch anything. As soon as I came, I regretted it so much. My challenge was to not binge, keep the seed and to not reverse the progress. I succeed and never looked back since. It has been 90 or 91 days since then and I have not peeked, fapped, edged or anything. Everytime I thought about relapsing I remembered how terrible I felt in December when breaking that 4 week streak. You can do it, now I don't even have urges to fap, I just get horny and get motivated to get the real thing. I would also like to add that I didn't use porn blockers on this streak because I could get around it if I wanted to so there was no point. Keep doing what works for you and you will be ahead in no time.
I wish you'd do a separate post as a "90 Day Report," explaining why you tried this and what benefits you've experienced, and your age.
I might just do that right now!
https://redd.it/6eioh2
That's awesome man. I hope to get there soon. My best was a 40 day streak till now. After a few weeks, i start to think that it isn't so bad and relapse. Hope a change in my lifestyle is going to do me good this time.