36, PIED, new plan

logicprox

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2 days. But 2 really good, high quality days.

"The beautiful truth is that all porn does absolutely nothing for you whatsoever. Let me make it quite clear, it’s not that the disadvantages of being a user outweigh the advantages, it’s that there are zero advantages to looking at pornography."
 

logicprox

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10 days. I briefly lost my morning wood gains in the period after my 2nd drunk slip up when I started to make excuses and change the rules. It's returned the last few days, including this morning with rather a vengeance. Good to know the recent mistakes didn't completely undo the PIED improvements from what has overall been the best 4 or so months of anti-PMO progress I have ever made. But it's also clear how quicklyI can start to lose those improvements if I start using on any level.

It's not just my PIED that has improved, though. The 66 day and two 20ish day streaks of abstaining from PMO before I started lying to myself and moving the goalposts also broke the habit of use that supported my addiction. Ie., I got to where on a day to day basis I didn't really feel an urge to use, and even my dreaded issue of waking up in the middle of the night and using when half asleep mostly went away. When I started shifting the goalposts though, some of those habits and daily urges started to return. But within a few days of deciding to go all in again, they are gone.

Where I haven't done so well is in some of my "supporting" habits, like having a consistent morning routine and reading instead of watching YouTube or Netflix. Some of that has been because work has been busy and stressful and I feel tired in the morning and drained in the evening...but these are just excuses again. I've stopped making excuses on PMO. Time to stop making excuses on these too.
 
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