First_step_thousand_miles
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Uno mas!
Thanks buddy!Uno mas!
Thank you, sir.Congratulations
Congrats brother, very proud of you! Onwards to 1yr!Day 300
I tell you what, it feels great to be here again. Now off to ten months in a few days, and a full year real soon after that. Thank you all for being so encouraging and helpful over the last while. You have no idea how much that means to me.
Thanks buddy!
Thank you, sir.
Thanks @First_step_thousand_miles. I can't wait.Congrats brother, very proud of you! Onwards to 1yr!
Thank you @Kraken. You as well.300! Amazing work keep it up man!
Damn, very happy for you man! Getting below 20% is HUUUUUGE, hoping to get there too. I love your moderation approach, because that's what's sustainable (vs faddish diet you ditch)Day 301
I finally got down to 19% body fat this morning which feels pretty cool. I've been slowing losing weight over the last four months, so it feels great to accomplish this goal. I haven't been this healthy in over two years now. I've also done this without eliminating anything "fun" (Hell I even had a donut last Saturday!) but by striving for a little something called moderation. That is, I can drink but not too much. I can eat whatever, but not too much. And most importantly of all, I just try to be balanced in my actions and in my relationship with food and take my time and breathe... I have such a compulsive disposition, where I'm either on or off with no in-between, which can be quite detrimental when losing weight or anything else for that matter. I've learned on this journey that one can easily go from one extreme to another, while never really getting anywhere at the end of the day. This all relates to porn and everything else in life. Just be patient. One day at a time. Love yourself while still trying daily to improve yourself, and one day you'll be the man in the mirror you didn't think you could be four months ago. Not that I look like my avatar or anything.![]()
Blondie, you've reached demigod status -- there is no mortal life anymore!There is no magic bullet. There is no panacea or potion sent from the gods to get you to where you wish to be. There's just today, then tomorrow, and another boring day after that. But a "boring" life, a mortal life, day by day becomes a fulfilling life, you just have to believe. Are we believers? And if not why not?
Well, back to my mortal life.
So great to hear you are crushing it as we wrap up 2024, 2025 will be even better my manYou all have a great porn-free day.
Thanks @First_step_thousand_miles. I can't wait.
Thank you @Kraken. You as well.
Yes, the whole faddish diet is a real problem because it sets up this idea in your mind that you're either on or off, and thus, when you're off and have achieved your "goal," you just go back to your old habits and return to your old weight again. So much overeating for myself is often from negative feelings, anxiety, etc., most of the same stuff that gets me back into porn. Of course it's also fun to over indulge too for the sake of itself, but at what price? You feel hungover the next morning, either by food or alcohol, usually both, and you feel like a man you don't want to be. My plan is to stick with what I'm doing for the next month till Thanksgiving then take off the month of December and keep a maintenance level intake and learn how to keep my body at the same weight for a couple of weeks or so. This will be just as important for me as what I'm learning to do now. It will be fun because I'll get to increase my calories BUT I'll still need to use the balance and moderation that I've learning now, so as to keep me from gaining weight.Damn, very happy for you man! Getting below 20% is HUUUUUGE, hoping to get there too. I love your moderation approach, because that's what's sustainable (vs faddish diet you ditch)
Thanks brother. Now's the time to stay strong, I can't get complacent. I hope you're doing well.This is outstanding achievement bro! 300 days is an amazing streak. A trophy of discipline and strength. You got this. One year ain't far away.
You got this. I know you won't get complacent. This time you're in control.Day 304
Today's officially ten months! Off to a year now.
Thanks brother. Now's the time to stay strong, I can't get complacent. I hope you're doing well.
Best
You all have a great porn-free Sunday.
Thank you, brother! I hope as always that everything is splendid with you.Congratulations Blondie,
300 + days is a helluva achievement!!!
And to you too sir, have a great porn free weekend!Day 309
Life has been pretty good this last week. I'm to the point again where I often don't feel necessarily horny and can go about my day not being distracted with crazy thoughts or what not. However, when the opportunity arises I'm ready to go and everything is working well down there. One thing I've noticed is my orgasms have been through the roof lately (though not literally) and they don't have that blah blah feeling they can have sometimes on this journey of recovery.
What a fucked up contradiction. We do all this for the O at the end of the ritual, but find ourselves even messing up that ephemeral joy because of overuse and abuse.
Food never tastes any better until you've returned to it after a hard day of hiking in the mountains and you feel you've earned it.
The same for having "fun" with your money, but only till you've been prudent with it.
The same with drinking, but only with moderation.
The same for everything in fact.
We're all prodigal sons here, having lost our way in our over-indulgence and wantonness. In our desire for every earthly experience and pleasure we've lost it all, even the actual pleasure of it, and return each day to the mire like an animal in a filthy pigsty. But now the father calls us back to him, calls us back with open arms of moderation and self-control. We were dead once, dead even to real earthy pleasures, but now we've been found. The father has prepared a spot for us in his Kingdom of Recovery, but we have to live by his rules and NOT our own.
The road to the Kingdom of Recovery is marked by signs along the way: Lo there stranger passing by, go tell the father of the Kingdom, that here, obedient to his laws we shall die.
In all things in moderation.
You all have yourselves a great porn-free Friday.