>no fap + no porn
>no vidya
>no forums (here) or any social media
>Greyscale colors on phone
>no junk food, alcohol, or any drug
>only allowed talking to people, reading books, writing, lifting, and eating as a dopamine source
I've seen many on here say that after 30 days you'll be a hyperfocused mega-academic that can enjoy practicing math for 4 hours straight.
Is there truth to this? I'm down to try it. I just don't want to self induce a mega depression if there's no light at the end of the tunnel though
I've been doing those for the past 2 weeks, except quitting this stupid site, and I'd say that good food and semen retention do wonders.
If you are in your room for most fo the day, good luck breaking the internet addiction.
Based, and I agree it'd be virtually impossible without an environment change. I wish I had the spare time to book a week long camping trip, where you leave all gadgets at home and just read books like I've I've seen some suggest. I'm on day 10 of NoFap and really trying to level it up
Damn hivemind. I'm gonna try to replicate the camping experience best I can. The snake diet guy said to combine it with a fast + no stims
I think cutting coffee will be the hardest part for me. Is the dopamine fast in vain if I still have 1 or 2 cuppa?
>Is the dopamine fast in vain if I still have 1 or 2 cuppa?
>really trying to level it up
are you?
Yeah. Quitting vidya and youtube was already ball busting. Now I'm trying to layer on new things
I once did a bike tour with a friend that was a similar experience. We rode most of the day and when it got dark we made a fire, grilled some meat for dinner and put up our tents to sleep. It was pretty cool but I have to admit, we only made it to day 6 and we originally had much bigger plans.
Why did you stop at fay 6?
That sounds fricking sick i wanna do that. too bad i spend all my time wage slaving and looking at IST. jesus christ
I think that the only benefit you stand to gain from quitting all at the same time/abstaining from all at once is the sheer near immediate contrast of going from dopamine receptors being BTFO to having them normalize again.
In other words you’d only feel amazing and have a pretty intense high/euphoria that went away after a week or two, and be the exact same as if you just quit all those things slowly over time which would still offer a similar but less intense high for a week or so.
All quitting all of those at the same time truly does is increase the risk of failure for a potential short lived high.
Speaking from experience. My consumption got so bad I’m now doing it the slow way and I’m feeling happier and happier every month.
>greyscale on phone & blue light filters on screens
>sober
Need to quit caffeine still. Quit weed, quit nicotine, quit drinking years ago but was never an issue
>dopamine source is mainly fishing & walking
Soon vidya will go, nofap/noporn will begin, I’ll be off IST again, and hopefully this will restore my attention span and I’ll be capable of reading a book again past 4 pages and also feel some pleasure form social interactions again.
It’s easy to start removing the other things if you tackle the environment change first imo. Get into fishing. Use google maps to find lakes and rivers. Load up a backpack with some basic lures and start walking around and fishing. Sit to enjoy scenery in some places, walk the perimeter of lakes, if north of Georgia catch & cook with a basic campfire and spit.
Makes it way easier to start fixing it when all your free time is spent doing that.
I think you are better off trying something like a 1 week camping trip in the woods or similar. Something that still keeps you busy and entertained but removes the usual distractions and dopamine rushes of life.
>no fap + no porn
Not an achievement
>no vidya
Not an achievement
>no forums (here) or any social media
Not an achievement
>Greyscale colors on phone
moronic and can't see nudes and funny reels with cats
>no junk food
Not an achievement
>no alcohol, or any drug
Not an achievement
In short none of the "no's" on your list is something to be proud about or think of as some huge step. You're a full grown man you shouldn't be doing any of that shit by default. Wake the frick up moron.
>I just don't want to self induce a mega depression
>MOMMY I NEED MY CARTOONS AND CEREAL
>AND CEREAL
damn Anon I want cereal now.... 🙁
>achievement
>be proud of
Don't dislocate your shoulder patting yourself on the back for defeating that strawman you set up and swung at until you drenched yourself in sweat
low energy pitiful post
If you've got the willpower for that you can definitely already study math for 4 hours
absolutely nothing will happen, unless you are severely addicted to those things, which you probably aren't.
I've basically applied this mindset to forest ecology and mycology. I spend less than 1 hour weekly here or on youtube being idle
mostly just no gaming and never spending more than 30 minutes sitting on IST or youtube. I literally enjoy learning and field work too much now to have enough free time for this shit unless i'm typing out paragraphs explaining how I unfricked my life and learned to waste like 99% less of my time on this earth. And now I've got into such a rhythm with it, streamlining work flow enough to have the free time for pleasure.
Taking whatever time necessary to pursue your passion is key to happiness. if you can't work up the motivation to do that thing over internet lurking or gaming it's probably not your passion, I'm literally unable to make it past the point where I open steam and check freinds, I've got so much more to do with my free time. a "relapse" consists of scrolling through my steam library and maybe opening 2 or 3 games for 10 minutes each before shutting off the PC, my brain has been rewired in a way that no longer allows me to be held captive by these dopamine traps.
go outside, intimately observe and experience nature and you'll find something so engaging with such a high learning ceiling that you'll never go back. you'll feel guilty and trapped being indoors knowing there's so much to learn out there.
do beetles bite or sting? cool buggers btw.
you're in a great spot for getting a job that gets you outside. part of the struggle for remote/office wagecucks is that the work's ass and you're just a click away from the next mindless distraction to take your mind off it, furthering the vicious cycle of mindless work and mindless play. think i'll be trying something else now too.
>no fap + no porn
Why? I mean i can get no porn thing if you’re constantly jerking off to it, but what’s the point of attempting no fap unless you do it few times a day as a coping mechanism or to stay off boredom?
>no vidya
Alright, are you going to substitute this with something? If you casually play something what’s the point in cutting it out?
>no forums (here) or any social media
Again, what’s the issue here, the dosage or that you’re using them?
>Greyscale colors on phone
This sounds moronic even for this thread
>no junk food, alcohol, or any drug
Ok, but tasty healthy food also causes dopamine release?
NGMI post. We get it, you're happy to live as a worm.
Stop asking questions. Stop living in your head. It's not the palace you think it is, but rather a cesspool of neuroticism and self-sabotage.
Stop thinking and just try it.
I had parents with very puritan values.
Deprivation doesn't necessarily result in any sort of happiness.
You need control, not deprivation. Years of deprivation teaches control, but its not the destination. Its a shitty path, you dont need to choose it.
Modern life is actually nice.
>no porn
>no vidya
>no junk food
>no caffeine
>no drugs
>no alcohol
>no sugary treats
Been doing this for some years now, life's great.
I'm doing all of those, except no 4chinz (lol).
Also eating clean as frick. You shouldn't derive unwarranted pleasure from your nourishment. Simple as.
Here's my results
>anhedonic as frick but also pretty cheery. hard to explain. think pee wee herman and doctor manhattan in one.
>now I enjoy socializing and small talk. not being absolutely stupefied by media turn otherwise annoying socisl brushes into a form of "entertainment" of sorts. or rather, it's the opposite way around and media drains this social energy out of us when we invest in and vicariously live their humbug stories.
people react very positively to my small talk too, it's not like I'm being a pest. it's pretty frickig amazing really. got a few perks, favors and special treatment that I'm 100% sure I wouldn't have had otherwise.
>calisthenics and swimming feel alright, rooning feels good but I just started it so there's a honeymoon effect.
>absolutely no libido. not even viagra helps. I can get hard/aroused but the want is not there. might be the fact that I'm cutting. had some bloodwork done recently and my T and DHT are fine though. same numbers as always.
>been writing a lot, bordering on graphomania. also been writing a lot of silly ad-libbed songs on my guitar, which I used to do once in a blue.
tl;dr: became a socialmaxxedgay overnight; lots of creative energy; dick is shot up; ISTness is not affected
>Is there truth to this? I'm down to try it. I just don't want to self induce a mega depression if there's no light at the end of the tunnel though
Yeah somehwat. Sometimes there'll be a hurricane and power will be out for a week or two, and I'm never more productive than those times. Boredom is a motivator like no other. Shit, once my internet was out for like 3 days, I deep cleaned my whole house and read 5 books over that time, plus did a frick ton of working out (this was before smartphones).
You will have read 15 sci-fi/fantasy novels
You shouldn't worry about greyscale phone because you shouldn't be on your phone at all.
The detox should start with
>No screens
>Only water
>Only bland food like rice and chicken
>No Vidya
>No reading
>No excersize
>No music
>No fap
>No porn
>Basically no stimulation
Do that for 48 hours then replace bland food with healthy food and allow reading, quiet music, excersize and outdoor physical pursuits such as hiking and rafting and other non screen based activities like art (no Japanese shit).