Sober October

>said every addict ever

I have neither a psychological addiction nor a physical addiction to the drugs. I take them once a week or every other week if I want to relax a bit. I prefer it over alcohol. I go longer between benzos because the half life is way longer so a single pill needs about a week to clear.

I agree, it is easy to get ambitious and try to take on too much. You want to get where you are going over night but it takes time to become the person you see yourself as. Try too much at once and you are destined to fail and stay where you are slowing your progress to becoming who you want to be.

It took me 1 week to wean myself from six cups of coffee per day to just 1 in the morning. Similar case for booze. A week is a long time when you are consciously trying to make a change and your body is telling you to go the other way all the time.

I still masturbate, just to more tame pornography and I treat myself to it on Friday or Saturday. In a few weeks to a month I hope to stop looking at porn when I do it. Then it will be a shift to not doing it at all and getting the rush or high I seek from approaching women. One thing which is driving that for me is recognizing what I find attractive in porn is not what I find attractive in real life at all. And that made me recognize there was a weird disconnect with pornography mentally where I was training myself to associate sexual pleasure with something that doesn't do it for me in real life.

To workout consistently it took me going in and just hitting the gym for 30-45 minutes of light work after work 2-3 days a week to stick with it. Often I would start really strong when I had time off and fall off within a few weeks. To stay consistent in the times I was getting slammed with work or school it took just slowly maintaining that small consistency and thinking of it as a quick win that I got in and did something.

tl;dr it takes more time and consistency than you think to develop new habits. Don't think in 3 months I will be who I want to be, think next year at this time. I will be noticeably closer to who I want to be. By then your definition will have changed and you will see the next step in the journey another year out.

Replace cereal with oatmeal or yogurt. Combine that shit with some fresh fruit and plenty of water. Your gains will thank you

this is how i felt with pot
"yea i smoke weed every night, but i'm not addicted because i can stop whenever i want"
going a month without weed, or in your case downers, will be a real eye opener

Giving up alcohol, large amounts of sugar, and this is my second week on no fap.

I feel pretty great, but that sugar/alcohol thing is hell to get over, I fucking love sugar.

how much do you drink right now? do you get drunk often?

>tfw birthday in October

Giving up snorting high grade gasoline, I've promised myself for years id switch to e85 eth but that premium is so fucking nectar

Such a lame bet. A bunch of la heads give up drinking for a bit, and one smokes weed everyday, literally something many 14 year olds do casually. Then they have the audacity to build it up as though it's some badass thing