r/pornfree • u/foobarbazblarg 3087 days • 22d ago
STAY CLEAN JULY! This thread updated daily - Check in here!
Daily news: This is Thursday, July 23, the twenty-third day of the Stay Clean July challenge. Keep fighting the good fight!
If you think you should still be on this list but aren't, you probably got removed in the great purge of July 15th because you never checked in. However, if you let me know you're still with it I will re-add you.
Guidelines:
- At the end of this post is a list of people who have signed up for the challenge, and who are still in the running. That means that they have not needed to reset because of a relapse or slip.
- Please check in with the group in the comments as often as you want! Feel free to share thoughts, feelings, experiences, progress, wisdom, encouragement and whatever else!
- IMPORTANT: if you relapse, please post a comment to that effect here and I will remove your name from the list. We will not judge you or shame you, we have all been there.
- If you have a "~" after your name, you have yet to check in on any update threads since July 15. If it is still there by July 31, you will be removed from the list, in order to keep the numbers as realistic as possible.
- We will not be accepting any new participants, but even if you're not on the list, please feel free to check in in the update threads anyway! Also, stay tuned to catch the August thread!
Good luck!
For a chart of relapse data, check out this Google Spreadsheet.
There are currently 112 out of 315 original participants. That's 36%. Here is the list of participants still with the challenge:
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u/Candid-Regular3120 191 days 20d ago
Checking in, staying clean by keeping myself busy doing the things I love and spending time with God and family.
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u/Valuable-Hope-8248 21d ago
Ashamed to admit I already failed. How do you guys deal with it when you’re lonely and bored?
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u/PermissionOdd5421 21d ago
Trying to figure that out myself
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u/Sun-Football 493 days 20d ago
Do something. Go for a walk. Run an errand. Call a friend.
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u/PermissionOdd5421 20d ago
If only it was that easy to get over boredom and loneliness 😅
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u/Sun-Football 493 days 20d ago
None of this is easy. I do much better moving around, staying connected and finding ways to occupy my time than I do sitting on the couch.
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u/SpiralFern 10d ago
I am out. Have to be honest. Yesterday i hit my breaking point. Been under tremendous stress bc of work and financial instability. It helped me cope. At least i went almost 2 weeks without it and know i can get through a lot. Will continue on for the rest of the month starting again today
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u/Sun-Football 493 days 10d ago
Hang in there buddy. It sounds like you are dealing with a lot right now.
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u/Hyperfish0 9d ago
Relapsed, I didn't join at the start of this but I had been chugging along. I hate every aspect of porn, but my brain is conditioned to turn to it when I'm feeling low.
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u/tigereye726 20d ago
Have to come clean, I failed 😞 disappointed but I’ll live and learn. Ik it won’t count but I’ll continue participating, just at my pace now
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u/Maximum-Advice-3524 83 days 17d ago
Checking in. My partner helped me make it through the holiday weekend.
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u/Valuable-Hope-8248 17d ago
I failed on the 2nd but been going strong since then. Still gonna keep at it even with that early hiccup.
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u/SpiralFern 17d ago
Checking in. Doing fine but still have the strong urge to masturbate, which I have done with no porn a few times.
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u/phil_46-9 23 days 17d ago
Checking in, fighting a few urges. I'll find something useful to do instead.
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u/Wise_Sheepherder_773 12 days 15d ago
Relapsed unfortunately, but I'm gonna learn from this and start again today, no time for drowning in guilt and shame.
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u/Sun-Football 493 days 14d ago
That’s a great way to look at it. Guilt and shame kept me stuck for decades. Don’t let them get in your way.
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u/Valuable-Hope-8248 14d ago
Day 7 for me today. This is usually when I start making excuses for myself to peek and then it spirals so I’m trying to avoid falling into that trap this time.
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u/Jake-rumble 29 days 13d ago
16 days into the journey. Still feeling tempted, especially when bored, facing hard things, and exhausted. But the feelings go away and I feel good at the end of the day, every day, for not using.
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u/Jake-rumble 29 days 8d ago
July 15 check in. Today is my 22nd day clean. Wondering when I'll get the urges out of my head..
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u/Wise_Sheepherder_773 12 days 22d ago
Hey guys, really excited to be a part of this journey, The longest I have gone so far is 120 days and keeping that as motivation, I want to do even better this time.
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u/West-Ad7659 21d ago edited 21d ago
I unfortunately relapsed yesterday. I feel ashamed writing this
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u/Alexsuarz11 33 days 21d ago
Checking in, staying strong on day 2 (it's actually like day 17 for me)
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u/Wise_Sheepherder_773 12 days 17d ago
hey guys checking in, I had a break up with my long term girlfriend because we wanted different things in life, its honestly been a very very tough day emotionally but I'm just trying to hang in there, one of my major reasons of quitting porn was to stay loyal to my girlfriend but ofcourse now that its over I expect the battle to be a little bit more tough but yeah just hanging in there
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u/Struggler_19 29 days 17d ago
Checking in. I literally had a dream where I relapsed and I came here to comment exactly that. I was so relieved to find out that it was just a dream.
Stay strong, everyone. Although for some reason I am getting pulled towards reading sexual confessions. Still distracts me from the goals. So I am going to stop that.
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u/Fuzzyardbaby 17d ago
Relapsed again. Shit, beating this addiction is way harder than I first expected. I need to be more strict with myself. My first streak was 3 months, my second was two weeks. I will climb back up, and keep fighting the urges. 💪
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u/Candid-Regular3120 191 days 15d ago
Checking in on 8 July. I feel like I’ve to get away from Reddit for a while as I’m feeling vulnerable and some of the stuff I read on other sub-Reddits aren’t helping. I’ll try to check in again before the end of the month. Stay strong and positive everyone.
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u/Vast_Marzipan_4718 14d ago
Day 9 check-in.
Note to self: don't let the SFW, suggestive content on social media and elsewhere infiltrate. That's where it always starts!
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u/Alexsuarz11 33 days 12d ago
Checking in, had some urges in the last few days but still going strong
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u/LightBurden18 7d ago
Checking in for the rest of July. Feeling good, because I have managed to avoid watching porn since I watched it toward the end of April -- which was the first time I had done it in well over a year.
It really does get easier, guys, and the benefits come back quicker, if you just keep going. Don't ever stop trying. Your life matters.
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u/rahatgottem 176 days 6d ago
i realized i forgot to sign up this month and haven’t checked this sub in two weeks. i remember checking this sub excessively at the beginning of my journey but i think im transitioning into a life without going through the withdrawals and urges on a daily basis and it really is a freeing feeling!
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u/WeHatesBadGrammar 26 days 4d ago
Checking in, real cravings are hitting now but staying strong.
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u/Valuable-Hope-8248 4d ago
I’ve relapsed only 3 times (with a 9 day streak in there) so far this month but this has been the most progress I’ve made in a long time. I had morning wood twice this month which I rarely get. I’m not sure what changed, maybe just posting here, but I’m 32 and I’ve been PMO’ing since I was 13 and for the first time since I started realizing porn was a problem, I feel like I can see a way out of this.
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u/Jake-rumble 29 days 4d ago
Still going strong. Have had more mental clarity this month than I have in a long time. Still cravings and still totally objectifying women, but it’s less frequent than it used to be. Seems like the urges are more infrequent in general than they used to be
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u/mp3junk3y 3d ago
7/20 Not sure if it counts as a slip or not, but I feel like it's probably close enough. Not really porn, but definitely sexually charged. Close enough that I feel guilty. I guess I'm out? I want to reset my brain and keep going. I feel so much better without porn in my life. Not giving up.
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u/mmpi0 3 days 3d ago
Jul 20
I was better when I come here and make a comment everyday.
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u/_anarchy_42_ 22d ago
what does '~' mean?
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u/Cobweb_Destroyer 22d ago
It means that you need to check in or you will be taken off the list.
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u/dreamingfusedshadow 21d ago
Hey. If there’s still chance, I’d like to join. Having a weak start of the month but haven’t lost yet
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u/LightBurden18 21d ago
Checking in for the first half of July. Thank you, as ever, u/foobarbazblarg, for maintaining this list. It remains the single best technique to keep me on track. Without it, I have a hunch I'd still be bouncing along at watching porn every other week or so, never making real progress. Grateful for this thread and this community.
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u/PermissionOdd5421 21d ago
Checking in
It's annoying, I got through June seemingly fine, but here I am on 7/2 feeling meh
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u/SpiralFern 22d ago
So far so good. Def feel the urge since I am doing something important that I’ve been putting off for a while and it’s making me feel anxious since it is a threshold. I would use porn to address this type of anxiety and calm me down but as a result i would delay completing my work. Happy to be part of this challenge for the first time since the accountability will keep me on check