D@mn, bro! That´s some Next Level Monk Mode stuff. You have probably developed super-powers by now or something
It was a few years ago. I felt no different, in fact pretty shvtty. I did, admittedly, "peek" at porn sometimes during that. However, my 2nd and 3rd longest streaks of 5 and 3 months respectively were completely porn-free and I didn't feel any different either, in fact I was miserable, and obsessive.
I think the whole movement is kind of a joke. We should be avoiding porn, sure, and fapping is a problem in excess (once or twice a month or so is probably fine). I think the majority of people who get great benefit are crazy addicts with high libido who do it 2-3x per day every day for years on end. But it's so considerably more complicated and nuanced than simply insisting on avoiding porn/fapping through willpower. Let me explain.
Most recently, I simple I did a full on "detox" from any and all of my rotating vices (caffeine, nicotine, kratom, pot, video games, fapping/porn, youtube, junk food) with a consistently near-perfect diet and sleep. After only 2 weeks of this, I felt
fantastic, with an uncharacteristically high libido that I've rarely ever seen in my life. However, in a vaccum you cannot necessarily expect that to happen with any consistency; it's largely circumstantial and fleeting to feel like that. There's no such a thing as "unlocking" God mode (or enlightenment) indefinitely and just riding the high forever. I do not attribute the good feeling I had to fapping but the combined effort of everything else. Problem is, such a "perfect" lifetsyle is extremely difficult to sustain. Yeah yeah yeah, inb4 the self-help fags come in and say you need change habit slowly over time, rome wasn't built in a day, all the cliches, trust me: I know all about habit formation. But there's a huge difference in what should be and what is. You can idealize all day but no one wants to talk about our human drives and desires that we cannot control.
Fundamentally the problem here isn't a
logical problem, it's
emotional and trauma-based. Until you fully address WHY you turn to these vices (porn being among the worst) in the first place you will never succeed, and in fact, quitting them without doing so may make you miserable because you will spend most of your mental energy on suppressing urges and desiring desirelessness. Something as simple as "I look at porn because i'm bored" is actually far more complex than simply insisting on finding other ways to relieve boredom (in part because boredom is a good thing in moderation). If you try to "distract" yourself from porn, eventually you'll cave in when you're sick, sleep deprived, stressed out, travelling, then relapse, beat yourself up, start over, and think this time will be different. It's a never ending cycle of shame and hope and it's absolutely retarded. I have been perusing several antiporn forums (your brain on porn, your brain rebalanced, nofap.com, /r/noporn) for over ten years and this "cycle" has been the case with 99.9% of the posters you see there. Until you address your traumas and underlying emotional problems, you will never succeed and anything else is mental masturbation and acting faking self help nonsense.