2015 Challenge

Bornagain wrote:

Quiet day today, I hope everyone is having a good week. dot83 I have added you back into the challenge, J33 you need to repost before midnight Saturday if you wish to be added to the challenge.

Get checking in troops!

Wednesday chat room 8pm for 2015 Challenge chat

thanks Phil

Hi everyone checking in on day 89 things are going ok with life and especially not gambling, so all good!!,nothing to report.

Markb117 wrote:

Hi everyone checking in on day 89 things are going ok with life and especially not gambling, so all good!!,nothing to report.

Good to see you going strong mate. We are the same days clean so fast approaching the century. Keep it up mate. Andy

Checking in 89 days GF. Chaired a GA meeting last night for the first time which you can only do after being GF for 3 months. Was a really good experience and nice to give back to something that has given me so much. No thoughts on gambling, just frustration knowing where I could be in life right now if it wasn't for my irrational behaviour. Still, the main thing is recovery and getting life back on track and repairing damaged relationships which slowly but surely is happening. I am sincerely appreciative of everyone that posts on here as it gives me a emotional boost and constant reality check of why I am doing this.

Have a great week all.

andy

Checking in, 78 days GF... Time flying past.. Loving the guilt free sleeps, even though I get nightmares when I look back over the amounts of money squandered away in the bad times..

Checking in on day 85. No urges for a while now, noticed ive not been logging in that much this month, dunno if thats a good thing.

Checking Inn day 96 the century is approaching wooooooooo 🙂

Hi All,

Sorry Phil for missing the check in. Had a lot of things to sort out. Please put me back to 11 day gamble free. Slipped 12 days ago. What started as a great evening turned bad after too much wine at a family meal and having access at home through a new iPad that didn't have any restrictions. Put £150 into a bet fair account and put £40 on some tennis match with players I've never heard of. Obviously I lost. I then went onto roulette and slots as I continued drinking wine. My wife cam down at 3am to drag me upstairs. Waking up with the worst hang over the first thing I did was tell my wife. (The old me would never have done this) We talked about it calmly. I think she knows I trying to beat this for the first time in our marriage. My wife has never had any interest in gambling. She hates it. Her father was a gambler. She never wanted to know when I won. She wasn't interest in the money. This made the morning difficult as I had to show her the bet fair account as the balance was £3k. We agreed that we didn't want the money. We decided to take the £150 back that I had put in and she would devise the rest between some charities. Sorry for the ramble but through my Gamcare councilling I've realised for me my gambling is me punishing myself. The money never really mattered. Also I'm not going to dwell on the slip, the 60 odd days I had gamble free changed so much in my life and I'm going to focus on that to try and stay GF.

John

Well it's day 5

i may have a half day today so I may be at a loose end so will turn phone off and go for a walk way from town

weekend will be difficult

jim

J33 you have been checked in and added to the challenge. Glad you're back John, its easy to walk away and hard to come back, so clearly you want this, hope this time round is easier for you.

Checking in again as requested. Day 6 today. Tomoro makes it one week. The first full week in a long long time. Looking forward to it. Hope the rest of you are doing ok and managing to resist the urges.

Hello fellas, check in day 91....o*g, I can't believe that's been already 91 day FG. Great feeling, and happy life. Good luck to all of us, and don't forget that every penny is better off in your pocket!!! See you soon!!!

Checking in day 125 feeling a lot more secure again this week after struggling through last week with urges galore. Keep fighting soldiers

Hi all,

Just checking in on day 630, sorry I havent been around very much I have been superbly busy with work flying to sweden and back twice in a week! All safe and well, only thoughts or urges i have had is to get to day 650! Wishing you all well!

Krishan

Hi All

Checking in on day 84. No real urges this week except the odd time I see a new bingo advert on TV. Really hope they get banned before long as it doesn't help trying to overcome a gambling addiction. I've got only two weeks till I join the century club and finances are looking much healthier. I'll be paying the balance on a holiday abroad next week on pay day. This was a key factor in me recognising I had to stop gambling as the holiday was in jeopardy. There is no way I could've paid the £500 outstanding without quitting gambling. I've also got a spa trip next week. This was booked a couple of months ago as a treat to myself for stopping and staying stopped. It will coincide with my three months gamble free. It really is great to have come this far and to noticeabley feel healthier (mentally) and wealthier for abstaining. Looking forward to continuing this journey with fellow soldiers and it's great to read of others having similar success. Also admirable when soldiers who do have a slip return to the forum and rejoin the challenge knowing it was a temporary blip.

Boxingday1