2016 Challenge

Day 168 still their, nearly 6 months

Checking in on day 10. Been busy at work and haven't thought much about gambling, thankfully.

Checking in on day 906.

Checking in day 49

Hi everyone. Just checking in on day 64 of my challenge! I am working hard and if I can keep it up, by the end of this month I might have a good payday....ie not well into my overdraft....ill be chipping away. Just need to stay strong!

Checking in 255 days gf

Checking in all safe and sound

Day 97 for me.

I've decided to make this my last check in on the challenge. It's hard to explain why, but I'm finding counting days a bit demotivating. It feels so much longer...and then I check my day count and I find myself thinking "only 97?". It's hard to explain. I feel good about not gambling and the urge is receding but somehow my day count doesn't match how I feel and the progress I've made. Probably because I've been at 97 or higher 3 (maybe 4) times since I've been active on here! Anyway, I'm waffling. I'm going to keep marching forward, as I'm sure everyone else gets will too. Thanks for running the challenge Gary (and Martin in your absence). I really appreciate all the time and effort that must go into it.

Wishing everyone well.

LifeBegins xx

Checking in 21 days !

Hi all,

Please find attached the latest days count below. Congrats to DelboyGolf for smashing through the 900 days barrier.

Sorry to see that LifeBegins is leaving the challenge...more than welcome back at any time.

Stay strong in recovey everyone, and reach out if you need help.

One day at a time.

Garyl1976 wrote:

Hi all,

Please find attached the latest days count below. Congrats to DelboyGolf for smashing through the 900 days barrier.

Sorry to see that LifeBegins is leaving the challenge...more than welcome back at any time.

Stay strong in recovey everyone, and reach out if you need help.

One day at a time.

triangle - 914

delboygolf - 906

Garyl1976 - 892

Glads Dad - 658

Balvaird - 517

Casey - 511

Oldhamktf - 354

tilly1976 - 255

thereaper - 215

onlyme - 183

Richb06 - 167

8thOct - 162

Daz71 - 161

Godoicul - 151

LifeBegins - 97

Uncertain outcomes - 87

Thegerman - 64

johnlostmydo - 49

Boxingdayfresh - 10

Deano8008 - 7

Anon100 - 5

Samson - 1

Congratulations too Del, but equally important to Samson, 1 day. Any day working on recovery is better than a day spent in dreams of gambling however harmless it seems.

Putting in my declaration for the week. Best to all. Tri

Checking in on day 152. Feeling great after a fantastic weekend with my nephew at the o2 sat night. Nice to spend a bit of money on a worthwhile treat. Crack on everyone it will be New Year's Eve b4 you know it

I would really like to join this challenge. My name is Aaron and I have a gambling problem. Luckily for me this has not resulted in any debts yet as I have only bet what I have saved but I know this is getting out of control and betting £100 + at a time is not good especially when I lose and start chasing it.

I have suffered from really bad anxiety disorder and depression for years and have being diagnosed with having an addictive personality. I have swapped one addiction for the other over the years with the last being gambling for the last 3 years. I have gone from stopping drinking to smoking dope, to stopping smoking dope and just smoking cigarettes. Then giving up smoking and spending all my money on books and DVDs to stopping buying books and DVDs and gambling. The one positive from this is I know I have good willpower to quit things but am scared what I might replace my latest habit with.

My main problem with gambling is on in play football and the virtual football the bookies offer. How I wish I never found the virtual soccer opition on b****5 on day when looking through there site. With a game starting ever minute the amount I start losing and place was getting ridiculous. I would start with a £1 maybe and when that lost the next bet would be £2 until I had lost 7 or 8 bets in a row with each bet having double the pervious stake in the hope of winning everything back by the time I would get to bet 8 I could be staking £64 on a virtual game only 10 minutes after sitting down to gamble. Sometimes this bet would win and I would win all my money back swearing to myself I would not do that again and chase bets only to find myself doing exactly that 30 minutes later. As I said I am lucky I am not in debt and hope I can completely stop before debts happen. I told my wife last night what was happening and she was very understanding as no debt was involved and I have had myself taken off both my betting accounts and had them closed and given my wife my bank card hoping all this would help.

So that is all about me and I am on day 1 as it's been nearly 24 hours since my last bet

Morning all,

I'm about to start day one of no gambling. I have just lost 3k and tired of this now... I have my own house, i've achieved a lot of what I wanted in life and I can't do this to myself anymore. I will need support and I'm glad to be back here. Am I insane to call this day one when I just gambled an hour ago? will this count?

Morning all. Check in on 522.

Best wishes