2018 Challenge

Checking in 32 days GF. Not always been that easy having gambled for so many years but doing better than I thought. Merry Christmas to you all and if I can do it so can you!! Cheers Stu

Checking in GF. Cheers, Phil.

Well done on the 17 people to check in, i hope you all have a good Christmas and saty gamble free over this period, i know myself on how hard it can be.

The list is as follows….

• Triangle – 1748
• Bal – 1350
• Phil72 – 1048
• onlyme – 1016
• Samson – 833
• NeilC – 646
• sjw – 453
• SEL87 – 428
• chartom3 – 379
• Ineffable – 358
• Egdam – 209
• Donna2501 – 193
• johnlostmydo – 154
• K2 – 118
• Boxingdayfresh – 75
• Jappy – 65
• Stew – 32

K2 wrote:

Neil,

I hope Angel will do it but if she feels she can't, I would be happy to step in.

Ken

Hi Ken, that would be great if you could. If you are like me, you will find it to be a great help in your own recovery. You will need to start a new thread/topic for the new year, I will post the update on Monday the 31st and then in the new year you can start on the new thread.

Neil

Neil C. wrote:

Well done on the 17 people to check in, i hope you all have a good Christmas and saty gamble free over this period, i know myself on how hard it can be.

The list is as follows….

• Triangle – 1748
• Bal – 1350
• Phil72 – 1048
• onlyme – 1016
• Samson – 833
• NeilC – 646
• sjw – 453
• SEL87 – 428
• chartom3 – 379
• Ineffable – 358
• Egdam – 209
• Donna2501 – 193
• johnlostmydo – 154
• K2 – 118
• Boxingdayfresh – 75
• Jappy – 65
• Stew – 32

checking in for the christmas week.

stay honest everyone

Checking in on Xmas day Happy Xmas to all and well done everyone for checking in gamble free all year..

Congrats to everyone checking in and completing the challenge (or part of it).

As Neil has mentioned, it really helps with your recovery and helps keep you honest.

Merry Christmas all

Merry Christmas all. Checking in gf. 668 days.

Last checkin of 2018 for me on day 384 gamble free, happy to have completed the full calender year without a bet, this challenge has really helped to keep me in line ..... wishing everyone well.

Neil C. wrote:

Hello Guys, well done on keeping GF so the last few weeks, hopefully others will find their way back here over the next week or so. Only 13 checked in this last week, but thats kinda expected with the problems on the site recently. Well done to Mackems1 for hitting over 400 days, and chartom3 for hitting over 300 days.

The list is as follows….

• Triangle – 1671
• Phil72 – 971
• onlyme – 939
• dswright – 588
• NeilC – 569
• Mackem1 – 407
• SEL87 – 351
• chartom3 – 302
• Rst.Ex-CG – 252
• Egdam – 132
• johnlostmydo – 77
• K2 – 41
• A start and an end – 30

Wow, how quickly and messy life can get. Shortly after this post I returned to the UK and preceded to spend pretty much all of my money on gambling. Again it boiled down to having free time and no job. Also not having that friends support too. That is something I am planning to change tomorrow as I meet up with a friend to tell him of my struggles. I hope he is supportive but just getting it out there will be so scary and I'm worried I could bottle it and say I want to meet him for another reason.
Anyway I tried a year but failed short of the final 100 days. Rst2019 new name and new outlook on life all being well.

Would have had a go just then. Wife has blocked the wifi. Then I thought 'what was that that made me feel like I want to gamble?'

Self worth. not challenged particually. just what is the point in me? you can tell me some things and I would agree that I'm ace. but I want more. more regognition. more stimulus. more cloud of cold joyous peace.

Checking in gf for the last time this year 🙂

Checking in

Checking in 39 days. Thank you for doing the list Neil. Happy GF 2019 to you all. Cheers Stew

Thanks for running the challenge Neil. Moving over to the new one now . Checking in for the last time on this thread on 82 days and long may the gamble free time continue.