We CAN and we WILL - Join the 100 day and 2017 Challenges!

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Vamp
 Vamp
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Checking in on day 48. Congratulations to everyone closing in on 100 days. I hope to join you there shortly!

Payday for me today but the blocks are in place and I am more focused than ever. Just for today...

 
Posted : 24th March 2017 8:18 am
(@mixer)
Posts: 1828
Topic starter
 

Keep the blocks in place Vamp, you're doing the right thing. I'm going to work today (locally) with £5 in my pocket. No cards or any other way of getting cash whatsoever. It's the only way.

 
Posted : 24th March 2017 9:26 am
(@markman)
Posts: 629
 

Day 73. Strapped well into the wagon which is cruising in the fast lane!

 
Posted : 24th March 2017 10:06 am
dsh1986
(@dsh1986)
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Checking in on 99 days 🙂

 
Posted : 24th March 2017 11:00 am
Vamp
 Vamp
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You're dead right, Mixer. We can't gamble if we don't have money. I'll never be able to have access to large sums of money again or carry large amounts of cash on me but I'm more than happy to do this if it leads to a gamble free life. I've proven time after time that I cannot be trusted with having access to money. The road to gambling now is full of blocks.

Mixer wrote:

Keep the blocks in place Vamp, you're doing the right thing. I'm going to work today (locally) with £5 in my pocket. No cards or any other way of getting cash whatsoever. It's the only way.

 
Posted : 24th March 2017 12:40 pm
(@Anonymous)
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Wow 100 days nearly there big fat congratulations to everyone who stayed gf and showed the middle finger to gambling lol going to have a cold lager pay day as well finally spent money on myself today and still gf .

 
Posted : 24th March 2017 6:59 pm
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Wow 100 days nearly there big fat congratulations to everyone who stayed gf and showed the middle finger to gambling lol going to have a cold lager pay day as well finally spent money on myself today and still gf .

 
Posted : 24th March 2017 6:59 pm
(@Anonymous)
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Checking in - Day 34.

Congratulations dsh as this will be your 100th day g.f. Hope you will be kind and treat yourself to something nice for yourself or something which will make you really happy.

Take care all. Have a lovely g.f weekend and so will I.

Our Lady

 
Posted : 25th March 2017 12:53 am
dsh1986
(@dsh1986)
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100 days not out.

Thank you Our Lady and thank you to everyone within this challenge. Although I dont contribute much it has given me a place to read up on the experiences that others in my position have been kind enough to share and to reflect on my own journey. It has also encouraged me to set short term goals that I hope will ultimately lead to a GF life.

Thank you Mixer for what is a simple yet effective initiative, at least as far as my journey goes. Although Ive tried to give up in the past Ive never been as determined and resolute as I am right now!

Looking forward to 200 days now, onwards and upwards 🙂

 
Posted : 25th March 2017 11:31 am
Vamp
 Vamp
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Congratulations centenarians!

Checking in on day 49.

 
Posted : 25th March 2017 3:57 pm
triangle
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Vamp wrote:

You're dead right, Mixer. We can't gamble if we don't have money. I'll never be able to have access to large sums of money again or carry large amounts of cash on me but I'm more than happy to do this if it leads to a gamble free life. I've proven time after time that I cannot be trusted with having access to money. The road to gambling now is full of blocks.

[quote=Mixer]

Keep the blocks in place Vamp, you're doing the right thing. I'm going to work today (locally) with £5 in my pocket. No cards or any other way of getting cash whatsoever. It's the only way.

Financially maybe, but the gambling industry doesn't provide credit free / tab free bets for no reason. Its to keep the gambler on the hook of the addiction.

 
Posted : 25th March 2017 5:15 pm
mccawpa
(@mccawpa)
Posts: 148
 

Checking in 30 days GF!! 😀 1 month!

 
Posted : 25th March 2017 6:58 pm
Sillycow
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Posts: 386
 

Checking In 🙂

Mari xx

 
Posted : 25th March 2017 9:05 pm
(@mixer)
Posts: 1828
Topic starter
 

*** LATEST ROLLCALL FOR THE 100 DAY CHALLENGE ***

99 Gambling Free (GF) days successfully completed for some of our group... read on...!

The first of our 35-strong group are about to cross the 100-day challenge line tomorrow - Day 99 completed TODAY!

  • For members of our group still Gambling Free, and with at least 99 days GF, ONE DAY TO GO! Tomorrow marks 100 consecutive Gambling Free Days whilst on the challenge!
  • For our members who've had a wobble, and have had the courage and fortitude to tell us, thank you for your honesty and it shows your character and determination that you are right back in the saddle - more than doubly committed this time.
  • For our members with less than 99 days GF under their belts, let's see how you're getting on below! You are doing great and the rest of us will wait for you at the finish line, cheering you on!

Let's see how we're all doing... the first column, is your personal total, and the second your total on the 100 day challenge.

1 Allana 29 / 29 … 24/02/2017 --> 03/06/2017
2 Athena 74 / 74 … 01/01/2017 --> 11/04/2017
3 attraction 47 / 43 … 09/02/2017 --> 19/05/2017
4 babapapa 107 / 99 … 14/12/2016 --> 25/03/2017
5 Clarkey 63 / 63 … 21/01/2017 --> 01/05/2017
6 Dean0 198 / 99 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
7 dsh 100 / 99 … 14/12/2016 --> 25/03/2017
8 Emily82 57 / 57 … 27/01/2017 --> 07/05/2017
9 fiddlesticks 111 / 99 … 14/12/2016 --> 25/03/2017
10 HeroToZero 10 / 10 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
11 JayD 132 / 99 … 14/12/2016 --> 25/03/2017
12 Jim24 100 / 99 … 15/12/2016 --> 25/03/2017
13 JI 29 / 29 … 07/01/2017 --> 17/04/2017
14 Kirsty 28 / 28 … 01/03/2017 --> 11/06/2017
15 KO (Mick) 54 / 54 … 30/01/2017 --> 10/05/2017
16 Lady H 54 / 54 … 01/02/2017 --> 11/05/2017
17 LHN 84 / 84 … 29/12/2016 --> 09/04/2017
18 M (SC) 106 / 10 … 14/12/2016 --> 25/03/2017
19 MarkMan 74 / 74 … 10/01/2017 --> 20/04/2017
20 mccawpa 30 / 30 … 24/02/2017 --> 04/06/2017
21 Mixer 10 / 10 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
22 Our Lady 34 / 34 … 19/02/2017 ---> 29/05/2017
23 panders 72 / 72 … 13/01/2017 --> 23/04/2017
24 Rainman 10 / 10 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
25 Rhoda 47 / 47 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
26 Sam 299 / 99 … 14/12/2016 --> 25/03/2017
27 Samson 195 / 99 … 14/12/2016 --> 25/03/2017
28 Silver 189 / 99 … 14/12/2016 --> 25/03/2017
29 Skyblue 172 / 99 … 15/03/2017 --> 25/06/2017
30 Smorgan 29 / 29 … 24/02/2017 -->03/06/2017
31 Sodawater 45 / 45 … 21/12/2016 --> 25/03/2017
32 Triangle 1109 / 99 … 14/12/2016 --> 25/03/2017
33 Vamp 49 / 49 … 05/02/2017 --> 15/05/2017
34 Wardal 118 / 99 … 14/12/2016 --> 25/03/2017
35 woodley 88 / 88 … 27/12/2016 --> 06/04/2017

*** ROLLCALL OF SUCCESS ***

Hitting personal 100 day targets are Jim 24 and dsh - a fantastic achievement, well done indeed. Keep going another day, and you, too, will hit the 100-day challenge target. Fantastic result and our group toasts your good health!

Here we are, then, on the eve of a symbolic, important day where 13 of our number will be the first to cross the 100-day challenge finish line and prove that: with the right help, support, practical steps and, above all, the commitment to see it through, it IS possible to be GF for at least 100 days. Something I, personally will learn form, having stumbled (but having got straight back into the saddle).

Tomorrow, our 13 names will be listed in a special roll of honour, and awarded BRONZE status. It also means their count will reset to zero! Yep, back to Day 1. But, this time, a further 100 days will award SILVER status. The reason for this appraoch is that, pyschologically, it is deemed better to start from 0 and climb back to 100, then to continue from 101 and strive for 200. There's science behind this, and I hope everyone on the challenge doesn't mind this way forward. I am commissioning Bronze medals, with a '100' logo (nothing more) as a memento to keep as a reminder of what is a genuine achievement. Please let me know if you would like one, and I will arrange with Gamcare for a sensible way forward that continues the anonymity that this site does so well.

After tomorrow, there are plenty of our group in the slipstream who will also pass 100 days, so the list of finishers is going to get longer and longer! That... is wonderful!

Let's keeping running, everyone, in this long-distance race. The finish line will be so sweet, and then, a new race will begin, with another glistening finishing line beckoning. Do it once, you can do it again!

As always; one day at a time.

*** THOUGHT OF THE DAY ***

Wondering if you can go Gambling Free for another day? For longer, maybe? Just look at what we have already acheived...

REMEMBER YOUR GREATNESS

Before you were born,
And were still too tiny for
The human eye to see,
You won the race for life
From among 250 million competitors.
And yet,
How fast you have forgotten
Your strength,
When your very existence
Is proof of your greatness.
You were born a winner,
A warrior,
One who defied the odds
By surviving the most gruesome
Battle of them all.
And now that you are a giant,
Why do you even doubt victory
Against smaller numbers,
And wider margins?
The only walls that exist,
Are those you have placed in your mind.
And whatever obstacles you conceive,
Exist only because you have forgotten
What you have already
Achieved

Going GF...? Bring it on!

 
Posted : 25th March 2017 9:09 pm
(@Anonymous)
Posts: 0
 

Nice meal with family much felt more comfortable than last time and 4 months ago so happy and nearly 100 days best of all still gf .Happy days back to my chocolate cake lol.Well done to everyone on the 100 day challenge

 
Posted : 25th March 2017 9:28 pm
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