A NEW THREAD IN HONOUR OF BALJIT

MONDAY 13th JULY 2010 BEEN BETTING TODAY THIS WILL BE MY LAST DAY OF BETTING . NO MORE FED UP OF IT GET PAID NEXT WEEK 1 MONTHS WAGES NOT DOING A PENNY FROM MY WAGES WORKED HARD ALL MONTH

TUESDAY 14th JULY 2010 WILL BE MY FIRST DAY OF RECOVERY

I suppose you havent banned yourself from the bookies, or given your money to someone else to look after yet baljit? when will you do that do you think? regards, Maddie xx

Hi Baljit,

Good to meet you in chat. Remember you promised you were going to self exclude tomorrow. I will be keeping an eye on you.

Post soon.

Jas xx

Baljit, I have stopped gambling by giving up my money to my husband, by banning myself from gambling sites and by having counselling, I havent found it easy all the time but my counsellor tells me that to succeed you need to remove one or more of the following, money, opportunity and time. so give your bank account cards etc to your wife, self exclude from the bookie and try and fill your time up with other things, I hope that helps, Best wishes Maddie

o*g I have just read gthis thread. Good Luck Baljit.

Teresa

Good day been first day no bets at all !

SO ONE DAY OF RECOVERY GOOD I WILL KEEP THIS UP

Well done on getting through day one mate, but this is only the start and urges will come, you should listen to other people and self exclude. Get the blocks in place as you will want to gamble again and when you do its good to have blocks in place to prevent you acting on your thoughts.

All the best mate

Baljit,

HAVE YOU SELF EXCLUDED? I will guess 'no'. prove me wrong and say yes, I would love to hear that.

Take care,

f x

I am still betting got paid on friday 23rd July which was £1166 for a Months pay l only lost £70 and gave my wife £960 and paid of my credit card which was £110. so i have done good because i would have lost the lot . So my last bet was on

SAT 24th JULY 2010

FIRST DAY OF RECOVERY WILL BE SUN 25TH JULY 2010

No more bets on Horses, Dogs, Roulette.

Yo never win

No more betting on Horses, Dogs, R

Baljit ji, I guess from your name you have Punjabi roots. I do as well.

Suunogh dhian nall piareh Baljit Bhaji, ( Listen carefully dear Baljit Brother)

Stop now Bhaji, Stop now, Stop now. It has to stop Bhaji. Please stop for yourself and for all your pervaarh (family).

Meh thwwadeh perey haath llaantha Bhaji: Huuney ruuckjaou piareh Bhaji( I touch your feet with my hands brother - stop now brother)

I have also been hooked and lost all I ever had, but am getting my head round it, slowly, but I think I will be ok.

YOU WILL AS WELL. Do it Bhaji. STOP. Do not let one more penny go into bookies pockets. All will be for you and for your family. No £70, no £7, no 70p, no 7p.

As Sri Guru Nanak ji wrote:

"Maan jeethai jag jeeth" (one who conquers his own mind can conquer the world)

It has to come in this order. Your first battle, and most important battle ever, is your internal battle with your mind.

nomoreloss = Himmat ( my name means courage/determination - at the moment that's a joke for my name, but I am going to make myself respect my name now, and make it mean exactly that- determination, and I am determining right now as I type this morning, to help you out on this road now as well, and any one else caught by this evil as well, and do all I can to bring you out of this rut)

5 and 1/2 days free for me now and I am going to make it for ever.

Best wishes

Himmat

SELF EXCLUDE!

Been betting all week lost about £97.50 today on horses got it back then same old story gave it back i have to stop this time god is going to help me ! no more gambling on horses, dogs, and the machines in the bookies i will keep it up so many times i have gone off the rails no more. Was betting at home on the net

LAST DAY OF BETTING IS TODAY SUN 1 AUG 2010,

FIRST DAY OF RECOVERY WILL BE MON 2nd AUG 2010 NO MORE GAMBLING ON HORSES AND DOGS AND MACHINES

Self Exclude Baljit, how many more times have we to say it to you. It will not stop until you do.

Hi Baljit bhaji

You have to stop playing games with yourself Baljit and get really tough with yourself instead. Losing £100 on-line when you were going to limit youself to £20/week on lottery, is not good. Even the £20 has to come down, because it is too big of a chunk of your pay.

There is little chance of you beating the urge to bet, until you use the weapons you have to help you win.

You can win but the will to win must come from within you, and you must follow the advice given to you by other members - eg Self -exclusion (close your on-line accounts straight-away, and ring the companies to not alloow you to re-open or to send you any literature)

Then give all money and your cash cards, or credit cards to your mrs and ask her to give you no money at all, however much you plead, other than what you need for petrol, snacks, papers etc. If she can get petrol in the car that is best, and give you only very little money.

Then find something else to do, to pass your time after work. If you can't think of anything, then go to the gurudwara and do some seva, every day. Join their gym, and work-out.

Don't forget Guru Nanak's words from Japji Sahib :

"Maan jeethai jag jeeth" - conquer your mind and then the world.

Your war is all about how determined you are

Best wishes Bhaji

Himmat