Boxing Day 1

Well - had a nice meal - been out already 😀 Now back home with wine and fruit n nut and a chocolate graze box - yum. Not started the wine yet - bit early ! Got a friend round and kids are at Grandmas so we will have a good chat and watch a movie and get the blocking software password sorted. Plus my debit card arrived today - so I haven't looked at the code yet and my friend will be scratching the code off the back for me so I cannot use it online !! Feel stronger putting blocks in place so that I cannot fail in a moment of weakness. Daughters new tablet is playing on my mind though. I still need to install k9 on that to avoid me searching it out in a moment of weakness.

Hope you have a nice evening ODAAT with the doggy and I don't blame you for not traipsing round the town - I'm a little past that too. Went out boxing day and braved the crowds but had my fill for a few months probably.

I'm looking at stopping gambling not as a new years resolution, just living a better future. I have put too many plans in place now to save up for important things - top of the list being the holiday abroad and paying my kids back the money I 'lent' from them in 2014.

Happy New Year ODAAT and Mel. I know that we can gain strength from each other and look forward to a better year. I am glad to say goodbye to 2014. 2016 and Florida is a great long term goal to have Mel and it is certainly something major to look forward to and encourage you to say no whenever those weak moments come back. Well done on staying gamble free and yes we will defo kick its' ar*e this year!

Clare x

all the best clare

great idea with the pin number and new years resolution

tri

Thanks Triangle and best wishes to you too for New Year! Got ODAAT to thank for the idea with the debit card 🙂

Not mine...I have read it on a couple of posts & was just the middle man - I really hope it works!

So pleased to see you bringing in your New Year in style & I hope this happiness provides you with the strength to sail through 2015 kicking any urges into touch - ODAAT

Just logged in to see day 7 on my profile 😀

thanks for your strength and help along the way... I haven't gambled all year lol !

Congratulations in you week...I look forward to seeing that all through 2015!

#IHAVENTGAMBKEDALLYEAR

Or #IHAVENTGAMBLEDALLYEAR even (& I don't even drink!)

Haha, you sure about that ?

But yes i look forward to saying that each and every week too. Now I've done a week feels like more of an achievement. To say haven't gambled all year for the rest of the year will be amazing ... Let's see if I can make that happen !!

Well done for 1 week Clare - you can do this!!

Like you say, lets keep saying that we havent gambled all year, lol!! it will be fantastic!

Hope you had a brill night with your friend and wishing her well for the stopping smoking! I am loaded with cold so had to come home early from our party...so, I am feeling very very sorry for myself right now!! ha ha

Keep strong and keep posting!

Mel x

Hi Clare,

Happy new year and congratulations on 7 days. Let's start the 2015 full of determination and make it the year we turned our lives around. A new year, a new start.

Stay strong my friend

Jess x

Thanks all. Your comments and support is invaluable. I am still full of determination and have no intentions of ever going back. Too much to lose if you excuse the pun ! Thanks Mel my friend is doing well so far with no smoking too 🙂 good we can support each other !! She is helping me no end.

And yes by the end of the year I will be over 370 how good will that be. Glad to see you are staying strong Mel and sorry to hear you have a nasty cold. Hopefully you had chance to enjoy yourself before heading home early !

Thanks Jess and happy new year to you too. Look forward to reading your diary later I'm at the pub now ... Best get my head out the phone ,,'

Clare x

Well, my friend had bought lots of lovely M & S food in and I couldnt taste a thing! ;( had 1 cider and a sip of the champers to welcome in 2015 and then went home to bed...I'm so rock and roll!! So yeh, not the best start but I will make up for it 🙂

Anyways, enjoy the pub and catch up soon x

Mmm lovely M & S food and bless you couldn't taste it. What a shame ! I'm sure you will be back to yourself in no time and I'm so pleased you are still gamble free too. It is a good positive feeling, I feel your determination and hope it is here to stay !!

I'm back home from the pub now and no urges to gamble there or anywhere else. I used to enjoy pub slots but not in the last few years ... I've not found them appealing. Can't say the same for the slots in the bingo halls but I shan't be going there any more. I will not ever gamble on bingo or anything else as it's just tempting fate and stirring up those feelings of thinking I can win again. I know I can't win at any form of gambling. I have to remember that.

Clare x

Well done Claire. Your sounding very determined and put your blocks in place. Great start!! . Mark x

Thank you very much Mark.

Well done on day 8 .

I am soooo determined I won't go back. Have you joined the 2015 challenge ? I'm hoping to use that regularly to help me through an entire gamble free year.

Clare x