can 2014 be my year

Many people join gyms to lose weight and improve fitness every January and disappear before the month is out. Same story on this Forum.

Let's hope you will be different Steve. If you have gone 10 months before you can do it again.

Have you identified the reasons and triggers as to why you gamble and why you returned to it last time?

cheers captain i will try my best to beat it and its just pure boredom at home when the wife is at work she works days i work nights 3 0n 3 off for her and 4 on 4 off for me so left on my own alot need to do some diy jobs around the house to keep me busy its what i did last time and it worked

day one a fresh start for me just back from a 12 hour night shift one thing is for sure there will be no gambling this week emptied my account last night so got no money to deposit done the shopping this morning and still have quite alot left i don't do bookies or fobt so no chance of me wasting it in there.

feeling in a very positive mood getting my paint brushes out on my next 4 days of starting Sunday thanks for reading cheers steve

Well done Steve. It sounds like your determined to beat this thing. Doing something else like painting will take your mind off gambling. Whenever I get a little urge or I'm tempted to go back on the site I used to gamble with, I just get up and go do something else for half an hour. It doesn't need to be anything big; just a walk to the shops or doing the washing up and then when I come back, I've came to my senses again.

Best of luck and keep that positive frame of mind!

thank you martin it helped last time doing diy around the house and being a cg never seem to get the time to do the more important jobs around the house .

well off to work for a 12 shift last night was hard being off for the last 14 days but i seem to have a new mind set so it went ok dragged a bit only day one but still feeling positive cheers steve

day 3 my first day off of 4 and the wife is back to work tomorrow this would be the time i would hit the online slots but i cant do because i have emptied mt account of money so i have got to find something else to do time to get the ladders out and start striping wall paper .

i am still in a positive frame off mind been here so many times now just need to keep focused on what i need to do bet filter is a must will try and buy it Thursday payday for me as it is every week relay don't want to lapse well on wards and upwards i hope cheers steve

Steve

yes get the betfilter on asap. However whilst doing diy will ease the boredom for a time, might I suggest that it is only temporary (regardless of how much you have to do it will run out sometime?) also are you doing the diy only to stop yourself gambling or do you enjoy it? Are there other pastimes and pursuits you could consider?

P.s. In my own experience it's not easy to fill the time you spent thinking about and doing gambling and I've had to work hard and develop entirely new routines, dare I say it rituals where I do stuff because I have kind of programmed myself to do it. It's not ideal but it works and worth it if it gets you where you want to be.

thanks for the reply captain forgot what day i am on but don't care much got a letter from the mortgage company with a threat of repression tried on the phone to come to an agreement and told a lie about having time of due to stress and they want proof can do it because i gambled that money just felt to embarrassed to tell them i am cg and am trying to adress these isuies never felt so sick in my life and just cant get myself to tell my wife don't know were to turn to next