Today is Day 1 of my new journey. I would just like to thank everyone so far for helping me, welcoming me but also making me feel welcome on this forum. This is a huge help and makes me feel confident about telling people my problem. After self excluding from all my betting apps yesterday after spending more or less a full months wage betting on horses, football and greyhounds I decided to open an account on here as I needed help and advice from other people.
Waking up this morning I actually felt motivated and ready to try and start a new chapter without this horrible addiction. I managed to go into the gym on my day off for around an hour and 1/2, then went and seen my Dad who doesn't stay far from me. After seeing him I spent some time on here looking at different posts and topics. So far tonight I am waiting on my girlfriend coming in from the salon (getting some beauty treatment done) then will watch the final episode of making a murderer. I have also been noting down other series that we could potentially watch on Netflix.
Thanks
Craig
Day 2 - Feeling happy that I managed to get through day 1 without a bet. Ready to keep myself busy today to continue it.
Hope day 2 is going as well as day 1. Keep them blocks hi and keep busy hope you enjoyed the last episode I was a bit disappointed with the last one but the series was epic as my son would say
KTF
Can't complain about day 2 so far. Ended up looking at prices etc for horseracing this morning but because i have self exlcuded from all online betting sites i couldnt bet anywhere and after 5-10 mins the temptation wore off. Started watching Narcos on netflix which passed the time for a wee while, looks like its going to be quite a good watch. Now going off to the gym. Speak later people,
Craig
Cheers Dean ! Off to the other half's now for some dinner and to watch some films. (If we can find a good one which we both agree on). Speak tomorrow guys.
Day 3 checking in ! Been working today from 8:30-4 so been kept going all day. Now home for something to eat and have a relaxing night with the misses.
Day 4 was completed yesterday and can't say I didn't have the urge to bet on the football with the amount of it on but managed to get through the day. Day 4- tick. On to day 5 today...
Day 5- this weather is horrible. Roll on some decent weather so I can get the golf clubs out the cupboard. Working today from 1-10. Going to go into the gym before work and keep myself occupied.
Day 5 more or less completed! Was feeling a bit down today but managed to pick myself up thinking about how I felt after looking while gambling !
Today is Day 6 and can't believe it will be nearly a week by tomorrow. It's been a fairly long week but I've managed to do it. Hopefully the weeks will now turn into months.
Excellent to see such a strong start. Try not to get to far ahead in your thinking...keep it one day at a time.
Hi Craig. It looks like youre doing well and keeping yourself busy. Nice one!
So after today that will be my first week completed! Can't believe it to be honest. Thanks everyone for the support. I'm very hopeful of it continuing.
One week completed !
So its been a week since i had my last bet and feel as if ive hit a brick wall today ! Been trying to keep myself busy and ended up going to the driving range. Temptation has gotten pretty high today so decided I should start writing my diary to take my mind off betting. Has anyone got any interesting books that i could start reading or interesting websites etc ?
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