Day 1 - sick of being sick from this

Great choices 🙂

Keep strong - ODAAT

So made it to day 4, had a good weekend even if a little shake yup till 3 o'clock on sat, should ok until Thursday where I'll be travelling out of my local area and will have the chance to gamble.

a good friend text me a sure thing accumulator Saturday I refused to take him up on it he laughed and told me I'd never give up. I'll be honest I did keep an eye on the scores and was glad when 20 minutes from the end a couple of goals went in and messed it up. Refused the opportunity to gloat to the mate and just thought that was a moral victory and some extra cash in my pocket

Great decision & welcome to Day 5 🙂

Take no money with you Thursday, forget your wallet if you have to...No money, no gamble! Time to prove your 'mate' wrong...The only sure thing gambling is that to win is to stop!

Yep i will do. I'm usually fine through the week but friday afternoons and saturdays are the worst. Managed to juggle some debt around to interest free for next 12 months so feel like somebody is looking out for me and this is a chance to get debts paid off. Sad thing is most of my credit card debt has been caused by gambling.

I was thinking of why i need to gamble, yes i do enjoy a gamble but i think its the thrill of winning a big bet. Truth be told sports betting i'm awful, i do get luck on the fobts but also some horrible runs. The most i've ever won i think was around £2000 which was kept in cash in the house. In two days all of that and more went back in the machines. Why couldn't i stop when up that much? Greed i think!

Have been feeling a little down this week and feel like something is missing, have been out running but jumped on the scales yesterday and literally hadn't lost anything which was a real disappointment. Am going to keep plugging away though, going away with the wife next weekend so looking forward to that. Lots on with work as well so need to keep my head straight

I have been stuck in the roulette cycle for a lot of years , go into the bookies in the hope of winning "free money" before you know it you've blown £300.00 and your shaking walking to the bank to withdraw another £300.00 before you know it thats gone and your left nearly in tears , you would be in tears if others werent around and feel angry that you have number 17 surrounded and somehow it landed next door on 34 on your last spin.

Like me you will never win because you cannot stop once your compulsive gambling takes hold , we become greedy and to be honest we only ever win when we have pockets of money and always lose when we can least afford to , even down to our last penny.

Then comes the mad rush to ebay to sell our wordly goods so we can have our next fix.

It took me to reach rock bottom before I finally have seen sense and started the recovery path , you can recover from this please do not let these horrible machines ruin your life.

All my credit card debt & all my loans were due to my gambling as was money from downsizing & inheritance! You are doing great...Don't blow the interest free lifeline! I get that you feel you are missing something but truth is, you won't be missing the 'hangover' that gambling causes! I was consumed by thoughts when I first quit...I knew nothing else, I thought I enjoyed gambling, I was scared I had to stop completely & I didn't know what to do with myself or my bad moods! This fog will clear! I am still figuring myself out but I know now there is no room for that gambling in my life anymore (I still do the lottery/odd scratchcards)!

I'm not sure how much running you have been doing but weight is a funny thing - hopefully you are feeling 'fitter' @ least! Keep fighting the urges & look forward to the weekend away as a treat!

You can do this - ODAAT

So I've made it to day 9 and I'm like a cracking addict this morning craving a bet. Trying to convince myself ill win or it'll be okay. I only want to do a small sports bet ten or twenty pound to keep me interested today. I can't shake it out of my mind. Is this what every Saturday is going to be like?
Trying to tell myself as long as it's a sports bet and no fobts that'll be fine. Even as much as I write all this down I feel like I know I'm going to do a bet this afternoon. Told my wife she says don't do it, she's going out this afternoon so I know I'm going to be on my own all afternoon with nothing to do but sit in front of the results screen.
Man this is hard I've quit for a long time before and can't remember it being like this, I think I'd had some major losses the last time so there was the real strong feelings of hatred towards gambling. This time the losses have been small so I don't have the pain just the thoughts in my head that I need to stop.

Hi Ya, did you manage to ride the urges out?

Hope you're ok & are keeping strong - ODAAT