That's right pal. I'm gonna do 7 days clean.
It's just a box that's all it is.
We can do it.
Take care diary, speak to you tomorrow on day 4.
Final word tonight: You're right! It's a box! We've been spending half our lives talking to and giving money to a bl**dy box!
Enough is enough don't you think!
We can do this, for our sanity if nothing else!!! Over and Out!
Morning diary. Day 4, 12.20pm.
Afternoon really then!
Just woke, feel a bit better than last night, need to go back to sleep really, nights again tonight.
Mind was again consumed with thoughts of gambling last night, not actually gambling but if I can stay away for the rest of my life.
I can and I will.
It's just a Box!! There's not even sound on half the wetherspoons ones! I talk to a silent box!!
Why?!
Anyway, back to sleep. Day 5 here I come.
Hi KP
I am never going to talk to a box again, all it does is take my money. Day 6 and Day 7 tomorrow. A week. Laying down a marker; and you'll be at a week soon, too. We can do this.
Hey mixer. Nights tonight so I'll be into day 5 tomorrow.
Got alot on tomorrow so should get to day 6 quite easily.
I have massive periodic binges aswell as you know and Friday (day 7) is an opportunity. I can't hide from that fact so I'm determined to get past the first week.
Sheer determination and will of steel.
Also well done Katiecoo aswell. I'd like to think the 3 of us can do it together.
We can and we WILL
We're all heading towards a weekend and a traditional time of weakness. And you're right, me, you and Katiecoo are a TEAM, bonded by fate, and all want to be gambling free for ever. I will be on this site forever if that's what it takes - watch me.
What a team we are. What determined people we are. What decent, interesting people we are!
Let's keep marking off those days, defiantly, one-by-one.
Mixer wrote:
We're all heading towards a weekend and a traditional time of weakness. And you're right, me, you and Katiecoo are a TEAM, bonded by fate, and all want to be gambling free for ever. I will be on this site forever if that's what it takes - watch me.
What a team we are. What determined people we are. What decent, interesting people we are!
Let's keep marking off those days, defiantly, one-by-one.
If only you knew what strength I draw from words like that.
My personality is as stubborn as they come and when it's fed ammunition like that it just makes me even more stubborn and determined to beat it.
We are better than this. Deep down inside us is a good NORMAL everyday person desperate to get out.
Let's break that wall down and be ourselves again.
God knows I miss the old me, I bet you and Katie do aswell.
Roll on day 5, I'm unbreakable.
KP82 your wife left the old you and in time you can reintroduce yourself as the real you. I believe a better future for us all. I for one should not have been admitting a gambling problem to a man that nearly died of cancer, and who had to bring me back into my credit limit this month and in doing so has gone financially without. How selfish my addiction has made me, but my need to make right prevails and I feel that that is your driving force also
We are all facing up to the truth about how our addiction has affected ourselves and others, and having taking this crucial step can march forwards from this low point upwards.
No longer are we going to be people that others look at with pity and ridicule as we slouch over a tablet, PC, "box" or FOBT "box".
Not us. Not any more! Our quiet, determined approach will prove to us, and them, we have stepped out of this hamster wheel of disaster and despondency.
Go KP, Go Katie. Go me. Go everyone who wants to permanently stop!
Day 5. 07.30am
Morning diary.
Strong positive mood today.
Got my stubborn b****** head on and feel invincible.
Must go to bed now as tired after nights.
Day 5 will be put to bed quite easily.
Mixer and Katie, we're in this together remember!!
One positive thought first thing in the morning can change your entire day. It's working for me. Try it.
Off to bed now diary. Later.
Excellent diary entry. Perhaps this is our secret weapon - belligerent stubbornness. And we are turning our stubbornness "tank" against the enemy and giving it both barrels. Blast those '"boxes" away to smithereens in your mind. Learn to absolutely hate them.
What's in those boxes anyway? When you look inside they're empty! Just a few bulbs, wires. The only big items in there are a note and coin collection box.
Says it all doesn't it.
It certainly does say it all. It's a box that eats your money. That's all it is.
Day 5 going well, going to pick a car up shortly for a mate.
Had yet another row on the phone with the ex another bout there matters, she told me I'm weak and too selfish to succeed, but two days ago tells me she loves me and she is my biggest supporter!!
keep it coming woman, your just driving me on even harder.
anyway diary I have to go, I'll be in chat room tonight though.
A week gamble free is only 2 days away!!
we CAN and we WILL
KP,
I sense, and know, you are serious about stopping forever. Hence why I am here supporting you, like you are supporting me. I will not let you down. I know you won't let me down. Time will make things so much better; you know it, I know it too.
Anyone on now? I've got a massive urge to bet tonight on the football, only a fiver acca, please someone get back to me
dont do it mate just slipped ended up 800 down and feeling so bad
nack to day one for me
just handed all my finances to my other half
best thing i could do as i cant punt if i only have a score in my pocked
please do the same
day one again for me from tm
mark
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