Dilemma

Hai Russ!

Thanks for the visit to my diary and support, had been following you're diary as quite a fellow binger. You're doing superb and great that you're filling yoyr life with positiveness and living life the way it should be.

Keep it up bud

Thanks for the post russ..."my 40 points was enough to win"...would nae have thought any different wi a score like that. El bandito lol 😉 well done on your continued positivity your making it look easy mate...we can do this 🙂

Hi Russ

Thanks for taking the time to post on my diary, think this is the first time i have posted on yours too.

Great work on your recovery, sounds like you are doing very well mate, keep that positivity going!!

take care, ands

Hi Russ,

Thanks for the post on my diary yesterday.

Glad to see you are doing well with your golf.

Keep up with these other interests and you will find it so much easier to stay away from bookies.

Take care and stay strong, Himmat

Thanks paul, ands, winning post and himmat. All very much appreciated. I'm currently sitting in my car waiting for my next meeting. There is a homeless guy selling the big issue across the road from me. He must have asked at least 200 people in a genuine positive manner....NOBODY has bought one. He has not taken offence to any rejection. I really feel for him. That's it, I'm going to buy one. Russ

Good on you Russ, sometimes quite a decent read the Big Issue. Will have to read past couple of my posts, as it appears confusion. Am with you and determined to beat this malarkey, my blip wasnt a gambling blip more a train of thought blip and the need to remind my self that its a long route ahead. Positiveness is a powerful tool required to win the battle, hence liking to read your thoughts and progress and for me the need to kick any negativity for 6 as soon it springs up in the mind!

Anyway, enjoy your read and strength and honour!!!

i think to stop gambling will be possible. all you need to do is to take up a new sport. and you will forget about the FOBTs

Thanks Paul and crazy addict, despite my new positive self it wasn't enough this evening and I lost my singles. I played like a total numbty! Feel totally gutted as I let myself down. I guess I do need to look at the real positives, my wife loves me (despite what I have put her through), I have a gorgeous family and lastly I haven't gambled since the cheltenham festival. I need to pick myself up because as the end of the day it's only a game of golf. Onwards and upwards.

Hi Russ, thanks for the post i am still around just not had much to say.

Nice to see you are doing well and the golf is good. Mine is shocking, even had a lesson,still s**t! Enjoying the challenge though, will be much more rewarding than my previous hobby!

Keep it up buddy,it was nice to know you were thinking of me.

Thanks for the post Russ!

I think I will be giving any winnings to the captains charity from now on! That way it won't feel like a gamble!

Keep up the good work mate

Nick

Russ,

Okay so the golf went t*** up BUT more importantly you're still gamble free, Given the choice - what would you choose? See, its just a matter of perspective. Anyway, you can win the singles next year.

All the best

Hatch

hello Evanru, I have just spent time reading through your diary and your strength to succeed from this deamon shines through brilliantly, Your empathy for others is fantastic and I read in one of your threads that you felt for some of the people that had posted. I had a major slip this week in my progress. The thing is before this I had posted how other stories made me want to reach out to them, but i did it to myself????????? that is pathetic!!!!! anyway you should be proud of your progress and thank you for your diaries inspiring words!!!!!

Enjoy the rest of the week,

Beezer

Cheers Nick, Phil, beeper and of course 'the hatch man'. A drove for four hours to play in an industry cricket tournament today and then drove 4 hours back! Totally knackered! I'm really pleased to see some fellow posters having a good day. For the record we won 4 out of 4 games and won the tournament! Strangely enough I had an urge to gamble today.....I think it was the England match. There was no way that I was going to gamble but it was a message that it's always there. I just have to keep taking my thought medicine, which is posting and reading on here. At home tomorrow...thank goodness for that! Bedfordshire for me.

Well I'm stiff as a board this evening after yesterdays cricket. My partner and I managed to scrap through to the semis of the four ball. I'm quite sure how we did it, but it was good enough. No gambling urges at all today. Take care all. Russ

Russ,

Well done on the cricket...and the golf! With all that sport going on, you're not going to have time to gamble!!

Well done on suppressing the urges - England football matches will always be a trigger. I have been watching some of the USPGA and keep thinking "what price is so and so? " BUT they are just urges and we will beat this together - slowly BUT surely.

Well done Russ and keep it going mate.

All the best

Hatch