Easy does it!

hey smiler..kicked myself up the proverbial this morning ..thanks for your post...am back on track at a cool 8 out of 10..meeting later xx

Feeling very tired tonight and taking on more work. Need to be careful. I feel I am setting myself up here to gamble so I will start to turn work away. It is one of the triggers I used before and I thought with extra money coming in I could hide losses. Easy does it as I am now fully aware of what I am about. Going along fine and gambling is on the horizon. Take care all!!

just back from a meeting and read your post..Just to say thoughts are with you and sending you all good things..."Easy does it" is keeping me strong today too.x

Just back from work and going to chill for a time. Going to have to say "NO" instead of give me a minute and I'll...

I am liking the positivity I am reading from this site it gives me great hope for the day. I make a point of reading something positive before I go to work in the morning and I try to post something positive at night. I know I am substituting gambling with work so need to get a happy balance. However my debt should go down a little quicker but not in any rush. I have made some nice purchases with money lately rather than losing it in bookies. I am liking my life today!

Hey Smiler,

Thankyou for your kind words it was really nice.

Hope your weekend is going great and your leading yourself away from the gambling niggles your doing great and your positivity is shining through.

"Liking my life today " is all you can you ask for :0)

Stay Strong and positive.

E x

That sounds like a really healthy, positive post.

I am off to the cinema with some mates, £6 for a ticket that gives 2 hours entertainment. How long would £6 last in the bookies?

Every penny we spend on ourselves or our families is one less penny in THEIR tills which can only be good.

OS

"I am liking my life today!"

Sounds good to me! It's good when we are able to buy things for ourselves instead of giving it to greedy gambling bosses isn't it?

Long may this continue.

GT

your positivity is rubbing off on me too Smiler....Im also liking life today ....thank you x

Aw Smiler,

It is lush to read you are in a positive space. Couldn't happen to a cannier lad!

Take care,

f x

Just back from swimming and feeling tired. Going to watch football whilst I still have Sky and paying for it. Gambling thoughts rattling round in my head as I can see the light so demons want to blur it over. I cannot gamble in bookies within 15 miles or so, so no gambling today. Alarm bells are not ringing just crazy thoughts and I thought write them down to remind me I am not invincible. I will not gamble today as I have lots to do. I have some good diaries on here that i follow and really appreciate everyone that posts. I get tremendous insight ino this addiction from everyone even if i don't get to post on people's thresds I still read them. Going to start making dinner and prepare Mons and Tues too. I like myself today but I have a long way to go to fully understand who i am!

Hmmm... sounds like we are living in a parallel universe!

I have already made dinner for Monday and Tuesday.

I have self excluded myself from every single bookies for around 20 miles from me.

But I don't have sports on Sky and I don't really need it. SSN on Saturday afternoons is good enough for me.

Feeling tired from exercise is good.

Feeling tired and stressed from losing money certainly isn't.

GT

Just wanted to say thanks for your understanding Smiler - I feel like you really do know what I am going through with the lack of confidence, and it is a comfort.

Thanks for your kindness.

f x

Freda you are as welcome as the flowers in May. You drop by any time you like. I wish I could do more to help you. You are the master of your own destiny so heads up and move forward. Take care

Hello Smiler

Thanks for popping into diary, duly lifting my spirit :-)...

Am a little bit of a fraud or voyeur of these diary's of late! Follow a few but rarely offers support to others!! Willing on people in my mind...

Carry on upwards Smiler, a survivor of this gambling blitz.

Strength and honour and hope you're not a hammer!!!!! 🙂

TC exmug

Hey Smiler,

Just saying well done for all the support you have offered me and others with your posts, I am just starting down this road but reading your diary has allowed me to accept that there will be bad times, down times and sad times but we must be strong, we CAN be strong and we can learn to live with who we are.

Paul