Had enough. Time for change. For good!!

20 days GF today! Feels milestoney.

I’m just so happy that I’ve got this far and it wasn’t, up to this point at least, yet another false dawn.

I don’t want to gamble ever again. It’s pointless, it makes me feel awful, I neglect those who are most important to me as a result and I give it all my money!

Well done on 20 days! Yes, I always felt 20 was a mini milestone 🙂

Gambling is pointless, you’re right. It only ever leads us to be miserable. Why would we ever want that again?

Keep going mate!

Cheers Dan! Yep, it really is pointless isn’t it? Even though I always knew that whilst in the midst of it, I couldn’t stop it. Now I can and it feels great.

21 days, the 3 week mark. Ploughing on...

Friday night after a very stressful day at the workplace. The girlfriend is out, this is prime time gamble time, this really is.

But, I’m not going to. I don’t want to. I’ve just sent a very abrupt reply back to a well known casino, still sending me stuff despite my self exclusion, and me asking them not to. That made me feel better than any gambling session has ever led me to feel.

23 days GF and counting!

Friday night would usually be a gambling night for me too.

I say ‘gambling night’. What I mean is it would have been a planned one.

My destructive online casino gambling could occur at any time.

Instead we’re going to have a gamble free one mate!

I’m going to find a film to watch on SkyGo and chill out. Knowing that each minute that passes by is another minute away from my last bet.

Another perfect day for gambling has been and gone. Celebrated a good friend’s birthday late night and suffering the consequences all day today. A very inactive day trying to recover the the excesses of last night. This would normally have resulted in a day of comfort gambling but instead I banished any such thought.

I hate gambling, I spend money doing something that I know full well will ultimately make me feel awful. Therefore I choose not to, thank you very much.

26 days GF

Well done this is my 6th day of not gambling it has been hard but I'm determined to keep it up it has destroyed me financially and morally all it does is take our money time and life I became isolated a lier and was leading a double life I want the real me back, The nice me.

Saw my counsellor today and talked things through. There is no doubt that the year I’ve spent having sessions with her have been instrumental in me finally seeing the light. The ‘light’, the eureka moment, the key, the final piece of the jigsaw being the moment I realised that I had to accept that I was giving up gambling for GOOD. The moment that penny dropped, my mindset shifted in an instant and I saw things so differently.

27 days and counting 🙂

Well done on 28 days mate! It sounds like you’re really getting things together in life and tackling your gambling issues in a positive and proactive manner.

I’m glad that the counselling has worked for you and has eventually led to creating that eureka moment with regards to gambling.

Keep those days stacking up mate.

Cheers Dan, another day, another GF day!

Mini milestone alert..

4 weeks today! Whoop whoop.

Next milestone achieved today. One (long) calendar month. 31 days.

Loving it. Life is throwing all sorts at me at the moment but I’m still standing tall and not not succumbing to the dastardly temptation.

I realise the journey will be a long one yet but I’m pleased that my suspicions were right, something different has ‘clicked’ this time inside my head. I finally saw gambling on the online slots for what it really was / is. Not that I hadn’t already worked that out of course, but the accumulating level of my awareness, my accumulating disgust and hatred directed towards the sleazy slimey gambling industry, my accumulating frustation levels, combined with this forum and GAMSTOP registration reached a tipping point on the seesaw. Where it finally started to override the pull of wanting to gamble.

32 days today. Feeling strong.

Bit of a test coming up though. The family are away for a couple of days, so home alone. No work as it’s BH Monday. The scene would normarilly be set perfect for a day of online slots. If I’m perfectly honest, the thought of it doesn’t horrify me as much as I’d like. But... I am confident I can steer well clear. I have put in too much of a gap to jump across, from my current life of a nice gambling free one to going back to how I was before, gambling all the time and unhappy as a consequence.

I don’t want to gamble and I won’t. Ever again.

Sending some encouragement and positivity your way for this beautiful bank holiday Monday, Ukds69.

Keep smashing those urges away mate. You’re doing fantastically well on 33 days.

Have a nice day.

Dan

Cheers dude and much appreciated it is!

I’ve got this. It’s glorious outside. Gambling is not going to form any part of my day today.

Have a great day as well and keep up the top work!

34 days. Happy days!

I’ve got this far on plenty of previous occasions but this is different...

This time I have had enough. Gambling is pointless. It’s counterproductive, it’s counterintuitive, it’s feeding an industry I despise more than anything else I can think of. That’s it. I’m done. Not one more penny of mine goes to these parasites.