I’ll drink to that!... š
I’m feeling the same as in this time feels different. Like you, I’m beginning to see gambling for what it really is.
Happy Days mate! 5 weeks tomorrow. Good on you! Keep batting those days away.
Cheers DD. I haven’t got this far, felt this good, to throw it all away now. Gambling can well and truly do one. I’m enjoying the simpler pleasures of life again and quite frankly, it’s great.
5 weeks GF achieved today . Next milestone... 40 days!
Had a couple of ‘pangs’ of late. The usual... what harm could it do? My answer back... Quite a lot actually. I stopped that nonsense right there. I don’t gamble anymore. I hate it. Life is so much better now.
38 days and counting. Honing in on the big 4 0. Bring it on!
Good to see you’re fighting those pangs off mate. A life without gambling is the way it should be.
No more hiding, no more unexplainable mood swings.
Just watch your finances grow and ocassionaly treat yourself and your loved ones to something nice. That’s what life should be about. Screw gambling.
It’s not gambling if the end result always ends in a big, fat, stinking LOSS.
Dan
Well, I’ve made it. 40 days.
Felt a little low yesterday, not sure exactly why.
Nothing a good old gamble wouldn’t have sorted out. Or so I would’ve normally of convinced myself of anyway. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth, a gamble at that point is exactly what I don’t need. So before I even had time to seriously contemplate such a counterproductive idea, i shut that line of thinking down with immediate effect!
But I am right back on it today. Feeling good again after the recent blip. I started off with a nice 45 minute run @ 6 this morning and I think that was very much required. I haven’t been exercising much over the last week or so, I think I needed the endorphin release!
Next milestone 42 days (6 weeks)...
Well done on hitting 40 days mate!
Yes, gambling WILL only lead to further misery. I don’t know about you but in the 13 years that I’ve been gambling, not once has gambling managed to bring me out of a bad/low mood.
Any kind of win wouldn’t really effect or alter my mood and a loss, well, that would make me feel even worse!
I’ve just been for an 8km run tonight too. I feel much prouder and feel like I’ve actually accomplished something from today. My long term mission is to get fit and trim.
That’s what I’m going to obsess about instead of gambling.
Keep up the fantastic work mate.
Dan
I’m not having any luck with running at the moment. I am always picking up injuries, currently an aggravated IT band. I am certainly having more success giving up gambling, which is the main thing.
42 days today. 6 weeks.
Next target 50 days!
A busy day today at a trade show, mentality exhausted. The perfect opportunity for a little ‘wind down’ gamble I’d say.
Ah no, sorry, that was in my previous life. No more escaping to the twilight zone. The buzz is soon replaced by despair. Instead, I have chosen not to. Simples.
43 days and counting....
Hi Ukds69 - I'm loving your attitute to kicking gambling and congratulations on clocking up 44 days. It's having the insight to see gambling for what it really is helps to control the pangs. And it seems you've got that in spades.
Keep up good work and I look forward to seeing you soon hit that half century.
Thanks Equinox,
It’s true, I have gained an awareness that is keeping me well on top of it.
It is a shame though that it took so many cycles of giving up, relapse, lose, feel bad (and repeat...). It’s like I had to go through that to get to where I am now, I hope not for the sake of so many others earlier on in their gambling. Gamstop should provide a bit of a shortcut/fast track to others giving up though I hope.
46 days
Not having the best of times at the moment. The saving grace is I haven’t resorted to my usual escape, which is normally a given.
50 days today
51 days. No urges.
Racking them up. 53 days. No real serious threats up to now.
Thanks for the post on my diary mate and congratulations on accumulating over 50 days gamble free yourself. Top effort!
Keep it up!
Dan
Cheers Dan.
All still good. 55 days.
Year long counselling + Gamstop + wanting to give up forever = no more gambling thank you very much.
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