I will be there for my wife and daughter

Love your commitment. Congratulations on achieving your target and continuing to set more.
Soon you will be able to hold your beautiful baby daughter and know that all your struggles and emotional battles will have been worth it.
You will have more than one reason to feel proud.
Best wishes to all x

You made it !!!!- how proud you must feel 🙂 And boy are you about to feel prouder. I am just starting my journey, but you have given me inspriration. All the very best to you and your good lady !

Excellent thread

You are a real inspiration to others wanting to quit.

Thank you very much for the comments very nice to read. I just wanted to update that she is here my little girl arrived 432 on 12th. All well and I'm a very very happy (+tired dad)

Dear 2nd Apr17

Many congratulations on the birth of your daughter from the forum team! We hope you carry on your great progress to date.

Best wishes

Forum Admin

What a fantastic update 🙂

Welcome to the world little one & huge congratulations to you all 🙂

Many congratulations to you and your partner on the birth of your baby girl , its a shame she wasn't on time but she's a girl what do you expect eh ? LoL .

I'm sure you'll carry on marching forward with your recovery but with the added inspiration you'll get from your precious new arrival . ( once youve had some sleep ) :))

Best wishes on this happy occasion my friend .

Regards Alan

Thank you for the comments, from gamcare itself that's much appreciated and from Alan and odaat really means a lot. Things are going well and as you said she'll be some extra motivation to stay on this right path.

Thanks again all. Day 199, double century tomorrow!

Firstly massive congratulations to you and your now larger family! The way you have tackled your problem and went about it on here is inspiring to the likes of me. Can't believe you're at 200 tomorrow as well,awesome! Kind of get the sense from your diary that your going to be a dab hand at this parenthood lark lol best feeling in the world! All the best 🙂

Good morning my friend :)) , Hope you had a restfull night with your new addition ?

Just dropped by to send my congratulations on reaching your double century gamble free , Its a fantastic achievement and one that you should be really proud of , your life's changing all the time particularly now with your precious daughter relying on her dad to look after her and provide for her and take it from the father of a 31 yr old daughter that doesn't come cheap , so you having given up the dreaded gambling has come at a perfect time .

Your focus is her and your family now and I know that you'll put as much effort into doing the best you can for them just as you have with your recovery :))

Well done my friend it's a pleasure to be walking alongside you on your journey :))

My best wishes to you and your family .

Much respect

Alan

Thank you for the posts was a real pleasure to read and I'm sorry I didn't get chance to reply my heads everywhere with baby and so many things going on at work it's just madness all around.

Wanted to just a have a post here probably the first in about 2 months, basically had a big urge to bet yesterday and I think this is due to having hardly any money because of baby and doing less hours to be home more and Xmas and also with all that's going on I wanted an escape to. I think that's the biggest reason more than the money I wanted the escape. I helped a colleague with her bet and made the stupid choice of picking a bet for her and then wanted to do it myself even worked out returns etc. But my fake bet then became another one as I was thinking of a slight variation then the stake went up and before I knew it in my head my one ВЈ10 bet was up to £100 In different combinations. So it's crazy how quick things can spiral and that's why I can't have even one bet or I'd be ruined.

All those urges, thoughts, ideas and that's after over 8 months gamble free. For me there is no cure, no safe way to bet, I just can't ever bet again or I risk everything.

I didn't bet I'm happy to say, I'm glad I stayed strong. So it's day 246. Looking forward to finishing 2016 gamble free and starting the new year right.

Day 250. A quarter of the way to 1000! I'm looking for a few goals one complete 2016 with just the one blemish of £20 back in April. Get to April to make my first ever gamble free year and then finish 2017 to have my first calender gamble free year. Then keep climbing to that day 1000 - I like the sound of that

There should be a "like" button on here as I would click it for that post. Day 250, great effort. I look forward to posting that in my diary in June 2017!! Well done.

Haven't posted on here in a while I tend to post just on the challenge threads now as that serves as my reminder each week, like an online ga. Works for me although I would advise anyone new to the site to dive in and learn as much as you can and really give this everything until you find what works for you and that's the key do what works for you.

Day 281 for me and I'm really looking forward to entering my third century, never been there before and I want to keep breaking my record and never look back

Day 300! I won't post to much I have just posted on the challenge but just thought I'd add it down on here this great milestone that I'm really proud to hit its a yardstick I've never met before and I'm really happy to get to this moment and yet I'm still focused on moving forward and reaching the year one target. My next mini target is day 333 a third of the way to my far off target of 1000 days, then it's onto a year then 500 or the calender year whatever comes first and then doing it all again for 2018. Gambling for me is a joke and it really is horrible, I can't ever do it again, I don't want to. I'm so much more happier in so many ways and I never want to go back to that miserable world I was once in.

Day 300, looking forward to the next milestone