Last Gamble 30th August 2009

Day 277.

All good, happy to be gambling free. Top of the tree!

Well done to all of you who are given up.

Cheers, James

Hi, Dazzler

Just having a read through your diary. Very inspiring. Well done to you!!

I am very early on in my recovery and I can relate to the earlier part of your diary and it's great to see how you've moved forward.

All the best to you,

Lili

Thanks Lili,

Day 278. Loving the weather, no thoughts of gambling at all, I think I would probably be physically sick if I placed a bet now as I really hate what I was. Feel like a million dollars.

Have a great weekend all.

Cheers, Jim

Hi Jim

Just to say, great work mate....keep going that years getting closer.

Have great weekend and enjoy the sun, im gonna.

ands

Day 280 (40 Weeks)

The last 10 weeks have been crazy everything has changed and none of it would have been possible if I hadn't given up gambling. My life is unrecognisible compared to August 2009, hardly anything remains the same different house, different job, different part of the world, but everything is so much better.

I will never gamble again, that isn't complacency, I have turned a massive corner in my life and know whatever is thrown at me I can handle it. I will not gamble.

I feel so alive.

Cheers, Jim

Hi Jim

Great last post, congrats on the 40 weeks and congrats on the way you have turned your life around, impressive!!

What part of the world are you in? just wandering...

Anyway take care and have great weekend! ands

Day 285

Thanks Ands I am up in Yorkshire. Still ticking along cannot wait for 5 O'Clock. Feel good happily approaching my next big target of a year.

Cheers, Jim

Keep ticking along mate--soon be a year

Stumper

Day 286

All ticking along nicely, been reading a few diarys this morning, I wish you all well in your own person battles with gambling.

Its not easy but we all knew that when we joined GC.

I thank GC and all its members for the support I have been given.

Cheers, Jim

Day 287

Not much happening few beers last night, world cup is in full swing, I was thinking would I have gambled on the WC, if I hadn't given up?

Probably, the rugby season is over other than some internationals so I probably would have been gambling on these games out of boredom and no doubt spending a fortune on the fobt's or the fruity's. But saying that, who knows where I would be if I hadn't given up when I did..... probably divorced and out of work at the very least by now.

I feel on top of the world.

I will not gamble today.

Thanks, James

Hi Jim

I hope you are well and are having a good gamble free week!

Just wanted to say hi and thanks for your postings on my diary, its horrible to think of the various outcomes gambling could lead us too! So like you i choose not to gamble, again!! Gambling sucks!!

Take care and i hope you have great weekend, ands

Day 292

Its FRIDAY, Yaay. Feel great ready for the weekend have a day off with wife today but nothing really planned. Enjoying a long weekend.

Cheers, Jim

Jim

Almost the big 300 kid.Hope you enjoyed your day off and the football didnt spoil it too much.All the best Jeff.

Day 294

Cheers Jeff, I had a great day off - even considering the footie.

Sometimes wonder why I count the days but then I remember how very hard the first week was... that is why I count.

It was so stressful trying to come to terms with the financial mess I was in, not just from the couple of grand I had lost that weekend but the thousands I had lost leading up to it. And that weekend was nowhere near my worst loss.

It took me a good three months I guess to come to terms with all of the damage I had caused. But now I feel a million times better and don't ever want to go through that again, so I will carry on counting the days and as you point out Jeff another week and it will be 300 whole days. I can honestly say I am a different person now.

The only advice I will give any gambler is give it up, it is worth it.

I will not gamble.

Jim

Hi Jim

Hope you are well, just popping in to say hi and hope you have a great gamble free weekend....Huge congrats on approaching 300 days gamble free, that year will soon be here....Great work Jim, take care. ands