Life begins again

well done suzanne

you inspire me daily

keep it up and tomorrow ye sits 150 days but its just another day to appreciate and keep happy

well done tri

Awesome Suzanne you are racking up the days! From reading your diary you seem to be in such a good place and its where I aspire to be. Congratulations on your continuing success x

Hi Suzanne,

Wow well done on 150 days.

Come on the girls!!!

Celebrate & Enjoy this milestone.

You got there!!!

Suzy

150 days and going strong is amazing! Well done you are an inspiration to all on here!

Steve xxx

Just having a catch up on your diary and it's great to see the positivity from you and proof that by staying clean life can get a lot better and debts will go down freeing the mind to do other things. Well done and carry on, you are keeping many of us going knowing a life without gambling is all worth it.

150 days and going strong is amazing! Well done you are an inspiration to all on here!

Steve xxx

Thanks all for your continuing support, I really do appreciate it.

Good morning diary

150 days of making that right choice of abstaining and therefore maintaining and my addiction hates that.

I LOVE IT. starving it everyday.

Carrying on forwards and upwards and I am beginning to really enjoy my abstinence now, if that makes sense.

Wishing everyone a positive, strong and peaceful gambling free day.

Suzanne xx

Well done Suzanne, a great personal milestone to reach and so inspirational! I know what you mean about 'starving' the beast!! Great way of looking at it!! Have a fab day, Cliff

Hi Wolf

Thanks for your message, and hey you are doing fantastic yourself 115 days tomorrow, and still making that right choice WELL DONE to you xx

Good morning diary

151 days of not spending even one penny on any form of gambling.

Late shift today back in early tomorrow but I don't really mind today because I am feeling so positive and strong today.

A week til payday but I have enough money in my bank to last easily. What a difference abstaining and maintaining makes, clear head, happy family, enough money to live on, the list now is endless and far outweighs GAMBLING.

My small steps are gifting me now every day in different ways.

Thoughts and urges today NO WAY, I am living my life, why on earth would I want to wreck it again, Well I don't.

I made a commitment to myself on the 28/04/2014 to abstain 100% and I am not going to give all that hard work up for anything.

Wishing everyone a strong determined and sane gambling free day

Suzanne xx

Never give up the good work you are doing Suzanne by abstaining from gambling and helping other people out on here

Graeme x

Hi Suzanne

Your positive posts and recovery are an inspiration to us all. You are winning at life. You go, girl.

Elfie x

Good afternoon diary.

152 days today of making that choice, a simple choice and that is to not gamble.

Easier said than done, but I am making it every day because real life issues are far more important.

To keep blotting out REAL LIFE every day is so self destructive (that is what life is all about) the good and the bad.

Duncs has said on his post today about laughter in the family home, something I am sure we can all agree that we never felt when gambling. We forget how good that atmosphere with family life is WHEN gambling takes over.

All we think about when in the midst/ fog/ oblivion of gambling is really NEGATIVITY, why, because we know we are not going to win, but we carry on and drown out real life.

Two posts I have read today and I thank you both, Duncs for making me feel warm about family laughter,

and Joan because of her courage which made me feel humble and realise gambling losses is nothing to real life losses.

Thank you both for sharing.

GAMBLING takes so much more away than just money,

and debt, it can take our lives away.

Me gambling today after a double shift and in all day Sunday, which means I lose family time, I don't think so

Those days are gone, I don't feel sorry for myself today I feel proud of myself today because I myself and I am continuing to abstain and maintain one day at a time, with the help of this forum and everyone on here who is doing the same.

I am proud to be on on this journey with everyone on this hard continuous rollercoaster journey whether it's day 0 or day 2000 we are all doing it in our different ways, but we are on recovery and doing our very best

and I salute all of us, because we are doing the best we can.

AND ITS NOT EASY AT TIMES .

Abstaining and maintaining taking one day at a time and doing the very best I can and BLOODY ENJOYING starving that URGE that is still sulking at the back of my mind.

Wishing everyone a positive determined and happy gambling free evening.

Suzanne xx

Hi Suzanne

Wow well done you are doing great. Keep up the good work and ty for continued support.

Cheryl xxx

Hi Suzanne,

Your last post was an excellent analysis of why we gamble and how our gambling brains manage to bypass our logic to make us gamble again.

There are so many things that drive us not to gamble, it is just a matter of getting our hearts and heads in the right place, and if both of those are working together then the only direction is the right direction.

Well done on going the right way, and proud to be on this path beside you.

Ryan

Thankyou Ryan xx

Good morning diary.

153 days today, it's the 28th so I have not spent a single penny on any form of gambling for FIVE whole months.

Work again today, but 2 days off after today to enjoy.

Why because I won't be wasting my hard earned money.

Abstaining and maintaining one day at a time.

Forwards and upwards.

Wishing everyone a happy positive and peaceful gambling free day.

Suzanne xx