Starting again, again,.

Another weekend passes gamble free, had a great time away at the adventure race with my better half, we both finished the race, i felt fantastic crossing the finish line, but am sore all over today :-). i definately need to up the training for the next one.

never once thought about gambling all weekend, 67 happy days gamble free.. long may it continue.

Good luck to everyone on here, keep strong.

70 days .... 10 weeks, either way it feels good. am so delighted with myself for making it this far.

hit a bit of a hard spot the last few days, was away the weekend and spent more than i had planned, the reality of this hit home when i started thinking about the cost of christmas, it will be very tight. the positive here was the fact that my first instinct was not to try and win what i needed. i really feel that i am making progress.

good luck to all.

Thanks for yoru post Pat. Much appreciated. Great work on getting to 70 days. Hopefully I will be at the number one day. You say you spent more than you had planned at the weekend. It could be worse, you could of wasted that money on gambling. Keep going strong. All the best Dean.

Dean you are so right, i certainly got value for my money over the weekend, that is not something i could usually claim.

will keep positive, as i said before if i dont gamble everything else will fall into place in time.

pat thanks for the post on my diary taking it one day at a time lets hope were always 6 days apart good luck denis

good for you, Pat.

Be back next week.

Another weekend passes by without a bet, I had to pop to the shop this afternoon to get some milk before dinner, this until recently would have been a regular excuse to have a few bets, the amount of times that trip cost me several hundred quid came into my mind as I drove past the bookies. I don't really understand how I have succeeded this far relative to previous attempts to quit but everything feels different this time, I know this site and the support it gives is playing a part, I also firmly believe that I have turned a corner. My reality is my family must always come first, there is no room in my life for betting, I wil clean up the mess I have made from before I stopped and move on with the happy life I want to lead.

Good luck to everyone on here.

Well done Pat,its good to read your positive posts. I know your not, but be wary of getting complacent,your doin great.

Hi Pat,

I know exactly what you mean, this time (with the support and therapy of talking about it) my (our) resolve seems to be stronger. Actually, reading all the stuff about people's families and how much they love them and wish they could do more to save them from the pain is enough to shame me into not gambling. It might be a fool's logic, but that one blip I had was enough to sicken me into realising that this really must be it.

anyway, I can't gamble because I can't admit it to you!

81 days today and feeling good.

We went xmas shopping yesterday, got my boy and girl sorted so am delighted with that. took a bit of juggling to sort the funds but it worked for now anyway, come January i can begin to tidy this all up.

while shopping yesterday i recalled the same day 12 months previous when we went shopping, had saved some cash to buy the presents and on the day we decided to split up to get more shopping done, my wife went one way with her list and i went the other, guess where i ended up within 5 min..... you got it, the nearest bookies, lost my cash... then the usual race to find the nearest bank machine, cleaned that out and lost again. the shopping was finished on my credit card. thinking about that now reminds me of all the pressure and stress gambling has caused me, yet it has taken me 21 years to really want to stop. and stop i will.

it was a pleasure spending money on my family yesterday, a pleasure i will experience more often.

good luck to everyone on here.

Thanks for the support hun,

Im really pleased for you about the christmas shopping this year i cant spoil the boys the way i want but next year will be different that i promise.

With the support of this forum and the people on it next year will be a good one.

Heres to more pleasurable days.

Stay Strong.x

Well down Pat and congrats and the 81 days! It just shows it can be done!

Im proud of one month but know i've a long way to go!

taking it one day at a time is def key!

Its great spending money on familly etc isnt it! We've had familly days out and spent next nothing and had great times!

I know i can never return to gambling but TBH i dont give a hoot, i was never going to win in then end cause i could never stop!

What a difference a year makes.

It really is worthwhile to keep thinking what you may have been doing this time last year or even two years ago when you were hypnotised by this gambling madness.

This would ensure that we never, ever venture into this dark world ever again.

GT

Hi Pat glad to hear your still going strong.

Im finding ive got more tme on my hands and am able to enjoy relatively stress free weekends just doing normal things,which is better than what was going on before.No gambling for me today,good luck to you

Denis

Amazing what we do, isn't it...somehow, you were able to justify gambling your children's Xmas pressie money a year ago. This year, you took great pleasure in spending it on them. We've lived all those years in the dark, and it's something special to finally see the light and spend money on our loved ones.

Just out of curiosity, Pat, whereabouts are you? I don't mean exactly, of course, just 'the North/West/Australia' etc..