Thanks for your kind comment on the 100 day challenge thread, Moorey, and really glad you are as resolved as ever 🙂
Day 15 - over and out!... 🙂
Bring on Day 16!!! Never have I wanted this more!...
Day 16 taken care of.
Had a great Monday, with no urges whatsoever to gamble.
Have I finally defeated the gambling monster within me?...
Of course not, I know that.
I'm on high alert for when those urges do come back and I feel that I have the capabilities to deal with them. I've watched a lot of sport over the last 16 days, some times wishing I was having a flutter, but then soon telling myself that how would I feel if I lost? It soon stops me from those urges.
A day that passes gambling free is a much more satisfying feeling that any win that I could get, via betting.
It's amazing that I still have £450 before pay day in 8 days.
It just goes to show that nearly all my wages went on bills (which I always pay!) and gambling.
What a fool I'd been!
Silly, silly boy!
This is a much more satisfying and fulfilling life!
Day 17 taken to the cleaners 🙂
I'm winning this fight! I won't let this defeat me. I'm a much better person than what gambling was doing to me. I deserve better.
One day at a time!...
I'm really liking your spirit Moorey. Keep it going.
Day 19 complete!... Excited about hitting the 20's tomorrow.
This is all very new and exciting for me. I'm living each gamble free day to the max.
No more lies, no more hiding stuff from peope.
Being able to go out (like tonight) and not worry about whether I can afford it or not after an horrendous bout of gambling.
I'm loving this new life 🙂
Long may it continue....
Staying focused is the key.
23 gamble free days under my belt.
Urges are far less during the week.
Spent most of the weekend wishing I could put a few quid on the footy but I just know it wouldn't end there.
If I could guarantee that it would, I'd have no problem doing it.
(i'm talking £5 every weekend)
But, better to be safe than sorry. I've been down that route before...
So, no gambling means, NO gambling.
I'm enjoying this new, guilt free life 🙂
Day 24 gamble free 🙂
Still very early days but I'm very proud of my progress so far!
Pay day tomorrow. Though it's irrelevant in my betting recovery as I have money now to play with, it's just I'm not.
I'm choosing life. I'm choosing happiness.
Just read your dairy, Well done for getting to day 24 thats huge nice one.
Keep up the hard work and winning by not gambling.
Malc
Malkie76 wrote:
Just read your dairy, Well done for getting to day 24 thats huge nice one.
Keep up the hard work and winning by not gambling.
Malc
Cheers Malc! 🙂
Hi Moorey - payday at last eh 🙂 except, this time, you're not going to waste a penny. Keep going - this is impressive and I believe, day to day, you have the strength of character to do this. Let's do this - shoulder to shoulder. GF is the only way to be.
How you doing?
hoping your ok
X
Jellybean07 wrote:
How you doing?
hoping your ok
X
Hi Jellybean, I'm doing great thanks.
Feeling better by the day. I've nearly completed Day 26 gamble free...(7:30pm).
How about yourself? X
28 days gamble free. 4 whole weeks. Again, it's nothing more than a start...
I have to keep this going.
It's doing no end of good to my finances. All of a sudden things are looking so much more positive than they were 4 weeks ago.
I've not suddenly become rich, but I'm coming across money that I never knew existed before I stopped gambling.
If I can abstain as long as April/May, then things will look so much more better for me.
Thankfully, I seemed to have stopped before credit cards/pay day loans etc became an option to fund my gambling.
I'm very lucky to not have any debts.
Does this mean I'm not as seriously addicted gambler as other people on here? I'm not sure.
But what I am sure of is that there was only one way my life was going. Maybe I was fortunate enough to stop this just in time. Another year or two and I could have been accumulating debts of five figures.
I've hidden my gambling from EVERYBODY over the years.
Including my dad who works in a bank and has access to my bank accounts. Though he maintains that he doesn't ever look at my accounts.
Still, I'm paranoid of him looking at them one day and seeing credit cards being taken out etc...
He'd twig straight away!
That's why I've never ever gone down that route, it's never been an option for me.
I'm very worried about him looking at the heavy amount of withdrawrels over the last 12 months. But I'm hoping that I can put that down to lots of purchases for my new house, if things were to settle down in 2017 on my bank statements.
Anyway, I'm rambling.
I'm feeling very positive about things at the moment.
I know that another 4 months of no gambling can put me back to where I was and nothing would ever look suspicious.
Hi Moorey, and liking your reasoning and underlying determination. Don't be afraid so seek extra support, like free conselling, to keep you 'boosted' in this positive dircection. No man is an island.
This next few days is a big test, what with availability to payday cash. But, day by day, you're getting the measure of this. I like your short term goal ethos plus you're keeping your diary updated - especially during weak moments that we all have - which is a very positive move.
Keep it going and ... ramble away! 🙂
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