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Hi lizbeth its good to get things out and i totally agree our childhood does shape us, keep going to the counseling and you will feel better for it .

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STOPTOBER day 5 and £5 in the kitty, just thoroughly cleaned the oven inside and out took ages but it looks great . Got that you deserve a bet/ drink feeling for a reward for working hard today but im not acting on it . The feeling of waking up tomorrow sober from not gambling or drinking to oblivion is my reward and i can function properly and normally tomorrow.

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STOPTOBER day 4 and £4 in the kitty , after my post yesterday i did have urges and today as well but overcame them by thinking it through, it’s so much easier said than done . Actions do speak louder than words, milestones are too much for me i have to think in lamp posts , at least i can see the next one.

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STOPTOBER day 3 – i can understand vera’s post but im not giving up that easily almost before iv’e started. So onto day 3 and no urges just positive thinking today.

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I know the big push on tv etc is smoking and alcohol but why shouldn’t we be involved. To make it more worth the while lets all pick a charity and put a £1 in a jar everyday of october we don’t gamble and at the end of october donate it to our chosen charity. Let me know if your with me ?

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A small and insignificant disappointment almost had me driving 35 miles away to a bookmakers for a brief moment to escape about half an hour ago. Thought about what would happen if i lost and if i had won , both equally would have set me back . The guilt either way would have been too much. I have targets and aims both small and big and i want to keep them up.

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Things are going well i paid a chunk off my debt last week and have no urges , keeping busy and on top of my life .

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Brain whatever telling me to gamble , i’m telling my brain no, all the reasons not to far outweigh the reasons to do.

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All going well , the exclusion banned from one , banned from all works i tried last night to set up an account online and got knocked back every time. Also got asked to leave a bookmaker s last friday , embarrassing but what i needed .

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Tonight, been to mixed doubles badminton night, thoroughly enjoyed it , a good 2 hours (except a rest between games) sometimes. Got my haircut this morning and pottered around the house the rest of the day, hope this isn’t boring anyone.

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Second post today i am feeling good. Been out on my mountain bike ( 1 hour and 10 mins ) it felt so good to be out there feeling the wind and fresh air blowing around me , gulping the fresh air into my lungs was so refreshing. Havn’t done it for quite a long time it was good.

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Hi Tango thanks for your post on my thread it looks like your doing the same as me , what works , works , so keep doing that . I’m pretty much the same as you i recognise that i can go 3-4 weeks with very little money and survive so lets do it on a budget leaving our hard earned money in the bank .

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Proof i didn’t need it : on the 26th of August i was panicking after gambling most of my salary away the day before trying to lend money until payday, i was unable to borrow anything although i did try. Now 15 days later and only a couple until payday i now realise i didn’t really have to get deeper into debt. I budgeted with what money i had left and it worked. I get paid monthly and i’m going to the same thing this coming month ( not gamble ) but stick to a rigid budget for a month and see just exactly how much i need basically to live on for a month.

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Ive decided to do some research on the things i used to gamble on and what the odds of winning are, this is an interesting one if you had gambled £10 on the favourite on every horse race in the uk in the last 10 years you would have lost £37,298. another fact about 40% of favourites are false favourites. and last but not least the bookmakers rake it in if the favourite loses , they are not interested in which horse wins as long as it isn’t the favourite. Oh and one more roughly about 2.5 / 10 favourites win.

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Hi Jackdandy hope you are doing okay, just been reading all the posts you have got from the wonderful supportive people on here , i have started writing useful tips and advice down, whichever way you use the advice it’s all good.

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