Hey Bob, when we get our cold northeaster winter back this year, can me and Jake take ya up on this?

I think I'll start a Bed & Breakfast.

Nice to hear Springrider. Very encouraging. Thanks for posting. Your post is the most well worded, smart and informative post I have seen about the method and your experience thus far with it. I believe that you have encouraged and helped many because of it. Total " hats off" to you . I am so glad that you posted this. Please keep in touch.

Ditto

Hi

Thanks SpringRider, it is so important for us to hear the positive results you are posting. Im on week 14 and have seen changes - as described in my weekly progress (not always weekly) but have had a heavy week of it this week and began re-reading the book today to keep my spirits up. I would not say I am anywhere near 'controlled' drinking yet. I think this is partly due to the fact that I live alone and it is just so easy to get smashed without any 'critics' looking on. Anyways, I never drink without Nal and must keep on going on.

Regards to everybody

Camelia

Camelia, et. al.
this is a bio/chemical process and the process takes some time. Keep following the protocol. I seemed to alway notice my advances in arrears but when I look back, it was as if a fever had broke.

I still believe it is possbile to drink abusively, even when cured. That is an early stage we all passed through on our way to addiction and there is no reason to believe we may not return to that state as our addiction ebbs.

I am going to address this in a later post when I am sure my thoughts are in order.

For now, I ask that all of you simply follow the golden rule.

Nal + Drink = Cure

Dear SpringerRider,
Thank you for your comments. I find them encouraging for myself and I hope others. After reading the book, I started the method May 9th. I am excited about the program and understand it will take many weeks and months to see results.

Congratulations and Thank you!

I am updating my profile with my progress. I have been doing very well. I have reached the point where I have more days without drinking than with.

I have been reading these posts and it is my first inclination to tell many of you that maybe I was an easy study. Maybe I started out not as bad as some many of you describe. And that is true in some cases but not in many others. All I have to do is remember back to January 16th and the desperation I felt. A week before I saw an ad for a book on TV that claimed they had the cure for alcoholism. I did a quick Google search and ordered Eskapa’s book from Amazon. As it turns out, it was not even the same book that I saw on TV. That Higher Power thing?

Trust me, I did not order that book to curl up in the lazy boy on a Friday night. I had reached that point of desperation, again. So I did not start the Sinclair Method 50 paces past the start line. I was there with every other drunk that swallowed their first Naltrexone pill on Jan. 16, 2009.

Now I have whatever days it works out to be. I consider myself cured. I have no fear of alcohol. I drink when I want and only when I want. I am doing a little stint on the Adkins diet so I have restricted alcohol consumption to the absolute minimum but that is a recent event. Now don’t get me wrong, I have not joined a monastery. Even after reaching my cured state, I have gone out and “partied”. A couple of weeks ago, I was travelling with our CEO and some salesmen. There was a club in the hotel and we closed it up one night. I probably drank 8 beers. Before Sinclair, that would have been “warming up”. But the point I am trying to make is that I can go out and let what little hair I have left fall down. If I had had any desire to drink more beer that night, I would have. I was not concerned about restraining myself. I simply drink as I felt comfortable doing. Out of the four of us, my CEO and one of the salesman are serious drinkers (OK, alcoholics) and the other is a normal drinker. I drank as the “normal” drinker. At breakfast, he talked as if he had drained the cask. That is how normal drinkers perceive drinking 8 beers. That is how I felt. That is what I have become where I regard drinking 8 beers as a unique exception. I have become “normal” and it is everything is was ever cracked up to be.

Hey SR!

SO great to hear from you, and congratulations on your success with TSM. As a pioneer on this message board, it's inspiring for all of us to see proof that this really DOES change your life. I'm also very happy with my progress, although it might not appear to be "enough" for others - to me, it's a miracle. I'll never forget stumbling upon this place after that night last February. I went to sneak another drink from the half gallon of rum I had hidden in the garage, and there it was AGAIN. My husband had emptied out the bottle, and put it back with a note attached that read - "Found your stash again. Why are you hurting our family? Please stay sober so we can talk when I get home from work"

How could I have let this happen AGAIN? What kind of monster could torture a sweet and loving family like this? The self hate was beyond description, and just as my husband, I'd finally 'had it'. Long story short, I found this site, then the book, had my husband read it, and so on. The timing is no coincidence in my mind. What are the chances that I run into a brand new message board, started by and entirely supported by "newbies" of TSM - just at the time when I was desperate to find a solution outside of AA? I may call it God, and others might call it a Higher Power. I don't care WHAT you call it, but that was NOT a coincidence!

Since that horrible February night, I've probably only lost control with my drinking about 5 times. I've still had many drinks within a single day, but only blew it a few times, when that had become the norm before TSM. It's funny how you said that 8 beers used to be "warming up" for you - I can totally relate to that, although many find it so shocking. It used to be funny or cute that I could 'drink the big guys under the table' - being only about 120 lbs never mattered. My tolerance level is frightening. I've joked that the pre-TSM numbers posted by several members would satisy me as an END result! I think 30 years of drinking heavily doesn't fit into the "typical experience", and might take a lot longer to extinguish. So what? I've seen and continue to feel the results. I don' t need any extra proof to convince me that this is working, even if I don't match the graphs or the timeframes in the book. All I know is that my life has changed SO much for the better. I know I'll never have to read one of those painful notes from my wonderful and unbelievably forgiving husband again. My girls no longer cringe at the thought of being around me. We've actually grown much closer and many wounds have already healed. My "baby" girl is making it through middle school, NOT without difficult challenges, but without a drunk mother, and my older "baby" just graduated from high school last Sunday without worrying that I might ruin her day. Life is GOOD!

Thanks to all of you for your support and to TSM for saving my life. And SpringerRider - thanks for stopping by. We're so happy for you, and we've missed you. Don't be a stranger - cheers to everyone!

Springrider,

I owe my successes to you my friend. I was stumbling around MWO, reading away, hoping and praying that I would find posts that I could show myself I wasn't that bad....when I came across your info about TSM. I read it and of course was sceptical, but thought I would invest more time investigating. At this time I was on Topa and I didn't feel it was working very well for me.

I ordered the book, and read on......what a miracle! Honestly seemed like one of those, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is, but it's not. It's still hard work.

I was reading yours and Kris's comments about drinking 8 beers just to warm up and can SOOO relate! I would just sit at home and watch tv and put back 10. What the hell? WHY? Again, relating to Kris's comment, drinking my husband under the table, with 2 to 1 drinks.....not cool!

Week three is starting for me today and for the first time since this horrible experience of drinking came about, I feel hopeful. To this I owe you my deepest heartfelt gratitude. I don't seem to dwell on drinking. It isn't consuming my thoughts. I don't have any beer in the house and I am not freaking out about it!

Thank you for showing me a light at the end of the tunnel. Thank you for showing me there's hope. Thank you for allowing my husband to look at me with proud eyes (12 beers lasted longer than 2 nights!). Most of all, thank you for letting ME come home......

You will never know how much I have appreciated this.....thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Respectfully,
Christy