Of course 09.1. I take all the test results with a grain of salt. It's more for fun and to satiate my curiosity than anything else.

yeah, don't get me wrong, I'd love to get my genome sequenced!

Just finished my 17th week and I have a new record low at 12 units! I had 3 AF days which were all pretty easy. On the days I did drink, I only binged on one of them and the other 3 days I had two or less drinks. This is the first time on TSM that I have been able to stop after 2 or less drinks. It is amazing progress for me!!!

At this point, I feel like my progress is really gaining momentum. AF days are getting easier. Stopping drinking after a few is getting easier. My next big challenge will be to try a prolonged period of abstinence. I haven't had a full AF week yet, so I might try that this week, but I'm going to play it by ear and see. I'm at a point now where I'm no longer in a rush to get cured because I know that I will get there eventually. Also because the level that I'm at right now is pretty comfortable and I don't feel stressed about my drinking anymore.

Not feeling stressed is a wonderful place to be. I think feeling "stressed" about drinking creates a vicious cycle. You want to drink "normally" but worrying about drinking causes us to give too much mental energy to drinking thoughts and prevents us from allowing ourselves to entertain more natural and worthy of our time thoughts!

You are definitely making progress Tambo and on the road to freedom.

Tambo - That is simply amazing! Can't wait to be there. Thanks for your post.

HG

The last four days have been horrible for me in regards to my drinking. 37 units in 4 days. I feel like crap. I don't really know what happened. I feel like I temporarily regressed a couple months in my TSM progress. It's actually a little scary. I'm hoping this is some kind of extinction burst. Just last week I felt as if my progress was gaining momentum and then the last 4 days has derailed it. I'm feeling ok now, but I'm just going to try my best to get back on track.

Alcoholism is such a scary disease. I'm just thankful I have nal to help me in my struggle.

I just re-read Dr E's book 2 days ago for the 5th time. each time I pick out something that I missed before. One of the things that I picked out of the book this last time is that you never really finish TSM. You are doing it for the rest of your life.

Yes, it is only a cure if you take NAL every time you drink. It is a small price to pay, though!

Tambo - Check out Bob's progess thread again. I mentioned before that at week 17 he was ready to give up and thought it wasn't working.

Hang in there.

HG

I love that there are so many newcomers to this site in the past few weeks. It seems like on this site, newcomers come in waves... or maybe it's just my imagination. I remember when I was a newcomer not so long ago. There was a lot of fear (that this wouldn't work for me), but so much hope (because TSM made scientific sense) and also just a lot of questions. This site has been a lifesaver for me, because I'm sure that without it, I would have assumed that TSM didn't work for me during one of my spikes and I would have given up.

When I was in AA, I was always told to do 90 meetings in 90 days. I could never for whatever reason achieve that. Ever since I've been on TSM, I've come to this website everyday. Sometimes for 5 minutes, sometimes for several hours or more, but I visit everyday. I've been able to do way more than 90 in 90 on this board and I enjoy it so much. Thank you everyone who posts and continues to post.

Now for my weekly update. Just finished my 18th week with 37 units and 3 AF days. I am disappointed with my units but I'm happy to say that I was able to get back on track pretty easy with my last 3 days being AF. My pattern seems to be that after high unit weeks, I will have very low units with much progress being made. I think this is just extinction working behind the scenes in my brain. I am going to try for a whole AF week this week (but don't hold me to that), so wish me luck. Right now it feels like that would be a very easy thing to do, but we'll see the craving hits too strongly in the next 7 days.