I'm starting on week 3 of the Sinclair Method and thought I'd give an update.
So, the first 10 days I took 50mg of nal every day with the intention to drink at least 2 strong Ales or 2 Gin tonics daily which I normally don't do as I'm a binge drinker and usually have several weeks in between drinking sessions. What is different for me is that my wife is fully aware of my drinking during this period and after reading the book; "The Cure for Alcoholism" has a greater understanding of the disease.
One day, with my wife's agreement, I decided to binge while on naltrexone. The next day my hangover was brutal, I'm sure due to the Nal. I honestly hope never to go through that again but my reasoning is that as part of the protocol one is supposed to drink as normal and under all one's usual settings. I felt it was safer to do that at home with my good wife's blessing instead of possibly being blindsided by a compulsion while on the road to drink while driving.
We also spent a few days in Key West where I had a few drinks daily with Nal.
When we came home I was so over daily drinking and so didn't take any Nal for a few days when I was AF.
Yesterday I took the Nal earlier in the day as I was doing yard work and that is one of my triggers, in the evening I had my wife make me 2 G&T's - she makes normal drinks, unlike myself - and that was fine.
So, my feeling is that I will be very patient with this process and be very mindful of what I'm feeling and to follow the golden rule.
I will consciously decide to have a drink or two with my wife when we go out to dinner or at home on the weekends, which is something I normally didn't do as I was not supposed to be drinking at all!
I finally feel free of the guilt and shame of hiding my drinking from my wife and really believe I have a good chance of normalcy in regard to social drinking.
I'm not really concerned at this point with where I'll be in 3 or 6 months or a year from now as I am committed to continuing the process of extinction and will post occasional updates here.

I am not a binge drinking as such and so I admire you for actually forcing yourself in a way to drink.

Will be interesting to see how your progress goes.. its easier to follow a daily drinker and see they have reduced intake, but for you its harder to map.

How are you finding craving for alcohol? For me I am craving my habit of drinking, so I have just turned down a chance to go out as I had planned a night with a few beers and TV.. I wish I could stop that

Hi Nigelr,
Craving for alcohol, this is the tricky part for me! As I've mentioned, I often go weeks or sometimes a few months without a craving for alcohol in the last 15 years or so.
In my 20's and 30's I was a daily heavy drinker, i.e.; a fifth or quart of vodka plus some beer daily for months on end and still never got fired from a job though I did have 2 DUI's during that time.
What I mean by tricky is that I have no reliable way to anticipate when a compulsion to drink will show up. So, I am starting to have a few drinks along with my wife on a fairly regular basis now so as to give the Nal a chance to do it's job. Otherwise it seems logical to me that if I wait to take Nal only on the occasions when I binge then I would probably never be "cured".
It's also so much nicer now that I don't feel the need to hide my drinking or try to disguise the fact that I'm drunk. After so many years of that my wife has lost all ability to trust me, and rightly so. I have a long way to go to repair the damage caused...

Hi Erich, I am just ahead of you on week 4 right now. I am a daily drinker as you can see from my signature and an AF day is very difficult for me to say the least. At 5PM all the promises of "I will not drink today" go out the door. Well maybe it's a good thing to take our Nal and drink everyday to get this extinction progress going in our brains? Funny for you to kinda force yourself to drink daily with your wife for TSM to work. If we tell people that we NEED to drink along with taking Nal everyday 1 hour before it does sound crazy,lol!
I know what you mean about the Nalovers (hangovers), if I drink anymore than a bottle of wine in a night I feel like crap the next day. That being said of course after having a few glasses I have drank more on many nights and then hate myself for it the next day. I wish I could just have a drink or two in the evening like you and I would be a very happy camper.
Thanks for sharing and keep in touch.
I also have come across another board which I signed up for to which is the C Three Forum: http://optionssavelives.freeforums.net/