Hi everyone. For the last 8 days I had been working at a trade show, 7am to 7pm. While I did manage 4 AF days I drank fairly heavily on the other 4. My goal had been to go AF for the whole show, however I failed. The good news is that I stuck to the Golden Rule on the drinking days. My soon to be fiancé is coming home tomorrow, as she went to visit friends while I worked the show. I will pick her up at the airport tomorrow and WILL be AF and will not have NAL in my system either so as not to dull the pleasure of being with her after an 8 day separation. I hope everyone else sharing the journey to a cure is doing well, and as always I welcome your comments. Cheeto, how are you doing?

I would not call that a setback, retread, I would call 4 AF days while working intensely a triumph. Enjoy your reunion with your SO. Newlife

Hi retread, 4 AF days is awesome and way more than most of us can muster and following the Golden Rule is exactly what will all need to do so koodo's to you. Sounds like you are working really long hours and that can trigger anyone to want to wind down with a few drinks after so don't beat yourself up!
You have a great plan of having another AF day with your girlfriend which I am sure she will really appreciate.

I actually had 1 AF day yesterday so I count that as huge progress as any AF Day is a good for us and of course our poor livers, lol!!!
Thank God as I woke up this morning and have another offer on my Town Home so gotta keep my wits about me if this all goes through. I am totally crossing my fingers I get it sold today or tomorrow with this offer.
Hope you and your girlfriend have a great day when she gets back...

So really no Set Back for you, just keep on keeping on.
Nal On!!!

I certainly wouldn't say you failed or had a setback here. The only real failure on TSM is not following the golden rule. Sure, you didn't reach a goal you put out for yourself, but maybe you were just biting off more than you could chew for right now. Like Cheeto said, four AFs is great by itself!

Setback ? I think not. Any and all AF days are GOOD !!. The more you do, the more they become the new norm.

Like they say "baby steps".

four AF days? nice!

I agree with Guapo, it's 4 days.

That's the problem with setting targets, if you don't meet them it's assumed to be a failure.

You are all terrific! I think the tendency to beat myself up over any little failure, real or imagined, contributed to the way I drank. Of course I drank over any little success too! "When it's rainy, when it's sunny, when I'm happy, when I'm sad". That's when I drank. I heard that phrase somewhere, maybe at one of those awful (for me anyway) AA meetings. This part of the forum is really great for me. Totally anonymous (which AA is NOT), and great people who are sharing the journey. Special thanks to UKB, who although cured a long time ago, hangs around to support the rest of us and spur us on. I never had such support and such positive people in AA. Again, you are all terrific and thanks to all of you. Hey Cheeto, I know you tried RR like I did. Did you go the AA route too?

Yes that feeling of good, bad, success, failure, any day ending in 'y' ha ha.

Coming here helps me, and I am so glad this forum is so active at the moment, so I'll stay here for a bit.

50% AF sounds pretty good to me