Meggie - oh, sorry Minnie - we are hijacking your thread - but Meggie you need to actually write down what you drink - not just mark the bottle to see how much you drink. It really is important (I think) to track units ..... it is good also as it can show you that it is working or that you need to work harder at it ! Also it helps others when they read your posts to see where you are without constantly asking you .... just my thoughts anyway!

Hugs, Maggie x

Sorry Minnemom,

Meggie,

I agree with Maggie. Buy a measuring cup and measure out your shots. I think a standard shot glass might have them marked on the glass. Plus with drinking hard liquor it is most important to make sure your units are measured. For with beer, it is in a bottle or can; with my wine I have a measuring cup and I went with a smaller glass (and a serving in that smaller glass in only 1/2 full). It is so easy to over drink and drink through the medicine. If you are drinking through the medicine you are not getting the full benefit of TSM. Your receptors are still being blocked, but you are still getting drunk. I still got pleasure from being drunk...until the nal. overs hit!

You have to listen to your brain, for if you drink extremely slow it will tell you how it really doesn't want that drink. BUT, you have to listen for it.

Jaba

I drank for probably 25 years. First drink I had was probably 10 years old and it just grew from that point really. It just kept ramping up getting worse and worse till what will be 5 months at the end of this week starting TSM.

Minnemom,

How rude of me! I do hope that you are doing okay. Please check in and let us know since we hijacked your thread...we just care too much for our own good!

Thinking about you and your progress,

Jaba

Minnemom, how are you doing. I have found that I am doing better by moving up to the full pill. I have done well in the last few 10 days except for 2 days.

Hi Jaba & Meggie!

Well, not too much to report over the past couple of weeks. I feel like I'm in sort of an "extinction holding pattern." I realize by now that I'm not one of those lucky instant responders.... sigh. But that's OK! I'm in good company here with everyone else that's slogging along with the process like I am.

I'm still drinking at the low end of my pre-Nal levels. But the GREAT news for me is that I've now had an AF day each week for the past two weeks.... and they were NOT precipitated by nalovers or hangovers. They were conscious decisions.... I can't say they were effortless, because they weren't. But I wouldn't describe myself as white-knuckling them, either. I think AF days are easier for me to have when my husband is traveling. When he is home we ALWAYS have wine with dinner... for me to not have a glass when he is having one would seem strange for my kids. I don't want to call attention to my binging issues, so when he's there, I always have my wine. I guess that's OK... he's gone enough where AF days are possible! And along that same line... I'm less concerned with having AF days than I am in curbing the binge drinking I do occasionally...

I'm just going to keep on taking my Nal, trying to be mindful of my drinking and waiting for the chemistry in my brain to change!

Good for you MinneMom. Newlife

Is that really you MM? Are you really not worrying anymore? How awesome for you to start feeling comfortable that something is happening. Not as fast as we all want. But it is happening. I have a little of the same situation with my wife who loves her wine. I do not want to make her uncomfortable by never having a glass or a drink with her - so I do actually have more AF days when she is not around. In the old days, that would have been just an excuse to have a bunch of drinks. Like - "well I certainly am not going to let my lovely wife drink alone - let me finish a bottle of rum while she has her 2-4 glasses of wine" type of excuse. But now it is the truth. If I ever decide that I want to go totally without AL I will have to get over that hurdle - like you with your kids.

Sounds like you are in the right frame of mind to beat the binge!

Awwwww....Reboot, thanks! And it IS me! I wouldn't say that I'm totally "not worrying" but I've been around this forum long enough to realize that we're not all fast responders (like Ocean....) and that I just need to follow the rules and let the science take it's course. The support of you, and so many others here, have instilled in me the faith that, while the changes aren't super obvious to me, they're happening and I WILL find success with TSM!

That said, I KNOW that I am not out of the woods with binging... I went out with a girlfriend for HH on Friday night and had 4 drinks... I then went and had 2 more glasses of wine with dinner with my husband, who did't know I'd already had 4 drinks (I'm sure he assumed 2). IF I would have spent any more time with her BEFORE dinner, I would have been long gone on a binge, I'm sure of it... Sad face... UGH! I wish I never got to the point where I just keep on wanting another drink. The party MUST go on! I also wish I was like so many of you that get wicked hangovers on this stuff... maybe if I did, it would be easier to quit before imminent binge...

Minniemum - you WILL get to the point of not wanting yet another drink - truly you will - I only had two today and did NOT want another ! And never say that you never get the Nal Overs - it took a long time before I got one - and when I did I realised what everyone else was on about ! AND I had one with only three drinks !! Then had one with 5 but have not had one since .... so there seems to be no rhyme nor reason to them - so just giving you heads up - never say never !

Hugs, Maggie x