Originally Posted by
Zebra1275 
I think you should meet with your sponsor and start working the steps a little faster. At the pace you are going, (so far 4 months and 80 some meetings and working on step 1) it will take you 4 years and 960 meetings to get through all 12 steps.
Ain't this the truth! It takes about 3 hours, no more, with a good sponsor to get through the first three stesp and into the action. Add a week or two for step four, the its step five and into amends, where the promises of the program begin to bear fruit. It took me less than three months to get to this point, with a good sponsor, yet it was still probably dangerously slow.
The only rider I would add to Zebra's post would be - if you survive that long. A lot of us don't have that kind of time to waste.
If it is your sponsor and not you who has the brakes on, time to find a sponsor that understands alcoholism.