People are really doing amazingly well. Such strength and such progress.
As @afaloren says you still have days in the bank if you've "relapsed".
Apologies @MinnieJackson you asked me up thread if I relapsed but I missed it as I've been off MN for a few days . I just went cold turkey and got through it but I wouldn't see it as "relapsing" if I had as (from my previous unsuccessful attempts to get clean) I don't think it's a helpful term, for me at least. I think the "relapsing/having to start right back at Day 1 again" thinking always made me think fuck it I've messed up and I don't want to start back at Day 1 it's too hard. It wouldn't encourage me to keep trying. If I think of it as snakes and ladders, I would see it as going back a step rather than sliding to the beginning of the board again, if that makes sense?
I'm aware though that @MissConductUS is probably better at giving advice/support on this and might not be the right strategy as I just white knuckled it, whereas MsC did it with professional help and has been sober a lot longer than I have.
Another thing (but which I think is very personal and people make their own decisions on) was that when I was successful in stopping I didn't drink any alcohol substitutes eg zero alcohol beer or alcohol free fizz. A completely different substitute eg nice juice or tea helped to shift my mindset as it was different to drinking. I had a lot of "routines" associated with drinking eg if I had something to celebrate I would have fizz, but now if I'm celebrating I steer clear of anything to do with alcohol/substitutes and have cake or box of luxury chocolates as my "reward". It helped to break the links in my mind I think. I also have no guilt spending large amounts of money on treaty things eg Prestat chocolates as I would have spent more on booze!
I think I had to change my life to stop drinking as everything was associated with alcohol. But that seems so daunting at the start which is why taking it half an hour/hour/evening at a time and then a day at a time worked for me. Just getting into new habits, if that makes sense?
Again this may be off putting to a lot of people 
but one replacement habit that worked for me was exercise (and I was the type of person that previously thought getting up and walking to the fridge was exercise 
). I joined the gym and started exercising/running and it was amazing. It replaced the routines and times I spent drinking eg 6pm on Friday I would go to the gym instead of opening a bottle and the sense of achievement I felt was as good as the sober days banking up. Eventually being able to do 5k then 10k etc was so rewarding (and it meant I could eat the cake and chocolate instead of wine as I was burning it off).
When I was drinking though, reading something like my previous paragraph would have made me sprain my eyeballs as it seemed so out of reach for me. But when I started I was that "fattest person in the gym" which had always put me off joining, I was so unhealthy I couldn't even do three minutes on the treadmill, I thought I looked shit in a swimming costume etc. Yet here I am now and I am evangelical about it. I can't even describe how much better it makes me feel, it's a thousand times more enjoyable than drinking and there are no regrets the day after, in fact there is happiness.
I never thought I would be happy again without alcohol in my life, before I got sober, imagining/thinking of a life without alcohol and all the associated routines and "fun" looked like it would be boring and shit (and I guess for lots of posters and lurkers, you are in that place too, especially when it's a Saturday!) But it isn't boring and shit, not drinking actively makes me feel a sense of reward and achievement every single morning, even twelve years later and even when I'm going through shit times, being sober actively helps me in those times too.
I would take my weekends (which were the hardest time for me not to drink as it was even more socially acceptable to crack open the wine, even at lunchtimes) literally an hour at a time. I definitely wouldn't think I can never drink again god my weekends will be shit forever. I would think if I can get through to 4pm I'll have managed not to drink at Saturday lunchtime and I've read the papers without a glass of wine at my side, I didn't think I could do that. And at 4pm I would think well I've managed so far, I'll get through to 5 etc etc.
(But as I said MSC is probably better at giving responsible, more "professional" advice than me, I'm just sharing what helped me in case it helps anyone else).