Day one

[Dayonedecember]

Day One
I thought this was a good a day as any to start. I've been excessively drinking, probably at least two bottles of wine a week, in fact two bottles a week is a moderate week, for the past twenty years, and I'm bored of it, it seems like a good idea when I'm in the shop buying it, I feel like it will help, but then I wake up, like this morning, full of regret, and what was the point. I drink alone, so it's not social, I overeat when I'm drinking, probably out of boredom and loneliness, so then I'm doubly disgusted with myself the next morning. I'm not in a particularly good place in my life, but drinking wine is not helping that, it's just distracting me for a couple of hours. I feel my drinking, if it has not already, is going to starting having a negative impact on my health, and I need to start changing things. Any tips or advice how to do this, what to expect gratefully received please.

I have never been a drinker so I don’t how much help I can be. I won’t even try to presume we are on the same level of addictiveness, but for what it’s worth I will post this anyway.
I maintained for years that I was addicted to sugar, right up to the point of type 2 diabetes. I accepted my weight gain, the bloating the arthritis. I knew I was heading for an early grave and yet still ate a p*ss poor diet and dessert every day. Now just 6 months after going on a healthy eating plan (not a diet) I am 3 stone lighter, have 10 times more energy, no bloating, painful joints have completely disappeared and I now feel better in a morning than when I go to bed (something I haven’t felt in years).
How did I do it? Here’s what you do.
Get a piece of wood around 2 foot long, knock in 50 or so 2-inch nails all in a row, (not all the way in just enough for them to hold) then find a photo of a grave stone and place it at the end of the row, now get a photo of someone you care about and who cares about you, but it needs to be a sad photo, place that next to the other photo.
Ok the two photos represent your early grave and someone crying next to your early grave. Now every time you take a drink knock the first nail halfway in, then after your next drink knock it all the almost all the way in. Hopefully this will put into perspective the reality of your situation because the truth is you could easily end up in an early grave. The beauty of this exercise is every time you hit a milestone say a day or a week without drinking you can pull a nail out, after you pull out a nail treat yourself anything from a facial to new outfit. I hope this helps and best of luck with your journey.