Are the Dependent Drinkers still about? Think I might need some support/advice

[StopBeforeItStarts]

Just realised how many wine bottles are on the side, and I don't think it's through lax recycling.

I drink out of habit - it started as a glass of wine of an evening. Then a large glass of wine.

It used to go straight to my head, but now I can easily get through best part of a bottle and only feel tipsy. I used to get hungover on one glass (which put me off!!) and now nothing.

My skin is going downhill and I had been putting it down to stress, but I'm now thinking the alcohol can't be helping!!

I am not addicted.... YET. I do come from an addictive type family though, and can see it could be easy enough to slip into.

Really I need avoidance strategies - what nice (but not tooo pricey or fattening!!) drinks can I drink instead? How do I break out of the cycle?

Any advice would be great

(Sorry for the namechange - most who know me already know my lush tendencies, but some things I would like to keep from googling eyes).

Probably not the answer you want, but the best avoidance strategies are to avoid alcohol and not to replace it with anything else.
If you replace it, you are subconsciously telling yourself that it was A Good Thing that needs to be replaced with something yummy to make up for not having it iyswim.
You already have your avoidance strategies in place - you recognise a problem, and you remind yourself what alcohol actually is - at the end of the day it is a poison.

Ooh I hadn't thought of that! Good point (kind of like not giving sweets as rewards).

The dependant drinkers thread is still about, just check further down, you'll get lots of help and support there.

I am an Allen Carr-ite. Can you tell?
It's similar to not giving sweets as rewards, but at the same time different, psychologically.
The only way to break out of the cycle is to not drink to give you time to recognise what alcohol actually does to you before you become tolerant to it - you know one glass has given you a hangover before so you know it's not great stuff - you have just built up a tolerance. Alesteir Crowley was dependent on enough heroin to kill 10 men, but he had just slowly built up his tolerance. We all know heroin isn't that great

Ooooh I dunno about that (heroin not being great)