Morning everyone! How very typical of me to poke my nose around the door just as everyone else is leaving 
but I've just read through the ENTIRE thread and am preparing myself to post a lot more next week.
The past couple of weeks have been pretty horrendous in terms of stress levels but I'm pleased to say I'm still wibbling along the bootcamp path - although slightly grumpy at not having lost anything much. I am enjoying the food and will stick with it.
Really interesting reading through everyone's posts on addiction issues, Crabby I identified a lot with what you wrote. My father is also an alcoholic (although he's not genetically related to me so if anything I think the pattern to repeat is due to socialisation rather than biology) and it's still weird to me that when I left home to go to university several millennia ago I was repulsed by the thought of excessive drinking, and yet here I am, whilst not an alcoholic (and as you say Crabby... my drinking is of the naice, middle-class variety) definitely NOT repulsed by it any longer. What I'm about to post might be considered enabling... but I have recently switched to drinking vanilla vodka with sparkling water rather than wine, and find it a much more measured experience. No waking at 3am with an evil thirst, and no hangover. Having toddler twins, I had got into the habit some time ago of thinking I needed wine after they'd gone to bed as some sort of prize for having coped, but stopped that a few months ago because the stress of the divorce meant that 'one glass' was turning into 'one bottle' and I recognised that it was impacting on my ability to cope with everything.
Something else I thought I'd share, for those who might be interested in changing habits for the better, is an App I came across recently and have had great success in using. It is called Lift and it's deceptively simple - you just kind of 'check in' every time you complete something that you want to turn into a new habit, and works on the simple assumption that actions become habits just by dint of repetition and as said below, in 're-educating' our neural pathways.
Am looking forward to weigh in tomorrow after a sneak peak on the scales today. All I need to do now is STICK WITH IT!