Tips to reduce alcohol intake

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stay hydrated. Replace the cue of drinking wine from a wine glass to seltzer or a mineral water in a wine glass, but be as creative as you need to be to really enjoy the experience; a lot of habits are rooted in rituals of experience, so really taste the water with meyer lemon, or make cucumber water, etc ; avoid foods that "go" with wine ( i had to cut back on cheeses)

I was doing this for weight loss, not out of concern for my drinking. It was fun. I will do it again. I do enjoy wine though, so for me its a sort of cleanse period " dry january" etc, a couple times a year.

Not OP, but I may need to try this. I'm becoming more conscious of whether I really want a glass or two of wine at night. Part of what I've realized is that after having drunk tons and tons of water during the day I'm sick of it. I want wine not because it's alcohol because it doesn't taste like water and by evening I want something different. Maybe I'll make a batch of lemonade or something else that is very clearly not water or bubbly water and try that.

[Anonymous]

AA meetings and the 12 steps

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow. You all have drinking problems! Really. This is not normal. Get help if you can't stop.

you cannot be serious. get a life

[Anonymous]

Careful, I started out just like you and when I stopped drinking nightly, I replaced my craving with heroin.