For me what worked was to try and understand why I was drinking. I used to drink (a lot) at night to help me fall asleep (pretty much black out). Why was I hav

For me what worked was to try and understand why I was drinking. I used to drink (a lot) at night to help me fall asleep (pretty much black out). Why was I having difficulties falling asleep? Work stress? Diet? Something else? I decided to change two of the simplest things and the ones I had direct control, it was time to go to a gym and start diet. So I just radically changed my lifestyle. From one day to the other I stopped eating crap and became a lot more mindful of quantities I've been eating and started tracking my macros. Because of that I removed alcohol entirely from the equation as those empty calories didn't fit in my macros. I started going to the gym every morning before work, and been consistently going 6 days a week. Since I'm waking up earlier to go the gym, by the time its evening I'm a lot more tired and don't really need the help to fall asleep. Been losing weight, gaining muscle, my sleep patterns have never been better. It's been 3 months since I started, and since then I've had 2 glasses of wine on my birthday, and 1 pint of beer when I met a friend I haven't seen in 5 years. I still enjoy the act of drinking, I like that buzz feeling, I like the taste and the smell, it's all great. But I don't want to ruin the progress I've had since I started exercising and eating better. I've never been in a better physical shape in my life and I like that a lot more than I like drinking. Of course I'll still get drunk on NYE, but at least I won't get drunk the whatever remaining days till then we have.