Good for you relief on 12 days! Yep like the others have sound you sound pretty dang normal to me. I found substituting the alcohol with something else very beneficial. I substituted with M&M's and the 30 pounds I gained may not have been all that great it was still better than the tons of excess "weight" I was carrying made up of guilt/shame/deceit etc by drinking all the time. Be good to yourself, reward yourself for getting through the day and not drinking. It does get easier.
Judy