Originally Posted by Novice

I'm not sure where this fits into this thread. I'm plunging in. Day #1 using AVRT. First morning without having had my usual 5 glasses wine in the evening. I grappled with my beast all day yesterday. Finally went to bed hours earlier than usual knowing that my beast would wake me at 4am (as he always does) to explain to me why I am so weak and horrible. I stayed with him and said I wasn't going to drink anymore. He stopped for a while and I finally slept again. I am hearing my beast talk again today about moderation. "You can enjoy one nice glass of merlot with dinner...just don't finish the bottle. If you can quit completely, why can't you just be moderate?" THAT is my AVRT. The postings here are helping me enormously.