Athena1, I'm also new here. If you feel happy with drinking once a week it's cool. For most of us Alchool was depriving us our things in our lifes, controlling us, making us hurt, giving health problems. I could go on, you get the idea.
The AV and making the big plan is like prison camp prisonnors wanting to escape. The beast was controlling our lifes, we simply said enought!