I love your screen name, PamChowder!
The chowder part is great - I think many of us here can relate as our brains were a "soup" of so many thoughts and impulses.
As we gain some sobriety we find the noise quiets and we don't have to act on the impulses. The mental obsession softens - at around 60 days for me it was gone. I had to get enough time for this to happen and retrain the synapse into different habits = ice cream.............
So, now I have gained a few pounds (most lose weight!) but I have also gained 11 months - today - of sober one day at a times. You can to!!
When the obsession hit me I would simply acknowledge it but not respond. Yea, I hear you.......I may drink tomorrow - but not today. Today I am Sober - I am not a victim if I drink but a volunteer.
Today, I am not signing up for duty.........There's no lack of volunteers - I have done my part and am out.
Today, I do not drink!
Glad you're here - welcome.