Originally Posted by
ArtFriend 
How so? This part confuses me. If I drink less and over a longer period of time doesn't that say something?
Yes. It says that you're doing something that only people who have a problem with alcohol would attempt. Other people don't even consider moderating their drinking. They don't have to.
Your measure of success, that you were able to do this for a single week, only says that you were able to do this for a single week, and nothing more. If this is how you drank before you attempted to get sober, for the majority of your drinking career, then there'd be no need for you to get sober.