Hi Vadeekie and welcome
Most of us have tried the only drinking at weekends thing - unfortunately I'd binge drink so much Friday to Sunday I usually had to drink Monday morning just to function....
I've also tried alternating with glasses of water, drinking something alcoholic but that I hated, drinking NA stuff...I'd always go back to my poison of choice, beer and my volume of choice 'never enough'.
I often said 'if only I hadn't had that last drink'.
The thing I learned eventually was it's not the last drink that gets me, its the first.
I stopped that first drink and my life and myself are immeasurably better for it.
All the things I worried about before quitting - will I still have friends, will I still have a social life, etc - sorted themselves out.
I have a better social life than I had before because I'm not passing out and having to be poured into a taxi by my mates every Friday and Saturday night.
I no longer look myself in the face in the mirror in the morning with disgust.
My health - both mental and physical - is better too.
I don't regret my decision at all, ever.
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