Nope! My efforts involved an iPhone app that tracks the number of drinks and tells my presumed blood-alcohol level; my game was "I'm fine as long as the app says I'm not over the legal limit." Funny how after about drink #8 they were mysteriously no longer being entered into said app. :hypnotize

If I could control it, I wouldn't be here.

Oh man those lists are funny, I mean I know they're really kind of sad but they're funny because I did the exact same kinds of things.

- only 1 drink before dinner and 1 after
- drink 2 days, sober for 1
- no liquor during the week, just wine and beer
- one fifth of liquor a week, no more
- one beer before starting the liquor, to prevent me from drinking too much liquor
- nothing after 8:30PM
- nothing before 8:30PM
- drink only on Friday, Saturday and Sunday
- smoke pot instead of drinking
- smoke a little pot and drink just a little
- smoke pot but no liquor
- no drinking before 5PM (I only started breaking this one right before I quit)

So yeah, obviously the moderation attempts didn't work for me at all.

"Only drink on 4 weeknights... and of course weekends are free, everybody does that." Okay, that's 6 days a week, and the 7th quickly got taken too.

"Only 4 drinks on weeknights... fine, maybe 8... and everybody drinks on weekends so 14 is a good number."

I thought I wasn't an alcoholic because I could moderate on certain occasions, like when family members were closely watching me and I could have 2 glasses of wine... but on those occasions, I spent the entire time staring down everyone else's drinks, willing them to just magically appear in my hand.