Any daily drinkers manage to moderate successfully?
I'm 28m and I had a decade long 3-6 beer daily habit. 500ml bottles 5 or 6% so around 10 units daily every evening. Hardly a dry day that whole time, took a month off twice. I rarely got very drunk but I forgot what it was like to fall asleep sober. The first thing I'd do every day after work was reach for a beer. I wasn't drinking crazy amounts of alcohol, but I was incredibly consistent about it.
I was sick and tired of feeling sick and tired all the time so I decided on a long 6 month break from alcohol, I haven't drank since January and I'm coming up on 5 months sober.
I genuinely do enjoy a beer and I didn't plan to be a teetotaler the rest of my life but I never want to go back to the way things were before. In the last 5 months I've lost 12kg, I'm fitter than I've been in my life, relationship has massively improved, I feel a thousand times better.
If I do go back to drinking, I'd like to keep it to weekends only, not necessarily every weekend, and keep the total weekly units under 14. Has anyone had any luck breaking this type of daily habit and moderating without falling back into the old ways?