I've got my drinking habits down to only once a week in the past month which is a big improvement for me. Now it's the weekend, The time when I usually allow myself to get drunk. But I want to cut it out of my life all together. I told myself I wasn't going to drink at all this weekend and I was so sure of myself that it would be easy but now that the weekend is here, it is, again, very tempting. I keep thinking about how nice it is has been in the past while to get drunk on the weekend.

To motivate myself I am trying to think more about the counterpoint of how it ruins the following day because of the hangover, or about how it has been so destructive in the past, and also the mess of having my health in a constant flux of deterioration and recovery. I am thinking about how great it feels on those days when I am able to overcome the temptation. I want that.