Do you know what helps with obesity, Bizi? Try to cut out white flour / wheat flour AND sugar from your diet. No artificial sweeteners either. Most recovering alcoholics go from alcohol to sugar. Sugar is known to be just as addictive and harmful to health as alcohol, maybe even more so.

So I am suggesting to try and address addiction in toto, not just the alcohol part. It won't be harder, but easier on you.

You become a new person. You can eat until your full. There will be less craving, no craving in fact.

You sound like a super nice person, so this is not a crazy suggestion, but a caring one. I would like you to be happy, not sad, with leaving addiction behind.

Exercise of course is also an important part of the new you. Like most alcoholics who have stopped drinking, you will be a wonderful person. The true wonderful you.