Welcome! You’ve made such a smart choice to find some support and community in the process of making this change, and a great change it will be. I used to be a weekend warrior, much like your experience, until I wasn’t and progressed further to daily drinking. It’s great you have a good reason to abstain during the week and you can focus on this pattern on the weekend. I’m going to post some links here for threads you might want to read through. Reading here will take up some time and be helpful all at once. In my early days I spent soooo much time on here, before, during and after cravings, but especially during. It helped me put things into perspective when I was tempted to fall back into those old patterns. 2+ years later and I’m still here!
I actually began coming here in late 2019 and had some stints of sobriety but it really stuck after I was willing to try more of what people said worked for them instead of thinking I could do things the way I thought was right for me. Had to stretch my comfort zone a lot. The more you educate yourself and are willing to make plans and take steps to change the better. That being said, planning your time and including recovery/sobriety specific activities or reading really helped me. I’m glad you decided to join us! I encourage you to try checking in every day (or every day on the weekend depending on what works for you). I will link a thread for that too.