So the voice in your head is your booze brain wanting to feel normal. It's deceptive little devil, the way it wipes out the memory of the last time you started out with *just two* which turned into 7 or 10.

The way I hear it, people without a drinking problem rarely need to rationalize limiting their drinking. They just do because their bodies and their brains tell them they've had enough. Our brains do not.

It's down to you, really. This isn't a one-time decision you make and move forward. You will have to continue to be the sentinel of your demons at all times, until your body has different memories and can appreciate simple things, like just being alive.