on a roundabout

I have totally the same problem, and maybe part of the reason is that we are both within 6-7kg of our goal, which doesn't seem like a huge amount of weight to lose, so in my opinion that kind of makes it difficult to go completely off things like wine if its what you enjoy because you figure by now you should be able to let your hair down once in awhile and still reach your goal.

Unfortunately if you do over indulge in the alcohol it does make it hard to get back on the wagon the next day and have a good day to balance it out, and before you know it you have spent the whole weekend/holiday whatever 'off the wagon', which sabotages all the good work you do the rest of the time.

I'm sorry to say I don't have a magic answer! I did go off alcohol for 6 weeks and my weight loss went much better...understandably. But eventually I did want to let my hair down and it wasn't so easy to go back to abstinance as the solution. I personally think that any weight loss solution has to be one you can maintain for the rest of your life. So if going without wine for the rest of your life doesn't sound like something you could live with then I don't think it is really the answer. I think that working out a strategy where you can have a wine or 5 once in awhile with out it stuffing you up for the rest of the weekend is part of the answer or restricting those weekends to once a month instead of once a week, or something along those lines is a more sustainable solution.
Let me know if you work it out I will be interested to hear!