DrinkControl: Alcohol Tracker

I knew I had been drinking too much alcohol, and drinking almost every day. Drink Control helped me realize just how much I really was drinking. I really like how easy it was to customize my input screen to the types of drinks I typically had and create custom drinks, too. It would remember the last drink I had, so input was super quick. Since it converted everything to UNITS of alcohol, I knew just how many drinks really were in that 6 ounce, 12% glass of wine or in the 24 oz 5% hard seltzer or that big, extra dry martini from my favorite bartender. After tracking all of my drinks for a year, being brutally honest with myself about what I drank the night before (even looking in my trash for the empties, asking the bartender or my friends, or looking at my credit card charges), I saw aaallll those red lines and decided I was done. Moderation for me didn’t work, so I quit. I found the TLC online sober community and haven’t looked back. Six months later, I still have the app and relish inputting Dry Day after Dry Day. Whenever I need a reminder, I look back on my drinking history in the app (which was just one year of more than two decades of struggling with alcohol). So glad I quit! Thank you Drink Control for the part you played in my journey to sobriety!

I’ve never seen myself as a big drinker, but after having a stroke, I knew I needed to more carefully and completely monitor my alcohol intake. This app has not only helped to monitor my drinking, but more importantly, help measure actual alcohol units. For example, I like microbrews, especially IPAs. With this app I discovered the true volume of my alcohol intake I never had considered: a single IPA pint, clearly not a problem drinker kind of drink, is actually nearly 2 alcohol units given the high average alcohol content of modern microbrews. Think of it, in my younger days, 2 pints would be the norm yet that’s actually equal to 4 alcohol units. Without a doubt, an eye opener. I really appreciate the app for its usefulness but also for its well thought out layout. Inputting information is straight forward and simple. The data presentation is clear and meaningful. Great app!

I admit I’m a worrier. I tend to overthink things. Meaning that I can get paranoid about how healthy or unhealthy I perceive my habits to be. I enjoy drinking but I find it easy to feel like I’m overdoing it either in how many days a week I drink or with how many drinks I have in a social outing (whether it is real or perceived is a different topic). This app has been very helpful in bringing some stability to my own perceptions of that. It is easy to just pop into the app and tally a drink as I go, or the next day if I got too busy chatting to stop and enter. The weekly tally is great because I can see how many drinks I’ve had and I can see the upcoming day when the tally will go down so that I don’t feel pressure for drinking again until the running tally drops lower. Overall, it is easy to use and I’ve consistently recorded all my drinks for the past 6 months. I’m less stressed and can easily see when I feel like I need to dial down a bit, or when it is ok to let loose and have some more fun. For me, it takes the worry away and that has been great.