“If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely or if, when drinking (eating), you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably an alcoholic (compulsive eater).” (AA p.44)
The idea that somehow, someday they will control and enjoy their drinking (eating) is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker (eater). Over any considerable period we get worse, never better. Many pursue it into the gates of insanity or death. (AA p. 30)