…I mean, this isn’t automatically bad advice. Kinda depends on the quantity and frequency of the alcohol vs calories. If you’re having a glass of wine at the end of an otherwise nutritionally well-executed day; vs going apeshit with candy, soda, chips, etc - but not drinking; the former is definitely the better of the two. Recognizing and leveraging those kinds of patterns are key t making some change a habit.

Especially if you treat this as a stepping stone to develop some good habits while weening off of bad ones - for that to work you need to tolerate some degree of bad ones as you dial them closer and closer to zero.

Perfect is the enemy of good