Guinness is the best taste/calories/alcohol ratio for m.e

I think any beer or cider will be better calorie wise than mixed drinks. That said, I usually manage to budget myself a decent deficit enough for a good night out

I like Michelob Raspberry-pomegranate. It's 95 calories with 5.5 carbs and 4% alcohol. it's light, but tasty.

The other thing that I did besides just trying to find a low-cal version of my favorite drinks was to cut to one "drinking" night a week, meaning more than one or two beers, playing pong or other games, etc...., and on the morning of that one night, I would get up, eat breakfast then go work out for longer than any other day. At the time I was training for my first half marathon and so I would end up lifting for an hour or so, then running for an hour and half. Then that afternoon my roommate and I would go play raquetball or basketball or something. In the end I would end up with the ability to eat 4000 calories in a day and still potentially maintain my weightloss, allowing me to drink what I wanted. Then if I ended up going over because of a late night snack or something, I would simply plug that into my next days calorie intake as it usually occured around 1 or 2 am anyway. Long story short, by adopting this pattern I could still have my nights out with my friends, and i lost around 30-45 lbs during a semester. Cheers!

If you plan your mixed drinks ahead of time and make them yourself, they can be pretty low cal with plenty of alcohol. Rum and diet is obviously one option (100 cal or less). I also used to drink vodka and vitamin water in my undergrad days (my tastes have matured a bit since then lol). Lemon or lime juice is also a great option to add to any drink to give it some good flavor without a lot of extra cals. There are some really good carbonated waters with natural flavors and zero cals that make decent mixers as well. Best advice I have for mixed drinks is to buy unflavored liquor and then mix it with something zero cal and add something extra for flavor, such as fizzy water with lime (zero cal) a clear vodka (Svedka is my recommendation based on price and flavor) and a dash of cranberry juice for taste. Yum yum!

Also meal replacement shakes are great for preventing/treating hangovers without a lot of cals. At the end of a night of drinking, half a shake (I prefer Wal Mart brand--cheap and pretty much exactly the same as Slim Fast) is 100 cal and then the other half right away in the morning to perk you back up.