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I post this whenever someone asks.

A standard drink is 14g pure alcohol or almost 100 calories. You probably don't drink near-pure alcohol like everclear, but even something that's mostly an empty mix of water and alcohol like vodka has a lot of calories in the alcohol part - one shot of spirits is about 14g alcohol, so there's +100 calories, almost as many calories as a can of coke. How many shots does it take you to get drunk? That's your minimum, you can't escape those extra calories.

Dropping complicated mixed drinks will help, but the only thing that will work for certain is drink less.