So ladies, I'm curious about ur diet cocktails. I know many of you probably don't drink at all while dieting. But every now and then I like to have a few adult beverages.

So what's the best 'diet friendly' cocktail? Tonight I had a few Bacardi and soda-waters instead if my usual Bacardi and cokes. It was okay, but not great. Any suggestions? Thanks!

I do bacardi and diet coke or coke zero...or just vodka with plain soda water. But I include the calories in my day and try to limit myself to no more than 5 standard shots (at bars, usually each drink is a double, so that's no more than 2 drinks at a bar)

Agree with rainbowstripe! I usually do rum & diet coke or 1 glass of red wine. The latter may not be as low-calorie, but at least it has health benefits.

Most weeks I don't drink anything, but if I am going out or at a party, I always limit myself to 2 drinks per evening. At first it sucked having to be so careful with alcohol, but I feel so much more healthful and my exercise is much more on-point when I have had little or nothing to drink.

In the balance between alcohol content, price, and calories, I find that the best bet is a tasty, high-alcohol content mixed drink. I pick a non-fruity drink where the taste of the alcohol isn't masked -- because that way I will drink it more slowly. My favorites are mojitos and gin & (diet) tonic, but I'm sure other drinks fit the low-sugar profile too.

I am genetically gifted/cursed with an absurdly low tolerance, so one drink is all I need for a night -- about 150-200 calories of damage, which I can hopefully burn off by dancing it up. As long as I don't fall into alcohol-inspired pizza munchies, going out doesn't really affect staying on plan.

Gah, WHY did you have to mention mojitos! Now I'm battling a crazy craving for this absolutely delicious ginger mint mojito that my husband got me hooked on at one of our favorite restaurants LOL. And i'm normally a diet soda or water person no matter what the occasion, that's the ONE drink I'll gladly order anytime we go there!

I usually never think about diet alcoholic drinks. I don't really drink all that often, but when I do, I've always just viewed it as a "treat night."

There's some really low calorie beers if you're a fan of beer. They're not any great table beers, but I've tasted a few of them, and they're not so entirely bad. Budweiser 55 I think is the lowest calorie beer. Only 55 calories, and surprisingly, it doesn't taste too much like bathwater.

I just go straight for the Bourbon. More bang for your calorie buck.

My husband does vodka and Coke Zero, Pepsi Max or Diet Sprite. Sometimes he uses diet cranberry juice which is like 5 calories per cup.

gin/vodka and soda water or white wine spritzers. This way I will nurse my drinks instead of drinking them too fast, boring but does the trick.

I like vodka/soda with lots of fresh squeezed lime juice in it.

I just try to be very moderate with my drinking. I am horrified by artificial sweeteners and I don't drink diet soda, so that kind of kills the vodka or rum/diet option (this also stems from the fact my grandmother was allergic to artificial sweeteners and they don't make me feel all to well either). So when I go out I try to have a good time while drinking water or having one drink that I really want, either a good beer or mixed drink. I love Guinness for beer and Malibu/Cranberry for mixed. I find this works for me because I don't usually have the goal of getting drunk and it lets me feel fulfilled. It doesn't satisfy me to drink something I don't like or don't want.

Stoli raspberry vodka with club soda and a splash of lime is my "out" drink. Otherwise I'll have a glass of wine. These are pretty safe bets.

I don't mind bud select 55.. but if ur not a beer drinker... no how low the calories... you still won't like it.

I haven't checked lately but my homemade bloody marys came in around like 120ish.

SIDE NOTE: out to eat at applebees the other day and ordered their Skinny Bee Long Island..Really good.. for only 110 calories!

Dry wine has a pretty good calorie to alcohol ratio (i.e. only a few carbs per glass) and is classy and fun to sip on so I drink that mostly unless I find myself in a situation where it's just better or cheaper to drink beer...

I really like diet and malibu, not sure the calories, but when I looked online it had said diet soda mixed drinks are usually an okay choice. I also like cranberry and vodka, but I saw an option to avoid all the sugar and order a club soda with vodka and a splash of cranberry juice.

Do a modified mojito - crush up some mint, add diet fresca or sprite and white rum. So flavorful, so satisfying.