Planning on doing a little celebrating this weekend for the 4th? Here's are Hungry Girl's tips and tricks for all that alcohol.

• Moderation is the name of the game. Overdoing it with any type of alcohol is a fast way to derail a weight-loss (or maintenance) plan. Not only do the calories in alcohol add up, but if you're tipsy (or hung-over), fattening food may be tougher to turn down.
• A bottle of light beer or a glass of win typically has about 100 calories. (There are exceptions, of course.) But don't despair if you're not into wine or beer. Just follow our tips for keeping calorie counts in cocktails down.
• A shot of most clear-ish alcohols - like vodka and rum - has about 100 calories. So if you mix your liquor with something calorie-free, you can enjoy a single-shot cocktail for around 100 calories and a Weight Watchers POINTS value of 2. Not bad!
• DON'T trick yourself into thinking juices are guilt-free. They're not. Ordinary fruit juice will likely add 50-75 calories to whatever you're sipping.
• Calorie-free sodas are great mixers. We love fruity diet sodas, and Sprite Zero is a fave. Seltzer and club soda are also good, but watch out - tonic is similar and SEEMS safe, but it's got almost as many calories as regular soda.
• When you're out, order a club soda with a single shot of fruit-flavored vodka and just a splash of fruit juice. If the bar has fruit (orange slices, pineapple chunks, etc), ask for a piece in your drink. That super-fruity sipper will likely clock in with no more than 120 calories and a POINTS value of 2. Just be sure to ask for club soda (remember, tonic has calories!) and only a splash of juice.
• Avoid frozen drinks (daquiris, mudslides, pina coladas and margaritas) like the ice-blended plague - especially ones served in glasses the size of salad bowls. Those things are CRAZY-HIGH in calories!
• Steer clear of sweet creamy drinks (we're looking at you, white russian!) and mega-cocktails made with a ton of booze (like long island iced tea, which has five kinds of alcohol - YIKES!). Those are loaded with calories.
• Keep your home bar stocked with low-cal stuff like sugar free syrups, sugar free powdered drink mixes and sugar free mixers.
• If you like to mix OJ into your drinks, opt for Topicana's new Trop50. It has 50 calories a glass (that's half the amount in ordinary OJ), is naturally sweetened, and tastes REALLY good. THere are other great-tasting diet juice-like drink lines out there too, like Diet Ocean Spray, SoBe Lean, and Diet V8 Splash (**one of my favorites!**)