Thick is right on. On the up side, as you gain more muscle and simply keep the activity levels up, your metabolism will increase.
If it will help you stop drinking, at least for the time being, think of this. Alcohol has many, many negative effects on a dieting individual. First, it slows down your metabolism. Secondly, alcholol calories must be burned before you body will burn anything else. So, on a 22 beer night, your body must burn ~2300 calories before it'll touch anything else. Also, through some odd property of alcohol, it predisposes the body to storing fat in the belly, hence the beer gut phenomenon.
If you must get fucked up(we all love it) I'd advise you to try a few different methods. Learn how to love smoking pot whilst keeping your munchies in check, use GHB or check the classifieds for some good pills. They're all good, calorie free methods of getting fucke dup. If you ask me, you can't go wrong with acid, but it's awfully scarce these days.