Diet Rules for Holidays

1. If you drink a diet soda with a candy bar, the calories in the candy
bar are canceled out by the diet soda.

2. When you eat with someone else, calories don't count if you don't
eat more than they do.

3. Food used for medicinal purposes never count, such as hot chocolate,
brandy, toast, and Sara Lee® Cheesecake.

4. If you fatten everyone else around you, then you look thinner.

5. Movie related foods (Milk Duds®, buttered popcorn, Junior Mints®,
Red Hots®, Tootsie Rolls®, etc.) do not have additional calories
because they are not part of one's personal fuel.

6. Things licked off knives and spoons have no calories if you are in
the process of preparing something. Examples are peanut butter on a
knife when making a sandwich, ice cream on a spoon when making a
sundae.

7. Cookie pieces contain no fat - the process of breaking causes fat
leakage. Exception: Cookies sold by Texas D'Lites® distributors.
They're a great "meal replacement" with little or no fat content,
low in calories, lots of fiber, protein, and other nutritional
ingredients.

8. Foods that have the same color have the same number of calories,
e.g.' spinach and pistachio ice cream; mushrooms and white chocolate.

Note: Chocolate is a universal color and may be substituted for any
other food color.

9. Foods that are frozen have no calories because calories are units
of heat. Examples are ice cream, frozen pies and popsicles.

10. This is where you add your own. Something like a Wild Card.