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

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

4. Food used for medicinal purposes NEVER counts; hot chocolate and brandy, toast and Sara Lee cheesecake.

5. If you fatten up everyone else around you, then you look thinner.

6. Movie-related foods do not have additional calories because they are part of the entire entertainment package and not part of one's personal food requirement, such as Milk Duds, buttered popcorn, Junior Mints, red hots and Tootsie Roll.s

7. Cookie pieces have no calories. The process of breaking causes calorie leakage.

8. Things licked off knives and spoons have no calories if you are in the process of preparing something. Example: Peanut butter on a cracker.

9. Foods that have the same color have the same number of calories. Examples: Spinach and pistachio ice cream, mushrooms and white chocolate. NOTE: Chocolate is a universal color and may be substituted anywhere.