Holiday Diet Tips 1 - If no one sees you eat it, it has no calories. 2 - If you drink a diet soda with a candy bar, they cancel each other out. 3 - When eating with someone else, calories don't count if you both eat the same amount. 4 - Foods used for medicinal purposes have no calories. This includes any chocolate used for energy, brandy, Sara Lee Cheesecake (eaten whole), and Haagen-Daz Ice Cream. 5 - Movie-related foods are much lower in calories simply because they are a part of the entertainment experience and not part of one's personal fuel. This includes Milk Duds, popcorn with butter, Junior Mints, Snickers, and Gummi Bears. 6 - Cookie pieces contain no calories because the process of breakage causes calorie leakage. 7 - If you eat the food off someone else's plate, it doesn't count. 8 - If you eat standing up the calories all go to your feet and get walked off. 9 - Food eaten at Christmas parties has no calories, courtesy of Santa. 10 - STRESSED is just DESSERTS spelled backward.