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CHOCOLATE FOR CHEATERS

Never feel guilty about eating chocolate

By Madelyn Miller, the travellady

On a recent trip to Zurich, a chocolatier at Lindt chocolate told me that the secret to good health was eating chocolate every day. I accepted this advice and plan to follow it for the rest of my life.

I do feel best on the days when the Lindt Lindor Balls are the wakeup call for my taste buds.

And now that I think of chocolate as a preventive health item, I no longer feel it is necessary to count the calories.

Here are a few other times when I think calories don’t count

Diet Rules for Cheaters

1. If you eat something and no one sees you eat it, it has no calories.

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, calories don't count if you don't eat more than they do.

4. Food used for medicinal purposes NEVER count, such as hot chocolate, brandy, toast and Sara Lee Cheesecake.

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

6. Movie related foods (Milk Duds, Buttered Popcorn, Junior Mints, Red Hots, Tootsie Rolls, etc.) do not have additional calories because they are part of the entertainment package and not part of one's personal fuel.

7. Cookie pieces contain no fat-- the process of breaking causes fat leakage.

8. 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 making a sandwich and ice cream on a spoon making a sundae.

9. Foods that have the same color have the same number of calories.
Examples are: spinach and pistachio ice cream; mushrooms and white chocolate.

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

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

Madelyn Miller is a writer and web entrepreneur who writes for www.travellady.com, www.chocolateatlas.com, www.cocktailatlas.com, www.carladynews.com, www.todaysgooddeeds.com and believes she writes best when inspired by chocolate

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