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Editor’s
note: Today's article is December's regular monthly update of a
column that ran in Meridian for 45 straight weeks, exploring a new
diet based on mental and spiritual rather than physical paradigms.
A sampling of those installments is still available in the Bridell
archive. Besides reviewing them for yourself, you can send them
to friends whom you think might need this new and dramatic (and
remarkably simple) diet. Dr Bridell's promise to you who follow
the diet is that you will lose a substantial amount of weight —
and that this weight loss will actually be the least important of
the ways in which you will benefit!
If you don't
have the Bridell diet book yet, order your copy today by clicking
here!
Wonderfully Small Utensils
Thanksgiving is over (did the Bridell diet work
for you during your feasting?), and the Christmas season is upon
us (will the Bridell help you get through it without gaining weight
— in fact, losing some pounds even as you celebrate?). These
are big questions, and in this monthly update column, I what to
help you answer them in a way that makes you happier and lighter!
First of all, let me give you my number one
idea or innovation for enjoying all the good food of celebrating/holidays/feasts/banquets/family
gatherings without eating too much. It will sound like kind of a
silly, goofy little idea at first, and like very simple thinking,
but it works, and it not only prevents the pounds, it but it also
enhances the joy!
Here's what you do: Get yourself a
very small teaspoon (like the tiny ones from English tea sets) and
a little cocktail fork (like the ones you eat shrimp cocktails with
— my kids call them "threeks" because they usually
have three prongs instead of four.) Then start eating your meals
with these wonderfully small utensils! You will feel a little
silly at first, like you are back in childhood or having a doll
tea party. But it will force you to take small bites, it will remind
you to sip and smell and savor rather than gulping, gorging, and
guzzling.
The longer I live the Bridell eat-half diet,
and the more I try to practice and perfect it, the more convinced
I am that really small, slow bites are the key to its enjoyment
as well as to its success. Small bites, well spaced, give you time
and room to enjoy each flavor, each texture, each morsel. And they
also make it take roughly the same amount of time to eat your half
portion as it used to take you to eat the full portion with the
big utensils.
Conversation will even seem better
at your holiday table, and you will be able to participate in it
without ever speaking with a mouth full. Your body will feel more
relaxed as you eat. You will feel the joy of bridling your appetite,
and letting it move forward only at your pace and only
with your OK. When you get up from the table you will feel fed but
not filled up, and you will feel light instead of heavy.
And besides, people will notice your
little spoon and fork and ask you what in the world you are doing.
A good conversation about your new, logical, poetic, and guaranteed
diet will ensue, and you may end up helping someone else's body
as well as your own!
The Bridell Posse Becomes the Bridell Bounty Hunters!
By the way, be sure and watch for an
article in the next few days on the Meridian. It will be entitled
something like, "Make Big Bucks By Becoming a Bridell Bounty
Hunter." It will outline an intriguing way to share the Bridell
eat-half diet with your friends and relatives, and to make a little
cash while you are at it!
At first, when it was proposed to me, I would not authorize it because
it looked a little like multi-level marketing or a pyramid scheme.
But then it was explained to me that it was merely a way in which
you, or any Bridell supporter could give a small "pass-along"
information e-card (with a link to a private ordering site) on Bridell's
diet to a friend — which would make it easy for that friend
to order the book.
Under the new program, each time a friend buys the book (at its
regular price without any markup), you get a small referral fee
or “bounty” (because the e-cards you pass along contain
your unique referral code). What gets it to the "big bucks"
is when those next buyers receive their electronic referral codes
or e-cards and then recommend the diet to their friends, and then
those friends recommend it to their friends — and each time
a purchase is made by one of your "chain" of buyers, you
get additional small referral fees.
It’s amazing how those numbers add up.
This is not a pyramid scheme, but a form of “viral”
marketing. Unlike multi-level schemes, you don't ever have to buy
another thing — no inventory, no nothing! You just recommend
the diet to others you think would benefit from it, and computers
keep track of your "referral code" (even embeds it into
the referral e-mail note you send to people), so that when they
order the book, your key code gets the credit, and you get the referral
fee
Now here’s the best part. Those
of you who have already bought a book, you won’t have to buy
another copy in order to receive your referral code. It will come
to you automatically by email when the new service launches. In
fact, if you already have a copy, you will have so much the advantage
since you already have personal experience with the book and the
diet.
I think it's a good idea for two reasons:
1. It encourages you to "spread the word" and to recommend
Bridell's diet to others. 2. I would much rather have those “bookstore”
profits from each book go to you than to some big retail bookstore.
So, check out that other article when it appears
(Bridell Bounty Hunters) and get ridin’, pardner!
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