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Dr Bridell's Tips for Holiday Eating
By the Mysterious Dr Bridell

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!

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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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