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Editor's
note: Today's article is the fifth 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.
All 45 of those installments, edited and enhanced, are now available
in the form of a great new book, simply called the Bridell
diet. At this point, the book is only available to Meridian
readers. Click here
for information on ordering.
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!
There will also be a "Bridell Posse"
formed to round up others who need the diet and as a support group
for those who are participating in the diet. You can join
the posse as you order the book.
I am Dr Bridell and you are a Meridian
reader who has likely followed the development of the Bridell
eat-half diet over the past year. As you know, this is the
logical and rational, poetic and beautiful, and fully guaranteed
diet that has already helped hundreds of people lose thousands of
pounds.
The diet is based on mental and spiritual rather than physical paradigms. It
is arranged in "bite-sized chunks" that have been going
out to readers on a weekly basis for more than a year. Click here to review
a few sample chapters from the archives of
Meridian Magazine.
My promise is that those who follow the diet will lose a substantial amount
of weight .and that this weight loss will be the least important
of the ways in which they will benefit! And the good news is that
the entire diet is now available as a book, and a lovely one if
I do say so myself. Click here
to order copies
of the book.
The Bridell Book: Worth the Wait!
I am holding in my hands the first Bridell
Diet book off the press! (Well, actually, I set it down so
that I could type, but I am looking at it) And I like what I see.
Hats off to Meridian, particularly to Scot Proctor, who is reinventing the publishing
process by turning a column into a book and by offering the entire
first edition to Meridian readers.
Thanks also to Kathy Kidd and Darla Isackson for their marvelous
editing, and to Scott Eggers for his awesome cover design (you will
not think this book looks dull and you will not misplace it, because
it is too easy to see!) I think, both in the writing and in
the "look" we have come up with the right combination
of serious, clear dieting ideas that are appealing and that work
and a light, fun spirit that makes the diet inviting and even
adventuresome rather than depressing or overwhelming.
Click to Buy
A book you wont easily lose!
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I
am confident (largely because of the overwhelming response
and dieting results that has poured in from Meridian
readers) that we have a diet approach that will be a popular
revolution! It is simply the most logical and rational,
the most poetic and beautiful diet out there. (It
helps a little that the current best selling diet books [our
competition] base their approaches on astrology, and on blood
type, and on maple syrup!) |
But we don't
need to talk about competing with other books just yet! Because
the book, for right now, for the first edition or two, is just
for Meridian readers, and this is the only
place you can order it. We will save the "bookstore and
best-seller" route for later.
So before you even read any further, click here and get your copy on its way to you. It really helps
to have the book. Even if you have read all the columns and
been attempting to implement them, there is something about having
it all between two covers. You can carry it around.
You can mark it. You can flag the parts you are having the
hardest time implementing.
The book
commits you more deeply, and makes the diet more real. I can
tell you that having the "physical, tangible book" even
helps the person who wrote it! I have had the book for a week
now, and it has helped me already to fine tune how I am dieting,
and it has helped me recommit to some parts of it that I was slipping
a little on!
As excited as we are about the new Bridell
diet book, we are already going beyond the book and creating something
of a Bridell club, or organization, or "posse" to help
and motivate each of us to implement the diet, and to get it to
others who would benefit from it. This new website is still under
construction, but here is an explanatory letter to new and old readers
explaining how the whole Bridell conglomeration will work.
A Little
History of the Bridell Diet, and how to
join the "Bridell Posse" and
become a "Bookstore"
During the
past year, as Meridian readers became familiar
with Dr Bridell and his revolutionary
new diet, demand for the program in book form continued to grow,
thousands of letters and e mails were received, and at the end of
last year, plans for publication were announced. Requests for the
Bridell diet book continue to pour in,
and many readers want multiple copies of the book to get them to
friends and relatives (or to be "bookstores" that sell
them in a more personal way than a store ever could).
I have not
been able to answer each individual letter because there have just
been too many of them. But be assured that if you wrote in before
the end of May, we have you on the list for a discounted copy from
the first edition. You should have been contacted via e-mail by now. If you have not been contacted, drop us a quick e mail letting us know when you made your request, and how many copies you reserved.
We also held
a drawing, and picked 250 "winners" from the thousands
of respondents who will receive a free book. While the drawing is
now over, and the first edition sold out, the book is now advertised
and "orderable" here at Meridian.
Perhaps more
importantly, we have now decided that all readers of the
column or of the book are eligible to join the "Bridell Posse," which will be an on line coalition of
Bridell diet devotees who share experiences and ideas and
results and who receive quantity discounts on books for distribution
(by gift or by sales) to friends and acquaintances who they feel
could also benefit from the Bridell diet
and the whole Bridell philosophy.
Posse members
who order in lots of 5 or more will receive a discount, (and big
savings on shipping) and the books they receive will be from a special
"posse edition" where each book is signed and personalized
by Dr. Bridell.
Basically,
members of the posse will become "personal bookstores"
that get the books to their friends. The reason this makes me so
happy as writer is that I know this special edition will go to established
Bridell readers, who already know and appreciate the concepts
and spiritual connections of the diet (or they will go to those
that you give or sell the book to along with your explanation
and testimonial). Thus everyone who gets the special edition will
have some kind of personal tie to me and to the origin of the book.
Also, please
continue to send me your inputs and thoughts, but know that I may
answer some of them in the ongoing First Friday of the month column
on Meridian rather than by individual return email.
I have to
tell you, I have enjoyed so much getting to know so many of you
through your letters, and receiving your inputs. I have written
other, earlier books, and writing can sometimes be a lonely process,
and a little like a one-way conversation. I have loved the interactivity
of the column, and I don't want to give up that association. That
is one reason that we formed the posse.
Besides,
it just seemed like the appropriate thing to do when dealing with
a horse metaphor and when we have the objective of rounding
up others who may want or need or appreciate the principles
and practices of the diet.
Logistics
Here's how
it will work: All first edition and special edition book receivers
will automatically become members of the posse, and will soon be
sent a username and password that will get them into the special
"posse" section of an on line website that will be called
DrBridell.com (original huh!).
The site
will have additional information and insights about the diet, and
I will even have a blog that will be available
only to posse members (I want to share personal things with you
including my own experiences with my own diet!)
But besides
keeping us in close and personal touch, the website and blog but will be the key to a whole new kind of book distribution.
I've mentioned before that I am a little fed up with how books are
usually sold so impersonally, just in bookstores with a big markup,
and often out of stock so you have to order it and go back again
to pick it up. The book will eventually be in regular retail bookstores
of course, but how much better it is to have posse members become
"personal bookstores" and sell autographed, personalized,
special edition copies to people they know and who they can work
on the diet together with.
The DrBridell.com
website will also be an on line support group, where posse members
can share their own diet experiences (both successes and failures)
and can share ideas and motivation to make it work better for us
all. We will also share with each other the broader spiritual truths
that the diet is a "type" and metaphor for and the experiences
of sipping and savoring life and learning to enjoy it more.
The diet,
as you all know by now, is not only a way of eating, but a way of
thinking and a way of living, and with a whole posse of us working
on it together, we will all have the additional benefits of shared
thoughts, experiences, and motivations. And the web, of course,
is the perfect place for this to happen.
If you requested
first edition copies before May 1, 2007, or if you now order special
"posse" edition books, your name will go into the file
that qualifies you for the posse, and we
will keep you updated both here on this developing web site and
by e mail.
Be sure to
continue to follow the ongoing Bridell
column on Meridian on the first Friday of each month, (look
for the same "medicine bottle" logo) and be patient as
this site and the whole Bridell Posse
organization develops. The Bridell archives
at Meridian will no longer include all past columns,
but they will have many sample columns (or chapters from the book)
that you can email to friends, neighbors and relatives whom you
would like to acquaint with the Bridell
Diet.
In the
Meantime
Now here
is my suggestion to you: As you receive your copy of the Bridell book, reread it carefully even though you may have
already seen most of it in Meridian columns.
Having it all in a book that you can mark and cross-reference is
a whole new ballgame. With the book, (and
with some powerful resolve) you can become a true expert in living
the Bridell diet.
I know from
your letters that there are thousands of you who, despite your acceptance
and agreement with the principles of the diet, are not fully living
it yet! Toughen up! As you read the book, recommit yourself to both
the diet and the philosophy and the paradigm of controlling appetites.
I would like
to challenge you to make the diet a part of you and a part of your
life before you start giving or selling the book to others. That
way, you will be a living testimonial of it as you distribute it.
You will be a fruit of the diet not only in terms of the weight
you have lost but in terms of how your mind and your spirit functions
and in terms of your new awareness and perspective.
Love and
Blessings, Dr Bridell
Share
your ideas/experiences/successes/failures on the Bridell
diet by writing drbridell@meridianmagazine.com.
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