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Hello, I am Dr. Bridell and I am just finishing up the creation of a new diet 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 the last 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! Click here to order copies of the book.

We are now going to go beyond the book and create 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 web site is still under construction, but here is an explanatory letter to new and old readers over viewing how the whole Bridell conglomeration will work.

Joining the "Bridell Posse" and Becoming a "Bookstore"

During the last 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 April, we have you on the list for a discounted copy from the first edition. 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" on the Meridianmagazine.com web site. 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 the books they receive will be from a special "posse edition" where each book is signed and personalized by Dr. Bridell. (When ordering from Meridianmagazine, click on the "special Posse edition.")

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 e mail.

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 why we formed the posse. 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 web site which will be called drbridell.com (original huh!). The site will have additional information and insights about the diet, but will also 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 mark up, 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 April 1, 2007 or if you now order special "posse" edition books now, 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 that 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. Order special editions of the book by clicking "Special Posse Edition on the order form at Meridianmagazine.com here.