Richard Eyre - The Half-Diet Diet: The Guaranteed Weight-Loss Program that Reboots Your Body, Mind, and Spirit for a Happier Life

GUARANTEE TO ALL READERS AND IMPLEMENTERS:

You will lose weightquite a lot of weight in most cases.

Your weight loss will actually be the least important thing this book does for you.

If 1 and 2 dont prove to be true, I will personally give you your money back.

AUTHORS NOTE

This book was originally written online in weekly installments under the pen name of Dr. Bridell. One advantage of writing a book bit by bit and putting each of its parts instantly online is that you get abundant, real-time feedback. I received thousands of comments, insights, and preorders for the first edition of the book. And I also received documented results of the weight being lost and other impressive results of the Half Diet.

Here, as appetizers, are a few of those comments and testimonials, with names shortened to initials for privacy. There are many more at the end of the book for dessert. You dont need to eat them all; just sample a few to get a taste of the nature and practicality of The Half-Diet Diet.

Bon apptit!

PRAISE FOR THE HALF-DIET DIET

Dear Dr. Bridell, I know you get lots of letters of gratitude for helping people lose weight. I want to thank you for something else. Thanks for teaching me how to enjoy food. Eating is now a delight, even though (or perhaps because) I eat only half as much as I used to. And guess what? You are right about food being a metaphor, because in learning how to enjoy eating, I have learned how to enjoy life! RM

A life-changing approach to weight loss. MS

I love the insights about the spiritual aspects of our relationship to food. LJ

I know this diet works! Its totally in harmony with the spiritual truth. So how can it not work?! JH

Ive truly enjoyed your columns and especially appreciate how the three parts dovetail (the physical, mental, and spiritual). I didnt need to lose weight, but the slowing down and appreciating all aspects of my life have helped me be more at peace with myself. LH

I found hope on both the physical and spiritual level. I am so grateful for this book. It has given me the only hope I have felt in years of dieting. FB

I loved it all, but especially the second half of the book... on the spiritual appetites. FG

It is definitely more than a food issue for me. I like the spiritual approach to focus on life management. LM

Deeply insightful and thought provoking. HD

From the beginning, I have felt that this is the answer for me because I had come to the realization that my weight issue and my spiritual progress are tied together. MM

It has been so refreshing to see a common-sense and reasonable way to handle weight problems. I am grateful as one of those who are fed up with the usual diet fads and have appreciated your wonderful ideas. They have worked miracles in my life. CW

I began reading it because I was interested in losing weight, but my motivation became much deeper as the weeks went by. DC

Enlightening, thought-provoking, and enjoyable. SB

As a physician, I say thanks for your work and insight. I agree with your concepts and fundamental ideas. LS

Its the first diet that has articulated what I have always believed a diet should be. Yes, it works, because it encompasses the total person and not just the physical side of dieting. BN

I especially appreciate the fact that you are using spiritual principles and examples to help us understand our behavior, desires, motivations, etc. Not only does it help people eat better and lose weight, but, hopefully, [it] also improve[s] their spirituality and strength to endure. CH

Endorsements continued in back of book...

MEDICAL FOREWORD

First of all, you should know that my friendship with Richard Eyre goes back forty years. He calls me Cub, and I call him Rick. We ride horses together, we scuba dive together, and, mostly, we talk a lot together, particularly about the maintenance and the connections of the bodies, minds, and spirits we are trying to preserve. You should also know that I love the way Ricks logical and conceptual mind works. His how-to advice has been a constant source of practical information to me throughout my life, but even more, its frequently given me a sense of Ah-ha! joy.

About me: Im nothing more than an average country doctor. Way back in the last century, I started my medical practice in a little country town in Alberta, Canada. I could immediately see that obesity was a universal problem and a bane to most of my patients. A friend of mine from medical school had a diametrically opposite experience. He went directly to Nigeria with his new wife and stayed there for sixteen years as a medical missionary. He was one of two doctors that spoke the language of the Tieve, a tribe of a million and a half people in which obesity is nonexistent.

On one of his rare trips back home, we got together and discussed the differences in our medical experiences. I found that for him there were no Sundays and no holidays and that on a typical day he and his partner would see five hundred outpatients. Now when I say outpatient, I mean out. There is no possible way to funnel that many patients through a typical doctors office. These patients would literally stand in an almost endless line, and my friend would run down the line giving instructions to his Nigerian nurses. You know what to do with this one, this one is routine. Oh! This one needs immediate surgery; take her to the ORshe needs a cesarean section immediately. During his stay in Nigeria, his surgical schedule would include seven or eight major cases each day. Obviously, this kind of crushing schedule can only be maintained by an individual with unusual physical stamina. During all these years, he and his family lived on a typical Nigerian diet: millet, yams, and a chicken every couple of weeks.

Now imagine the kind of woman who could be the wife to such a doctor: bearing and raising children and sticking with that man and being his active partner. That couple, the doctor and his wife, not only had unusual physical stamina but also a deep well of spiritual, social, and intellectual durability. They would have loved Ricks diet book because it raises the bar of all the diet books that have previously been writtenit includes advice not only on how to live but on how to serve with heart, might, mind, and strength.

My friend says that he thinks he may have seen a heart attack once in his sixteen years in the Nigerian village. Imagine a typical American doctor who had only seen one heart attack in sixteen years! Try to imagine that American or Western doctor never having seen a case of adult onset diabetes. Imagine that doctor having seen hemorrhoids only in a book. Imagine a scenario where cancer of the colon is almost unknown.

As we compared notes, my friend from Nigeria and I realized he was spending most of his time treating diseases that had been eradicated in the West. He averaged one cesarean section a day because of rickets. I have not seen as much vitamin D deficiency in my fifty-year medical career as he saw in one day. We came to the conclusion that I was treating civilized diseases that he never encountered in Nigeriaarteriosclerosis, type 2 diabetes, cancers of the bowels, fibromyalgia, chronic pain syndromes, osteoporosis, and so on. Every one of the diseases I constantly treated (and he never treated) were related, in large part, to diet.