Yeah, you!

Been thinking about ordering Dr. Antoniades’ Book, The Hot Sauce Diet? Been thinking that maybe this might be the way to go? Have you also been thinking that maybe you might want to order those Peppermaster Hot Sauces that you keep reading about (and I keep talking about?) but haven’t yet taken the plunge?

Would you like to take a chance at eliminating that extra 10 lbs of unsightly middle age hanging around your belly button and get some free Hot Sauce while you’re about it? Can you put a couple of sentences together once a week to talk about your experience? Do you think you might want to get rid of it in time for that Fourth of July pool party? Do you think it might be fun to try?

Well, then read on!

I first heard of Dr. Spiro Antoniades when I learned that he had actually acted upon our idea to create a hot sauce diet and indeed had succeeded with one.

Obviously, he had a similar idea, because before we could act on our idea, his new best seller was released. It has been getting a lot of interest and discussion amongst chiliheads and several someones suggested that perhaps we ought to do this. So, an idea was born and several long-winded conversations and a few jars of hot sauce later, we came up with a plan: The Hot Sauce Diet Contest.

Brooks Pepperfire Foods Inc. and Dr. Spiro Antoniades will be teaming up to present the first competition of its kind and we’d like you to participate.

We are of course asking for volunteers for the project and in return participants will receive a stock of Peppermaster Hot Sauces and a copy of Dr. Antoniades’ book. You’ll have to act fast, though, because we will only be selecting 10 participants and intend to select from the volunteers on the basis of age, gender, and geographic location, so that we can get as wide a selection of results as possible given the small number of participants.

The project will cover a period of ten weeks and each participant will have an extra inch or so and each participant will be given ten sauces: ten weeks, ten hot sauces. Each selected participant will be asked to provide the following demographics prior to the study: age, height, current Body Mass Index, occupation, and completion of an SF-36 health assessment questionnaire. For those of you unfamiliar with the SF-36 questionnaire it is simply an assessment of general health. You will also be asked to sign a disclaimer taking full responsibility for your participation in the competition, for obvious reasons and you will be asked to provide an unretouched photograph (you can cover your eyes) of yourself, both before and after.

Each participant will follow the program to the letter, using Peppermaster sauces, exclusively. You will be asked to read Dr. Antoniades’ book and complete the checklist at the end of the book. And you must read it, we’ll be expecting at least an 85% correct score on an open book test on the details of the program, so no cheating!

Dr. Antoniades will be volunteering his time as medical advisor on the project and each participant will be expected to meet with Dr. Antoniades, by telephone, each week.

And finally, each participant will keep a log/blog of their experiences. THIS IS MANDATORY. The blog can be written, webcam video, or audio in a minimum of once weekly contributions. The blog should be written in the first person, meaning “I did this today” style and should consist of physical experiences and psychological changes, feelings, etc. If something humourous happens, all the better.

Our Blogmaster for the project will be the brilliant and beautiful Yara Nielsenshultz of Red Pepper Writing.

With an extensive history as a professional writer and teacher and a blog-writer with real flair, not to mention a really fitting corporate name, Yara will take care of your blog entries; ensuring they read the way you mean them to and making sure our non-writer participants look as good as those who just happen to be real wordsmiths. So, don’t feel uncomfortable joining if you don’t have a flair for verbage. The project is meant to be fun and we brought Yara on board so that this aspect of the project wouldn’t be a deterrent to you!

If I haven’t yet convinced you to sign up, perhaps these words will inspire you:

“Before this I was deeply ashamed of my own body. I was a glutton. Although my life was happy and fulfilled, every time I looked in the mirror I knew my external shape wasn’t the real me. It had taken me years of ignoring my health to pack on the pounds, but just one year of serious commitment to undo the damage.” — Dr. Spiro Antoniades

We can’t promise you what will happen to your frame, but you’ll get a great book and some great hot sauce get a leap frog start on where you want to go and you’ll have a whole lot of fun doing it. Yeah, I know it sounds a little kitsch! So what? Get on the bandwagon!

If you are interested in participating, please send an email to Tina Brooks with “Hot Sauce Diet” in the reference line. And do it quick! There are only 4 spots left!

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