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Bright Line Eating
- The Science of Living Happy, Thin & Free
- Narrated by: Susan Peirce Thompson PhD, Tanya Eby, Mel Foster, Emily Sutton-Smith, John Robbins
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Bright Line Eating has helped thousands of people from over 75 countries lose all their excess weight and keep it off. Are you ready to join them?
In this book, Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D., shares the groundbreaking weight-loss solution based on her highly acclaimed Bright Line Eating Boot Camps. Rooted in cutting-edge neuroscience, psychology, and biology, Bright Line Eating explains why people who are desperate to lose weight fail again and again:
It’s because the brain blocks weight loss.
Bright Line Eating (BLE) is a simple approach designed to reverse that process. By working with four “Bright Lines” - clear, unambiguous, boundaries - Susan Peirce Thompson shows us how to heal our brain and shift it into a mode where it is ready to shed pounds, release cravings, and stop sabotaging our weight loss goals.
Best of all, it is a program that understands that willpower cannot be relied on, and sets us up to be successful anyway.
Through the lens of Susan’s own moving story, and those of her Bright Lifers, you’ll discover firsthand why traditional diet and exercise plans have failed in the past. You’ll also learn about the role addictive susceptibility plays in your personal weight-loss journey, where cravings come from, how to rewire your brain so they disappear, and more. Susan guides you through the phases of Bright Line Eating - from weight loss to maintenance and beyond - and offers a dynamic food plan that will work for anyone, whether you’re vegan, gluten-free, paleo, or none of the above.
Bright Line Eating frees us from the obesity cycle and introduces a radical plan for sustainable weight loss. It’s a game changer in a game that desperately needs changing.
“Bright Line Eating ushers in an end to cravings, an end to dieting, an end to that constant, exhausting, soul-sucking loop in your head about food and calories and pounds.... Living Happy, Thin, and Free is your birthright.” - Susan Peirce Thompson
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- Martin Gagnon
- 2018-04-29
If you've struggled with food...
As someone who is very healthy and fit but has struggled with food, this was at times an eye opening book.
Susan clearly believes strongly in her program and it comes across in the narration. I have no experience with her program and listened more for the scientific evidence she presented for why we are addicted to certain foods. It does make a lot of sense. The bright lines she suggests may just very well be what some people out there need to stay lean and healthy.
My wife and I discussed this audiobook as I listened and it was interesting to see her perspective. How could someone give up these things and live so regimented? Why shouldn't we reward ourselves for healthy eating with a free meal, day, or vacation? For myself, who already leads a regimented life style for eating (10 years plus of bodybuilding and fitness at a high level) I really do see the benefits. Susan argues that by planning meals and sticking to unbreakable lines that the stress and anxiety of choice will be removed. Temptation can be tempered and controlled without inhuman willpower. I believe this is true and she has some strong information to back it up.
Of course I do not agree with everything here and found myself tuning out some of the more specific meal plans and preparations. I myself wouldn't be following these plans as they would severely limit my training and my ideal Bodyweight is something I have, for the most part, attained for years now. But there is something really powerful about choosing to live the way Susan recommends.
I'm no expert, but I have years of experience dieting, training and exploring the psychological aspects of eating. I can say that as far as strategies go, for those of you with a very real struggle to get lean and stay lean, this book is worth a shot. And for those of you who just wish to understand why sugar and other foods seem to always be on the tip of our minds at all times, this book is for you too.
I hope any of you out there struggling can find the peace you are looking for. The shame of obesity, binge eating and other disorders is so real and painful. Why not give this a shot?
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- Jenn
- 2018-04-26
Amazing
Thankful to have found this book, with 2 years into my whole food plant based journey and hitting a plateau I couldn't get off of, this book has pushed me into new levels with my weight loss journey, and food freedom really is a possibility. Thank YOU!
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- Sandra DeMontmorency
- 2018-01-27
Freedom
This is the best book I have read on a way of eating that makes sense. I love how Susan talks about the brain and why so many people are overweight or obese. This is my new life for sure.
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- Clarissa Aguiar
- 2018-07-27
Amazing!
I really like the book... explains a lot!!!
UPDATE:
I followed the diet and lost 12lbs in 2 months (and I am keeping it).
The way Susan explain food addition is so clear. Everyone having trouble with diets should read.
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- Megan Morningstar
- 2020-07-12
Well narrated easy to listen
Well narrated and an easy listen. I don’t really like her message throughout that says in order to be happy you need to be thin, this is the type of mindset that makes young girls criticize their bodies into an eating disorder.
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- Kindle Customer
- 2019-07-12
Just another vegan agenda
Much outdated and scientific misinformation. A recipe for diabetes and heart disease. Another vegan agenda.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-05-24
Life Changing
Awareness is the bedfellow of change. This book is revolutionary if you struggle with food. The methods are 100% based on fact. I highly recommend this book.
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- Sandy M
- 2018-05-02
You Must Read
This is not another diet book, it is about the psychology of why you need another diet book. This will be the last one you need to read. Susan's voice is pleasing and gentle to listen to, she has a wonderful delivery style and a great way of explaining things. For me I found it was not about the food but the brightlines and creating the brightlines that address my personal issues with food. #Audible1
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- Barbie Van Allen
- 2018-01-30
Outstanding ❣️
Strong, well-researched material beautifully and passionately presented by the author. I am grateful that I have had this opportunity!
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- Lauren
- 2018-09-18
So Informative
really amazing breakdown of the science behind over eating and food addiction - and not just analysis! Solutions! loved it! #Audible1
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- Leslie Goddard
- 2017-03-30
Wow. Just wow. This book is a game-changer.
What made the experience of listening to Bright Line Eating the most enjoyable?
This book. THIS BOOK! Wow. It's a game-changer. It changes everything. Not only is Susan Peirce Thompson's approach to getting control of your food and your weight powerful and compelling and based on brain science, she also presents it in a clear, convincing, wonderfully readable way.
Hearing her narrate her book is especially powerful -- I strongly recommend the book overall, but I particularly recommend the audio version.
Thompson overturns so much -- so much! -- of what is standard, unquestioned, deeply ingrained thinking about weight loss (the old canards like "you can eat anything, just in moderation," "exercise promotes weight loss," "sugar, eaten in moderation, can be part of a healthy diet.") No, no, and no. At least, not for the majority of us.
In her compelling argument, people struggling with their weight aren't lazy or lacking in willpower. They don't need to just get off their lazy butts and get to the gym. They don't need to just stop eating so much. No. Their brains have been high-jacked. And the substances doing the high-jacking are NOT fat, salt, or simply an excessive consumption of calories. The substances are sugar and flour. Period. Fat people aren't sloths -- their brains are addicted to these substances and practicing moderation can be as much a no-win solution as practicing moderation in drug use would be to a brain addicted to heroin.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Bright Line Eating?
There are two things I especially love about Thompson's approach. One, that it's based on science. She's not guessing here. She's not making things up based on what seems logical and reasonable. She's looking at the science. And what the science suggests is pretty persuasive: Sugar is addictive to your brain. And flour might very well be too. We live in a toxic food environment where sugar and flour are everywhere and in everything. As with other addictions (in varying ways depending on your own brain susceptibility), the way forward is to remove these substances from your diet.
The bright lines are simple, clear, and unambiguous: no sugar, no flour, three meals a day, and weighing all your food.
The second thing I love is that her style is so wonderfully loving, supportive, and inspiring. Thompson writes in a way that is never condescending or dryly scientific. She tells stories, she shares her own experiences, she makes academic scientific studies easily comprehensible. But hearing her read her own book is incredible. Her warmth and love and understanding shine through her voice as well as her writing. Writing this way is not easy to do -- and speaking this way is even harder. I am wildly impressed at her ability to do this.
My only singular concern, which she does address, is that for all that this approach is simple, it's not easy. It's no easier than quitting cigarettes would be for a cigarette addict. Or quitting alcohol for an alcoholic. This is hard to do. And she does say so, when she notes that (I'm paraphrasing here), if a food plan is all it took to lose weight, everyone who wanted to get thin would be thin.
Still, I worry that readers might fall in love with her wonderfully supportive, upbeat tone in the audiobook and think that simply deciding to follow the bright lines is all it takes. Make no mistake, this is hard to do, and it requires a TON of support and self-love-and structure and help (the bright-line eating approach provides that, but you have to be diligent about seeking it out and getting it).
Have you listened to any of the narrators’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
This is Thompson's first audio book performance, but having listened to her videos online, I found her ability to read text as strong as her ability to speak without a text in front of her. In this audiobook, it sounds like she's just talking to you in a personal conversation. Nothing sing-songy or monotone. She's great.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
I listened to this book while on a drive that lasted 5 hours. And I wanted it to be longer so that I could keep going. The information in it is that good, and Susan's narration is that wonderful.
It's not often that a book comes along that has the potential to cause a seismic shift in our thinking, but this book does that. Bright Line Eating should have as profound an impact on our thinking about weight loss and the obesity epidemic as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring had on our thinking about pesticides and the environmental movement.
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I really hope that everyone struggling with weight and food issues, whether they have a modest problem or a serious food challenge, gives themselves the tremendous gift of reading this book.
I worry that I'm going to sound like some nut-case, over-the-top Susan Peirce Thompson fanatic. But it's really true. Bright Line Eating has changed my life.
Like so many other reviewers, all I can say is thank you thank you thank you Susan Peirce Thompson. My deepest wish isn't that this book will help me (although I hope it does); my wish is that this book changes the world.
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- Jennifer
- 2018-05-22
Not what I’d hoped
I really wanted to like this book, especially with all the hype. But the strictness of what to eat (and not eat), when to eat daily and 3 meals a day is way too regimented for me. This is the classsic description of a diet and the long term sustainability doesn’t seem likely. Having said that, I don’t want to take anything away from people who have had success on it and I hope their weight loss lasts in the long term. The jury is still out from a sustainment standpoint. With the restrictions of this program, I don’t think people are ‘free’. To me free is not dwelling on food, but with the low cal, fast weight loss this program promotes while requiring weighing of food and no flour or sugar ever, how can this not create obsessing over food. It seems the opposite of freedom to me. I went a year without eating sugar and yes, I felt great but I had a similar situation to the author and her cake episode, but mine was a Butterfinger and it was the yummiest thing I’ve ever put in my mouth but that shot me down the sugar rabbit hole. As Geneen Roth says, when there is a diet, there is an equal and opposite binge. Over the last couple of years I’ve become extremely tuned into my body and I am very carb sensitive so really have to watch processed foods. I appreciated the science of the book because I’m a firm believer in the physiological impacts of food and how simple processed carbs can trigger cravings. I read quite a while back something that made a ton of sense to me. If you have a chart and have blood sugar on the vertical axis and time on the horizontal axis, when a carb sensitive person eats processed food, their blood sugar goes up higher and faster than the average person, then drops lower than the average person, so when it gets low, that is when your cravings kick in. Our bodies are super smart and know that to get the blood sugar back up, it causes us to crave junk food. The more you eat, the worst the cravings are which a lot of times overrides willpower of any kind. I do like her susceptibility scale and the higher someone is on this scale, the stronger the cravings will be. So the simplest solution is to not eat them, but I strongly believe that when we tell our psyches we can’t have something, eventually they will win out. For me, if I feel a huge desire for something, then I will eat it in the evening (and mindfully so I can thoroughly enjoy it without guilt), otherwise I know if I eat it in the morning or mid day, I will get triggered and it will be an internal battle the rest of the day. Whenever I read about a weight loss program, I always try to pick up some nuggets and with this one I appreciated the science aspect but the strict guidelines aren’t going to create any sort of freedom, if anything they will exasperate food obsessions. Eating pre planned meals the same time every day goes very much against your body’s true hunger signals. Isn’t eating when you’re truly hungry, stopping when you’re content, and not thinking about food in between, really what freedom Is? Once sugar is out of your system and you stick to whole food, the cravings will go away and this is what can happen. But something else she doesn’t discuss that is very real is a person’s set point. Our bodies are brilliant and don’t like going below it which is one of the reasons fast is not better. There is a lot of research showing the faster you take it off, the higher the probability you will gain it back because our bodies will fight to get back to that point so slow and steady is more sustainable. Having said all of this, I know every ones bodies are different and that’s why everyone needs to find what works for them. A couple good nuggets but overall, not what I expected.
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- Paradocs
- 2017-11-26
Interesting approach
I was mostly curious to find ways to deal with emotional and boredom eating. This is not the ticket for that. This book is read well by the author and the science and foundational information is excellent and enjoyable. Avoiding sugar and flour while controlling portion sizes is excellent advice. I agree that the diet plan will certainly get people to lose weight, and the maintenance plan will maintain the weight loss.
However, If I ever feel I must resort to this program, I will also consider it an enormous personal failure. The idea of weighing every morsel of food to the tenth of an ounce and bringing my own food to weddings and celebrations, (or worse, my food scale) - not because of religious or allergic restrictions, but because I cannot be trusted to take a bite without losing control of my eating is, frankly, a bridge I will not cross.
I am glad this program helps some people and the book is worth checking out in case the reader is one of them.
The interminable 'case studies' are hugely boring after the first couple and annoying to try to skip when listening in the car. They are mostly the same - 'tried everything, nothing worked, Bright Line eating worked and now my life is wonderful.' These are not case reports but personal testimonials and detract from the science the author otherwise presents.
I felt the science alone was worth the listen even if the implementation of the plan is not for me.
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- Rella
- 2017-08-02
Meh
This book doesn't have any new ideas, however, it is packaged a little differently and I can see that resonating with people. The reason for my low rating for story was that about 25 percent of this book was the author trying to sell additional services, etc. and it had an infomercial feel to it. She also contradicts herself, such as saying how you stick to your bright lines to make decision making automatic, but then saying she doesn't know how long she will do this diet for, she could stop tomorrow. I feel there is also an over emphasis on being happy by doing this diet. There are a lot of overweight people with food addictions who are happy. Happy and thin or free from food addiction are not necessarily mutually exclusive. She does do a good job presenting the book.
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- FromTheOzarks
- 2017-09-05
A must read for weight loss
If you could sum up Bright Line Eating in three words, what would they be?
It really works.
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I can't speak to highly about this book. I have read the book three times now up to the chapter on maintenance. I will read it again. I get something new out of it every time. First, Susan Peirce Thompson tells why we have so much trouble losing weight - she gives the underlying reasons of what is going on in the brain. I now understand why, in the pastt, I have eaten a large serving of ice cream before I even knew what was goin on and still craved more. She also explains why I can manage to eat very well until 2 pm and then I lose it in the will power department. And, she explains even more. Just understanding these things helped. After that, she writes about the bright lines and why we cannot cross them. One is no sugar; in fact, no sweeteners whether they have calories or not. Somehow, I have known for a long time that I would have to comply with this one, but I was never able to do it. I have been on several diets with no success. Weight Watchers three times! I paid a lot of money and went to the meetings where I could buy those sweet treats with low points, the ones you could have occasionally. But, I would go home and eat them all and then feel awful because I had no self control. If this sounds familiar, you must read this book. She also gives complete advice on how to start and how to handle difficult situations. With every other diet, I was always waiting for the day I could have some ice cream. I don't do that now. I know I can never eat ice cream and I am really ok with that. There is no magic bullet, no special food you can eat and no special vitamin you can take to make the journey easier. But, you will have the really useful tools to help you shed the weight and keep it off. Over the past two years, I have read over twenty books on diet. I can honestly say this is the place to begin. I have low vision and it has been a struggle to write this. It was just too important. I had to do it.
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- Julsjul
- 2017-03-24
FINALLY the program that actually WORKS!
What made the experience of listening to Bright Line Eating the most enjoyable?
I went through the Bright Line Eating Boot Camp almost two years ago and finally got off all medications and down 86 lbs to goal weight. So I knew Susan's voice from the coaching calls and videos in the online program.
The hardcover book is FABULOUS and my new nightstand read. But I wanted to hear Susan read it to me... Because we have so many food cues in our culture, and so many around me eat differently than I do now... I like to be reminded daily about the program that's keeping me feeling so FREE from all my former food cravings.
So what I like best is hearing Susan. She is the real deal. She's walked this path, and she tells it like it is. The personal. The gritty. The science behind our brain chemistry.
I can't say enough about how fabulous this book is... the audio, the hardcover... and the program you can join online. I was so afraid to EVEN TRY to go without sugar and flour. Now I'm on Day 658 and don't miss it at ALL!
What did you like best about this story?
I like the combination of real science combined with personal stories. I like the love that went into every chapter. Mostly, I like that the food plan is one that healed my brain and now allows me to live in a right-sized body. I'm feeling my ribs and hip bones for the first time in my adult life.
Which scene was your favorite?
While the personal stories and case studies are deeply moving... I needed the science to understand why THIS plan would be the one that would work for me.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes. And I'll also enjoy repeat listening.
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I can't express the degree of emotional, physical and spiritual suffering I had because I was morbidly obese. I felt hopeless and full of shame that I could not stop eating sometimes even when I didn't want to be eating. I never in a million years thought I'd be down 86 lbs and feeling better at 60 than I ever felt at 30. But it's true. And if I can do it, believe me, ANYONE can!
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- Chéa J.S.
- 2017-04-03
PRICELESS - WORTH LISTENING JUST FOR THE INFO
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I truly believe Susan might have found the answer to obesity. Having said that, this book is highly recommended not only as the way to lose weigh (and keep it off) BUT for the invaluable knowledge Susan shares. For example, the information of how the brain works, concepts of the susceptibility scale, the concept of brighlines in general, the automaticity concept, the willpower gap and the link between phycological issues and processed foods is priceless!! Highly recommended to anyone whether they have a food addiction, want to lose weight or want to follow the brightline movement. This is an excellent book!
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- Amazon Customer
- 2017-07-01
Orthorexia
I believe that this lady suffered from all kind of mental disorders, just think of her history which she proudly says she got past. I also believe that, being an intelligent person, she managed to overcome her problems by concentrating them into a single disorder that I'm sure is called orthorexia nervosa ( google it) which is not life threatening and then, being a bright, persuasive person, she has managed to amass a plethora of innocent followers and form a kind of cult that sustains her financially and validates her beliefs. I didn't like the outcome of this book but I thoroughly enjoyed the arguments and the way she explains some issues is brilliant. I'd never follow her eating style, though, I think it is pure neurosis. I understand why desperate people should listen to her, it is probably better to follow rigid, obsessive rules for the rest of your life than undergo gastric bypass or other surgical procedures. I am not that desperate and I prefer to live my life and if I were to obsess about something I'd rather make it about other things... I bought this book hoping to find a relaxed way to become model thin, haha.
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- juls
- 2017-03-25
It's a great book.
I think that this is it. I'm ready to start a new life with a help of Susan.
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- Tom M
- 2017-03-21
Thank you!
I was introduced to Susan Pierce Thompson and Bright Line Eating a year ago when my wife started one of the Bright Line Eating Bootcamps. I was seeing her great success with the plan and thought I would hop on board too. I had some weight to lose but wanted to get my cholesterol under control. The doctor wanted me to go on medication and I was trying various things but nothing would change the number much. Now, a few months later I am at the lowest weight of my adult life (I am 56). I actually weight about the same as I did in high school. I work out a few times a week and have some muscle weight so that accounts for a few extra pounds. The doctor is very pleased with my cholesterol numbers and I can avoid going on any medication. When I was given the chance to get an advanced copy of the book I was anxious to read it. I wanted to learning more about Susan's journey and her knowledge and research about the role that the brain plays in how and what we eat and how we can outsmart it. I can now say that I feel I can easily maintain my weight loss by following this plan. Best of all it is completely based on natural whole foods so I feel I am eating healthier than any time in my life.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-08-02
well
I still waiting on the part who's talk about how to not use the willpower.
because on the paper it's look beautiful but willpower doesn't help to the distance...
write a plan bring your food and your scale everywhere...