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SkinnyJ: I heard about Bright Line Eating recently on-line so I ordered Susan Peirce Thompson's book. It is eye-opening! I have decided to follow her Bright Line Eating program and it makes so much sense. I finally understand why I have struggled to lose weight ALL my life, and could never maintain any weight loss I achieved. I always gained it back! She presents the amazing science behind food addiction and I found out it's NOT my fault that I could not maintain my weight loss journeys. NONE of the many diets I have ever tried addressed the simple truth that I was addicted to Sugar and Flour and they all suggested we can lose weight by eating "trouble foods" if we ONLY eat them in moderation! That just doesn't work - any more than telling an alcoholic that it's OK to drink in moderation! It doesn't work! The book is very easy to understand and I am so happy to follow this new way of eating. I look forward to continuing this BLE eating plan and continuing on my weight loss journey (yes I have lost weight already) and getting to "maintenance". What a joy!

United States on Oct 31, 2023

Trent M.: I have done just about it every diet I can think of. All of them have had some success because I cut out sugar as the first thing. What makes this different is that I feel different. I don’t feel like I’m competing with myself and I’m not trying to figure out what I will be able to eat when I’m done. I have lost 70 pounds, in less than four months. I have gotten off all of my medications and I no longer need a CPAP to sleep at night. This truly works! I won’t tell you that it’s a fad diet because it isn’t. It’s a lifestyle. I am happy, thin, and free. What made this work for me is, I didn’t want diabetes, and I didn’t want to feel , unhappy and be I didn’t want to remain fat. I am excited about my new life and I can’t wait to share it with everyone! Don’t just skip to the part about what you can and can’t eat. READ the book and understand the story and the science behind it. You owe it to yourself to be successful in this life-changing new lifestyle. Now go get it!! You got this!

United States on Sep 29, 2023

Kristy: Please get this book! She is so smart and informative. It was a great read which is saying a lot for this type of book. I want her to write more!

Canada on Sep 27, 2023

G: a must get book to read

Canada on Sep 10, 2023

Gabriela linck: We always avoid the truth that permanent weight loss requires permanent changes, this book is eye opening that commitment needs to be part of our life, and create a new “normal” way of eating is necessary, and unfortunately many of us are addicted to food and we suffer greatly not being able to control it.
Susan explains why and everything makes sense. I got great results following a keto diet, and lost my progress once I allowed sugar and flour back in my life. Now I understand why.

In regards to the nutritional part, I am a bit skeptic in adding grains, and I feel that the protein is in a low threshold, and I do enjoy fasting, but I am ready to give it a try and definitely adopting to the bright lines of committing to not allowing sugar and flour back to trigger my addictions.

Thank you Susan for this incredible book.
Looking forward to join the BLE community.

Canada on Oct 21, 2022

Kathy A: This is a good concept. Of course it was a good concept when Overeaters Anonymous developed their eating plan back in 1960. They told us not to eat sugar or wheat or other "white" products such as potatoes, pasta and rice. Those foods were thought to ignite the addictive process and cause more cravings. They told us to have three meals a day and not eat between meals. They told us to weigh and measure our food. And they taught us when life got difficult and we wanted to turn to food, to turn to our Higher Power and work the steps. This worked for anyone who followed these guidelines, no doubt about it.

From what I've read, Susan Peirce Thompson was a member of a couple of 12 step groups and although I see her book as a glorified tribute to the Overeaters Anonymous (OA) eating plan, she has explained it from what is called a "scientific basis," because of her background in neuroscience and psychology. The bottom line is, it works if you work it...whether it's the Overeaters Anonymous program or what she calls, "Bright Line Eating. It doesn't really matter who discovered it or is monetarily benefiting from it. What matters is people do lose weight on a program that takes out...

Canada on Nov 05, 2019

Tim Parkin: I have just finished this book, having been transitioning over several months from a low carb high fat diet, through vegetarianism to a whole food plant based diet. Bright Line Eating felt like the missing piece of the puzzle for me, although some people would doubtless say that a lot of the points made in the book are fairly obvious.

BLE highlights how the brain brain reacts when we eat, how we get addicted to food and the tricks the brain plays to overcome our willpower. We've all been there, stopping in a garage for fuel, vowing not to buy any food and then not being quite sure how we come to be driving away munching a sandwich and with a huge bar of chocolate sitting next to us on the passenger seat! A key point for me was the chapter covering willpower. We all think we have it and kick ourselves for being weak when we give into temptation. Learning that willpower is a very finite resource and gets depleted by other activities besides resisting cream cakes is a significant point to take away.

The book describes the process by which consumption of sugar and flour spikes insulin, which blocks the action of leptin, the hormone that tells us we have had enough to eat...

United Kingdom on Apr 22, 2017

Leslie Goddard: 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.

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 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...

United States on Mar 30, 2017