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Copyright 2017 by Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D.

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Cover design: Amy Rose Grigoriou
Interior design: Nick C. Welch
Interior illustrations: Cinzia Damonte
Indexer: Laura Ogar

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Thompson, Susan Peirce, author.

Title: Bright line eating : the science of living happy, thin, and free / Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D.

Description: 1st edition. | Carlsbad, California : Hay House, Inc., 2017. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016040447 | ISBN 9781401952532 (hardback)

Subjects: LCSH: Weight loss--Popular works. | Exercise--Popular works. | Self-care, Health--Popular works. | BISAC: HEALTH & FITNESS / Weight Loss. | HEALTH & FITNESS / Diets. | HEALTH & FITNESS / Exercise.

Classification: LCC RM222.2 .T4853 2017 | DDC 613.2/5--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016040447

Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4019-5253-2

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
1st edition, March 2017

Printed in the United States of America

For David

And for you

CONTENTS

PART I:
How the Brain Blocks Weight Loss

PART II:
The Bright Line Eating Solution: Bridging the Willpower Gap

PART III:
The Road Map: Getting Started

PART IV:
The Road Map: Staying on Course

PART V:
Goal Weight, Maintenance, and Beyond

Ive been advocating for healthy food choices for more than three decades. As a best-selling author and the President of the Food Revolution Network, Ive had the great privilege of helping millions of people to improve their diets and, in many cases, turn their health and their lives around.

Over these years, Ive seen many people become inspired to eat in a new way. Some of them succeeded and experienced health outcomes beyond their wildest dreams. But many others struggled to sustain food choices that they knew were in their own best interests. Despite having plenty of knowledge and willpower, they found themselves succumbing to addictive pulls. Despite their best intentions, they watched their health, and even their self-esteem, degrade in the process.

A question began to burn inside me. Why is it that, when it comes to food, so many people are unable to consistently act in their own best interests? Why is it that so many accomplished, caring, and intelligent people are eating their way to misery and premature death?

As a neuroscientist, Susan Peirce Thompson has spent decades studying this problem. Stunningly, incredibly, I believe she has actually cracked the code.

Susan also walks (and eats) her talk. She is among the less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the population that has gone from being obese to slender and kept that weight off for more than ten years.

Shes an Adjunct Associate Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester, President of the Institute for Sustainable Weight Loss, and founder and CEO of Bright Line Eating Solutions. Shes dedicated her life to helping people achieve the vibrant health and zest for life that can accompany permanent weight loss. The operative word being permanent. Because, shockingly, there is not a single peer-reviewed scientific journal article that shows ANY weight loss program taking ANY cohort of overweight people and helping them to get down to a healthy weight and stay there.

But if you look at Bright Line Eatings data, you see that Susan has had a level of success that is nothing short of spectacular.

In 2015 and 2016 my 350,000-member-strong network collaborated with Susan in putting on a pair of eight-week courses. Between the two courses we had 5,600 participants, the vast majority of whom joined the program hoping to lose weight. In eight weeks, they combined to lose more than 90,000 pounds.

When I see these kinds of results, 90,000 pounds lost in eight weeks, Im floored. And all the more so because I know that those numbers, as impressive as they are, do not include the substantial amount of additional weight participants continued to lose after the eight-week programs ended.

And these are not just numbers to me. I think, with gratitude, of the many cases of diabetes that have been averted. I think, with thankfulness, of the many heart attacks and cases of cancer that have been prevented. I think, with joy, of all the people who are now more present in their lives, because they feel more confident in their bodies, and who can show up more fully for the people they love.

Of course, most weight-loss programs promise the moon. But the only one Im aware of that even begins to achieve this level of success is Susans. In fact, the contrast with other weight-loss programs is not just striking. Its staggering.

Heres what the preliminary data show: it appears that people in Susans programs lose two-and-a-half times more weight, and they do so seven times faster than people in the countrys most popular weight-loss program.