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Bright Line Eating

By: Susan Peirce Thompson PhD
Narrated by: Susan Peirce Thompson PhD, Tanya Eby, Mel Foster, Emily Sutton-Smith, John Robbins
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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

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2017 by Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D. (P)2017 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

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Would you consider the audio edition of Bright Line Eating to be better than the print version?

Absolutely, I consider the audio edition of Bright Line Eating to be better than the print version because I can listen to the author's voice.

Who was your favorite character and why?

The author, Susan Peirce Thompson, for her honesty and passion in reaching her dream to write a book that will help millions of people with their loss weight and addiction to food.

What does the narrators bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

The narrator is the author Susan Peirce Thompson and she is wonderful. She brings her own experience, warmth and enthusiasm in her performance.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I waited for this book my whole life! I followed the method described in the book and in 9 months I dropped 5.8 stones going from size 20 and a BMI of 36.6 to size 10 and a BMI of 24. I will be forever grateful to Susan Peirce Thompson for her vision of writing a book about food addiction and about how to live Happy Thin and Free. She helped to get my life back. The audio format is great as I can listen to it anytime, anywhere and it's going to be part of my EAP. What is EAP? You have to listen to or read the book to find the answer. It's fascinating and in the same time so simple.

Any additional comments?

The book represents a holistic approach to food addiction, based on the author's life experience, study and research. It contains amazing scientific information and neuroscience research presented in such an easy to understand manner by Susan Peirce Thompson and includes interesting study cases. The book describes a method that does not rely on willpower but on automaticity and integrity with food. The food plan is a simple, ingenious and reliable solution to gain and maintain the ideal weight. "Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin & Free" may very well constitute "The Book" for anyone who wants to achieve a healthy eating style and break free from food obsession, simply following 4 Bright Lines, eating whole foods and learning about the inextricable link between our brain, body and soul.

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Disappointing

I got 2 hours into this book before being directed to go to their website and fill out a quiz which is very much phrased to skew the results that the author wants, in order to plug her paid subscription boot camp.

There are various supposed success stories from customers scattered throughout which make it seem like an advert, and many hours of this blab before you get to the 'meat' of the book....

Not too much substance to be found here, however, as another reviewer said, there are a few bits of information that may be useful to some but those could easily have been condensed down into a 15-20 minute audiobook....definitely not necessary for it to be padded out to 7 hours.

I also disagreed on several claims the author makes which are fundamentally incorrect. For example the author boldly claims that there is no correlation between exercise and weight loss, and suggests that science has proven that flour is more addictive than heroin or cocaine.

I was expecting more facts and less advertising, the diet is basically don't eat flour or sugar , ever and only eat at certain times with no snacking ever. I don't think the bright line way constitutes a 'happy' or 'free' diet as advertised.

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Padded content

Sorry to rant on this specific book, but I am tired of the growing trend in "self help" books of writing 50% of the book as an introduction, and most of them about the personal history of the author, telling us how great their idea is without actually explaining their solution at all. We don't care about you: if you have something to say, say it in the first chapter. These kind of books, including this one, feel like a commercial plug to other services. The main message of the book could have condensed in one single page, and saved us from hours of useless anecdotal evidence or personal journeys.

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Yes, it's a good weight loss manual

Where does Bright Line Eating rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Obviously Bright Line Eating is not a story but is still quite absorbing. I listened with interest to this slightly different way of thinking about food. As with all weight loss books, the only thing that matters is did I lose weight? Well yes in the past two weeks of following Susan Peirce Thompson's rules I have lost 6lbs. I didn't find it hard to follow. (I had already lost 8lbs in the previous 4 weeks).

What other book might you compare Bright Line Eating to, and why?

Never Binge Again by Glenn Livingston has a similar thinking behind it.

Have you listened to any of the narrators’s other performances? How does this one compare?

The author narrates the book and I think it's her first. She's very American (being an American!). Might grate against some Brits but I find it OK. She is a very prolific You Tuber so I often have her wittering away in the background whilst I work and have got used to it!

Any additional comments?

Like all self help books, you have to take from it the bits that will serve you and let go of the bits that are of no interest (I'm not a great one for meditating or journalling but I'm not marking the book down because the author goes on a bit about those practices because that advice might be useful to someone else). It is a shame that the app which is not yet launched is mentioned so often, that gets a bit irritating. Also clearly diets and coaching are big business so the whole book does feel a bit like a marketing tool sometimes. Still - I'm losing weight so....... pretty much everything else is forgiven.

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Smug, Annoying & Ultimately Boring

The author claims a huge breakthrough in weight loss and sustaining it. Basically to not eat sugar or flour...ever. This book is one big upsell to her products and services for the bright line eating regime.

Returning the book.

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Loved that although to me I kept thinking restriction in my head. listening to the book kept making feel this is so achievable. The case studies so resonated with me. I have picked up a lot of books in my time even while listening to this I was flicking through a booK on how to go sugar free. What I found was that the book did not go far enough as I could do some sugar and sweeteners. I am looking forward to doing something so different than any thing I have ever done before. Thank you for keeping my hope alive

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Life Changer!

Putting into words what this book has done for me isn't easy, it's been profound. Since purchasing on Audible I have lost 84lb and now within a few pound of my own personal goal weight. I have been morbidly obese for 2 decades and overweight or obese for the entire of my adult life (I am 47) so the fact I am slipping into a UK size 12 now is nothing short of a miracle. But don't let the potential weight loss be the thing you focus on if you decide to go with this book. Finally I am free of constantly thinking about food, I am calmer and more able to deal with my emotions and I am as grateful for these things as I am for my lighter body.

Susan Peirce Thompson takes an approach that really worked for me. Listening to her read her own book, hearing the science behind why dieting fails and why Bright Line Eating works, was inspirational, as were the personal stories of success found with BLE which are interspersed throughout the book. I had to listen 3 or 4 times before the panic subsided (the changes required to my lifestyle were huge) and I still listen now and again to firm up my mindset, but I haven't looked back since then. Highly recommend!

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Just a step too far

I loved the mini-reviews / sections where people discussed their experiences of the diet - and she has some big claims on its effectiveness... but cutting out flour and sugar completely? Just unrealistic. I don't hate being overweight enough to give myself that level of stress every time I go shopping/have something to eat.
The principle of just 'never do it' (i.e. you don't stop yourself having lung cancer by smoking slightly fewer cigarettes) makes perfect sense. But in reality that means only eating veg, fruit, meat and fish - I just can't imagine anyone being able to sustain that long term with the amount of time that would require to prepare - even vegans have a rice cake every now and again.

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Did you know your brain blocks weight loss!

If you could sum up Bright Line Eating in three words, what would they be?

Brain based weightloss

What other book might you compare Bright Line Eating to, and why?

I can honestly say that this is an original it is the first book to ever explain why in spite of endless knowledge, determination and motivation I have never been able to lose my excess weight

Have you listened to any of the narrators’s other performances? How does this one compare?

Susan Pierce Thompson is a natural performer and has been an actress, she is now a neuroscientist and has lived through what she talking about so it is genuine passion that comes through

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes

Any additional comments?

This book is that missing link understanding how to become Happy thin and free and it really works

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Some Good Info

Good book but don't like how every testimonial sounds like an advert and relegates plant based doctors.

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