Bright Line Eating MP3 CD – Unabridged, March 21, 2017

Brightline Eating works for some people, but very few will be able to handle the severely restrictive nature of this program. Brightline eating is no flour, no sugar, eat three meals a day. From my 18 months in this program the successful BLE eater I saw was often older, non-working, sedentary females. These people did not have small children, stressful jobs, active lifestyles, or busy social lives. I think also there is a personality component that makes people successful but that is harder to define. The bandwidth required to be successful on this program is immense. Daily meditation, journalling, readings, phone calls, facebook posts, food planning. You can see why the above individuals are successful and many are not; it is very difficult to have a life.Brightline Eating was not a good program for me. I did two bootcamps, I joined brightlifers, I had a mastermind group and several buddies. I called in for coaching. I checked all the boxes. I got down to goal weight and maintained for almost 6 months. I did not have a binge eating disorder before starting this program but the severe restriction was difficult for me to handle and after initial success I began to develop very disordered eating. If you had asked me a year ago for a review I would also sung the praises, but this program is just not sustainable for most people. It does not teach a healthy relationship with food, it takes all of the joy away from food, cooking and exercise are discouraged. I saw many women struggle with immense hunger, binge and restrict cycling, beating themselves up for eating off plan, constantly struggling to stay on plan. In the end it was not worth it. It was torture on my mind and body.The book will encourage you to join the BLE community by paying for bootcamps and brightlifers. These are expensive programs; between $500 and $1000 dollars. The book is simply a sales vehicle to get you to join these programs. You'll see many five star reviews here. Don't be fooled, these are all from authors band of faithful followers. During the release of the book, the author repeatedly asked for those in the program to come here and leave positive reviews. Anything review posted right after the books release should not be considered when you are thinking of buying this book.

Don't eat flour. Don't eat sugar. Ever. EVER.The end.

I bought the book because some friends said they found it valuable, and it was supposed to be "evidence based."This program essentially takes an ultra restrictive diet and turns it into a religion. It promotes the precise mindset that triggers eating disorders. It glorifies going hungry. It tells you that you are an addict, when in fact you're just in the throes of normal reactive bingeing, which is the natural outcome of trying to stick to such a restrictive diet.Please be aware that eating disorders are more dangerous than being even severely overweight -- they are the deadliest form of mental illness. And they are much, much easier to trigger than they are to overcome.If you want to know what actual scientific evidence has to say about weight management, read authors like Georgie Fear or Josh Hillis. They have books you can actually use, and programs that real people can follow.Real scientific evidence is available to everyone. It's not locked behind the doors of $500 "bootcamp."

I am returning this book, which I bought on the advice of a friend who saw how depressed I had become over gaining weight. I’m sorry to say, it made me angry - The author makes claims of having a research background that, unfortunately, are not substantiated with any peer review published research. Her only publications (under either her current or past name) are her book or magazine interviews that are not science-based. The University of Rochester only lists her website under her biography and no actual research. This is unusual for someone claiming to have had a tenure-track position at an elite university, like William Hobart Smith. Something doesn't add up. Also, I took her "quiz" online - and even though I scored a "2," a very low score on the "susceptibility scale," I was informed I should still get into the program. Unfortunately, this appears to me to be marketing, pure and simple. Not necessarily devious (any more than any other advertising claims, for any other product) -- but that is what this is -- a product. It is not based in science. Hay House is not a publisher that markets science - They market books on personal growth and spirituality. While there is certainly evidence in real scientific literature that sugar and processed flour in abundance perpetuates poor nutrition and is bad for brain health, and that sugar has addictive-like properties, there is no evidence that complete abstention from either of these is superior to common-sense reduction of them. You can look at Google Scholar or the website of the National Institutes of Health and you will not find any papers to back up this extreme approach. Nor will you find any peer review papers by Susan Peirce Thompson. Sorry to have to write such a negative review, but I hope it will prevent others’ time and money from being wasted.

I love Bright Line Eating. I have read many self help books and have tried many diets. I am now 75 years old and two years ago I found Susan pierce Thompson program and finally the program that works for me. I have lost over 100 pounds. I am so happy this book is finally published and everyone has the opportunity to change their lives. My only regret is that I wish I would have done it 20 years ago, but am so happy today, Remember a day at a time.

Full disclosure to start with. I first came across Susan Pierce Thompson in June of 2016 and by following her teaching - the Bright Line Eating movement - I am now *70 lbs lighter. I took part in a bootcamp, followed the eating plan and absorbed Susan's words. It changed my life.Not only am I thinner but I no longer have aching knees and ankles and a bad back, I don't snore. I look, and most importantly I FEEL ten years younger.What this book can do is give you the combination to a lock you've never been able to crack ... that's how it felt for me in June and reading the book I got that same feeling again.SPT explains the science of why some of us struggle to lose weight, and what steps to take to overcome that struggle. She is a teacher by profession so this is so much ore than "just" another diet ... this is a life changing your whole attitude to yourself and your body. The writing style is like having Susan's voice in your ear - friendly, clear, encouraging, funny, self-deprecating and firm where needed. She explains the science of why, and then clearly lays out the food plan of HOW to get Happy, thin and free.Whether you want to lose weight, or have a loved one that needs to lose weight or is addicted to sugar or flour I really urge you to buy this book - Bright Line Eating can change your life. It certainly changed mine.*70 lbs is 5 stone (or a fully grown Labrador retriever !!!)

Not impressed. A way to make money from someone elses ideas. Very strict on amounts, foods and timings of meals. Never, ever eat sugar or any type of flour again? How is that happy or free.

I was a yo-yo dieter from the age of 12 to the age of 67, and tried every diet going during those 55 years. I used to say that people addicted to alcohol or drugs could at least live without their form of addiction, but that it was harder for people with an eating disorder as you can't live without food. Then I came across Bright Line Eating and the author, Susan Peirce Thompson, took my theory one stage further by suggesting cutting out completely the addictive parts of our diet, ie flour and sugar. I wish I'd found this way of eating decades ago as it's only now, as a senior citizen, that my weight is stable and has been for 18 months now. I haven't been so slim since I was a child. So thank you Susan, I'm immensely grateful. Better late than never!

The way I eat normally isn't a million miles away from the ideas behind BLE but I do find the amount of veg to be daunting and quite hard to fit into family life. I gave up after two days and fell spectacularly off the wagon I think as a direct result...I'm just getting back to sorting myself out now. not for me. I'm sure it works if you can stick with it but it is just too hard to fit around my life and I am not changing my life in order to fit it round an eating plan...not possible. I will take away a reduction in flour though - I don't eat a lot of it anyway but I am far more conscious of it now. And I will always make plant food the largest category on my plate...but just not maybe the amounts she is advocating.

A departure from the usual fad diets and latest craze etc .. This book goes in depth to the addictable brain and how living sugar and flour free can heal both the brain and body . I'm hooked