Summary of Susan Peirce Thompson's Bright Line Eating

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Book Preview: #1 The brain and body work together on Bright Line Eating to achieve weight loss, and this is because modern foods and modern patterns of eating are hijacking three critical processes in our brain and making it difficult to lose weight.

#2 Willpower is a simple brain function that governs our ability to make decisions. It is not a mental faculty that resists temptation, but rather a simple brain function that helps us make choices.

#3 The first experiment that proved willpower is a thing was conducted by psychologist Roy Baumeister in 1998. He had participants resist the temptation of eating cookies or working on impossible geometry puzzles. The participants who resisted the temptation for 15 minutes had little willpower left to solve the puzzles, but the participants who were allowed to eat the cookies persisted for nearly 19 minutes.

#4 The seat of willpower in the brain is the anterior cingulate cortex, which is behind the prefrontal cortex, which is the seat of rational decision-making. The entire brain runs on glucose, but the anterior cingulate cortex is especially sensitive to glucose fluctuations.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669354529

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Insights on Susan Peirce Thompson's Bright Line Eating

Contents

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Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The brain and body work together on Bright Line Eating to achieve weight loss, and this is because modern foods and modern patterns of eating are hijacking three critical processes in our brain and making it difficult to lose weight.

#2

Willpower is a simple brain function that governs our ability to make decisions. It is not a mental faculty that resists temptation, but rather a simple brain function that helps us make choices.

#3

The first experiment that proved willpower is a thing was conducted by psychologist Roy Baumeister in 1998. He had participants resist the temptation of eating cookies or working on impossible geometry puzzles. The participants who resisted the temptation for 15 minutes had little willpower left to solve the puzzles, but the participants who were allowed to eat the cookies persisted for nearly 19 minutes.

#4

The seat of willpower in the brain is the anterior cingulate cortex, which is behind the prefrontal cortex, which is the seat of rational decision-making. The entire brain runs on glucose, but the anterior cingulate cortex is especially sensitive to glucose fluctuations.

#5

Diet programs that focus on how to exercise and what to eat, but fail to incorporate a program of behavioral intervention to bridge the Willpower Gap are doomed to be ineffective. You need a plan that assumes you have no willpower, and still works.

#6

I was a really skinny kid, but I gained weight as I got older. I tried every diet, and always gained the weight back. I was miserable, but I was thin. I stopped weighing myself. I was vegan for a while, and eventually lost weight. But I was still embarrassed by the apron of fat around my waist that hung down over my thighs.

#7

What has this done. It’s broken our brains. The obesity rates we’re seeing are a visual representation of the collective shock our bodies are in from what is being poured into them.

#8

When we are no longer hungry, we are no longer supposed to be hungry. We are supposed to be satisfied after eating, not ready to eat more. We are supposed to be moving after eating, not ready to sit and watch TV. We are supposed to be regulating our intake of calories,