Susan Peirce Thompson

Susan Peirce Thompson, (born Ana Fleischman; June 29, 1974)[1] is a former Adjunct Associate Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester and an American business entrepreneur and author. She is the founder and CEO of Bright Line Eating Solutions, a weight loss and weight sustainability company.[2][3] Thompson is president of the board of directors of the Institute for Sustainable Weight Loss and the author of the best selling book Bright Line Eating The Science of Living Happy, Thin, and Free, Hay House publisher, March 2017, foreword by John Robbins,[4][5] The book's Norwegian version, published by Irina Lee under the title Spis Dig Fri went to the Norwegian Best Sellers List before release.[6]

Susan Peirce Thompson
Born (1974-06-29) June 29, 1974
United States
NationalityAmerican
Alma materB.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of Rochester
OccupationProfessor; Author; Business Entrepreneur
EmployerBright Line Eating Solutions, LLC; University of Rochester
Known forFounder and CEO of Bright Line Eating Solutions, Professor, Author
Spouse(s)David, married June 19, 1999
ChildrenAlexis, Zoe, Maya
Websitehttp://www.brightlineeating.com/

Biography

Personal life

Thompson was born in Petaluma, California on June 29, 1974[2] to Joseph Carl Fleischman and Mary Peirce (Mariah Perkins). She was a practicing baha'i. /[7]

Education

Thompson went to college at the University of California, Berkeley graduating in 1997 with an undergraduate degree: Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive Science.

She attended graduate school in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester receiving a master's degree in 2001 and a Ph.D. in 2003 in Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

From 2003 to 2005, Thompson did post-doctoral research with a teaching fellowship at the University of New South Wales School of Psychology, in Sydney, Australia.

Career

After completing a summer as a Research Fellow at the University of Rochester, Department of Brain and Cognitive Science in 2005, Thompson was an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY from August 2005 to August 2007.

In September 2007, Thompson became an Associate Professor of Psychology at Monroe Community College, Department of Psychology, where her academic research interests branched into the psychology of eating and positive psychology, and where she also developed courses in those two subjects. She started teaching the Psychology of Eating and Body Image in 2008 and Positive Psychology in 2009, was tenured in 2013 and continued at Monroe until June, 2016.[2]

In the spring of 2016, Thompson became an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science at the University of Rochester.[8]

In the fall of 2014, Thompson founded Bright Line Eating Solutions, LLC, an 8-week online weight loss program based on psychology and neuroscience with four core principles, called Bright Lines, of eating no sugar, no flour, only at meals, and only bounded quantities.[9] Thompson has been the CEO since 2014.

In 2015, Thompson became the President of the Board of the Institute for Sustainable Weight Loss.

Bright Line Eating

Thompson launched Bright Line Eating in 2014. The program represents a synthesis of Thompson's personal experience in multiple Twelve-step programs for food addiction and her research as a brain and cognitive scientist. The name of the program derives from the legal concept of Bright-line rules, "a clearly defined rule or standard, composed of objective factors, which leaves little or no room for varying interpretation. The purpose of a bright-line rule is to produce predictable and consistent results in its application." The program defines four such rules:

  • no sugar
  • no flour
  • meals (designated times for eating, with abstinence from eating at all other times)
  • quantities (the bounding of the quantity of food taken, using some measurement device (e.g., a digital scale to weigh food, or, more simply, a plate to contain the meal)

and provides a set of tools, plus social support media, to guide the participant through both the weight-loss phase and during the "maintenance" phase that follows.[10]

In addition to providing the neuroscientific basis for effective weight loss, Thompson addresses various common concerns including childhood sugar addiction;[11] making lifestyle changes in order to sustain weight loss;[12] exercise;[13] and holidays.[14]

Criticism

The concept of food addiction is highly controversial. The evidence for a substance-based food addiction is poor. What can be observed in animals and humans data is addictive eating behavior. However, there is insufficient data to substantiate that this behavior is related to specific substances in the food.[15]

Writing
  • Bright Line Eating The Science of Living Happy, Thin, and Free, (2017). Within a week of the release of this first book of hers, Thompson's book was on the New York Times Best Sellers List.[5]

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See also

References
  1. "About Susan - Bright Line Eating". brightlineeating.com.
  2. "Bright Line Eating".
  3. "How to Rewire Your Brain for Weight Loss with Five Simple Steps". healthyaging.net. January 13, 2017.
  4. "Susan Peirce Thompson - BookSavvy". booksavvypr.com.
  5. "Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous Books - Best Sellers - The New York Times". The New York Times.
  6. "Ned i vekt? Løsningen er i hjernen din, ifølge hjerneekspert". aftenposten.no.
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  8. "Brain & Cognitive Sciences : University of Rochester". www.sas.rochester.edu.
  9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UOMhDNWhzY Dr. Anthony Lim: Sugar: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  10. "Susan Peirce Thompson, Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin and Free". responsibleeatingandliving.com.
  11. "Esme Murphy". minnesota.cbslocal.com.
  12. Warren, Allison (December 30, 2016). "Achieving your weight loss resolution this year by eating right". rochesterfirst.com.
  13. "Is Exercise Counterproductive To Weight Loss? Cognitive Brain Scientist Shares "Real Secret To Weight Loss"". madamenoire.com. January 5, 2017.
  14. Rochester, Fox (November 17, 2016). "How Thanksgiving can help control weight gain". foxrochester.com.
  15. Hebebrand, Johannes; Albayrak, Özgür; Adan, Roger; Antel, Jochen; Dieguez, Carlos; de Jong, Johannes; Leng, Gareth; Menzies, John; Mercer, Julian G. (November 2014). ""Eating addiction", rather than "food addiction", better captures addictive-like eating behavior". Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 47: 295–306. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.08.016. ISSN 1873-7528. PMID 25205078.
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