Summary of Susan Peirce Thompson's Bright Line Eating

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#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.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Diététique
• diététique
• Nutrition

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 19 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669354529
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Susan Peirce Thompson's Bright Line Eating
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 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, not losing it.

#9

The cues we use to determine whether we’re full are being broken by artificial sweeteners, which have no calories, and by the volume of food we eat, which is no longer correlated with how much fuel we’ve taken in.

#10

The way we eat today is a result of many factors, but the most important is how our brains are wired. We don’t eat meals anymore, we graze.

#11

The hypothalamus is an almond-sized area deep inside the brain that contains within it a number of small nuclei with a variety of functions. The hypothalamus is the closest we’ve got to an internal thermostat. It controls hunger as well as body temperature, parenting attachment, sex drive, thirst, fatigue, sleep, and circadian rhythms.

#12

Leptin is the missing link in our satiety feedback mechanism, and it is produced by fat cells. When we eat a lot of food, the excess we can’t burn immediately goes to our fat cells, and they secrete more leptin.

#13

Insulin is the key hormone that helps regulate blood sugar. It helps store blood sugar for future use, or release it into the bloodstream for energy. It is produced when the hypothalamus senses that your blood-sugar level has risen, and releases it into your bloodstream to help your body use that sugar.

#14

The brain stem is the most primitive part of our brain, and it is not getting the hormonal cue that we are full. In people with leptin resistance, it is convinced we are starving, so we reach for the foods that keep our insulin levels elevated in the first place.

#15

I was born in 1956 in Edmonton, Alberta. I was the youngest of five children. My family was poor and I felt psychologically and physically unsafe most of the time. I turned to food to help me feel better about myself and my circumstances.

#16

I have developed friendships and family in the Bright Line Eating community that I never thought possible. I never imagined I would receive such care and kindness, or that I would be in a position to offer the same to others.

#17

The third way our brains block weight loss is through overpowering cravings. These are the mechanisms that make people drive miles out of their way for that one specific food, and until they get it, they are unable to focus on anything else.

#18

The nucleus accumbens is the seat of pleasure, reward, and motivation in the brain. It is activated by dopamine and designed to motivate our behavior. We have been pre-programmed to respond to certain sexual and edible stimuli with I want to get me some of that.

#19

The brain downregulates to adapt to the overload. When the stimulation is not forthcoming, we feel not okay. This is what it feels like to be an addict. We just want more to get normal.

#20

When it comes to food, sugar and flour are the two main culprits. They are flooding the brain with dopamine, which is thinning out the brain’s receptors. They are also drugs.

#21

The drugs depicted in the drawings are derived from the coca leaf, the poppy plant, and high-fructose corn syrup, all of which are foods that I would freely eat. However, when you take their inner essence and refine and purify it into a fine powder, you now have a drug.

#22

Food addiction is as real as cocaine and heroin addiction. There is no difference between food and those drugs in terms of how addictive they are.

#23

The researchers put the rats in an fMRI machine and measured the activity in their brains as they sucked chocolate milkshakes through straws.