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An SOS Post From Italy
Sometimes, we are content to live Bright, and sometimes it’s hard. When I was in Italy this summer, I found myself depleted and tired. An SOS post to the Bright Line Facebook group helped me stay Bright, but the...
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Diet Mentality
A Bright Lifer wrote in to ask about “diet mentality.” Diet mentality is when you focus on weight loss to the exclusion of the rest of who you are. When you fully embrace the Bright Life, you are looking at not just...
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A Sugar Addict with No Weight To Lose
Today’s topic is a great one, and I’ll follow it with an announcement. A woman wrote: “I am embarrassed to join the community because I don’t have a weight problem, but I have a food addiction. I’m a nine on the...
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Behind the Scenes with ON THIS BRIGHT DAY
I’ve been waiting to do this vlog for months!
A few months ago, someone wrote in about the book, ON THIS BRIGHT DAY, to find out what happened after our launch. What about the contest? Did it make the New York...
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Bunny Slipper Mantras
I’ve been sharing a great deal about anniversaries lately, and today I have another one: it’s nine years this month since I began doing the weekly vlog. That’s roughly 270 vlogs. In all that time, I’ve only missed...
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30 Years of Coin Flips
On Friday, August 9, I celebrated 30 years clean and sober. When I lay in bed that morning, I felt suspended in time: then, and now, and all the points in between.
I want to talk with you today about the passage of...
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BLE’s 10-Year Birthday Celebration
This week marks the 10-year anniversary celebration of Bright Line Eating. The conception of BLE was on January 26, 2014. That’s the day the universe told me to write a book called Bright Line Eating. After that,...
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Freedom from Bondage
A Bright Lifer wrote in with an interesting observation. She said, “One of my buddies told me recently that she started Bright Line Eating not to lose weight, but to avoid being in bondage to eating or food. Has this...
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Do You Have to Binge to be a Real Food Addict?
Here in the U.S., we’re in the middle of summer. There are picnics and parties and food all around us. I’ve been thinking about how we orient toward that food, whether someone is staying Bright, eating addictively, or...
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Success After Countless Attempts
Someone wrote in with the following: “Have you ever seen people succeed after returning to Bright Line Eating for the umpteenth time? I wonder if my intermittent enforcement has done me in. Is Bright Line Eating a...
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The Lorax
Recently, a wonderful Bright Lifer in California sent me a stuffed Lorax. If you’re not familiar with him, he is a creation of Dr. Seuss. When trees are being cut down and a beautiful area deforested, he pops up and...
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5 Thoughts Upon Turning 50
I just turned 50! And I have five thoughts on this milestone birthday.
But first, I have some news: we’ve sold out of tickets for our luncheon to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Bright Line Eating. They went fast!...
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