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What’s the Difference Between a Bad Habit and an Addiction?
How do you determine if something is an addiction or a bad habit? The DSM-5 has 11 criteria they use to help diagnose addictions. Having even a few of those may indicate addiction. But there’s another criterion I use...
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Abstinence-Based Treatment for Eating Disorders
Read the research paper here: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1586490/full
This week, I have another article to share with you from Frontiers in Psychiatry. In this one, we...
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6-Year Follow-Up Research on Bright Line Eating
I’m excited to announce that we’ve just published a paper in the prestigious journal Frontiers in Psychiatry. It outlines the results of a six-year follow-up survey of people who did the Bright Line Boot Camp in 2017....
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The Allergy Model of Addiction
Can you have an allergy to sugar, flour, or unmeasured food quantities? It all depends on your definition of “allergy.” In this week’s vlog, find out what allergies are when you’re talking about food addiction, and...
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Can You Do BLE With a More Freewheeling Personality Type?
Someone wrote in and asked whether people who have a more intuitive, creative, spontaneous personality type can succeed with Bright Line Eating. She pointed out that BLE seems to be a natural fit for people who...
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How Weight-Loss Drugs Impact Romantic Relationships
This week we’ll be addressing a provocative question: How do weight-loss drugs affect romantic relationships?
In 2018, a study out of Sweden looked at bariatric surgery outcomes for long-term romantic relationships....
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How to Use Weight-Loss Drugs with Bright Line Eating
I’ve been thinking about weight-loss drugs and long-term weight-loss maintenance. If you’re curious about how these two pair together, you’ll want to watch this video.
Last weekend, I submitted the completed first...
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Bright Line Bedtime
In this vlog, I want to talk about how to manage the “muchness” of life, especially if you have multiple priorities—a job, family, and more—and fitting it all into your Bright life feels overwhelming. I’d like to...
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Healthy Dopamine Rewards
Barb sent in this question: “Recently, I’ve heard you mention a healthy, gentle kind of dopamine. Can you say more about that, especially in connection with Bright Line Eating?”
People come to Bright Line Eating with...
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Is Whole Wheat Flour Addictive?
Today, I want to explain why whole wheat flour is a problem for us, even though it may not have been a problem in the past.
Beth wrote in with a great question. She said: “Though I am convinced that white flour is...
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The 4 S's of a Successful Rezoom
I’m thinking today about how scary and demoralizing it can be to break your Bright Lines. I’ve broken my Lines more times than I can count, though thankfully not in years. I’ve been in food addiction recovery for...
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Mixtures
My twins, Zoe and Robin Thompson, turned 17 on May 2. We celebrated their birthday at Plum Garden, the restaurant my family frequently visits for celebrations. Plum Garden epitomises how I’m working my program now...
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